Mr. Moulder. In what capacity did you go into the CCC?
Mr. Dennett. As an enlisted man.
Mr. Moulder. Wasn’t that a program where there was a chairman in each community or county? Or section of a city?
Mr. Dennett. No. This is the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Mr. Moulder. Yes; I know. And they were given so much employment in each county or each section of the city, and someone had to pass upon those. Is that the program where you were paid so much and the parents would receive so much?
Mr. Dennett. That is true. That is the program. I think you are correct, sir, in saying there was a quota allotment for each community. I think you are right.
But in this particular case that was not involved in mine because the camps that we were recruited to were known as LEM’s or local experience man camps. We were making new camps. We were doing the heavy construction work and making camps that would later be taken over by the young people that you are thinking of that were assigned by quota. You are quite correct. That is the program. I had forgotten that part of it.
And that evidently is what happened, an allotment had been made as to the number that could come out of the Seattle soup line, and I was one of those that was able to volunteer and got into it.
Mr. Tavenner. How long did you remain a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps?
Mr. Dennett. Until July of 1935.