how can you find the names of the people who served threw this program. i am trying to find information on the seventh field artillery regiment . i am trying to find information on pine camp, camp drum, fort drum, new york, for the years between 1923 to 1932. my father was stationed their, and i cannot find any information on this time perioc. maybe he was threw this program. thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrews, John C" <AndrewsJC@state.gov> To: <worldwar2@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 9:47 AM Subject: Re: [WORLDWAR2] WORLDWAR2 Digest, Vol 1, Issue 10 > SOME of the WPA projects were boondoggles, not ALL. One reason was because > its lapses and abuses were scrutinized far and wide. One thing that set it > up for abuse was that many Democrats -- coat-tailed into office with > FDR -- saw their chance to use it for patronage in awarding jobs and > contracts to pals, if not outright skimming. Any Republican who was paying > attention was quick to point the accusing finger! Much the same for > blacks or other ethnicities -- every faction wanted in and demanded to be > accommodated. IIRC the General Accounting Office spent a lot of effort to > police the WPA, as well as other FDR "socialist" programs. > > It was the WPA BTW that built many, many post offices, National Guard > armories, US Route roads and Federal office buildings. Without WPA, they > would not have existed. WPA also employed artists -- check out the murals > and statuary of post offices and other period edifices -- including > musicians, actors and writers. The writers published tourist guide books > on all the States that were, and still are, very good and recognized as > "yardsticks" of the genre. > > In similar fashion, the CCC "invented" or made usable our entire system of > National Parks and National Forests. Without CCC, there would have been no > trail networks, access roads, hiker huts, surveys, maps, man-made lakes > and reservoirs and on and on. It, called "The Tree Army", also was the > incubator for our mobilized military in WWII. > > John Andrews > > -----Original Message----- > From: worldwar2-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:diamond6468@mindspring.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 9:59 AM > To: worldwar2@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [WORLDWAR2] WORLDWAR2 Digest, Vol 1, Issue 10 > > The CCC was also part of the WPA. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <JbarL@aol.com> > To: <worldwar2@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 11:36 PM > Subject: Re: [WORLDWAR2] WORLDWAR2 Digest, Vol 1, Issue 10 > > > | > | In a message dated 8/30/2006 5:49:40 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > | ewh@adelphia.net writes: > | > | Malisa, I just received a private e-mail from a rootsweb friend > reminding > me > | the WPA. It was Work Progress Administration and was the brain child > of > | Franklin D. Roosevelt in the late 1930's along with WPA which, if I > remember > | correctly, was Public Work Administration. Both were the beginning of > the > | make work program financed by the Government. Unemployed men were put > to > | work repairing roads, bridges, parks etc. and building retaining walls > etc. > | for public benefit. They were boondoggle projects. My father had a > new > | 1936 International Dump Truck and was hired to transport the men to the > job > | sites. The joke at the time was that most of the workers stood around > | leaning on their shovels. > | Ellis Hosbach > | Bethel Park, PA > | > | > | ------------------------------- > | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > | WORLDWAR2-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and > | the body of the message > | > | > | > | Ellis: > | > | The PWA (Public Works Administration) was responsible for building > federal > | buildings all across the United States. If you have a 1930s era post > office > | in your town it probably was built under the Public Works > Administration. > | Now the WPA is another matter entirely...have you ever heard the > wonderful > | song ( by the Mills Brothers I think) called the WPA? > | Many of the projects were boondoggles as you say but if you can find > the > WPA > | writer's projects which include wonderful local histories you will > feel > | differently. At 92 I have had a first hand experience with the WPA. I > worked > | for the State of California in the Bureau of Vital Statistics...We had > a > WPA > | project there during the war which made photostatic copies of all the > original > | Birth , marriage and death certificates. Those copies were coded with > the > | soundex system by the WPA crew and were filed by the soundex > coding....I > was > | responsible for searching for birth certificates for the men and women > eager to > | serve their country ....as I recall the birth certificates were > required > for > | enlistment in some parts of the service other than the army. On > December > 8th > | ,1941 we had a triple line of men over two blocks long waiting for our > doors > | to open. We worked a lot of overtime finding the correct records and > blessed > | those WPA workers for the work that they had done as we could search in > file > | drawers for photo copies instead of hauling heavy books of original > records > | > | Forgive an old lady for this bout of recall...You pushed a buried > memory > | button. > | > | Jessie > | > | ------------------------------- > | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WORLDWAR2-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WORLDWAR2-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WORLDWAR2-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >