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Name
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
Home Trust Company (Author)
Carnegie Corporation of New York (Author)
Title
Carnegie General Donations, Gifts and Grants to National Farm Training Camps Association
Collection Name
Carnegie Corporation of New York Records
Archival Context
Series II. Files on Microfilm. II.A. Gifts and Grants. II.A.5. General Donations
Subjects
Endowments; Farmers--Training of; Agriculture--Study and teaching; United States; National Farm Training Camps Association; Haight, Frederick A.
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Origin Information
1901
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
digitized microfilm
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 81
Note
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Frederick A. Haight
The position of the National Council of Defense in the United States Boys Working Reserve in the matter of training camps for boys is set forth in the following statement contained in the Oflicial Bulletin, Aug. 13, 1917:--- 'Intensive training camps in every State to fit city boys for farm work as the solution to the problem of finding help to fill the farm labor shortage was the subject of a conference, held in New York on July 27, of experts who have given the camp problem careful study. Present at the conference, which was called by William E. Hall, national director of the United States Boys' Working Reserve, were many camp leaders who have been co-operating with the Reserve, representatives from the Young Men's Christian Association, Boys' Club Federation, and Boy Scouts of America, as well as a number of prominent business men who, through philanthropic and patriotic motives, have been experimenting with boys' farm-training camps in an effort to point the way and find the best means of increasing and saving the nation's food supply.' Urge Training Camps. It was the opinion of all the experts present at the conference that mobilization training camps should be established in every State next year to provide the vast amount of farm help which doubtless will be needed in all parts of the country in order to release men to emergent war operations. It was urged that a nation-wide campaign he started with the object of impressing upon both national and State authorities the necessity of setting aside funds for the establishment of intensive farm training camps. These camps would be the main source of supply from which boys would be sent to small supply camps or directly to the farm." [SOURCE: Thompson, Frank V. and Massachusetts. Committee on Public Safety. Committee on Mobilization of School Boys. Report of the Committee on Mobilization of High School Boys for farm service to the executive committee, Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety, October 1, 1917. Boston, Wright & Potter Print. Co., State printers, 1917, pp. 44. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=f6BBAQAAMAAJ. Accessed 4 Oct. 2018.] "One of the most important activities of the United States Boys' Working Reserve is the system of Farm Training Camps which has been established as one of the methods of preparing Reserve boys for their work in agriculture. These camps, together with the Reserve's Farm Craft Lessons, insure the employer of a Reserve boy against being burdened with an absolutely unpracticed farm hand, while they give to the boy the benefit of the assurance which comes from a practical knowledge of the methods for accomplishing the tasks in hand." [SOURCE: United States Boys' Working Reserve. "Camp Costs." Boy Power, vol. 2, no. 3, 15 Mar. 1919, pp. 4. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=OV3nAAAAMAAJ. Accessed 4 Oct. 2018.] "The President gave expression to the hope that the young men of 16 years or over, not permanently employed, and especially the boys in the high schools, would eagerly enter the U.S. Boys' Working Reserve in order that they might have the privilege of spending their spare time in productive enterprise which would increase the means of providing for the forces at the front and the maintenance of those whose services are needed at home... ...The U.S. Department of Labor, thru a special division under the direction of William E. Hall, is giving serious attention to the training of boys enrolling in the Reserve. The training courses have varied in the several States, but in every case, whether trained at a Central Camp in connection with a State Agricultural College, at a Farm Training Camp in connection with County Agricultural Schools, or in local high schools, the result has been the creation of a force of valuable farm hands whose services are eagerly welcomed by farmers." [SOURCE: Hatton, Richard. "The First 200,000 in the Boy Army." The Rotarian, vol. 8, no. 5, Nov. 2018, pp. 210. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=hVgEAAAAMBAJ. Accessed 4 Oct. 2018.] "New London, Conn, Sept. 28 -- Frederick A. Haight died at his summer home, in the Pequot colony, at 4 o'clock this morning, after an illness of five days. He was born in New York, fifty-four years ago the Edward and Sarah L. Burgoyne Haight, of West Chester. For several years Mr. Haight was a broker in Wall Street. He was a member of the Westchester, Manhattan and New York Yacht clubs and the St. Nicholas Society..." [SOURCE: "FREDERICK A. HAIGHT." New - York Tribune (1911-1922), Sep 29, 1913, pp. 7. ProQuest, http://ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/575116812?accountid=10226. Accessed 4 Oct. 2018.]
Language
English
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Copyright Status
No Copyright - United States
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-5prj-n267