Some local selecting agents can actually visit the nearby 
camps to which their boys are sent* In one western camp, the select¬ 
ing agent has been asked to meet regularly with the camp educational 
committee* 
Adjustment of Allotment Arrangements during Enrol lTnRr\t 
As all selecting agents recognize, it is important for the 
success of enrollees in camp that the allotment payments from their 
wages should be as continuously satisfactory to them as it is possi¬ 
ble, under law and regulation, to make them. When circumstances 
change, therefore, during the enrollment of a youth, it is frequently 
possible and desirable for a selecting agent to help adjust the allot¬ 
ment arrangements* 
Specific procedures for changes of allotment are made avail¬ 
able to local selecting agents by each State Selecting Agency* These 
are based upon certain well-understood principles to be followed by 
CCC camp commanders and by other CCC officials concerned. 
One principle is worthy of special notation. The total 
monthly allowance of every properly qualified enrollee is earned by 
him in camp. The allotment to the dependent of the enrollee is, in 
consequence, a part of his earnings. It is proper that he should re¬ 
gard it so. In making investigation and recommendation for change of 
allotment caused by change of circumstances, therefore, the selecting 
agent should give primary consideration to the reasonable desires of 
the youths. If there is any way to avoid it, under law and regula¬ 
tion, enrollees should not be placed in the position of being com¬ 
pelled to make an allotment to a person of whom they disapprove. 
Obviously, however, enrollees should not be permitted to change their 
allotments merely for the purpose of having the allotment money re¬ 
turned to them in camp. 
Ehrollees Absent Y/ithout Leave 
The selecting agent can often be persuasive in explaining 
to an enrollee who is AWOL that he should, in fairness to himself, 
return to camp. This action is particularly effective in the case 
of new enrollees who have come home a short time after enrollment 
because of homesickness. After they have seen their parents and 
spent a night at home, they often begin to wish that they had had 
n enough nerve to stick it out." 
Y/hen the selecting agent is able to pay a visit to the home 
of the boy or to send a representative to do so, it often throws enough 
weight in the scales to persuade him to go back to camp. Under ordinary 
circumstances, a new enrollee who becomes homesick and returns to his 
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