Personal Fitness of Applicant 
Finally, the home visit should be the means for determining 
something of the personal fitness of the applicant for enrollment in 
the Corps. The line of questioning should attempt to determine whether 
the parents want their son to go to camp. If so, why? Did he have a 
hard time adjusting himself to school? How does he occupy his time? 
Has he had any special difficulties? These are some of the questions 
that will elicit the type of information which should be obtained from 
a home visit or interview with the parents or allottee of each applicant. 
Naming of Allottee 
Through the home visit the selecting agent will be able to 
observe home conditions which may have a bearing upon the probable 
stability of the enrollee in camp. If it appears that there will be 
family friction over the use of allotment money, selection should not 
be made unless and until that friction can be reduced or removed. 
That is the sort of thing which may result in a dissatisfied enrollee 
and a desertion from camp. 
Unusually Poor Environments 
Likewise, the selecting agent must be unusually careful in 
the case of applicants who have grown up in an atmosphere of irre¬ 
sponsibility or strife. Such home conditions indicate the desirabi¬ 
lity of interviewing and counselling with applicants much more 
thoroughly than is necessary where the environment has been more 
wholesome. Where marked irresponsibility on the part of the appli¬ 
cant is indicated, the selecting agent will normally not select that 
applicant• 
Joint Responsibility of Applicant and Family 
Through the home visit the selecting agent seeks to assure 
himself that the youthful applicant is going to be able to make a 
good adjustment to camp life and stay in camp for at least six months. 
Not only, however, does the selecting agent seek to assure himself of 
the stability of the prospective enrollee; he impresses the importance 
of that stability very forcibly upon the applicant himself and his 
family. There is little likelihood of the enrollee f s deserting if his 
responsibility for remaining a full six months' period of enrollment 
is deeply and clearly impressed upon him and his family together, so 
that there can be no possibility of misunderstanding. 
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