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Benefit To All
The camps benefited the local economy in ways besides employing the out-of-work young men. Mrs. (>. I!. Swindler. .Jim Swindler’s grandmother, had shipped a year's crop of apples in barrels to be transported by water to European cities. From a foreman at the dock she learned the news. Everything had stopped, the apples were rotting in the barrels on the piers, there was no reason even to ship them. The depression had put an end to ordinary commerce.
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