Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl. When I hear those words, terrible thoughts come to my mind and probably to the mind of thousands of other people. I lived in a small town in Montezuma, Kansas1. Then, the year was 1934 and the Dust Bowl had plagued Kansas as well as many other midwestern states, such as: Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and my own Kansas. Let me paint you a picture of what life is like for thousands of Americans, including my family and I in 1934. More than 12 million people were unemployed, over 5 thousand banks had closed. When the banks closed they took with them all of the money that people had trusted the bank to hold for them8 (43). All of this was caused by just the Depression. On top of all of this poverty; the Dust Bowl arrived. Theodore Roosevelt had a plan to employ the American people. His plan was to help get America through the Depression and the Dust Bowl was the CCC. The CCC stood for Civilian Conservation Corps. This was a plan to help people like me find work. The CCC started projects in National Parks, and other public places. They then paid us to work there, cleaning and maintaining the Park.3 After wrestling with the decision whether to abandon my family to work, or to stay wi
Along with dust, the wind also carried dry wheat. As the dust howled around the house, and us I wondered how long it would be until I found a job? The next day, almost in answer to my thoughts, over the radio I heard President Roosevelt talking about the CCC, a new program for people like me that did not have a job, but needed money desperately. Today, among other things, marked the 3- month closing point of my store; Charpentier's General Store. I had bought food from him for my store on occasion, but never really took the opportunity to get to know him and his family. When I looked back down, I realized that my turn was almost up. Both are sound investments for the future of our economy7(87-88). I packed up my few belongings and caught the first train out of Ohio to California. When we stepped out of the Church, the same blast of hot dusty air that we have become familiar to, met us at the door once again. -usually my daughter ate half of mine) we went and settled in to our beds, and got a good nights rest, because tomorrow we found out what agency we worked for. He was a local farmer back in Montezuma, who grew and sold vegetables to local stores like mine. He said over the radio: "Our program is twofold: conservation of our natural resources and conservation of our human resources. Still today, we had hopes that this terrible drought would end. I soon received a letter from my wife and daughter that they had moved to a small town outside of San Diego called Jackson.
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