The aims of the two groups are to dlimimate juvenile - unemployment, ted city and girls are included in the movement.
For the time being, the young people are being employed in doing work for which there is a dearth of adult labour, so as not to take work away from their elders. They are paid 20 franes daily, most of which is made over directly to the parents for their upkeep and with the exception of those engaged in forestry, most of them live at home.
The Companions of France movement is slightly different from the Youth Movement in that children of any age are accepted and the organization is run very much along the lines of the Boy Scouts. It aims, as does the Youth Movement, at eliminating unemployment, but also puts great stress on games as a medium of moulding character, toughening the body and instilling into the youthful mind the necessity of maintaining throughout life that "team spirit" which, calling for the submission of personal im the interests of the group, runs some-"what counter to the traditionally individualistic French way of thinking.
The French press is daily insistent on the fact that as far as this country is concerned "every man for himself" is a thing of the past and must be definitely stamped out. The Companions of France organization ig financed by the State.
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