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75 years ago
The Church started running programs to help the young men in the United States Government's Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression, according to the Dec. 1, 1934, Church News.
The C.C.C. was organized in the early 1930s to give men the opportunity to work during a time of high unemployment. Its workers took up projects such as developing campgrounds, building roads and fighting fires.
The Church News article reported: "A cooperative movement between the Presiding Bishop's office and the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association to provide for the leisure time activity of boys in the C.C.C. camps in Utah is announced today.
"Practically all of the members of the C.C.C. camps in Utah are residents of Utah and approximately 90 percent of them are Latter-day Saints, it is explained. There are 19 camps in the state.
"For some time now, reading material has been supplied to these camps, and at three camps remote from wards of the Church, plans are underway for organizing separate M-Men associations."
The M-Men program in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the time was designed to provide activities for young adults similar to what the youth had at Mutual.
The article stated that young men in camps near cities and large towns would be able to participate in local M-Men programs.
