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Five years ago a chunky, stoop-shouldered Texan named Raymond Huff, superintendent of schools in Clayton, N. Mex. (pop. 3,171), stood musing at a window of the town's dilapidated high school. Clayton was a dispiriting sight. Along its dusty, sun-baked main street lounged sullen, idle men. Out of sight, but probably up to no good, were Clayton's tattered small fry, some of them without enough clothes to go to school. Raymond Huff squared his shoulders and went to WPA and NYA with a scheme. He got WPA to agree to help him build school...
...began to build a stadium, which, when it is finished next month, will have a football field, cinder track, lighted tennis courts, roller and ice skating rinks, barbecue pits. He also started construction of a new cafeteria, put his students to work last fortnight making dishes for it from Clayton clay...
Meanwhile, the fame of Clayton's revival of primitive arts spread far & wide. By last week, tourists had swamped Superintendent Huff and his students with orders for hand-carved furniture, pottery, rugs. Beaming happily on the industrious town, Raymond Huff said: "I'm thinking about the day when boys and girls from our school can marry and build their own homes just as we have built this school...
...another major SEC objective is the integration of utility systems-breaking down scattered systems into their regional components under the "death sentence" (Section 11). Last week SEC settled a case which brought its Section 10 principles into collision with its Section 11 goal. Main casualty: New Deal Commissioner Edward Clayton Eicher, who was jolted into delivering his first one-man dissent...
Peppery Isolationist Charles Clayton Morison, editor of Christian Century, means to carry on, too. "This is not our war," said he, "it is not a war for saving civilization, but is itself the destruction of civilization." Quakers remained men of peace at any price. Some Mennonites perhaps did not yet know a war was going on: they spurn newspapers, magazines, radios...