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...Army volunteers have come from rural districts than any place else. Some have been drafted. More have quit their jobs to work in new aluminum plants at 60? an hour, as carpenters on new Army camps at $7 a day. Many a farmer or potential farmhand is on WPA, NYA or CCC rolls.* Average wage of U.S. farmhands rose from $27.45 and board in April 1940 to $31.56 (highest since 1930) in April 1941. But still it was increasingly hard to keep workers down on the farm...
Month ago Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. dazed the House Ways & Means Committee by recommending that non-defense expenditures be cut; that $1,000,000,000 could be saved by cutting down farm, NYA and CCC appropriations. Stunned by the sound of a New Dealer recommending economy, Congressmen feebly toyed with this brandnew idea...
Buck-Passing. From this background, Congress cynically watched the White House to see if the President would dare suggest Federal economies. But Mr. Roosevelt had just recommended a $158,000,000 expansion of the NYA program. Recently when reporters brought the matter up, the President growled like a sore bear. He defended the NYA and CCC appropriations, then passed the buck back again...
...struggle was on. Mr. Morgenthau had further the bad taste to recommend definitely and pointedly something the President had always delicately skirted-the actual slashing of numerous non-defense expenditures. Mr. Morgenthau pointed a finger directly at the cost of CCC and NYA, mentioning incidentally that both projects seek youths of 21 who are possible recruits for Army enlistment; also at public works, relief, the farm-parity payments in the bill now in conference between the chambers, to which the Senate has added $450,000,000. This week the White House passed word to House leaders to reject the Senate...
There are objections which are sure to find voice when the government grant is actually apportioned. The chief one is that Boston settlement houses do not come within the proper sphere of Harvard's activities under the NYA program. But Radcliffe, which has had NYA support since 1933, spends a sizeable sum every year in sending workers to Boston social projects. Furthermore, Phillips Brooks House itself would be tremendously benefited by the money, and certainly PBH is an important and integral part of the College. And it is too obvious to need comment that the University would measurably improve...