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...overcoat). It watched with unexcited approval as General Marshall on his bay horse, King Story, went by with six aides and a cavalry troop, West Point cadets and Annapolis midshipmen. Brand new grey-green Fords rolled by interminably, carrying Governors and dignitaries. There were CCC boys in green uniforms, NYA girls in blue and white dresses, a Negro WPA company, whose straggling ranks and struggling salutes to the President gave watchers their only laugh in the grim military parade...
...this pattern conform the CCC, the NYA resident centers, the Quaker Summer Camps, Work Camps for America, and sundry other similar experiments. It is in the type of enrollees that the principal difference occurs. The government organizations consist almost exclusively of young people who would otherwise be entirely on the rocks; the private camps have sought to promote "trans-class associations," through which college youth and working-class youth can come to know each other and to have a more real friendship, a deeper awareness of mutual needs and interests. The private camps, too, have tended to be more democratically...
...Rockefeller-endowed General Education Board, University of North Carolina, WPA and NYA collaborated to examine nearly the entire youthful population of eight representative city and country districts: 44,963 Tarheels aged 6 to 25, rich & poor, white & black. Their report, Paths to Maturity, written by the university's Sociologist Gordon W. Lovejoy, found that...
...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 buildings, NYA to finance student projects...
...Present enrollment: 200,000. Proposed by Sidney Hillman: to add 160,000 to CCC and 300,000 to NYA, train them to run and repair tractors, build roads and bridges...