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...unemployed Youth." Forthwith the President, by executive order, set up the National Youth Administration, appointed Assistant FERAdministrator Aubrey Williams as director, gave him $50,000,000 to spend on jobless U. S. citizens between the ages of 16 and 25 (TIME, July 8, 1935). Last week the NYA reached its first stocktaking milestone as Director Williams, having spent his $50,000,000, began the allotment of a second appropriation...
...That NYA had made any appreciable dent on the problems besetting the nation's 2,500,000 young unemployed did not appear from its first year's record. Resorting to meagre handouts, Director Williams had used most of his appropriation to pay a maximum $8 monthly to 166,000 high-school students, a maximum $15 monthly to 119,000 college students, which they earned by working under the direction of their school authorities, spent largely on lunches, carfare, cigarets, clothing. Less than a fourth of the applications could be filled. For youth not in school, NYA...
...last week NYA had managed to arouse a full-sized revolt among its beneficiaries. In Cleveland fortnight ago the American Youth Congress, annual sounding board for liberal-minded youngsters, demanded more money, more say-so in spending it, loudly cheered a speaker who cried: "NYA has the possibilities of a political football. . . . We seek not doles but economic rights! We seek relief administered democratically rather than by Presidential fiat...
...more satisfied are most teachers, whose National Education Association has consistently deplored the absence of teachers on the NYA Advisory Board, now staffed with such lay figures as Glenn Cunningham, Amelia Earhart and Owen D. Young. Bitter because the New Deal has rejected NEA's demands for a Federal annuity to assist U. S. schools lamed by Depression, NEA's Secretary Willard Givens cracked at NYA as follows: "While a few youngsters are being taught harmonica playing, fancy lariat throwing and boondoggling, some hundreds of thousands of less fortunate ones throughout the U. S. are being denied...
...more aware of the inadequacy of NYA than Aubrey Williams. A lanky, kindly Alabaman, Director Williams believes the plight of U. S. youth will not brighten without undefined "changes in the economic structure." In Manhattan last autumn he declared that NYA had "gotten off to a very bad start." that he did not know what to do about it (TIME, Oct. 28). Giving New York's NYA a second start last week at the rate of $4,000,000 a year. Director Williams gloomily observed...