The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-26

The $50,000,000 will be
spent during the next year
for the following purposes:
l. To find employment in private
industry for unemployed youths.
Yield Should Be High
2. To train youths for industrial.
technical, and professional employ
ment opportunities.
3. To provide for continued at
tendance of needy youths in high
schools and colleges.
4. To provide work relief upon
projects to meet the needs of youth.
The yield on this investment"
the President said, Should be high"
He appointed Audrey Williams.
assistant Federal emergency relief
administrator, executive director Of
the newest New Deal agency. jose
phine Roche, Assistant Secretary Of
the Treasury, was made chairman Of
a special executive committee to adj
minister the program.
Between 16 and 25
The number Of youths that will be
benefited by the four phases of the
program were estimated approXi-
mately as follows:
Job training .......... 10000
High school aid ........ 100000
College aid ............. 10000
Work relief ....... 10000
Post graduate aid. ..... 5000
The Presidents executive order
defined youths to be reached by the
program as persons between the
ages of 16 and Is who are no longer
in regular attendance at a school
requiring full time, and who are
not regularly engaged in renumer-
ative employment"
Among projects decreed by Mr..
Roosevelt was a national census of
youth between the ages of 16 and
25, the age limits of those who are
eligible for benefits under the pro-
gram. The census will be CO.
ordinated with the unemployment
census.
Youth to Get Post
Mr.. Roosevelt said a national adj
visory committee and an executive
committee, of which Miss Roche was
named chairman, would assist the
The advisory COM
mittee will be composed of repre-
sentatives of labor, business, agri-
culture, education and youth. Both
committees will be appointed by the
President The Administration will
be under general supervision Of the
Works-ProgreSs Administration.
This undertaking will need the
vigorous cooperation Of the citizens
Of the several states Mr.. Roosevelt
said in his message, land to insure
that they should have an important
part in this work, a representative
group will be appointed to act as a
national advisory board with similar
boards Of citizens in the states and
throughout the coun-
try. On these labor boards there
shall be representatives of industry.
labor, education and youth, because
I want the youth of America to
have something to say what is be-
ing done for them.
Organization along state and
lines will be developed.
The work Of these organizations will
be to mobilize industrial, CONNER
cial, agricultural and educational
forces of the states so as to pro-
Tide employment and to render other
practical assistance to unemployed
youth.
Cooperation Is Needed
1T is recognized that the final So
luton of this whole program Of un-
youth will not be attained
until there is resumption of nor
nal business activities and opportu-
mites for private employment on a
wide scale. I believe that the ma
-ional youth program will serve the
most pressing and immediate needs
Of unemployed youth most seriously
affected at the present time.
1T is my sincere hope that all