The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-12

means of employing additional person
mel from unemployed young people"
2. Train and refrain for Industrial,
technical and professional employment
opportunities.
3. Provide for continuing attendance
at high school and college.
4. Work relief projects designed to
meet the needs of youth.
An estimated 10000 youths will re-
ceive job training of some sort; 10O,-
900 will be aided in finishing their high
school courses; 10000 will be assisted
in pursuing a college education, and ad-
ditional thousands will be given finan-
cial aid to enable them to take post
graduate work. Many more may be abb
sorbed without cost through the find
ing of Jobs in industry.
The smallest unit In the set-up will
be the local or community committee.
This will be under the supervision Of
the state administration, which in turn
will report to Washington headquar-
tiers. Efforts will be concentrated upon
youths who are out Of work and no
longer financially capable of attending
school,
The tasks of the various divisions,
according to the announcement from
the White House, will be "to mobilize
the industrial, commercial, agricultural
and educational forces to provide en-
ployment and other practical assist
ance to the unemployed youth; to de-
velop and carry out co-ordinated pro-
gram of work and work opportunities,
Job training and retraining for unem-
ployed youth, utilizing all existing pub
lie and private agencies, industries,
schools and various training facilities
which can assist in meeting various
phases of the problem"
How Money Will Be Spent.
These tasks will all be undertaken
with a view of furnishing youths
(who are eligible for relief compen-
sation for work they may do on their
new jobs, or expense money If they are
going to school.
Boys and girls over sixteen who have
been forced to stop attending high
school because they have no money for
car fare, lunches and incidentals will
be given an average of Sc a month to
enable them to complete their courses
An average of SIS month will go
to unemployed high school graduates
under twenty-five to help them finish
college, Institutions will receive no
subsidies; the students will be expect
ed to pay part Of the cost themselves,
as they have in the past. There Is a
rule now that those receiving work re-
lief shall not account for more than
IL per cent of the enrolment of insti-
tutions of higher learning, but this will
In all likelihood be revoked or changed
to make room for the NYA proteges.
Postgraduate students who have
been unsuccessful in their job-hunting
will be carefully selected for aid In
completing their study. A special ef-
fort will be made to find jobs for grad
yates of the class of 1885.
An average of SIS a month will be
paid to youths given outright work
relief Jobs; since one of the Qualifica-
lions is that they must be from relief
families, it may be assumed that the
head of the family will be holding a
work-relief job at better pay.
Regarding this type of worker the
plan says: particular stress should be
laid upon the building and use OF recre-
aticnal and community centers which,
depending upon local conditions and
the energy, ability and enthusiasm OF
local youth groups, can be anything
from an old-fashioned swimming
hole" to a complete center including
all types of athletic facilities, commu-
nifty houses, library, classrooms. etc.
In most communities these recreational
centers can be made self-liquidating.
Substantially all of the direct labor In
the creation Of these centers shall be
performed by youths themselves. work
ing as apprentices under the direction
of skilled mechanics"
Take National Census.
Work relief youths will also be Kept
busy taking a national census OF all
youths in the United States between
sixteen and twenty-five.
To secure employment, the NYA VIII
ask Industrial employers to hire youths
as apprentices under special arrange
ments. Governmental bureaus, county,
municipal and state, will be asked to
take apprentices and train them for