The Nome daily nugget., 1936-01-22

work-reief job at better pay. Regarding this type of worker the | plan says: Particular stress should be laid upon the building and use of recre- ational 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, commit nifty houses, library, classrooms, etc.
 Take National Census. Work relief youths will also be kept busy taking national census of all youths in the United States between | sixteen and twenty-five.
 To secure employment, the MA will 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 | public service. Concerning the latter, | the IVA said:
 "The opportunity afforded by this type of work should be used to develop new type of trained public servant, rather than to merely add to the i'm mense groups of men and women who now clamor to get into government service"
 It has been called possible that this may foreshadow permanent civil service organization, like that of Eng land.
 Job training and job placement are to be accomplished by:
 (a) Utilizing available school shop facilities for initial or basic trade training, through special late after noon or evening classes, taught as work relief projects by needy unem- ployed persons qualified to teach the special field.
 (b) Utilizing available private fac tories, industries, or plants, at times when they are not in regular opera tion, as places to hold training classes, taught by needy unemployed. Co Using public libraries for train | ing youths to function as librarians and enabling the libraries to be kept | open for the public greater number of hours a day.
 Cooperation Needed.
 "This undertaking will need the viz orous cooperation of the citizens of the several states" said the President.
 Tt is recognized that the final so- lution of this whole problem of unem- ployed youth will not be attained un- i til there Is a resumption of normal business activities and opportunities for private employment on wide scale. I believe that the national youth program will serve the most pressing and immediate needs of that portion of unemployed youth most se- riously affected at the present time." The IVA Is a definite step toward solving the problem of unemployed youth in America. What will be done about the remainder of the six or seven million unemployed youths In other parts of the world Is being con sidered by Geneya's International La. Dor office, with the object of doing away with the discOntent that often results In serious social dangers. It Is particularly worried about the method which is being used to wide extent by many European nations-military conscription. Forced labor camps and incorporation of young men in other organizations more or less of a mill. tary character it deplOres:
 Attendance at such unemployment centers should be strictly voluntary, should exclude any idea of military training, and these centers should only undertake work which under prevail. Ing economic conditions would not be carried out by workers in normal em. ployment."