Evening star., 1936-06-28
YOUTH SPENDING
ON BIGGER BUDGET
S71,250, 900 Year Program
of School Aid Relief Lauded
by Roosevelt.

dent Roosevelt, a new National Youth
Administration program increased to
I'll $50 900 was announced yesterday to
provide another year Of school and
college aid for more than the $4,000
young people between Is and rs years
of age assisted during the first year of
such relief work. As an indication of
President Roosevelt's desire that the
Government should again assume the
obligation of helping youths from the
despair Of idleness," the new allot-
ment is greater by s21, 500 900 than the
budget under which the N. Y. A. op-
Grated in 1885.
Praise of the work done to boost the
morale of needy students was given in
letter from Mr.. Roosevelt to the N
Y. A. administrator, Aubrey williams,
made public approximately on the first
anniversary of his Executive order
creating this form of aid in the schools
Of the country.
One year ago today when I signed
the Executive order creating the Ma
tional Youth Administrat ton and plac-
ing its affairs in your hands. I pre-
dicted that the return on the invest
ment would be high" the President
wrote Williams.
Included in Deficiency Bill.
Il am happy to see that this predic-
tion II months later has been full
filled. I am still more gratified that
Congress. sharing in this belief, has
seen fit to include a substantial allot-
ment for the National Youth Admin
istration in the deficiency bill for 1887.
mo greater obligation faces the
Government than to justify the faith
OF its young people In the fundamental
rightness of our democratic institu-
tions and to preserve their strength.
loyalty, and idealism against the time
when they must assume the RESPONSE
bilities of citizenship. The splendid
record Of the National Youth Admin
lstration in helping some 60o, 900 young
men and women from the despair Of
idleness seems to me an excellent tes-
timony that our means OF meeting that
obligation are sound.
1T is my sincere hope that the in
fuence and usefulness of the Ma
tional Youth Administration will con-
tinue to widen during the coming
year"
Outstanding changes in the pro-
gram for this year. Williams an
nounced. are the increase to 1s of the
minimum age at which workers may
engage on projects; expansion Of the
variety OF projects eligible for ap-
proval, enlargement Of the vocational
guidance and placement service and
establishment of about so educational
camps for unemployed girls and
women.
Mrs. Roosevelt Interested.
These educational camps are a par
ticular source of interest TO Mrs
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who studied
such results in New York State.
The work relief pay which the young
people will receive ranges from s6 a
month for high school pupils to SIS
for undergraduates and SIS monthly
for graduate students.
The new rule, raising the minimum
age. which excludes. however, strictly
student aid work, conforms with a
similar ruling by W. P. A. Admins
traitor Harry L. Hopkins for all en-
ployes Of the works program. The
exception made affects students in
high school. most of whom are under
IL years of age, and also because their
hours nf unrk O tr;o
imum of 10 a week.
The restriction which limits N. Y.
A. projects to four specific catezor-
les-community development and rec
reational leadership, rural youth de-
velopment. public service and research
will be abandoned under the new
program, Williams said.
Local youth directors hereafter will
be permitted to receive applications
Tor any type of useful and socially
desirable project adapted for youths
1t is probable. Williams pointed out
that community developments. rec
reat1onal and public service projects
VIII continue as in the past as the
dominant type of work for young peo-
Pile
The number of junior employment
counselors assigned to the United
States Employment Service will be
increased this year from "a. at pres
ent, to about 100 to facilitate a spe-
cialized job-fnding service.
50 Residence Camps.
Special consideration also is to he
given this year to unemployed girls
and women in the establishment of
some so resident camps which will
operate somewhat like the Civilian
Conservation Corps Camps, but with
out Army supervision or discipline. The
girls will be drawn from relief rolls
and will be trained in vocational edu.
cation and such work.
Approximately e5 per cent of the
N. Y. A. funds last year were paid
out in wages to young people, Will
liams declared. A peak employment
LOAD OF $4,000 youths was reached in
May. High school aid accounted for
As per cent of the number, with 2s3. 800
boys and girls from relief families en-
rolled In more than 10000 schools.
They earned $6 weekly for work done
about the schools.
Under college aid there were 12s, 500
undergraduates and $500 graduate
students in 1917 institutions receiving
sums ranging from SIS to s2s a
month. Degrees we're awarded to
19,803 N. Y. A. students during June
commandments.
Project employment was provided
for 10000 out-of-school youths dur
ing the May peak, with monthly wages
averaging slightly less than SIS.
During February the job-finding serv-
ice'was begun with a result that nearly
5000 youths swere placed in private
employment.
Efforts were made, Williams said, to
maintain a year-round average of
100000 young people receiving Federal
aid.
NLAND REELECTED