Evening star., 1940-04-14
Youth Commission
Meets Tomorrow
To Study Job Survey
Executive Sessions
To Consider Reports
On Work Opportunities

The American Youth Commission,
convening here tomorrow for a
two-day quarterly meeting, will
study reports submitted by several
hundred workers engaged in a
dozen scattered States concerning
the job, education and health needs
of youth. Owen D. Young, chair
man of the board of General Elec-
trio, is acting chairman Of the
commission.
Pointing out that more than TO-
900 individual youths were inter-
viewed in connection with study
OF the problem of occupational ad-
justment of young workers carried
out in cooperation with the
United States Unemployment Serv-
ice, Floyd w. Reeves, commission
director, said the commission studies
have been the most comprehensive
and detailed ever made of various
phases of the youth problem.
THE function of the commission
staff has been to get the facts in
order that, upon the basis of such
facts, the commission may develop
an effective program for the welfare
of our young people" MIR. Reeves
said.
Based on Maryland Study.
The job-Study was made on the
basis of preparatory job-analysis
undertaken in Frederick County,
Md, where Youth Commission in
vestigators interviewed 1880 boys
and girls. They discovered about
1000 types of jobs. The job oppor-
tunities were studies in four COM
munity research centers around
Baltimore, st. Louis, Dallas and
Providence.
Mr.. Young will preside at the
meetings, which will be held in
executive sessions at the United
States Chamber of Commerce. The
secretary of the commissioners
up in 1885 as a subdivision of the
American Council of Education-is
Miss Miriam Van Waters, super
intendent of the reformatory for
women, birmingham, Mass. The
other IA members include:
Will w. Alexander, administrator,
Farm Security Administration;
Clarence A. Dykstra, president, Uni
versity of Wisconsin; Dorothy Can
field Fisher author; Willard E. Civ
ems. executive secretary, National
Education Association; Henry 1.
Hartman. former president, Cham
ber of Commerce of the United
States.
George johnson, director Depart
ment of Education, National Cath
olic Welfare Conference; Mordecai
w. johnson, president Howard Uni
versity: Chester H. Rowell, editor
San Francisco Chronicle; William
F. Russell, dean Teachers College,
Columbia University; John w.
Studebaker. United States Commis-
sioner of Education.
Henry c. Taylor, director Farm
Foundation; Matthew Woll, vice
president, American Federation of
Labor; Robert E. Wood, chairman of
the board. Sears, Roebuck & Co.,
and George F. zook, president,
American Council on Education.
Study Started in 1888.
In an attempt to develop methods
to solve the job problem the COM
mission sent out 124 occupational
analysts into eight areas on January
/, 1888. A blue bound report of the
results of that project, two inches
thick, is ready for the consideration
OF the commission.
Under the direction of Howard M.
Bell, who wrote the story of youth
and its problems as told by the
1880 boys and girls interviewed in
Maryland, the commission set up its
four community research centers.
Three Divisions Set Up.
The work of the analysts, as de-
scribed by Mr.. Bell in an interview
with the Associated Press, was di-
vided into three major divisions.
They we're:
/. Job analysis.
Experts set out to describe all the
Jobs existing in given area (Fred-
erick County,. Each job was de-
scribed in a statement covering a
typewriter page. Each page con-
tanned a definition of the job, its