Evening star., 1942-04-14
n. VA. and C.C.C.HiI
By College Head for
Financial Waste
Arkonson Coils Agencies
Weights on Notions
War Program
Ry j. A. OIEARY.

The National Youth Administra.
ton and Civilian Conservation Corp.
we're called financially waSteful'
and Weights" that should be hftec
from the Governments war effor
by DR.. George S. Benson, president
Of Harding College. Ark, before the
Senate Educa ton and Labor Com
nittee this afternoon.
Testifying in support of the Nc
Kellar bill TO eurtail both agencies
Or. Benson said They are retaining
g large number of bureaucrat,
needed in other fields"
The horse that wins the Ken.
lucky Derby this year will not carr,
p 250-pound jockey" DR.. Benson de-
clared. When America becomei
serious about this most expensive
and most crucial of all wars she vii
cease to carry about her ankle such
unnecessary weights as the N. Y. A
and c. c. c."
Stand Is Defended.
Or. Benson insisted during cross
examination that there was no in
consistency in his advocacy of elm
ination of N. Y. A. after having ap-
piled for NJ Y. A. aid for students
at his college last fall.
He also stoutly defended his ac-
ton IN authorizing the editor of an
Omaha newspaper to use as q full
page advertisement a plea the COL
leee head had written for economy
In Government spending.
The college president told Sena-
tor Roster, Democrat, of West Vir-
ginia; and Chairman Thomas, who
questioned him. that until N. Y. A.
is eliminated there was no reason
why students at Harding College
should not share in it. and that some
OF the appropriation would have
gone 10 Arkansas anyway
Dole" for Colleges Hit.
Existing local schools could carry
on more efficiently. and econom-
1cally, the vocational training being
carried on by N. Y. A., the witness
contended.
DIR. Benson said 1T is easy to un-
derstand why the executives of some
colleges may insist upon the contin-
uatlon of N. Y. A. assistance to stu
dents in their own institutions. In
fact, such funds have the effect Of a
dole to the college itself"
Williams Attitude Recalled.
DR., Benson told the committee the
Undersecretary of the Treasury re-
piled very courteously thanking the
young people for this patriotic serv-
ice, but he added that Audrey Will
liams. head of N. Y. A. did not seem
ct all pleased to have these young
people stand on their own feet and
make their own way while attending
college"
Fifteen days after the press re-
leases. DR.. Benson said, Mr.. Will
hams wrote to the Harding students
letter which the witness said was
"confessedly written at the request
of the President" and stated YOU
are indeed fortunate in finding such
employment and l am deeply appre-
ciatiye of the fine spirit you have
exhibited"
New Yorker Defends N. Y. A.
Abolition of the N. Y. A. at this
time would create a serious bottle
neck in defense training. the COM
mittee was told today by Miss Clara
Katz. speaking for the Madison
House, a New York settlement
center.
The committee also heard Wilson
L. Scott, owner of a private tutor
ing school in California, who recon-
mended that a part of the money
spent on defense training be used
to put on series of short courses
by radio transcription.
Miss Katz said N. Y. A. is now
devoting itself exclusively to defense
training and that 18 settlement
houses ON the East Side of New
York have no NJ Y. A. workers left