Embarrassing Sister

Before a Manhattan audience one evening last month, Mrs. Eugene Meyer, wife of the onetime Federal Reserve Board Governor who now publishes the Washington Post, observed:

"In Westchester County . . . the first act of the Works Progress Administration, of which the National Youth Administration is a part, was to disband the county bureau and substitute their political agents who know nothing of the country, nothing about public works and nothing about administration. And who do you think has now been selected in addition to our numerous Federal missionaries to save the youth of Westchester at $3,000 a year? None other than Mr. Hopkins' sister, Mrs. Adah Hopkins Aime."

A tight-lipped listener was Mrs. Aime, well-loved sister of WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins. Last week, explaining that Mrs. Meyer's speech had already caused Brother Harry some embarrassment in the form of crank letters and might cause him more as the political campaign grew hotter, Sister Adah resigned her new job as National Youth Administration director for three New York counties, declared : "It is too bad my work in the district has not been allowed to stand or fall on its merits. The leading social workers of the county . . . urged my appointment and induced me to accept the position . . . I know they agree that remarkable progress has been made. . . . Mrs. Meyer stepped out over her head. . . . This is my first and last government job. I shall go back to my business of selling life insurance to women."

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