Brickbats for NYA

The National Youth Administration had a bad week. First Comptroller General Lindsay Warren charged it had tried to keep its young men out of the U.S. Army. Then the Educational Policies Commission, a committee of bigwigs representing U.S. school superintendents and teachers, proposed that NYA be abolished.

Reporting to Congress on an investigation of NYA during the past year, Mr. Warren declared he had found evidence of NYA misspending (on travel expenses, Christmas cards, excessive telephoning, etc.). But his gravest charge was that NYA, to keep up its quota of enrollees and justify its appropriations ($161,000,000 this year), had asked Army recruiting officers to refrain from trying to enlist NYA boys.

U.S. educators believe NYA and CCC are developing a separate educational system rivaling the public schools (TIME, March 10). Last week the Educational Policies Commission asked that both NYA and CCC be discontinued as soon as they finish their emergency job of training defense workers, and that their conservation and building jobs be taken over by other agencies. The Commission's proposals: i) let the Government deal with unemployment among both youngsters and oldsters through a single agency; 2) let the schools be responsible for all training of youngsters.

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