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Thursday,: March' 7, 1940
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
NYA gives aid to 709 Nebraska students
Needy youth
have means
for education
Husker collegians aided
by education 'program
have high scholarship
By Paul Svoboda.
The federal government in 1935
initiated by an act of congress a
work-aid program designed to
help needy high school, college
and university students in the fur
therance of their academic en
deavors. This program was the
National Youth Administration or
NYA as it is commonly known.
NYA has affected the lives of
thousands of students over the
breadth of the nation. Young men
and women who would have had
to discontinue high school or col
lege work due to an Insufficiency
of funds are now able to earn an
almost subsistance amount of
money from which they are able
to provide themselves with board
and lodging. The amount paid,
rangeing from ten to twenty dol
lars, added to the money the stu
dent is able to acquire permits him
a decent if not luxurious college
life.
University gets most
This year Nebraska will receive
an allotment of $176,145 from Na
tional Youth Administration for
aid to its students. Of the amount
granted the Cornhusker state,
. $76,275 or 43 percent goes to the
university. Creighton is to receive
$15,255, Omaha U. $12,825, Wayne
Teachers $10,250, and Kearney
Teachers $10,125. Other appro
priations range from $240 for the
Presbyterian Theological seminary
ud to $7,290 or Hastings.
Of the schools in the Big Six
on'v Oklahoma U. was granted a
larger sum for NYA work than
Nebraska.
Undergraduate students are al
lowed to cam a minimum of $10 a
month and a miximum of $20.
.. Earnings of graduate students,
however, range from $20 to $30
per month. The students are paid
on the hour , basis. Colleges and
Good Students Get NYA Jobs afU.'N.
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Government
takes notice
of its youth
Jobs for young people
help thousands to finish
education since 1935
In June, 1935, Franklin D.
Roosevelt said, "I have determined
that we shall do something for the
nation's unemployed youth." At
that time 2.5 million people be
tween the ages of 16 and 24 were
without work. The number did not
include CCC boys or others In
governmental work.
NYA hat its inception.
On June 26 of the same year
the National Youth Administration
was begun as a division of WPA.
With Aubrey Williams, a deputy
WPA administrator, at its head,
and Executive Director Richard R.
Brown assisting, and like the pro
verbial snowball, the new project
got underway.
It faced setbacks in the way of
sliced funds and faced increasing
dissatisfaction from its objectors.
The latter feared the clutch of
politics and threats to scholastic
freedom.
Has a two-fold purpose.
NYA was designed for a two
fold purpose: to provide spare time
academic work to students and
part-time public work to the un
employed among youth.
Ida Schwleger, Grand Island, and
Carson Doering, Davenport, upper
left, are helping themselves through
the University of Nebraska by work
ing on alfalfa pollenation studies in
the College of Agriculture. Jobs are
provided needy students with good
grades by the National Youth Ad
ministration. Dorothy Faulker, Fair
field, at upper right, reads to blind
Margaret Hale of Salt Lake City,
who cannot obtain the books she
needs in Braille. Ormond Schrocder
of Lincoln, takes care of chemicals
and equipment In University labor
atories, lower left. Fossil bison and
other bones, lower right, are putting "Across the U. S.," Time said in
Deon Axthelm of Hallam and Claire August, 1938, "youth won wages
Dyas of Atlanta tnrougn scnooi, lor and self-confidence as they cata-
by chiseling them out, cleaning and logued, filed, checked records,
shellacking the bones In Museum cleared parks and playgrounds,
field collections, the boys earn money plowed, harrowed, reaped, graded,
while assisting wun vaiuaoie rc dumped, iulea, drained, made
heavy duty roads and blue-shale
tennis courts, built dairy barns and
country schools, feed houses and
flop houses, stitched, cooked,
nursed, painted, studied, bought
search work.
to 10 percent of their resident cleaned bones is a label and a scholarship average
undergraduate and graduate siu- piace on a storage shelf. ciassmaies.
Honta Rcvon hundred and nine Durinjr the year 1938-39
Nebraska students partially sup
ported themselves during the first
full-fledged division.
Today NYA has expanded from
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universities thruout the nation are ja neVer put on display. In fact, themselves in university research Dy xmya are requirea io equoi u.
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permitted to give wis leacrai mu the most common rate or me progimiw uiey ...-.m . ...B.r y -u . . their board and keep, and sent a
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dents depends on the student's o"-'s
All need and h s scholarship wnue in
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NYA stuuents maintained a graue me uiuvcioilj. i a jrwui... .......
Until covernment naid vouths gvi.rg of 81.35 conmared with tains a high academic average and
' tv,a 1Wnr hi lahnrinc exaetlv solved the nroblcm. lack tho nil student nverace of 77.43. his need is evident he is allowed a mewling infant to a full-fledged
in university research programs. of funds severely limited and con- The probable reason for their to make more money than the government division. Besides help
40 hours Der month t,m,es to hamper the work car- commendable record is that the average. to students it includes work proj-
" r . .. ried on by the university herbar- youths selected for government Personnel changes are made ects, educational camps for young
In return for their services, the ,um ln Bes3ey. When the NYA aid are chosen on the basis of every year due to the fact that women, vocational guidance and
students received a total of $s Diu 8tUfJcnta bcgan their work m the scholarship and need. "To gain some of the students do not meet Job placements, and apprentice
per monui herbarium, plants to toe mounted favorable consideration, high the scholastic requirements and
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the training each student received avera-e scholasti
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same time he worked. Music stu- i ,.. . J v,.
dents, for example, reccivea as
eignments as studio accompanists.
Agriculture students worked in
greenhouses and about farm cam
pus buildings while embryro
chemists worked with bottles and
retorts in the laboratories.
Many of the 4G2 study projects
they assisted could not have been
undertaken without their help.
The entire research program of
the state will be aided by contin
uation of projects employing
about the same number of youths
until June, according to E. J.
Boschult, assistant purchasing
agent, in charge of the NYA pro
gram. Unusual occupations of some
etudents under NYA have included
writing an economic history of
the United States, determination
of hemoglobin in blood, operating
eye-reading cameras in reading
laboratories, helping specialists ln
cancer research, and tutoring chil
dren needing special help.
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should have an
tic record ranking
them in the upper half of their
j graduate class. College matricu-
1 lates must present averages well
j above the college record," stated
I T. J. Thompson, dean of student
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j NYA administrators.
! At Nebraska Thompson and
Mr. E. J. Boschult, assistant pur
chasing agent for the university,
are in charges of the National
Youth Administration.
Thompson, whose job it is to se
lect from the some 2,000 applic
ants those needing government aid
the most, chooses the freshman
students on the basis of their high
school ranking and other tests
such as rpsychologlcal and English
examinations. It Is his policy to
choose those who are ln the upper
one-half of their class. Also taken
into account is the individual need
of the applicant.
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DR. T. J. THOMPSON
... he se.ccts them.
Such information is acquired by f
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communicating with
bankers, and other individual of
the community in which the pros
pective student resides. If the stu-
oiucv Zn e mor it tne becse of financial Improvement
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E. J. BOSCHULT
he finds the jobs.
the students.
They make canvass.
training.
During the first three years aid
went to less than half of those
who asked for it. In 1937 funds
were cut deeply. Objectors wanted
to know why such people as Glenn
Cunningham, William Green,
Owen D. Young, and the late
Amelia Earhart should be on the
advisory board.
Educators judge applicants.
College and high school heads
decide who Is worthy of NYA help
plus what type of work will be
performed. Students serve as li
brary assistants, secretaries, mak
ing bibliographies. Others serve
ln community projects such as
music, art, drama, and museum
exhibits.
Work project wages are about
one-third of WPA wages. No one
can get more than $25. Tho work
Is In community and recreation
services, public service training,
construction and renovation of
buildings, and land development.
Research, clerical work, and sew
ing are included.
Girls' educational camps are or
ganized in unoccupied hotels,
clubs, boarding schools, and
camps. Started as summer camps
From plants to bones
TM.ontv.fiv hovs. enmloved by pressed only in newspaper fold
the NYA, are doing everything ers Now the plants are prepared -- cc of
from cleaning exhibits to fix ng by students. The plant U firs poi- &PP Juated from a hlgh
bones as part or tne : wor.i oe iB school outside of Nebraska a The Deans office ln determining many have been put on a yearly
record from the allotments to be made, makes work-nroiect basis. Thev Include
do sent 10 uic a canvass each year or me room 2 to 3 hours a day for studies.
an application and board costs ana men estaD-
niuseum. '"u will be considered. NYA admin- llshcs maximum llvlne: cost which St uo nlaeement bureaus.
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carried on in Morrill unucr uie im-so m., wma... ,u.c transcript of the
general direction or u. uenrana uo puuus, wuwi ai u a0 t
scnuuz, assisiaui un.-ui ...... registrar before
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parator of the museum the boys curator of the herbarhim in university or she Is to remain on the NYA Vocational guidance and job
do those jobs for which they are charge of technical work declared f nQV0 t leagt an taff Th th maxlmum placement bureaus are set up in
best suited. In direct charge or uie inai some 01 uie 10 biuubhi. ...- - mQn flg that Rmount f mon that c(jn be t c ties. Applicants register wun tne
students' work is Henry l Rcider, ployed by the NYA do exceed- 1 federal eovern- ner calendar month for board and V- s- employment service and a
chief preparator, who assigns mgiy wen m tnis type ot woik - all houainr expenses cannot ex- check-up is Kept on tne joo situa-
those youms witn ir m "r,,, ": " No preference. ceed $27. Membership in any cam- "
'.TSKS o5JJ?S According to Mr. Thompson, , Apprentice training w,, organ-
specimens Others, without this mcnt botanists continue to send students already enrolled are gJSed .fincS ailclf expenses wSJfd lzed 89 a f,ecL01?1 cTmltC0 U1e
skill are put to work arranging types of plants' to be labeled and given no preference over begin- JXoxtrnate m OiS StoSm m2 the NRA but ha3 becn moVCd to
l" mounted ning students. The uppcrclassmcn gjg; rtVcVSSthly "5 the department of labor The com.
Bvstcmatic order In storage as Nebraska young men and must meet the Bame requirements ""J 01 ino stents mommy m mlUce coorainates existing pubho
well as painting numbers on each women still appreciate the chance as tho freshmen. However a mod- u t f both and private apprentice-training
bono and checking labels. , to work for their college education ian grade of the various colleges "v,n 1uariers Ior DOia men agencies and tries to promote nw
' Tho bulk of the students' work for -with partially supporting la established and youths helped (See STUDENTS, page 4) organizations for such training.