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...
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