National Affairs: 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...

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