PAGE FOUR
THE TWIG
January 16, 1937
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I May Be Wrong
By JOHN BLAIR
Syndicated Column NSFA .
Washington, D. C.—The NYA is
going to he cut. So stated Aubrey
Williams, now Deputy Administrator
of the WPA, acting chief in the absence
of Harry Hopkins, and former NYA
head. The following conversation be
tween Mr. Williams and yonr correa
pondent took place this afternoon.
Question: Mr. Williams, as 1 under
stand it, the "tightening up” ot the
WPA is falling moat heavily on white
collar workers, and aince most col
lege students receiving relief come
under the classification of white-collar
workers, will they not be hit very
hard by this narrowing of the relief
rolls?
Answer; First of all, Mr. Blair, let
me state that your assumption is
wrong. The tightening np process is
not falling more heavily on white-
collar workers than on any other
group. Reductions in relief are be
ing effected In three different ways.
First by reducing administrative over
head, second by abolishing those
projects which are of a non-relief
character or taking persons off relief
who do not need it, and third by elinil
nating those persons from the rolls
who possess other sources ot Income.
These curtailments affect all groups.
Question: What causes this whole
sale diminlabing of relief? Why are
projects being curtailed? Why did
you state yesterday that before Janu
ary relief rolls would be diminished
by 175,000?
Answer: We’re running out of
money. That’s all there is to it. Con
gress did not appropriate enough, and
every organization receiving relief
funds will probably suffer in one of
these three ways. The KYA iciU have
to hear its proportionate cut.
Question: You mean by “bearing Us
proportionate cut” that the NYA is
going to “get the axe”?
Answer: Not exactly. Let me make
this clear. Those commitments which
we have made to colleges, w'e regard
as niue-months commitments and will
not be dlniini.shed during that period.
Question: Please pardon me, Mr.
Williams, if I seem to be slightly con
fused, but a moment ago you said that
the NYA would have to bear its
proportionate cut, anti now you state
that the nine-months commitments
made to c-oUeses will not be diminished.
Would you mind straightening me out
on this matter?
Answer: You set', it's this way. The
XYA must be cut along with all other
relief orsanizations until and if Con-
fjvf-ss api)roprliites additional funds
i!cir relief piirj^osfs. The NYA is to ^
be curtaik'd by two of the three i
methods I iiienlloned to you; first by
DR. HOAGLAND VISITS IN
RALEIGH DURING HOLIDAYS
Dr. Florence M. Hoagland spent part
of her Chrlstmaa holidays in Raleigh
as the guest of Dr. Mary Lynch John
son and her sister, Mrs. J. S. Farmer,
at Mrs. Farmer's home in Mlllbrook.
During her visit she was entertained
by several members of the faculty and
by friends in Raleigh. On December
28 Dr. Johnson and Dr. Hoagland at
tended the meeting of the Modern Lan
guage Association held In Richmond.
For several years before her pres
ent connection with Bethany College,
Bethany, West Virginia, where she
holds the position of head of the Eng
lish department. Dr. Hoagland was
head of the psychology department
at Meredith.
GLEANINGS
By VIRGINIA REYNOLDS
Open Forum
(Continued from page two)
outside activities, Things which are
a part of college life everywhere and
which should lend, cultural benefits
to each of us are ignored. Recitals,
for instance, have a relatively small
attendance, whereas everyone should
take advantage ot the opportunity to
come In close contact with trained
musicians. Moreover, It Is profound
discourtesy continually to ignore
artistic presentations, The Little
Theater which presents both' classical
and entertaining plays, Is regarded
t)y a mere close-to 50 per cent of the
student body at the performances.
Athletic games are witnessed only by
a handful. There Is little display of
class spirit or even of Interest. Every
one pleads time. Yet it's noticeable
that very few don’t take plenty ot time
merely to sit around and gossip and
even fewer find it Impossible to haunt
Fayetteville Street several afternoons
a week.
Sometimes, there is even antago
nism toward such features of college
life. The Greek play, for instance,
was banned under the mass protest
ot many, to whom Its presentation
meant little, while its removal from
the program deprived others of great
enjoyment and opportunity to learn
through it.
Very few of us wholeheartedly sup
port the activities which are planned
to give us a broader appreciation of
life and to help us attain certain ideals
of sportsmanship and culture. We
seem indifferent to the fact that these
phases of college life are great con
tributions to one’s general learning
and character building. Why can't
we as a whole endeavor to give a little
and thereby discover that, in so doing
we are the recipients of much? We
need to manufacture some Interest and
some enthusiasm around here,
M. A. C.
“All of you practice teachers seem
to have grown in stature and serious
ness if not in wisdom. You come
to class in such a buainess-llke way
now that you have entered the noblii
profession,'’ ciuoth Kat as I started
across the arena of the history room.
“Supervising,” I chided. "And my
wisdom is becoming more original
every day.” Whereupon I showed her
a few facts ' culled from a set of
papers I got on the Rise of En(ilis1i
Drama from a senior high school class.
(Above statement appears a little
ambiguous after writing.) One paper
informed me that when the Greeks
gave plays no one wanted to see them
particularly, so the actors paid the
poor people to come, that they might
have a presentable audience. Another
paper told me that when the audience
(this writer didn’t state whether paid
or unpaid) attended the plays, the>
brought their baskets along and had
dinner on the grounds. Somehow
I had never looked at it in just that
light before. Another young-Daniel-
come-to-judgment wrote, “Greek drama
flourished during the Greek period!
Roman drama flourished diirlng the
Roman period!'' We had difficulty
in making Kate refrain from adding
as a marginal note that Ethiopian
drama must have flourished at some
time in Ethiopia, but what about
England! Ruby has one of the best
I've heard yet. She struggled man-
Cully through the Spanish American
war and the excitement of the Maine.
(For your edification, a battleship
blown up at the beginning of the
war,) On a quiz a few days later
she gave Maine in a group of identlfl-
cations, knowing everyone would re
member that. One answer came back:
"As Maine goes, so goes the nation.
(Vermont).”
So much for wisdom. I know I’m
improving a poker face and will in
time arrive at the beatific state where
in disconcertment never lies, or some
thing of that Ilk. The other day I
watched the detailed drawing of a
most gory dagger during the whole of
a lesson on Macbeth and refrained
from shuddering comment. Another
day when we were discussing the
brutalness of Macbeth’s spouse, 1 saw
a gleam light up In one boy’s eyes.
I glowed. Perhaps he wanted to add
something at last, for hitherto he had
not showed much intereat In Macbeth,
his wife, or the plot. Beaming, I
leaned forward and held up my hand
so that the entire class might hear.
'“Yes, Harry," I encouraged,
“I’ve got to go to Slddell’s to get
my picture taken. We’re excused from
classes for our appoinments.” It was
his turn to beam.
There are two tables of supervising
teachers in the dining room. One
day we all decide quite qualmleasly
that we’ll all teach. Then comes a
day when we know we’re going to
wash dishes and indorse Rinso
columns. But on the whole you’d
think the Raleigh High Schools were
our own Institutions of learning in
days gone by. We talk of the prowess
of the classes and cheer the football
team. One thing we’ve all agreed
on, our high school days must have
been glorious without end.
B. S. U. Notes
1
Since the Christmas holidays we
have had two very prominent leaders
of the B. S. U. as speakers at tbe
chapel exercises. On Thursday, Mr.
Perry Crouch, secretary of religious
education of Baptist State Convention,
spoke to the student body and intro
duced Mr. Nathan Brooks, secretary
of the B. T. U., who spoke on Friday.
Next Sunday night the YWA has its
(Irst general meeting of the year. The
theme of the program is to be “Tbe
New Year.”
FORMER INSTRUCTOR
AT MEREDITH DIES
(Courtesy Meredith News Bureau)
News has been received here of the
death of Miss Hermoine Stueven. re^
tired college teacher, on Thursday in
a New York City hospital after a brief
illness with pneumonia. Miss Stueven
was for several years professor of
German at Meredith College, leaving
Raleigh In 1929 for New York, where
she retired from her profession. A
native of Germany, she had made her
home in New York since, and in her
long teaching career taught in 25 dif
ferent colleges and universities In the
United States.
i During the New Year—
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other work now. This will give you
[what you want, will it not?
1 left the ex-apartment building
which now houses the WPA firmly
redudn« a.iminlstratlve and overhead ‘convinced that NYA students who wish
exi«*ii>‘e>‘. and second by «‘llnilnating
frum the NYA all chose students who
aro not absolutely in direct need of
relief,
Qiipsllon: In other words. Mr. Wll-
'.iams, you mean that NYA students
who are I'eceiving Income fcom sources
other than the Kovernment will prob
ably be dropped from the rolls?
Answer: Yes, those students who
can in some way “get by” without
government aid will probably be
dropped until Congress makes another
appropriation.
Question: How is the NYA adminis
trative staff to determine just which
students are direct relief cases and
which are not. especially Inasmuch as
this staff is to be reduced in order
to cut overhead expenses?
Answer: That. Mr. Blair, is a long
story, too long for our present Inter
view. Yet I will say this; we have
had to fight like everything in order
to maintain the NYA and prevent
greater reductions than have thus far
occurred. But I have to get on to some
the NYA to be maintained must get out
and M’ork for its continuation by put
ting pressure on Congress. Make
Congress grant an appropriation that
will In some way cover the desperate
needs of many ot the country’s young
people. Write letters to your Congress
man. Send delegations to your
Senators and Representatives. If $1,-
oSO million can be appropriated to take
care of the nation's munition men,
can not a few millions be appropriated
for the nation’s youth?
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