Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1940, Page 20

Youth Commission Meets Tomorrow To Study Job Survey Executive Sessions To Consider Reports On Work Opportunities The American Youth Commission, convening here tomorrow for a two-day quarterly meeting, will study reports submitted by several hundred workers engaged in a dozen scattered States concerning the job, education and health needs of youth. Owen D. Young, chair- man of the board of General Elec- tric, is acting chairman of the commission. Pointing out that more than 20,- 000 individual youths were inter- viewed in connection with a study of the problem of occupational ad- Justment of young workers carried out in co-operation with the United States Unemployment Serv- ice, Floyd W. Reeves, commission director, said the commission studies have been the most comprehensive and detailed ever made of various phases of the youth problem. “The function of the commission staff has been to get the facts in order that, upon the basis of such facts, the commission may develop an effective program for the welfare of our young people,” Mr. Reeves said. Based on Maryland Study. The job-study was made on the basis of a preparatory job-analysis undertaken in FPrederick County, Md., where Youth Commission in- vestigators interviewed 13,500 boys and girls. They discovered about | 1,000 types of jobs. The job oppor- | tunities were studies in four com- munity research centers around Baltimore, St. Louis, Dallas and Providence. Mr. Young will preside at the| meetings, which will be held in| executive sessions at the United | States Chamber of Commerce. The | secretary of the commission—set up in 1935 as a subdivision of the American Council of Education—is Miss Miriam Van Waters, super- intendent of the reformatory for women, Framingham, Mass. The other 14 members include: Will W. Alexander, administrator, Farm Security Administration; Clarence A. Dykstra, president, Uni- | versity of Wisconsin; Dorothy Can- | per cent of those in Frederick County. | than that. There's no point in his field Fisher, author; Willard E. Giv- ens, executive secretary, National Education Association; Henry I. Harriman, former president, Cham- ber of Commerce of the United States. George Johnson, director Depart- | ment of Education, National cath-} olic Welfare Conference; Mordecal ‘W. Johnson, president Howard Uni- versity; Chester H. Rowell, ®ditor | Ban Francisco Chronicle; William F. Russell, dean Teachers College, Columbia University; John W.| Studebaker, United States Commis- sioner of Education. Henry C. Taylor, director Farm | Foundation; Matthew Woll, vice| president, American Federation of | Labor; Robert E. Wood, chairman of the board, Sears, Roebuck & Co.,| and George F. Zook, president,| American Council on Education. Study Started in 1938. | In an attempt to develop methods | to solve the job problem the com- mission sent out 124 occupational analysts into eight areas on January 1, 1938. A blue-bound report of thui results of that project, two inches thick, is ready for the consideration | of the commission. | Under the direction of Howard M. | Bell, who wrote the story of youth | and its problems as told by the| 13,500 boys and girls interviewed in Maryland, the commission set up its | four community research centers. Three Divisions Set Up. The work of the analysts, as de- scribed by Mr. Bell in an interview with the Associated Press, was di- vided into three major divisions. ‘They were: 1. Job analysis. Experts set out to describe all the Jobs existing in a given area (Fred- erick County). Each job was de- scribed in a statement covering a typewritten page. Each page con- | of job opportunities, the labor sup- |Oratorical Contest tained a definition of the job, its PREPARING REVOLUTIONARY PHOTOGRAPHER'S EX'HlBlT—Mr!. Robert Wallace Parker hanging some of the photographs by Leonard Misonne, famous Belgian. The show opens Tues- day at Junior League Gallery. : > working conditions, the amount of training and experience required, and possibilities of promotion. “This,” said Mr. Bell, “is the kind of activity that should be carried on co-operatively by all communities. These job descriptions should be ayailable to all agencies so that they might classify all potential and new workers, both in educating and plac- ing them.” With a list of such job descriptions at hand, a youth wouldn't need to guess what jobs there were and which he could do. Hed know— know, among other things, that 50 at least required no special training | or experience. But the youth needs to know more studying to be a furniture maker if there are only 20 men employed in the furniture plant of his town, 15 furniture men unemployed and the factory on the verge of bankruptcy. So, the second part of the occu- pational adjustment project was— 2. Economic analysis. The analysts studied the nature| ply and demand and the occupa- tional and industrial trends which might affect the future demand. “We now have the situation of too many youngsters being trained for too few jobs,” Mr. Bell pointed out. Moreover, the wrong young persons often are trained for the Jjobs that do exist. So, the analyists | also undertook— 3. Worker analysis. This was the opposite of job anal- ysis. They spent many hours de- veloping 'aptitude tests to- forecast workers’ probable success or failure. Then, they went into factories and stores and studied the workers, re- turning to their tests to see if the | results tallied with the performances | of the workers. In that way they developed ‘“vocational predictors” which Mr. Bell proposes that the ! employment service apply to job applicants before placing them. Finals to Be Tonight The Washington finals of the eighth annual oratorical contest for the high schools and academies of the Catholic archdioceses of Balti- more and Washington will be held tonight at 8:30 o'clock at Sacred Heart Academy. Three speakers —Miss Gloria Regan of Immaculate Conception High School, Miss Elizabeth Hassett of St. Cecelia’s Academy and Miss Mary Ann Reynolds of Holy Names Academy will compete. mi HECHT (o, F STREET AT 7th Because they were bought early at lower costs, the price is very low for this quality! Achromatic Glasses ‘With Leather Case and Straps 3 power, 19 ligne, achromatic lens with 42 mm. objectives. French made, excellent all- purpose glass. Unusually com- pact. Phone Orders Filled, NAtional 5100 (Optical Bhop, Main Floor) NATIONAL $100 Regularly 7.95 T THE SUNDAY Phofographs by Misonne To Be Shown Daily The Junior League Gallery, Twentieth street and Massachusetts avenue N.W,, will present an exhibit of 50 prints by Leonard Misonne, celebrated Belgian photographer, to the public each day, beginning Tues- day and continuing through next Sunday, from 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. for preservation from the danger in which they would stand in Europe 50 long as the war continues. M. Misonne was born in Gilly, Belgium, in 1870. His home was in the industrial region of Charleroi and his parents wished him to study engineering. He bowed to their wishes against his will and. before fession he had begun to take pic- tures with a camera given to him as tionary, seeking effects weather and against the sun. Although his methods were con- in foggy in pictures The Night Final Star, containing the latest news of the day during these dramatic times, livered every evening throughout the city and suburbs between 6 P.M. and 7 P.M. Telephone National 5000 for immediate delivery. — ‘The prints are in the United szmsi he ever began to work at his pro-' a present in 1891. Within a year he | had become a photographic revolu- | taken | demned, in the end they won the | for LATEST NEWS | is de- | Traffic Safety Contest To Give 18 Prizes for School Pupils’ Essays Awards to Be Made In Several Classes; Regulations Sent Out A traffic safety contest among 40, 000 pupils in junior and senior high schools of the city was announced last night by Lee D. Butler, presi- dent of the Automotive Trade As- sociation. The Board of Education has ap- proved the contest, he said, and notice has been sent to pupils out- lining regulations. 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