The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-06-18
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL

Brookings Register Bureau, Washington, DC.
(By j. T.. Jones)
A few years & much stress was
laid upon hat class of education which
was finished abroad" but abroad
appears to have been moved from
Europe to the United States. 1t is
shown by Official figures hat the Unit
ed States furnished only 351 students
for German finishing schools" and
other educational institutions in 1912,
OF these 1928 were from northern states
and twenty-three from southern states.
The number of foreign students en-.
rolled at 275 American universities,
colleges and technical schools In
the year 1913 not only reached the sur
prising total of 1922, but this was an
actual increase of 577 ove 1911.
Travellers upon the boats going to, or
coming from South America, are i'm
pressed with the number OF young men
whose mission to the United States
concerns the matter of their educa-
ton. These young men after gradua-
ton, have proven their benefit to the
foreign trade of the United States
through the demand they have created
for the American articles to which
they have become accustomed, and in
their business and official life they
quite universally specify American
equipment for foreign enterprises.
There are 1900 foreign students en-
rolled in the under graduate and grad
uate classes of arts and sciences in the
United States. The next largest num-
Der is in courses in engineering, sol.
Medicine follows with 339; 303 in
dentistry, 275 in agriculture, and 256
in theology.
Canada SEN 653 students; China
594: Japan 1856; Mexico 223; Great
Britain and Ireland 212; Cuba 200; In
dia 1872; Finland 1874; Germany 122.
Every Latin-American country except
French Guina has representatives in
this group of foreign students. The
numbers range from two in the case of
Uruguay and Paraguay through 43 for
can total of 223.
There is a growing impression we'll
informed circles here that the tariff
plans of the administration as en-
bodied in the Underwood bill will be
modified in one important particular at
least. The rumored change is one
can be made very easily if the
and congress are SO minded
for it will consist merely in eliminat-
ing the proviso at the end Of Schedule
E which declares that after May 1,
1916, sugar shall be admitted duty free.
Two factors are said to be influential
in inducing the democratic leaders to
look favorably upon this course The
first is the consideration that the rev.
of nearly $4O,0 90, 900 from sugar.,
the best revenue producer OF
the tariff list, will be needed to help
fill the growing gap between govern
ment income and expenditure. The
is the result Of investigations
the department of commerce has
made into conditions in the Louisiana
sugar fields and which are now being
extended to the sugar beet states. 1t
Is reported that the figures collected
by the government experts show that
the home sugar industry will be badly
crippled by free admission Of foreign
While the president Is not
likely to commit himself until the re-
port Of his investigators are completed
1t is noteworthy that most OF the talk
of a possible amendment of the sugar
tariff comes from democratic sources.
A warning has been issued from
Washington against the latest cure for
hog cholera, which has been receiving
much praiseworthy comment from the
public press. The statement OF the
federal government says that lit has
no reason to believe in the efficiency of
any proprietary cure for hog cholera
and does not recommend It," Under
certain conditions Il urged farmers to
protect their stock with anti-hog
cholera serum, but that Is all.