The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-20
RAYMOND W. PULLMAN.


Times Washington Bureau. No. 70A
Metropolitan Bank Building.
WASHINGTON. ID. c.. Aug. 90
At least 10000 American students and
school teachers
Students and went abroad this
Teachers Held tn year 10 cunttnus
Europe. their studies and
TO improve their
educational opportunities. according
to estimates completed In the United
States bureau Of education yesterday.
and a large proportion OF this vast
number are known to Nbe included In
the small army OF travellers from this
country. who are now trapped In Eu-
rope because of the war. Because ex-
act figures are not obtainable, the
government experts to be conserva-
tive, have elected TO err In the direc-
ton OF Understanding rather than
over-estimating In the preparation OF
the statement on the number OF Amer
lean students and teachers studying
abroad.
Almost every city In the United
States has reported to the state de-
partment a large number or pubic
school teachers who have gone to
Europe for summer study. In the
opinion of bureau OF education en-
perts, the most serious phase OF the
present situation is that the war
broke out Just In time TO catch the
large rush Of summer students, most
OF whom reached Europe by the mid
die OF July. Many American students
and teachers take advantage OF the
summer season to go through va
cation course" at French or Ger
man university, or to follow the reg
ular summer semester. Germany,
particularly. has been drawing large
numbers OF students. In the higher
institutions alone II Is said that there
are as many students from the United
States as there are from all other for
eign nations combined.
The art schools Of Paris and Rome,
the music Conservatives OF Berlin
and Vienna, the seminaries In liter
ature and philology at Gottingen,
Leipzig and Berlin, the holiday
courses In language at Madrid or
Besancon. the pedagogic course at
Jena. not to mention the large num-
Der OF private secondary schools.
some under American and some un-
der foreign management, that cater
to American boys whose parents are
temporarily resident In Europe, and
the tourist tutoring classes that COM
bine the pleasures OF European travel
with the drudgery Of work for fall
school or college "exams'--all or
these are hard hit by the sudden war
In which Europe has been plunged.
The exact number OF music stu
dents abroad Is not q matter Of rec
ord, but II has been sufficiently large
In the past year to produce a vigor-
Gus storm OF protest from American.
music masters, who claim that Amer
lean girls have been losing time.
money and even character In mad
rush for musical opportunities that
the United States, they say, can now
give about as we'll as Europe.
In the line of university study Of
interest to American students. the in.
ternational exchange idea In educa-
ton has become q regular institution.
with increasing numbers Of definite
arrangements for exchange, all the
way from professors down to stu
dents. Various American universi.
ties have an Austrian interchange OF
professors, several have French and
German exchange professorships, and
there Is also an exchange with Hol-
land. These men are not marooned
In Europe In the same sense as the
summer students, but II Is believed
that the war Is likely to cause seri-
Gus breaks In their work.
one or The international education
nj &c ktxat xx.lII L. -
because OF the European war, in the
opinion Of federal experts, Is the In
ternational congress of home educa-
ton, which is scheduled to be held
lin Philadelphia next month, and In
which educators from all parts of
the world have been expected to par.
ticipate.
The European war has brought
about q sudden change. in the inter.
national traffic In
Radlum Traffic radium, the earth's
and the War. most precious min
T, eral product, and,
according to reports which have been
submitted to Secretary OF the In
terror Franklin X. Lane, the whole
future OF the industry, both abroad
and in this country Is seriously
threatened. AS Is generally known.
the principal radium- producing ore is
carnotite, and the United States pos
sesses rich deposits Of this mineral
on which the whole world depends
for Its supply OF radium.
Up to the present time Europe,
however, has had practically a mo-
nopoly In the manufacture OF radi-
um. securing the ore from the carno-
lite fields Of Colorado. Within the
last few years American companies
have been organized to extract ra-
dunn, and, while the Manufacturing
industry In this country Is yet in its
infancy, contracts have been made for
the delivery Of small quantities dur
ing the next year. Europe has been