Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-02-04

MERICA has Belgium from starvation. viii
n America help to keep the intellectual life of
Belgium being crushed out by the war?
TO this question in the affirmative is the aim
of a subcommittee of the Belgian relief fund The
Belgian scholarship will to give the art
lists and scientists of Belgium chance TO go on with
their life work
Artists and men of science letters stand first
among the classes whose of livelihood is swept
away by Art and the pursuit Of science lux
ures when people need bread they cannot pay for pic
lures Moreover, the arts and sciences are the last
lines to recover from conditions. Reconstruction
begins at the bottoms poems and statues and abstruse
research the capstone of the social structure the
products of order and prosperity. Belgian scholarship
at present is in a bad way
The artist educator has hard time fitting
himself into the primitive conditions of wartime His
life has not prepared him a living any of
the manual trades open to unframed men under
conditions. This fact is strikngly by way in
which such men have been turned away from the
milton plants when they applied for work They didn't
look to the authorities they munitions
and maybe the authorities right
The artist type is proverbially improvident, even
when he earns large income. The scientist edu-
Gator who earns large income so rare bird as to
be negligible. Hence few men the class which the
committee hopes to assist have anything in the shape
of financial laid by The problem is compli-
Gated by the fact that offering money is
hardly practical course. Their pressing
material, yet they suffering from very real and
acute distress due fact that they cannot go on
with the work with which are bound up So
the scholarship committee has itself clear
ing mouse between American universities the Bel
CLAN victims of the war.
Numerous Belgian professors have been engaged by
universities in the United States Chicago Yale
Princeton Harvard and George Washington are among
the institutions which already taken the STEP A
great double good is accomplished by such action Not
only do these Belgian get chance to pursue
their careers but the United States is the richer for
,hel services. Many of them are distinguished
lines OF work. some of them European regulations
The need for the European point view in our
higher education was recognized long
adjustment so-called Exchange professorships
between big American European institutions Par
ties to such agreement exchanged professors A
professor from Berlin lectured year in Columbia
for instance, while Columbia professor lectured in
Berlin. Under the present arrangement our UNIVERSE
ties get the services of from principal unver
stiles of Belgium.
In many 1t is impracticabIe to the JJnited
States to bring the professors the war has cut off
from their work. and in such the committee hopes
to help them by means of contributions, in England
Holland, France wherever they may be A broader
end than the assistance particular scientist
is often served in this way when some of these
men stopped work the cause of the advancement of
knowledge in their line received severe blow.
The second object of the is the raising of
fund toward restoring Belgian universities museums
libraries after Clearly, need for such
fund has nothing to do with who eventually
in Europe. In any event. the universities have to
their Besides cash, contributions
of books being campaigned for AS soon as the
committee has provided their storage appeals will
be all American private and public libra
asking their duplicate copies Heads of some
biggest lbraSes have already promised cooper
alton.
The various societies in this country which issue
periodical publications will be asked for sets of them