The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-22
BELCIUM-U. s, INTERCHANGE
 SCHOLARS
tBy International News Service,

(By International News Service) New York, April 22.-Twenty new.
 fellows' have been appointed by
 four Belgian universities to come to America for graduate study for the school year of 1921-1922-
 The nominating universities are Ghent, Liege, Brussells and Louvain, the School of Mines at Mons. and the Colonial School at Antwerp; while the 13 American colleges and universities asked to nominate candidates for study in Belgium for the 1921-1922 academic year are Harvard, Yale, Co.,
 lumbia, Cornell, California, Pennsyl-
 yanla, Chicago. Stanford. Princeton,
 tute of Technology and Johns Hop klns The American candidates will be chosen by May 1. Four fellow
 ships in each country are renewed. The origin of the C. R. B. Educa- tional Foundation dates from the ar nlistice, the fund representing residue from the sales of foodstuffs both out side and inside Belgium, largely ac- crued during the armist;ce under the Commission for Relief in Belgium, which continued in service until April
 1919, and of the Comite National,
 which was the associate organization or the American commission and was made up of a large number of Bel
 gians under the direction of distin-
 gulshed Belgian business men.
 Alter the armiStice it was desira ble that the system of providing mass food supplies be continued until such
 time as Belgium should have re-es-
 tablished herself on a pre-war basis.
 In November, 1918, there were ap-
 proximately 100000 people receiving free food, while the balance of the population, about 7,000.00O people. were still able to find local money with which to pay for their rations. Hoover's Suggestion Followed. Under the arrangements of the Comite National the BelGians who had money had always charged them selves a small profit, which was ex- pended in support of the totally des-
 titute. With the armistice. the amaz-
 ing industry, vitality and ingenuity of
 the Belgian population showed itself
 in immediate and astonishingly rapid
 reduction of the totally destitute, so
 that not only was there an accumula-
 ion of profit formerly expended for
 the destitute, but a new profit from
 the former destitute, whose pride
 prompted them to begin paying as fast as they secured employment or sion of property over which they had
 lost control during the occupation.
 There was further profit made in li-
 quidation of surplus foodstuffs and
 equipment
 No question ever arose but that
 these profits" or margins, were the
 property of the people of Belgium.
 The only question to be determined
 was how they were to be returned to
 the public. The Belgian Government
 expressed the desire that they be ap-
 piled in some manner beneficial to the
 public and to commem crate the re-
 lie organization of the war. A meet ing was arranged by the Belgian au- thorities at Brussels at which the Prime Minister, speaking on behalf of the Ministers. requested MT. Her bert Hoover to determine the charac- ter of this operation. After study and reflection MT. Hoover proposed the money for education in Belgium. This having been accepted. represent atives of the Belgian universities were called into conference.
 Build Bridge of Relationship. | Ninety-five million francs were
 made available to enable the Belgian universities and technical schools i'm mediately to resume activities. Fur ther amounts as they became available after final liquidation were allocated to he permanent foundations from which the income only would be ex- pended. This was designed to build
 a permanent bridge of fine and high relationship between the two coun- tries to become a permanent force in both nations This balance amounts