The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-04-19
MILLIONS OF CHINESE
MENACED BY FAMINE
Chinese Students Are Making Many
Sacrifices to Save Their
COuntrymen.

What the war did to the universities
and colleges in this country and in
England, the present great famine Is
doing to those in China. The students
are forsaking their class rooms In re-
Spouse to a call of need.
Several of the Chinese colleges al
ready have closed and the students
have gone to the stricken districts in
the quickly modified army of relief
workers through whose efforts many
among the millions left destitute by
flood and drought are being kept alive
! with food rushed in from the outside
world.
I'm other institutions, where SOME
students still remain, they are divid-
ling their food with the starving folk
Of the five stricken provinces on the
"stint yourself to save" plan.
And this is one of the striking signs
of the awakening in the new republic
for which our own American colleges
are largely responsible. Whatever
progressive western spirit China has
today, she owes to the young men and
women educated here and in Europe,
many of whose expenses at American
universities and colleges were paid
for out of Boxer indemnity money.
Her hope for the future rests with
them and with the students in the
Chinese colleges modelled after our
own.
Before the call for men and women
willing to endure hardship and hard
work in famine relief because SO
urgent, the 800 students of the Uni
versity of Marking petitioned the
authorities of that institution to re-
duce the amount of food served at the
student tables in rider that what
should be saved might be sent to the
famine victims.
They saved $500 during the first half
of the school year, besides contribut-
ing more than $4,000 in cash. Eight |
hundred is a lot of money in China |
Board at the U. of ~ costs about |
$3.50 month. No, not day or
a week-a month! Figure up and
you'll see that the Chinese students
really stinted themselves They
saved a good many lives At current
prices in China, their $500 would buy
20 tons of sweet potatoes, IL tons of
millet, 5000 grounds of meat, or
5000 pounds of fish.
Everywhere Chinese students are
throwing themselves into the or
gained effort to save their starving
In Soochow University
Number Three, a much smaller insti-
tuition than the U. of ~, they saved
Sl20 in month by denying tEem-
selves meat and fish. Many OF these ]
same students are now in the famine
provinces busy with the tremendous
work of distribution.
From Huchow comes word that the ;
government schools in that vicinity,
'aised large amount of money by Civ
ng a series of entertainments which
asted week. In New York City
hey produced Chinese play and :
urned the proceeds over to the fund {
And the cry of the starving is :.
ringing a generous response from +
Their students than those in Chinese r
olleges or of Chinese birth Inl e
yria, two thousand miles from the =
tricken land, group of Christian f
tudents gave substantially to the e
anime fund from their scant means. Il
In this country, contributions are q
ow being received from the universe c,
es and colleges by the American a
ommittee for China Famine Fund,
hose treasurer is Vernon Munroe,
ible House, New York City, and in 2
,veral institutions the adoption Of =
lie stint yourself to save" idea, Dor n