Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-10
3-CENT MEALS AND
RECONSTRUCTION.
BY Frederic j.. Haskin.

OF activity by the worlds student CHRISTIAN
Federation. 1t is one of several organizations
that are working to help university students in
Europe.
and depopulated by the war. Students and pro-
fessors were killed and MANNED. There was no
money for text books or equipment. The great
est educational system the world has ever seen
was threatened with ruin. Europe, with the
greater part OF its youth killed, has no adequate
facilities to train what Is left. The great prob
lem is how to train the doctors, engineers and
technicians generally. the teachers, lawyers and
leaders, in all lines, who must rebuild European
civilization. Somehow European students must
be kept alive and supplied with books, for the
sake Of the whole world. This is the work the
federation is doing. Rumor says that it's work
is soon to be extended to Russia, If the Bolshe-
Wiki administration will permit.
The executive committee which is in charge
of the European Student Re]iei program OF the
Worlds Student Christian Federation Is com
posed of DR.. John r. Mott and Mr.. David X.
Porter Of New York City, q. y. A, Or. karl
of London, England, and DR.. II. c. Putgers OF
Hardenbroek, Holland.
A World Undertaking..
The report points out that the assistance now
being given to students throughout Central Eu-
rope, from Esthonia to Turkey, has been made
possible by voluntary contributions from twen-
ty-six countries, including such widely scattered
states as Japan. Uruguay, Finland and Cuba.
Students have been principal agents In collec-
ting funds, as we'll as themselves generous CIV,
ers, in all the contributing nations. In England
direct appeals to commercial firms have result
ed in gifts of seventy-fiye tons of cocoa and sew
eral carloads OF biscuits lot 6IuueutS VIVIAN
fasts. In Norway and Sweden students have ap-
pealed from the churches and in this manner
gathered collections running into thousands OF
francs. The results of clothing raids organ
Ized by Dutch undergraduates are now seen on
the backs of penurious Austrian and Polish stu
dents, while during this summer vacation y1uns
from oxford University are collec-
ting funds in Swiss and English resorts TO en-
able this work in behalf Of their fellow I'M
to continue. u
Administration, whose funds for this work nave
been largely supplied by American coliege STU
dents, 70, 900 students in 40 institutions y l
higher learning are being assisted by the Ieoef-
alton with meals. Gifts of foodstuffs, assistance
the various governments ana uhiHei'n
concerned. student cooperative self-help, ana
the high purchasing power of money OF the w
torious nations in Central Europe enaoies tne
cost of these meals to be kept at the aimo5 tbrae
low figure of little more than three
In addition to the feeding work, large sup
plies Of clothing have been distributed ny ~
fed eration. SIT Austrian students having peeH
QUILTED in a period of five weeks cary ~
year. Another activity now being deyeiopea Is
The supply of necessary textbooks In places
where not only student poverty, but OF the unl-
versity itself prevents access to essential WORKS.
Thus 600 volumes of reference pooks' &C. ea tbe Gift
of the European Student Relief. have been pre-
sented to the Medical School at Cracow 10
iand). Needy students at the University OF Dol-
nat (Esthonia) have been furnished with htteeh
cases of textbooks which are serving as tne pas1s
of a permanent loan library: At the request VI
the le0efdllOH . -
in that city have agreed to furnish pooks
for Austrian universities at practicany cos 81
price, while free shipment has oeeh ~ ~
the German State Railways.
Among other forms OF reher WORK nv -
students undertaken by the Worlds Stuaens
Federation the following are clteo do
characteristics:
Some Work Done.
Purchase and distribution of 264 tons OF Woou
for student hostels in Vienna, to enaple tnene
hostels to have fires during the winter. Meol-
,naI Examination and treatment of sick students
at a clinic especially established IN Prague. -
this clinic 2o5 students were examlneo forty
the first two weeks OF operation l Will Ao
were found to be tubercular. .oor;a
The care of tubercular students in sanatorla'
In Poland 12o students are each pstitutiensI
months care this summer In such lnsnlaaiost
Management of special hostels IN Puuapenl
and Warsaw for homeless students; IN wa
saw a dormitory with llO peas mas pee NA~F
ped by the federation. h,,shed
Assistance to employment bureaus estapnsS e.
by students themselves in order that tnose ~
nsnciallv HELPLESS may have as much opportu-
nitv as possible of obtaining part-tlme or vaca.
ton employment. Such employment oure ~
are proving especially eiiectlVe IN dargrn9i ,ates
in work which is enabling them to continue thei
education. .or;ou1srlv ne
cessitous and worthy students, on the basis ma
IL the various authorities will md a way a.
make this possible the federation VIII see I'D
assistance is given to those young men wy
women to enable them to keep up their sluu NC
In Budapest University students nave oee nf
found sleeping IN railway wv ;na
pnblic buildings and under bridges. IN vienna
two students were found dead of starvation. ~
Germany educated men have peen discoSete"
working as street cleaners ana WoHeh go,
6nement as charwomen, in order 10 optatn
money to enable them to take their uhiNeisi'
degrees. +ha Worlds
student Christian Federation to help only Inose
who have done their utmost to help thehlselves'
the renort emphasizes the fact that the protiio,
lion ri seli-help is in itself Inadequate even ~
annroximate the need. Tuberculosis Is rite IN
ne various universities, and physical deolllty
resu,ting from protracted hardships ana uhoel.
nourishment makes manual work peIore am
after college hours extremely oahgerous ~
manv of the students. The method OF seil.hetp
again, cannot be applied properly 10 meet ~
needs of most of the so-caled 'forelsh slu-
dents" in whose assistance the federation Is acs
tivaiT sneared. These foreign students, Oh
whom thousands are now scattered oNel d.
rial Europe, are one result OF the .elo,
~ the map OF Europe and the RUSSIAN Nesolu
ton. There are Hungarlans VINO have 10 who
nroyinces annexed to Roumanla' AusI[lans ~
have fled from provinces annexed TO rirlsa.S
Germans from provinces annexed 10 Ioiahu'
Georeians cut off from home by the soviet ~
ounat;on of their country, and nus
sian student refugees. These men ana women
suare friend1ess. homeless and in many cases
were progressively drifting nearer starHatiot
mill the organization of relief work IN their pc,
half Should this relief work be discontlnueo
now.they would very shortly be IN as pao eo"'
dition as ever. 4. ;,,rs+ra+ed nv
ouotins q letter from DIR. Friedrich Hertz, OF Tie
Austrian Department of state: s.ved
.Thousands Of young people are peils go
through YOUR work from extreme misery whter
othorwise would probably break their mentaI
and moral energy" he writes; ny NJ
cumb. this would mean the disappearance a.
Nroa ;rdjsnensable for any Reconstruction III