Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-13

students at clinic especially established in
Prague. At this clinic 205 students were ex-
amined during the first two weeks of opera
ton, of whom 40 were found to be tuburcular.
The care of tubercular students in sana-
toria. In Poland 120 students are each re-
ceiving a months care this summer in such
institutions.
Management of special hostels in Budapest
and Warsaw for homeless students. In War
saw dormitory> with 10 beds has been
equipped by the Federation.
Assistance to employment bureaus estab-
lished by students themselves in order that
those financially helpless may have as much
opportunity as possible of obtaining part
time or vacation employment. Such employ
ment bureaus are proving especially effective
in Germany. The one in Prague has located
400 undergraduates in work which is enabling
them to- continue their education.
Reductions of university fees for particu-
larly necessitous and worthy students, on the
basis that if the various authorities will find
a way to make this possible the Federation
will see that assistance is given to those
young men and women to enable them to keep
up their studies.
In Budapest university students have been
found sleeping in railway stations, toilets OF
public buildings and under bridges. In
Vienna two students were found dead of
starvation. In Germany educated men have
been discovered working as street cleaners
and women O. refinement as charWomen in
order to obtain money to enable them. to take
their university degrees.
Pointing out that it is rule of the Worlds
Student Christian Federation to help only
thos- who have done their utmost to help
themselves, the report emphasizes the fact
that the promotion of self-help is in itself in
adequate even to approximate the need Tu-
berculosis is rife in the various universities,
and physical debility resulting from protract-
ed hardships and undernourishment makes
work before and after college hours extreme
ly dangerous for many of the student. The
method of self-help, again, can not be applied
properly to meet the needs of most of the
so-called foreign Students" in whose assist
ance the Federation is actively engaged.
These foreign students, of whom thousands
are now scattered over Central Europe, are
one result of the reformation of the map of
Europe and the Russian revolution There
are Hungarians who have fed from provinces
annexed to Roumania Austrians who have
Germans from provinces annexed to Poland;
Georgians cut off from home by the Soviet
occupation of their country, and everywhere
Russian student refugees These men and
women were friendless, homeless and in
many cases were progressively drifting nearer
starvatio- until the organization of relief
work in their behalf. Should this relief work
be discontinued now they would very shortly
be in as bad condition as ever.
The significance of the work is illustrated
by quoting letter from DR.. Friedrich Hertz,
of the Austrian Department of State
thousands of young people are being
saved through your work from extreme misery
which otherwise would probably break their
mental and moral energy" he writes. eff
they succumb, this would mean the disap-
pearance of forces indispensable for any re-
construction in our country. It would lead to
tremendous breakdown Of culture and CIV
ilization in Austria which void react on other
countries