The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-17
TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
Information Bureau
FREDERIC j. HAsKIN, Director.
Washington, D. G.
THREE-CENr MEALS AND RECON
Washington, D. @.
STRUCTION.

meals are being served for as little as
three cents apiece to students in half
a dozen European countries, that they
may continue their studies, and SO
prevent the complete breakdown of
| higher education in Europe. is told in
a report upon a year, of activity by
the Worlds Student Christian Fed
Grafton. 1t is one @ several organiza-
lions that are working to help univer-
sity students in Europe.
The European universities were i'm
poverished and depopulated by the
war. Students and professors were
! killed and manned. There was no
money for textbooks or equipment.
The greatest educational system the
world has ever seen was threatened
with ruin. Europe, with the greater
| part of its youth killed, has no ade-
| quate facilities to train what is left.
| The great problem is how to train the
doctors, engineers and technicians
generally, the teachers, lawyers and
leaders, in all lines, who must rebuild
| European civilization. Somehow Eu-
ropean 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 its work is soon to be extended to
| Russia, if the Bolsheviki administra-
ton will permit.
The executive committee, which is
in charge of the European student re-
| lief program of the Worlds Student
| Christian Federation is composed of
DR.. John r. Mott and Mr. David R.
/ Porter of New York City, U. S. A. DR.
! Karl Fries of Geneva, Switzerland;
Miss Ruth Rouse of London, England;
and DR.. H. c. Rutgers of Hardenbroek,
Holland.
A World Undertaking.
The report points out that the as
sistance now being given to students
turnout Central Europe, from Es-
thonia to Turkey, has been made pos
sible by voluntary contributions from
26 countries, including such widely
scattered states as Japan, Uruguay,
Finland and Cuba. Students have
been the principal agents in collecting
funds. as well as themselves generous
givers, in all the contributing nations.
In England direct appeals to CONNER
cial firms have resulted in gifts of IS
tons of, cocoa and several carloads of
biscuits for students breakfasts 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" organized by Dutch
| undergraduates are now seen on the
backs of penurious Austrian and Pol
1911 0NNoCilLSy Willie OQ1-44S ILLS SUM-
mer vacation young Englishmen from
| Oxford university are collecting funds
| in Swiss and English resorts to enable
this work in behalf of their fellow
undergraduates to continue.
In cooperation with the American
Relief Administration, whose funds
for this work have been Ia -gely sup
piled by American college students,
1000 students in 120 institutions of
higher Learnt 'g are being assisted by
the federation with meals. Gifts of
foodstuffs, assistance by the various
governments and universities con-
! cerned, student cooperative self-help,
and the high purchasing power of
money of the victorious nations in
Central Europe enables the cost of
these meals to be kept at the almost
incredibly low figure of little more
than three cents apiece.
In addition to the feeding work,
large supplies of clothing have been
distributed by the federation, SIT Aus
trian students having been outfitted in
a period of five weeks early this year.
Another activity now being developed
is the supply of necessary textbooks
in places where not only student pow
erty, but that of the university itself
prevents access to essential works Thus
500 volumes of reference books, each
with a special bookplate indicating
that it is the gift of the European Stu
QenL hG1leI, nave Deen presented u
the Medical school at Cracow (Po-
land). Needy students at the Univer-
sity of Dorpat (Esthonia) have been
furnished with fifteen cases of text
books, which are serving as the basis
of a permanent loan library. At the
request of the federation's representa-
tives in Berlin publishers in that city
have agreed to furnish books for Aus
trian universities at practically cost
price, while free shipment has been
offered by the German State railways.
Among other forms of relief work
among the students undertaken by the
Worlds Student Christian federation
1.-THE following are cited as character
istic:
Some Work Done.
Purchase and distribution of ga
tons of wood for student hostelsNin
Vienna, to enable these hostels to
have fire during the winter. Medical
examination and treatment of sick stu
dents at a clinic especially established
in Prague. At this clinic EOS students
were examined during the first two
weeks of operation, of whom forty
were found to be tubercular.
The care of tubercular students in
sanatoria. In Poland 120 students are
each receiving a months care this
summer in such institutions.
Management of special hostels in
budapest anu w dISdW 1OI AAOAlACAC0S
students. In Warsaw a dormitory with
10 beds has heen equipped by the
federation.
Assistance to employment bureaus
established by students themselves in
order that those financially helpless
may have as much opportunities pos
sible of obtaining part-time or vaca-
| ton employment. Such employment
| bureaus are proving especially effec-
/ tive in Germany. The one in Prague
has located 400 undergraduates in
work which is enabling them to con-
| tinue their education.
Reduction of university fees for
particularly necessitouS and worthy
| students. on the basis that if the vari-
| Gus 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