Arizona republican., 1921-09-12

Dorpat (Esthonia) have been fur nished with Is cases of textbooks which are serving as the basis of permanent loan library. At the re- quest of the Federation's represen- tatives in Berlin publishers in that city have agreed to furnish books for Austrian 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 Federation the following are cited as characteris- tic:
 Some Work Done
 Purchase and distribution of 264 tons of wood for student hostels in Vienna, to enable these hostels to have fires during the winter. Med ical examination and treatment of sick students at a clinic especially established in Prague. At this clinic 2o5 students were examined during the first two weeks of operation. of whom 40 were found to be tuber- cular.
 The care of tubercular students in sanatoria. In Poland 12o students are each receiving a months care this summer in such institutions.
 Management of special hostels in Budapest and Warsaw for homeless students. In Warsaw a dormitory | with 110 beds has been equipped by the Federation.
 Assistance to employment bureaus established by students themselves | in order that those financially help 1 less may have as much opportunity as possible of obtaining part-time or vacation employment. Such em- ployment bureaus are proving espe- cially effective in Germany. The one | in Prague has located 400 under graduates in work which is enabling them to continue their education. | Reduction of university fees for | particularly necessitous and worthy students. on the basis that if the l various authorities will find a way to make this possible the Fedora | tion 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 starva- 1 tion. In Germany educated men have been discovered working as street cleaners and women of refinement as charwomen, in order to obtain money to enable them to take their university degrees.
 Il Pointing out that it is a rule oi \ the Worlds Student Christian Fed
 eration to help only those who have done their utmost to help themselves the report emphasizes the fact that
 the promotion of self-help is in it.
 self inadequate even to approximate
 the need. Tuberculosis is rife in the
 various universities, and physica
 debility resulting from protractsf
 hardships and undernourishmA
 makes manual work before and aHei
 college hours extremely dangerous
 for many of the students. The
 method of self help. again, cannot bs
 applied properly to meet the need.
 of most of the so-called "foreigr
 students" in whose assistance tho
 Federation is actively engaged. These
 foreign students. of whom thousand.
 are now scattered over Centra
 Europe, are one result of the refor.
 mation of the map of Europe and tn,
 Russian revolution. There are Hun.
 garians who have fled from province.
 annexed to Roumania; Austrian.
 who have fled from provinces an
 nexed to Hungary; Germans iron
 provinces annexed to Poland; Geor.
 gians cut off from home by the So.
 viet occupation of their country, anC II everywhere Russian student refu.
 gees. These men and women wer.
 friendless, homeless and in many
 cases were progressively driftins
 nearer starvation until the organi. zation of relief work in their behalf
 Should this relief work be discon. tinued now they would very shortly
 be in as bad condition as ever. The significance of the work is H. lustrated by quoting a letter iron Dr. Friederich Hertz, of the Aus. trian Department of State:
 "Thousands of young people ar,
 being saved through your work iron extreme misery which otherwis,
 would probably break their menta
 and moral energy" he writes II ! they succumb, this would mean tn, disa ppearance of forces indispensabl, , for any reconstruction in our coun. try. It would lead to a tremendou.
 breakdown of culture and civiliza , ton in Austria whichc would reac on other countries"
 Safety pins have been found ir tombs 20oQ years old.