Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-13
THREE-CENT MEALS AND RECONSTRUCTION
BY Frederic j. HaSkin

| YTASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. How
| Nv meals are being served for as little as
| 8 cents apiece to students in half
| dozen European countries, that they may con-
tinue their studies, and so prevent the COM
| plete breakdown of higher education in Eu-
rope, is told in a report upon year of activ-
| ity by the Worlds Student Christian Fedora
| ton. It. is one of several organizations that
are working to help university students IN
| Europe.
ed 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 it's youth killed, has
no adequate facilities to train what is LETT
The great problem is how to train the doc
tors, engineers and technlcans 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
Bolsheviki administration will permit.
The executive committee which is in charge
of the European Student Relief 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. G.
Rutgers, of Hardenbroek, Holland
World Undertaking
The report points out that the assistance
now being given to students throughout Cen
trail Europe, from Esthonia to Turkey, has
been made possible by voluntary contribu-
tons from twenty-siX countries, including
such widely scattered states as Japan, IRA
quay, Finland and Cuba. Students have been
| the principal agents in collecting funds, as
we'll as themselves generous givers, in all. the
| II rrr1a
peals to commercial firms have resulted in
| gifts of rs tons of cocoa and several carloads
| of biscuits for students breakfasts. In Nor
way and Sweden students have appealed 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 Polish stu
dents, while during this summer vacation
young Englshmen from Oxford University
are collecting funds in Swiss and English re-
! sorts to enable this work in behalf of their
| fellow undergraduates to continue.
In cooperation with the American Keller
| Administration, whose funds for this work
| have been largely supplied by American col
| lege students, 10000 students in 100 lnst1tu-
| lions of higher learning are being assisted
by the Federation with meals. Gifts of food
| stuffs, assistance by the various governments
| and universities concerned, student co-opera-
| tive self-help, and the high purchasing power
| OSLiN1 "A
| Europe enables the cost of these meals to be
| kept at the almost incredibly low figure OF
| little more than cents apiece.
| In addition to the feeding work, large sup
| plies of clothing have been distributed by
| the Federation, ST Austrian students having
| been QUILTED in period of five weeks early
this year. mother activity now being de-
| veloped is the supply Of necessary textbooks
| in places where not only student poverty, but
| that of the university itself prevents access to
| essential works. Thus 500 volumes of ref
erence books each with special bookplate
| indicating that it is the gift Of the European
| Student Relief, have been presented to the
| Medical School at Cracow (Poland). Needy
| students at the University of Dorpat (Es-
| thonia) have been furnished with fifteen
| cases Of textbooks which are serving as the
| basis of a permanent loan library. At the
| request of the Federation's representatives 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 World s
| Student Christian Federation the following
are cited as characteristic:
! 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.
Medical examination and treatment of SICK