Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-21

5 packed my bag Tor California,
~ friend telephoned: "Oh, I'm
~ sorry. hoped you would dine
4 "A tomorrow with our so African
student guests"
San Francisco. Another friend: eff
you had only arrived yesterday, you
would not have missed our 100 Aus
tralian students-such delightful young
people"
Honolulu. I picked up a last Sum-
mers number Of 1.-The Mid-Paciflc, q
magazine, and read that 10 students
from each country bordering the Pacific
had recently set out on an encircling
Pacific friendship cruise. Antedating
Mr.. Hoover's trip to South America!
Toxic. A letter from Czecho-
slovakian acquaintance told me that
Prague was happily preparing for the
entertainment of some SO young visitors
from the United States.
BY this time my imagination saw the
worlds youth suddenly cut loose from
its moorings and embarked on some
planetary mission whose import de-
termined to discover. Here was move
nnent not sporadic and local, but world
wide and apparently concerted. What
was the meaning, what were the poten-
tialities of this perennial youth pill
grimage?
Represent World Company.
Tie unit of todays arithmetic seems
tn b. the million, so / was not surprised
to learn, at the outset, that these visit
ing bands represent world company
of organized young men and women al
ready more than million strong And
since We live in what future historians
will label the postwar period. was not
surprised to find that their union
is another Of the great fruits of the
terrible war-there are such fruits.
The travelling troops, captained by
good will, hammered by faith, are just
one outgrowth of the present worlds
longing and striving for q reliable
foundation for peace.
Superlatively, young was wars VIC
tim. At its close, the flower Of Western
youth lay blood-drenched on Flanders
and other fields Surviving youth faced
physical and mental starvation, spiritu-
al despair; 1t quickly began to arm
against the menace of postwar defeat
began in Europe, where the danger
was greatest.
Practical Methods Adopted.
They began practically They must
have education; if they were to have
it, they must wrest books, food, shelter
from a chaotic world. These they
could win as an organized body where
they would lose as individuals
There grew up swiftly in many coun-
tries student declarations concerned
primarily with securing these first ne
cessities. Soon young men and women
were opening their own restaurants
food and book shops; their own stu
dent houses.
At the same time national organiza-
lions were looking toward an interna-
tional union which could facilitate the
attainment of these objectives while en-
visioning other, higher ones. At Stras-
bourg, the very year following the ar
mistice, they raised their standard-a
victorious pennant. Confederation In
ternational des Etudiants."
The confederation's first resolution
revealed the determination of young
women and men, facing the postwar
world. to make 1t warless world. There
is only one road to international under
standing and peace, youth said-it Ii
| the open, old-fashioned way of neigh
I borliness It bridges areas of separa'
ton, cuts across barriers Of ignorance
For, In order to know our neighbors. We
| must visit them, either over transcon
| tinental hedges or around continental
blocks. Student youth organized a.
| Strasbourg ito create bonds of mutua
esteem and friendship among students
| of the world"