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

The Hague, Oxford Warsaw, Copenha-
gen, Prague again, Rome and, last Sum-
mer, at Paris.
In 1924 the confederation achieved
the delicate task of bringing students
of conquered enemy countries into the
general union. Germany, Hungary, Bull
| garia and Turkey sent official repre-
| sentatives to sit for the first time beside
delegates from France, Czechoslovakia
| and Poland in the council meeting OF
the confederation at Warsaw. This
youth accomplished, while the most i'm
portant international organization Of
adult scientists was still struggling to
reach a like milepost I believe the
young people got there two years ahead
Of their elders!
| In the meantime they had established
a central office at Brussels and spe-
cial travel bureau at London. While
! they were carrying on exchanges in text
books and scientific films. in athletics
and debating and building q direly
! needed student sanatorium at Leysi1,
Switzerland, they were organizing stu
dent camps and arranging for yearly
exchange visits among more than
| thousand students.
Obtain Other Advantages.
To facilitate these and student move
nnents generally. they secured advan-
tages Of primal importance. They won
/ the privilege of reduced travel rates on
railway and steamship lines and achieved
! Through what agency I will explain
later an international student identi-
! fication passport, which shows what the
student traveller has done and enor-
mously facilitates his movements. They
arranged for a collective or group wise
and fee, which reduced the cost of pass
! ports.
Which suggests that American youth
has given its hand in this attempt to lay
the only sure foundation for different.
warless world. It has. More than $780,
600 strong, young men and women from
every State In the Union have fallen
into line with the world student army
that visions as the supreme victory an
understanding world friendship.
That is why Asiatic guests were en-
Enthusiastically invading South American
! ports; why African guests were pouring
! into Washington, Australian into San
| Francisco, Oxfordians into New Haven
all eagerly awaited by young Ameri-
| cans. That is why large numbers OF
| our own students set forth joyously for
| Europe last Summer-embarked know
! ing that they were expected by poten-
| tial friends who already had made in
! teresting plans for them really to get
acquainted with other peoples.
American Student Movement.
Americas National Students Fedora
! ton grew out of meeting at Prince
| ton in 1925 of 200 delegates from
| As colleges and universities who went
! there to try to arrive at consensus
of opinion on the World Court. In the
end they formed the National Students
Federation of America, Ito achieve a
spirit of cooperation among students
of the United States, to give considera-
ton to questions affecting students in
terests, to develop an intelligent student
opinion on questions Of national and IN
ternational importance and to foster
understanding among the students OF
the world in the furtherance Of an en-
during peace"
1t was in 1927, at Rome, that the
American federation joined the inter-
national body.
Our branch has instituted its own
travel service for sending and receiving
guests-from now on there will be sue
cessive incoming and outgoing friend
ship pilgrimages. 1t has been writing
to. and is writing to, student unions
throughout the world, telling what is
being done here and offering to send
its publications to any country desiring
them. It has interested itself in the
problems of other young people-send-
ing to the confederation. for instance.
a resolution of protest against the per-
secution of Jews and other nlinorities
in certain universities.
Organization Extremely Busy.
/ This is no paper organiza ton. It Is
tremendously in earnest. extremely
busy. Its national activities are en-
crossing, but they do not dim its ulti-
mate purpose. Responsibility for the
international debates alone-taken over
from the Institute of International
Education-would form a considerable
item on any agenda. England plans to
send us two teams a year. Australia.
Canada, South Africa. Holland and
Germany wish to send English-speaking
teams. We. in return, hope to send
visiting teams to each Of these coun-
tries
The travel division huns. 1t offers
two types of facilities; one for Official
acknowledgement classmen-and
the Open Road Tours for others. In
connection with the latter. the bureau
limits itself to giving advice, contracting
for space and making other arrange
ments with steamship and railway
companies.
But for the official tours 1t assumes
larger responsibilities. The delegation
of 100 who will go to Europe this Sum-
mer, for instance, will be divided into
groups of from 10 to IA, each under the
leadership of graduate or senior
student. Each group will follow one
of ten interesting programs which the
national declarations of various Euro
pean countries have outlined. These
itineraries include, in common, an ex-
tended stay in one particular country.
one week at the International Student
Center in Geneva and another at the
Cite Universitaire in Paris. Besides.
there is the 1929 Pan-Pacific Students
Congress to plan for!
Million Postwar Youths Enrolled.
This is but a glimpse into the inter-
in the great confederation. Like en-
deavor is sponsored by more than a
million postwar youths.
Paralleling these major undertakings
are innumerable more indirect ap-
proaches toward better understanding
among them, such experiments as those
of certain California pioneers-it does
not surprise us to find enthusiasm in
the Far West antedating the work of
our national organization. For some
reason Southern California is a par
ticularly fertile field for international
effort.
Some six years ago a handful of
young idealists in the University of
California dedicated themselves to the
task of bridging areas of distrust in the
world. How to begin? Practically. in
their own schools, by enrolling in mod
ern language courses. They recognized,
at the start. that the greatest barrier
to understanding is diversity of Ian
guages. They found that by cutting
out less important subjects they could
easily take on a language or two.
Spanish proved favorite, and they
told us, their elders that if we did not