Evening star., 1934-06-07
NAz|S CLAIM DUTY
TOSTAY IGNORANT
5000 Students in Germany
ConsoIed for Ban in
Reich Colleges.

BERLIN [P).-The duty of not get
ting a university education in this
traditional land of scholarship is be-
ing impressed upon some $4,000 STU
dents whose hopes of going to college
were dashed last December when Nazi
authorities cut in half the attendance
at institutions of higher learning.
The purpose of the decree, it was
stated, was to cut down the surplus
of university graduates. The system
of elimination since been put into
effect has left many preparatory
students with little hope of reaching
college.
Patriotic merit" Is the criterion
for the rubber stamp atop the diploma
of every student who does his ar
bitur," or college preparatory work,
and which alone permits matricula-
ton at university.
BY virtue of the December decree
the $4,000 admitted students are di-
vided among German states accord
ing to populations: thus, in Prussia
1884 we're readmitted, in Bavaria
1,670, and so on.
Women Limited to 10 Per Cent.
In no case may woman students
In any state exceed 10 per cent OF
the total allotted to that state.
According to one Dresden school
official, who made report at. a
meeting of educators, $50 parents in
his city made verbal complaints
against the new system. None, how
ever, he added, cared to sign a petit
ton on their grievances.
At the same educators meeting, to
which the public was not admitted,
it was revealed that the wish OF one
father that his son study law so he
later might take over the legal de-
partment in the parental factory was
refused.
A curious case, almost leading to
q diplomatic incident, also was re-
ported The son of German father
and japanese mother, whose parents
wished him to study, was refused ad-
mission to a university.
The father pointed out that his son
was a "non-Aryan" but the authori-
ties insisted that the son was Ger
man citizen, and therefore the excep-
ton made in the case Of foreigners
wishing to study at German unlver-
sites could not apply.
AS a last resort the father sought
the aid of the japanese embassy and
1t was only after the japanese ex-
f0 6o n
japanese citizenship that the Nazi
authorities relented.
Hitler Speeches Are Cited.
Feeling against the educational
measures is being countered by stu
dent-parent lectures at which Hitler's
utterances against 'pallid intellectual
ism" are being cited.
At a recent Berlin meeting TOO
young men and women who had been
turned away from university doors
were told:
1T is Hitler's idea that students
should snap out of the bad habit of
overestimating professions like civil
service, and the intellectual profess
sions IN general"
What We need" the speaker con-
tinued, "are people competent in mat
ters of practical life
Sponsored by the Berlin AsSocia-
tion of Business Men, the purpose of
the meeting was to interest the reject
ed students in Office and factory Jobs
mo one ought to do what seems to
be the most comfortable thing" said
DIR. Otto Christian Fischer.
He promised volunteers a "tage-
sheim," or recreational center, as a
substitute for college atmosphere.
Lauds Future of Workers.
DR.. Liebenberg, representing Robert
Ley, leader of the labor front, ex-
pressed astonishment that the rejected
students weren't f1ocking to public
employment agencies. Among the
golden opportunities" he cited were
positions for 80 stenographers and
several bookkeepers, and he wound up
his list expatiating on futures of me-
chanics and locksmiths and the pleas
antneSs of factory apprenticeshipS.
You'd be surprised" he said, what
adventures are in store for persons
even if they don't have university
educationsi''
Offering to place" students in jobs
for which they believed themselves
best suited, he urged students to sign
up at once-hefore the placement Sys-
tenn became compulsory.
Better than wisdom is realization"
said DR.. Waldmann in conclusion and,
discerning the root of modern de-
cadence" in the French Revolution, he
said that in the third Reich-"God be
praised, worship of reason has