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XXXIV. No. 105

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1924

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Eu opean Countries To Suffer A Revival Of The Dark Age

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Faculty Men
Explain Duty.
Of Michigan
UThe'following oinions were ob- 
tained from faculty members in re-i
gard to the sitoation in Iaurope at
STUDENT FRIENDSHIP FUND HAS the present time and the necessity for;
HELPED SCHOLARS FOR some kind of cooperative aid if Euro-
t THEE YARSpean education is to be preserved.
THREE YEARS PROF. WILLIAM FRAYER, of the
history department.--All those who
FOOD, CLOTHING NEEDED are interested in present European
TO PREVENT CALAMITY conditions are well aware that in
many parts of Europe there are large
Relief Concentrated in Russia This numbers of men, women and children;
Winter Where Students Can who are suffering acutely because of
Barely Exist circumstances over which they havej
no control. They are the tragically
'helpless victims of mistakes for which
Financial collapse by many of the they are in no way responsible. This
countries of Europe as a result of the is ariularly resnonie lie
tremndos exendturs ofthewaris particularly true in countries like s
trenendyote expenditures of the war'I Russia, Poland, Hungary, Austria and
nd by ot er conditions brought about Germany, 'where war and revolutionj
y tre threatening te euctional1 have produced currency inflation of
ntitutions of the Old World with unprecedented proportions.
total annihilation. This is the report in thmese circumstances it seems in-
brought back by relief workers in evitae ihat the heaviest losses
Europe who are striving to bolster up should fall to those families delend-
the intellectual life there and prevent cht upon fixed incomes. And this is
it from possible extermination in the ;the ery iclss from which the Euro-
near future.y pean universities are largely recruit-
To prevent such a calamity which, ed. It is not surprising, therefore, to
if allowed to continue, would bring learn that in the universities of cen-
bout another Dark Age, at east in tral and eastern Europe there are
Europe, food, clothing, boo , moneyniaim y professors and many more stu-
and many kinds of other material aid dents who find themselves in a plight
are being sent abroad to help themfi- bordering on starvation. Competent
Lure leaders there think for them' observers assure us that the situation
selvesdin many centers of learning is des-
Th aettr~ieseindtime pperate, and that on the whole it grows
Tbere are at the present time ap- worse rather than better. It is ob-
proximately 500,000 students in the viously a very sad commentary on our
universities of Europe, and of these present civilization that scholars and;
105,000 : 200 different institutions scientists of the highest professional
have remained in school due to the rank are left to die in d ifutioni

KIEV STUDENTS WAIT FOR FOOD

Student Fund
Co m USSIANwt
Fights Coming
Of Ignorance
With Europe's scholars threatened
tob dpivdof hermeans BOLSHE IKrPAR
ingandtheuniversities of the conti-
inent headed for the scrap heap because 11 .ARYPVIlNE lAN) SON BLA
of financial and economic disasters in SOVIET FOR NATIONAL
the war regions of Europe, students in DISASTERS
America and 35 other nations are
rallying to save the future leaders of DEPICT ECONOMIC AN
Europe, and to prevent education from FINANCIAL CONDITIO
being swept off the face of the conti-
nent. Only by outside support can the Ex- Hinfactrer Tells ofCollpse
intelligent classes continue their
scholastic efforts in these countries. Own Textile Mills When Reds
The Student Friendship Fund is the Came Into Power
means.
The European Student Relief which I "Tamerlane, the great Mongl C
has charge of the administration of queror of the 14th century, boas
the Student Friendship Fund, was or- that in 60 years he had slaughte
ganized in 1920 when it was found 25,000,000 of his enemies; Nicolal I
that the, war not only had stripped nin, the late premier of SovietIR
many Europpan universities of the sia, in six years was responsible
funds with which to carry on their the death of nearly 35,000,000 of
work, but had deprived both faculty own subjects!"
and students of resources with which 1'Th is the judment pronaun
to support themselves. From the be- upon the Bolshevist regime inRus
ginning the enterprise was supported by M.i, Michael Barydguine and
by students for students. The money son Wassili, two prominent citizens
sent was not charity, but merely the Moscow, until their recent depoitat
means for helping the youth in by- the Russian government. The t
Europe's schools to help themselves, men have come to the United Sta
Students Raise Funds on an unannounced mission and h
Already in the United States, and in been in Ann Arbor during the p
35 other nations, the students are en- week, registered at the Allenel hl
gaged in a campaign to raise the from Nice, France.
funds necessary to help these youths The elder Barydguine is a form
to carry through another winter of member of the Duma and was p
school. The campaign in the eastern metbr of the argestwtexi
sections of the United States is under prnetor of one of the largest text
the general direction of Raymond T. manufacturing establishments
Rich, who for the last two years has Europe, a huge industry in the
been active in Europe in the adminis- ! virons of Moscow employing norma
tration of the funds of the Student about 13,000 men the year round.
Relief. 1918, the business was nationallW
In the three years the Student by the communist government and
Friendship Fund has operated the "capitalistic'? managers dismise
students who have contributed to it, from their positions. In -Septem
have supplied to the less fortunate 1923, he was evicted from the cot
students of Europe over 22,000,000 try as a penalty for his opposit
meals, have distributed nearly 500,00 to proletarian rule. His son was p
articles of clothing .and 70,000 books, fessor of fine arts at the Moscow A
In addition to helping the students In chaeological Institute 4ntil Septe
the organization of their own kitchens ber, 1922, when he too was orda
and mensas, and their own clothing to leave Russia.
stores, the student relief has made- It . (ea' . ti foe or<r
possible for these European student I M. Baydurne's iditment of
to esta'blish book binderies- and, print- r'adical regiw .in 'us'a base4 'xt
ing shops, translation bureaux, laun facts whicl be gave to a repre en
dries, co-operative farms and studentg tive of thl baily in a ?ecent t
built dormitories. vie .1e is. a4 Iussian o. theed
ticllgan's Part ed elas dspeaks 'ench w ithlgf
At Michigan the contributions that facility' while his . Eglfasv tti,
Have been made in the past have only, ratherhajtin, is quite intelligible.
been individual subscriptions; no co Lri (Continued on Page Ten)
lective drive :has been staged' by the
students. Last week a committee of stu-
dents, appointed by the Student Council
met with several faculty members ac-
determined that Michigan should fol-
low the lead set by some of the East-
ern colleges and take part in the
campaign. Ten great dormitories near the (
This committee made its report to of Prague, Czechoslovakia, wh
asthe council last Wednesday night. It house several thousand stdents, w
1was approved and, a permanent conin- ams etrl ecueo
mittee was appointed to have charge support of the student relief and
of the drive. The plans are now be- willingness of the students themsel
ing made by this body for commen- to work
ing the campaign here, probably with- tIno raguether are, probably,
in the next few days. students than in any other Europe
_______________city. Three "years ago housing ec
Bar Athletics As ditions for the students were in
Caue1unerable.. Tw.othousand of them,
cause Of unger vestigation indicated, were sleep

Student Friendship Fund. In East- Nor is it any more to the credit of our
ern and Central Europe and Russia world today that many future scliol-
many working people are barely able ars and scientists are cold and un-
to keep alive so great has been their l fed. y(Student Feeding kitchens establish-
loss from currency depreciation. For ! Tle information is reliable tlat ed at Kiev (above), Moscow, (center)'
the professors and students in the mni- tens of thousands of European stu-
versities the situation is almost im- dents are now in urgent need of out- and Odessa, (below), Russia. These:
possible unless they have some out- side help. Hampered in ways that pictures taken by members of the Stu-#
side means of support. most of us find it impossible fully to
Some of these scholars are able to mprehend, these young men and dent Relief Fund committee in ]Rus- -
find positions, many of the meanest ( women who should be among the lead- sia show the rough clothing and other
kind, which bring some comnpensa- ers of European thought tomorrow
tson to their support. Tley are work- ae sruggling along in what hardships borney these n-who a
ing as Stevedore, baggage sniashers, easily become a losing fight.. struggling to see the light of knowl-
street Tleahers. They have tab The question is. not what ot-hers may edg through ednation which has so
lished their own shoe and clothing re- or might do, but what we can. do -tot
pair shoes, 'int shops, soap and ink help The, challenge to' a university I long been denied the Russian masses.
factories. In many countries to pro- community such as ours is direct and
vide cheaper means of sustenance unescapable. The facts are before It is by these kitchens, established
they have organized cooperative stores us, the agency of relief' is reliable, at 200 various 'universities .through-
and kitcheis, manned almost entirely and the opportunity, is clear. The
by students, are serving 31,000 inemn- campaign for the American Student out: Central and Eastern Europe and
hers of the universities. F igl fo te meica :.dnt
nGer ay Rhusrsia.andtheotheFriendship Fund launches. an ~appeal Russia, that the relief workers are.
In Germany, Russia and the other that drives straight to the sympathies b tk h un a n
European countries hard hit by the of students everywhere.. Harvardable ti keep the students alive and
wsr, the Student Friendship Fund, to Princeton. Smith and other institu- thus perpetuate the learning of Eur-
which more than 580 schools and col- tions understand the appeal and are
leges in the United States have sub- responding liberally. It is to be hop- e in site of the inancial wreckage
scribed, has organized channels of ed that our own contributions at the of the governments. A meal at one
distribution for the food and other University of Michigan will be prompt of these stations cost five cents in
supplies sent abroad. At the main and generous.
distrlbution pointe have been estab'- 'American money. A contribution here
Iished kitchens at which miealsar
served, and tailors shops whih gi INCONCEIVABLE of wil furnish a month's board
out the articles of clothing collected PROF. R. M. WENLEY, of the Phil- to on( !if the students.
in this and other countries. osophy Department-"In regard to the'
During the present winter the great- present conditions as existent in
est task of the Student Friendship Europe today, I am in the same situa-
Fund is in Russia. Russian students tion as are so many others in this coun-
not only have inadequate facilities for )r,.In that my acquaintance with the;D EPICVT CONDITION S 'IN
carrying on their work, they lack foreign continent before the late war
sufficient food and clothing and ade-- makes it inconceivable that any such
quate housing facilities. In on case conditions as pictured today should GERMAN SITUATION measures to stop the Turkish mas a-
it was found where three students aculyeit{utta uhcni
were living together who owned only tions actually do exist has been made PROF. PRESTON SLOSSON, of the. cres. Whatever may be our faults as{
one suit of clothing between them and clear to me in letters which I have History Department-"I hope that all a nation, we have not hitherto used
consequently arranged their classesIrecently received from friends now Michigan students will take an inter- any diplomatic or political cause asf
so that one of them only would be on Ilocated in these countries, and the est im befriending the men teaching' an excuse 'for letting the hungry
the campus at one time. conditions which are .pictured there- and studying in the universities of starve or the sick die for want of
Germany and other countries of I in while at first sounding like.gross Gerniany. The situation is this: since care.
Central Europe have been given the exaggerations, are actually the true 1914. the leaders of German science j Enrich World
most attention in the past years. The conditions which are now proving to and scholarship have contended with! The needs of university men should
concentration of the work on the be the very heart of the poor econo- I mounting costs of living which have appeal to us especially. The German
great plains of Russia can come, ac- mic status of Europe. reduced their standard of living below universities do not receive aid only;
cording to the committee, only by the "The result is an inability on the that of the common European laborer by their magnificent, world-famous
cooperation and support of the great i part of students to take advantage of of the days before the war. Only researches, which may altogether
mass of American students. ' the wonderful means of study which 'within the last year, however, has cease if timely aid does not come from
are always available on the continent. their condition become desperate. The America. they in turn enrich the
i With the deflated status of all money, complete collapse of the German mark;world beyond their national.frontier.
Russian Students j it is impossible to purchase anything ,has annihilated their savings of the The Uited States today is richer.be-
Buy 5 Cent M eals like the correct amount or quantity, past while at the same time rendering cause of German industrial inventions'
and students have been found to be it impossible for their current income ani our lives are longer because of
going to school in shifts because of to overtake the rise of prices. Al- German medicine. Should inisfortune
Moscow, Feb. 23-A month's board having only one suit of clothes be- ready many are fed from charity. The ever overwhelm America in a day
for $1.50 in American money, or a tween them. That this deflation of German students share the poverty of when Germany is again rich and
meal for five cents, is the rate paid currency in Germany was deliberate- their teachers and live only by foreign strong the German universities would
by Russian students in this and other ly created by men of the Stinnes class aid or by competing in the overcrowd- be wise, even in self-interest, to send
cities for their daily sustenance. Even is probably true, but the result re- ed labor market for casual jobs at aid to Michigan, and the rule is one
at this price thousands are unable gardless of who was the cause will manual labor. No one with imagina- which works bth ways. Universities
to engage its the struggle for knowl- be the deterioration, perhaps destrue- tion will need a translator to picture are not rivals (save for the friendlv
edge and: still continue to eat and tion of tie remarkable culture and these bald economic facts in terms Of rivalry of the football field!), they
live. institutions developed on the conti- .human need and misery. are allies, and none can suffer without
Campus kitchens, establishbd .by re- nent. Therein lies the great danger Re ittp!+nsibility subtracting from the efficiency of all
lief workers in the 200 universities not only to Europe but .the whole Of course the responsibility for this | the rest.
throughout central and eastern Eur- I world." - condition rests mainly with the Ger---
ope and Russia, make possible these Professor Wenley continued to say I man Government: first, for initiating
astoun'dingly reasonable prices, and that only in Germany was the wreck- the war of 1914; secondarily, for fail- MOST WORTHY CAUSE
each day sees hundreds of rough- age of the finances deliberate, and that ing to take earlier steps to. halt the I LIBRARIAN W. W. BISHOP.
clothed youths lined up waiting for therefore the wise method of oppor- inflation of the currency. But that '-"In my opinion an extremely
the meagre repast that will support ;tioning the funds -collected will of is all water over the dam, and of no unfortunate condition exists when
them through their hours of study. necessity be left to the men actually importance to us now. The American one part of the world is cut
With the financial situation disrupt- on the snot and in touch with condi- people fed twenty million Russians off from all other parts," said
e and ans in ecatinalc ircls. tions. "It is only for ti to heo[ whose famine had been brought about ; W. W. Bishon. University librarian.

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tions in the Universities is really des-
perate, and our investigation has Athletics are avoided among many
shown th he income of the officials, university students in Russia and Ger-.
and the income for the administration many as though they were a contag-
tf the schools is absolutely made- l ious disease. With the rest of the,
quate to meet the needs of the times. world feverishly absorbed in all kinds'
Send Rooks of competitive exercise, these stu-
In connection with the Student Re- dents go out of their way to avoid
lief work- theAmerican Library Insti- I physical exertion. Not that they dis-
tute has been in receipt of a fund like tennis, baseball, swimming and
of $10,000 from the Rockefeller Foun- racing. It is simply that exercise
dation, with which we are enabled increases the appetite-an important
to send books and periodicals to the consideration when one is sure of
European libraries, many of which only one meal a day, perhaps not even
have been unable to obtain anything that.
at all of this nature. ;Each report that comes from Ger-
The real reason for these condi- niany to the offices of the Student
tions, other than the war, lies in the Friendship Fund pictures conditions
fact that the money situation has be- a little worse than before. The stu-
come unbearable and quite impossible dents are perpetually hungry. From
for existence, and the students and one university comes word:
the professors find that they are beg- "The students can hardly last much
gared where once they were well to longer. The seven hundred who eat
do. In this connection, a letter which in the mensa consume much more
I have recently received from.a friend than the thousand who ate there in
in Germany states that no more worth summer. They are 'so hungry. They
while cause could be found than help- get no food at home, so they try to
ing these students and professors who satisfy the whole need of the body
have lived through an heroic strug- with that one meal. We want to con-
gle against war, death, misery, and tinue to charge only ten billion marks
famine. It is therefore natural that I (about one cent) for a meal. Also
should give my full accord with this I there are many students who cannot
Student Relief movement as being one afford even that much, and should
well worthy of success." have free tickets.
"This, however, cannot be done with
Send Thanksgiving Food our limited resources. The winter
causes us deep anxiety. We try to
Nearly 300 tons of food were ship- I keep the workrooms heated for the
ped last Thanksgiving time for the students, but we have not enough

in the railway stations and in the
halls of public buildings.
- Work at Night
At the suggestion of the members
of a student Bible class in Prague,
it was proposed that- the students
build their own .dormitories. Helped
by a small sum from relief sources,
they set about it. Most of the work
was done at night, by the light of
great electric lamps. There were no
eight-hour days, Saturdays off or dou-
ble pay for overtime for these stu-
dents.
All through the winter-hundreds
of them working in shifts-they kept
at this job, and a year later the build-
ings were ready for occupancy.
During the present winter the great-
est task of the Student Friendship
Fund is in Russia. Russian students
not only have inadequate facilities for
carrying on their work, they lack
sufficient' food and 'clothing and ade-
quate housing facilities. Despite their
handicaps, the universities of Russia
were never so 'crowded nor the youth
of Russia so eager to carry on to
fit themselves for constructive service
in the new Russia.
Many'I1oaie1s
There are 31,500 Ru sian students
who must be provided with supple-
mentary food and clothing by the
European Student Relief. In addition
there are 14,000 refugee students in
Central and Eastern Europe-Rus-
sians, Ukrainians, Georgians, Armen-
ians and Greeks-who are without