Student Friendship Fund In the great task of promoting the brotherhood of humanity—is learning to lag behind? Student Friendship Fund Administered through WORLD’S STUDENT CHRISTIAN FEDERATION Represented in America by THE COUNCIL OF NORTH AMERI¬ CAN STUDENT MOVEMENTS The Student Young Men’s Christian Associations The Student Young Women’s Chris¬ tian Associations The Student Volunteer Movement John R. Mott, Chairman George W. Perkins, Jr., National Treasurer Advisory Committee Jane Addams Edwin A. Alderman James Rowland Angell Sarah Louise Arnold Henry Turner Bailey David P. Barrows Mary Leal Harkness Black William L. Bryan Marion LeRoy Burton Valentine Chandor Ada Comstock John H. Finley H. A. Garfield J. E. Gregg John Grier Hibben Herbert C. Hoover David Kinley Mrs. Robert E. Speer M. Carey Thomas Robert E. Vinson Ray L. Wilbur Lucy Madeira Wing Woodrow Wilson National Headquarters 129 East 52d Street New York, N. Y. Stand by the Students of Europe WHY? In many countries of Europe the stu¬ dent generation is fighting against des¬ perate odds for just that kind of educa¬ tion which hundreds of thousands of American students are obtaining under normal conditions and advantages . America feels secure in the constant replen¬ ishment and increase of the number of her citizens who have a trained equipment of mind as well as of heart and hand. In her educational opportunities, in the democracy of her educational systems, the thirst of her young people for educational advancement and the manifold outlets for the service of edu¬ cated men and women, America senses the building of that finer humanity which will insure a stable, peaceful and prosperous world. But can America find reasonable contentment in her own extraordinary blessings; can she feel secure, and can she feel assured of the future when the very life of many institutions of higher learning in Europe is threatened? By making it possible for worthy, needy students to persist in their studies the universities of Central Europe will be materially aided in keeping open their doors. To allow these institutions to disintegrate would be a disaster, not only to their own nations, but to the whole civilized world. How immeasurable would be our loss and how convicting would be our failure to have served fully the call of Christian , interna¬ tional friendship and duty! Something New in International Relationships The students of America undertook in 1920, in common with the students of other nations, to bring relief to their fellow students in Europe. Students of 26 nations, united, within one year raised $600,000 and brought direct relief to 70,000 students in 11 coun¬ tries, touching 120 different institutions of higher learning, with an attendance of 250,000 students. The World’s Student Christian Federa¬ tion, organized in 1895, a federation of Na¬ tional Student Christian Movements, a stu¬ dent organization of friendship, interdenomi¬ national, interconfessional, fully international, undertook the administration of the relief fund in cooperation with the American Re¬ lief Administration. CONTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTION Argentine Canada China Denmark Egypt England France ^ India and ceylo Italy Jamaica Japan Cash ’and value of Tood and clothing (distributed thruWSIFf Japanese inU.sA in cooperation Netherlands^^ with the A.R.A , Norway Portugal Roumania' South Africa/, Sweden / / Switzerland'' United Kingdom^ United States # 600 , 000 ., Refugee students in Germany. Hungary Because of the exchange value of the American dollar in Europe every contribution in dollars multiplies itself many times when applied to relief work. Expert Testimony Herbert C. Hoover, Secretary of Com¬ merce : “I am impressed with the fact that there is no greater service that can be performed than that of keeping alive the institutions through which the real advancement and social recov¬ ery of Europe must arise.” Lord Robert Cecil, M.P., Chancellor of the University of Birmingham: “There is no such thing as national learning. World learning is the only thing worth con¬ sidering. In the great task of promoting the brotherhood of humanity—is learning to lag behind ?” Dr. John Grier Hibben, President of Princeton University: “The hope of the future in Europe lies in the education of the coming generation, and it is certainly a privilege if in America we can help at least to feed and clothe the young men and women of these devastated lands so that they may pursue their studies.” Hof rat Dr. Friedrich Hertz, State De¬ partment, Vienna: “Thousands of hopeful young people are being saved through your work from extreme misery which otherwise would break their mental and moral energy. If they should succumb this would mean the disappearance of forces in¬ dispensable for any reconstruction in our country.” Dr. John H. Finley, Associate Editor, New York Times: “Out of my own observation of what the World’s Student Christian Federation is doing in Europe I am able to give warmest support to this great organization. I remember par¬ ticularly the students whom I saw in the old University at Dorpat in Esthonia enjoying the nourishing hospitality of the Federation. But all this is but a preface to an intellectual and spiritual comradeship among the students who are to be the leaders in the world affairs of tomorrow." Needs for 1921-1922 With Russia opening her doors to re¬ lief additional responsibility for the as¬ sistance of Russian students is placed on the Relief Committee of the World’s Student Christian Federation. It is diffi¬ cult to estimate at this time how great this demand will be. An increasing number of “foreign” and refugee students have come to the United States from Europe this year. Many of these students need such help as the Federation can give. To care for this group there will be required $78,000, of which amount one-half is to be considered as a revolving loan fund. A constantly increasing demand has been made on the regular staff of the World’s Stu¬ dent Christian Federation for work in con¬ nection with relief, and $18,000 toward the current budget should be provided. To adequately meet the above needs and con¬ tinue to provide relief already undertaken a mini¬ mum of $750,000 will be required. Much more could be wisely used. In order to secure the mini¬ mum of $750,000 it will be necessary for the students of America to give at least $500,000. American student contributions last year for European relief, chiefly student, totalled approxi¬ mately $ 580 , 000 . The nature of relief will, as in the past, be determined by existing conditions. The Relief Committee estimates the following approximate proportions: Feeding and medical help, 30 %; clothing, 17 %; foyer and housing, 3 %; books, 7 %; self-help and student exchange, 3 %; refugee students in Europe, 23 %; administration, visitation and emergency fund, 17 %. PRINCIPLES FOLLOWED IN RELIEF I. Relief is administered impartially, with¬ out regard to race, nationality or creed, or any other criterion than proven need. II. Relief is conducted on sound economic lines. Students pay to the utmost of their ability for whatever they receive. III. Self-help is encouraged in every pos¬ sible way. IV. Close cooperation is followed with existing agencies. By correlation of effort maximum relief is provided at the minimum of overhead expense. The Woman Student: One-fifth to one-third of the enrollment in the universities of Europe are women, largely dependent upon their earnings, underfed, poorly clothed, health far below par,— but struggling on. The Refugee Student: There are approximately 20,000 refugee students in the universities of Central Eu¬ rope : Students who were studying away from their own country, and, because of war, have had communications with home cut off; Students who have been on the losing side in civil war or revolution and have fled from their own country; Students who are prisoners of war; Students who, though in their own coun¬ try, are nevertheless refugees. They are in territories transferred under the Peace Treaty from Hungary to Roumania, Czechoslovakia and Jugoslavia, respectively. DO THEY HELP THEMSELVES? THEY DO I. Their Governments Help— In providing buildings or offices for our work. In permitting free transport of supplies and workers. The Government in Hungary supplied relief in the proportion of five to one for every dollar we have given. II. The People of the Country Help The National Red Cross Societies and other na¬ tional agencies are always ready to cooperate. Business and other influential men and women help. III. The Students Help By giving time to the administration of our work. By raising money for relief. By assisting in seeing that only the neediest are helped. To safeguard against students entering school with the hope of being supported by providing that no students in their first year shall re¬ ceive help from relief. IV. The Students Work The vast majority of students in the lands relieved are doing wage-earning work in addi¬ tion to their studies. Reasons Why Students of America Should Give To conserve the physical, mental and moral gains resulting from the relief extended by American students during the past yean To carry out the ordinary implications of the Golden Rule, including the principle that the strong should serve the weak. To give added force to the effort to solve various interracial issues involved in the Con¬ ference to Reduce Armaments. To help overcome the human effects of war, privation and pestilence. To impress unmistakably upon the future leaders of Europe, who are its present students, that the purpose of America’s youth is truly a ministry of friendship. Because the broadly spiritual results of the relief work depend very largely upon its being a work of friendship for students by students. To project the student body and intelli¬ gence of America actively into the transcend¬ ent task of world reconstruction along lines of goodwill and progress. To help meet our obligation to European institutions to which our own educational life owes much. To help preserve principles and institutions as well as human values essential to the re¬ covery of Europe and the world.