Student War Victims Helped
In Many Countries by WSSF
The WSSF was one of the first organizations to see the
importance of meeting not only physical but also intellectual
and spiritual needs of students and professors. By enabling
students to help their fellow students, this specialized organ
ization helps to build student solidarity around the world.
Sometimes student relief is regular relief, like food, medical
rare, and clothing-, making it pos
sible for students to continue their
studies despite what the war has
done to them. Sometimes it is
highly specialized relief, like books
and study materials, which is de
signed to meet the needs of indi
vidual student victims of war as
students.
Operating in at least 17 coun
tries on four continents, the WSSF
administers help through the World
Student Relief, an organization
with its headquarters at Geneva,
Switzerland. Constituent organiza
tions are the World's Student
Christian Federation, International
Student Service, and Pax ftomana.
liniled States
In the United States, WSSF is
aiding students who are refugees,
evacuees, prisoners of war and in
ternees. Two types of help are
given: finding scholarships, and
supplementing these scholarships
with cash loans and grants for liv
ing expenses, transportation, fees,
books, and incidental personal ex
penses.
One relocated student expressed
his appreciation in a letter to the
WSSF: “Today I received your
grant and I literally jumped for
joy. I shall try my utmost to live
up to the faith you have in me. I
want to fulfill my obligation to
society for the opportunity it is
giving me in my pursuit of higher
learning."
Though supplies cannot be sent
to China at present, funds are
cabled to Chungking where the Na
tional Student Relief committee,
with '~6 local organizations in the
University centers, distributes
them.
One of the most important
phases of aid in China is work
relief wherein many different kinds
of labor are undertaken by stu
dents in return for pay which en
ables them to meet all or part of
their college expenses. Welfare
work, nutritional aid, student ser
vice centers, winter clothing, travel
aid, emergency aid, international
scholarships, and high school relief
receive their shares of the fund
to carry on the valuable help to
Chinese students.
Switzerland
Switzerland has had an influx of
tens of thousands of refugees since
the fighting in Italy, and there are
thousands of students among them.
For these and the student in
ternees, a system of four univer
sities was established and help was
provided for those who could to
enter Swiss universities. In this
Men and WSSF
Ervin Webb, solicitor chair
man for the men’s living; organ
izations, reports that men’s con
tributions are coming in slowly
but that if the men reach the
record made by the women, per
capita, their subscriptions to the
WSSF will surpass previous ex
pectations.
group are 19 nationalities, includ
ing Italians, Yugoslavs, Greeks,
and escaped Russian, British, and
American prisoners of war.
A refugee student in Switzerland
has said, “Under the tragic cir
cumstances of war, world student
relief stands for the defense of cul
ture to which humanity pins its
hopes for the future.”
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Air Corps Captain Back
On Brief Campus Visit
Captain William M. Sanford, ’38.
journalism major, now in the army
air corps with overseas ribbons
telling of service in European
waters as well as in Alaska, was
on the campus over the weekend.
He is now stationed in Seattle.
Captain Sanford has been In the
air forces for four years. One of
his assignments was the spotting
of German submarines from the
sky. Before entering the ramy he
.lid newspaper work in Texas and
Nevada.
Frequently we hear it said that
it is too colti to snow. This is a
falacy. It. is never too cold to snow.
The lowest temperatures generally
come with clear weather, hence
l lie notion that it can be too cold
to snow.
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A few of China’s 5*,000 university
students studying in a Chungking
library. About 75 per cent of these
students lack the means of keep
ing on with their studies without
government or WSSF aid.
Spanish Cinema
Will Be Featured
“Dona Barbara," prize winning
motion picture produced in Mexico,
will be shown for campus and
townspeople at the Mayflower
theater Thursday, November 16, as
announced by Dr. L. O. Wright,
professor of Romance languages at
the University. The film is spon
sored here by Sigma Delta Pi, na
tional Spanish honorary, the Eu
gene high shool Spanish club, and
the theater management.
Famous as a novel before it ap
peared on the screen, “Dona Bar
bara” is a turbulent story of life
on the great plains known as the
“llano” in Venezuela. The picture
was voted “most outstanding of
1943" by Mexican film producers,
and was generally acclaimed as a
“hit” south of the Rio Grande.
Tickets may be purchased in
Romance language department of
fices or at the Mayflower.
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Portland Talk Revealed
Oregon Postwar Plans
As chairman of the Merit Sys
tem council, Dr. Victor P. Morris,
dean of the school of business ad
ministration, spoke in Portland
last week on "Oregon’s Postwar
Problems and Plans.” The monthly
meeting was held November 2
and 3.
Dr. Morris' talk was based on a
conference of 11 western states
held earlier at Salt Lake City.
CAMPUS CALENDAR
There will be an important meet
ing of Gamma Alpha Chi at the
College Side Inn at noon Thursday.
All members are urged to be there.
* * *
The war board will meet at 4
p.m. today ip the war board office
in McArthur court. As plans for
the sixth war loan drive will be
discussed, all chairmen should be
present.
Ex-Emeraldite
Visits Campus
Kenneth W. Christianson of the
army paratroops, and an ex-meni
ber of the class of ’42 is hobnob
bing' with old friends on the cam
pus while on a visit to his moth
er, Mrs. Carrie A. Christianson of
Eugene.
'Ken was co-sports editor of the
Emerald with Bob Flavelle, now in
the air corps, and a contemporary
of Johnny Kahananui, another
sports editor "who took to flying
for the army.
Lt. Christianson was among the
airborne troops who glided down
behind the German lines in Nor
mandy in D-week. He spent a few
crowded days there in touch with
the Germans, and he insists that
he’d rather come down from tne
sky than approach the beach on
one of the typical landing craft.
The paratrooping lieutenant was
wounded in France and carried
back by plane to the United
States. He is now on a. 30-day
leave from a hospital at Utica,
N.Y.
Director Returns
From Washington
Herman Kehrli, director of the
University bureau of municipal re
search and service, has returned
from Washington, D. C., where he
assisted with work in the bureau
of the budget.
On his way to Oregon he at
tended a meeting of the American
Municipal association in Chicago,
at which Mary C. Barnes, secre
tary and research assistant in the
bureau here, was also present.
Mr. Kehrli reported that the
main topic of discussion was the
federal postwar policy in relation
to states and local government and
their problems.
Dagwell to Speak
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and since 1936 has been bishop of
the diocese of Oregon.
He is president of the board of
Good Samaritan hospital and St.
Helen’s hall in Portland.
Bishop Dagwell has served as
director of the Denver community
chest, on the national council of
Protestant Episcopal churches, di
rector of the Portland chamber of
commerce, of the Junior Symphony
orchestra, and was named the “out
standing civic leader’’ in 1940 by
civic groups.
His main lecture will be given in
Alumni hall Thursday 6:45 p.m.
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Underclassmen
To Meet at YWCA
The Freshman-Sophomore com
mission will meet at 7:30 p. m.
Wednesday at the YWCA bunga
low. All committees should be
ready to make reports on their
last week’s activities.
Those committees which do not
yet have chairmen will choose
them at this time, and projects for
the immediate future will be dis
cussed. Plans will be revealed for
the twisty sale to be held Novem
ber 14 and 15, and a short pro
gram will be pr ovided by the social
committee.
Charlene Davidson requests that
all the activators be present.
dents and townspeople are wel
comed by the Student Religious
council, sponsoring the series, to
attend.
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