GERMAN STUDENTS ARE FACING STARVATION

"Without foreign help the students in German universities are in danger of physical, mental, and moral starvation," said Dr. Broda yesterday in a special statement for the CRIMSON in regard to the Student Friendship Fund drive. Dr. Broda has been in Europe recently and, through personal observations he knows of the conditions of which he speaks.

"The break down of the middle classes in central Europe," his statement continues, "due largely to the depreciation of the currency, has struck particularly the students of the universities of Austria and Germany. Their parents are no more able to send them monthly subsidies. Teaching and other liberal occupations are paid in depreciated money which has no buying power. Students, there fore, are unable to buy food and to procure shelter, fuel, and, of course, books in reasonable quantities. Relief organizations help them to a certain but insufficient extents.

"These facts have been particularly grave in Austria from 1919 to 1922. English and American organizations have maintained the students who otherwise would have starved. In the meantime Austrian affairs have been settled by the League of Nations but distress in Germany has been increased by occupation of the Ruhr which spread disturbance over the whole of German industry, deprived of its coal supply, and destroyed entirely the buying power of the national currency. Conditions are even worse than they were in Austria, and without foreign help students of German universities are in danger of starving physically, morally, and intellectually."