YOUNG RUSSIA (IN AMERICA)

There have probably been few funds that can show as great a record of accomplishment as the Russian Student. Fund, which was established in 1921 to educate refugees from the Soviet regime in American universities. Figures recently published show that last year a quarter of the 133 beneficiaries were "A" men in their studies and not one failed, while in a financial way the results were equally favorable, for the repayments of their advances is considerably above that of the usual student loan.

Such figures are a splendid justification of the confidence of the founders of the fund. The break with a familiar mode of life and abrupt transplantation into one with different customs and language is a handicap not overcome without both ability and earnestness. Both of these the emigrants have shown themselves to have in no small amount, and the country of their adoption is the gainer for the addition of such a group of productive workers to her ranks. As is the case with most persecutions, Soviet Russia has secured outward some degree of conformity to its tenets only at the price of parting with some of its best citizens. America has welcomed such immigrants before and knew what to expect, and the report shows it will not be disappointed.