ISS Continues Drive Towards £600 Goal

Throughout the world thousands of students have been cut off from the books and instruments essential to their study. Some have seen their ancient universities go up in flames, while the exhaustion of bombing and underground warfare will certainly deplete student numbers. These are men and women on whom the future leadership of their country depends.

Our modern world is utterly dependent on knowledge. Society cannot live without law and medicine; it is crippled without the techniques of science and education. The young men and women now studying economics and psychology, religion and history have a great part to play in repairing the broken life of Europe and China.

To help these students is the object of the International Student's Service, to keep them studying despite the hazards of war. Here is an extract from a letter of a former prisoner of war at Stalag 8B in Silesia, who saw for himself what World Student Relief means to the men behind barbed wire: "A school was organised by a brilliant English schoolmaster captured at Dunkirk. You could study almost anything from diesel engineering to shorthand. The courses, textbooks and writing material was supplied by Student Relief. Canadians who had been handcuffed in reprisal for Dieppe used to attend after climbing the fence round their compound. There were bearded Sikhs studying English, Jews from the Palestine Labour Corps studying history, Australians studying agriculture. The men were hungry and many of them ill, but they passed examinations and took degrees at London University."

New Zealand students have helped materially in the past. In 1943 they raised £600. Of this, Wellington raised £111, but in 1944 only £67 was raised. Our goal this year is £600, and arresting displays in the hall are already bringing in encouraging results. Over 200 students gave their names and were allotted jobs ranging from carting coal to minding baby.

To satisfy the public, there are still fifty jobs to fill, and these will require fifty more men and thirty women. So please hand in your name and the times you will be available to the table in the main hall.

The public responded generously, and ISS would also like to express their appreciation of the Government Film Studios, who made a film of the work day.

The secretary wishes to thank the two hundred students who contributed to the success of the work day. 130 students worked under the scheme, and thirty had jobs of their own, while many part-timers who, being unable to work on the Saturday, gave donations instead. Thank you all!