Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-11
|nyERTY IS RE|CNINC
 EHINT) APPARENT GAY |IEE OF VIENNA CAFES
|;,tuallv Everything Now is Priced in Hundreds of Crowns There

Vienna, NoV' io'-'" ''' ''''
 onna is the same as before the war
 ao+rallv this great city IS strlch-
 Dozens of theaters and operas
 onan cafes and music halls are
 owded but very large part of the
 nnlation is in poverty, lacking not
 1,, food and clothing, but a place
 live The streets are thronged
 hons openend, show windows filled
 ;th the articles of luxury for which
 ;onna is famous, but the better part
 tho stock is to be found in the findows.
 Virtually everything is priced in
 ,,ndrnds of crowns. Austrian money
 oner only and unbacked by precious etsl goes steadily down. Even the
 rarms @ of beggars that infest the
 traets look responsibility at any
 bing less than the pink piece of pa
 er that indicates two crowns. 1t osts a hundred crowns to go a few IIocks by carriage, taxicabs being ew and almost prohibitive even III ke depreciated money, while the Ftreet porters, old men who act as Passengers and carriers, will not |ross the street for less than twenty |roWns. Once the best dressed town in the world, Vienna is plain to the point of |habbiness. Most of the women wear bnmistakable homemade gowns and [he mems clothing shows the mark Of wear. the cleaner, the mender and of Een the tailors who turn the unwear Ibe inside out.
 Ut would cost me four months sal bry to buy a new suit of clothes now remarked a foreign office official, as he smiled at his five-year-old serge, land I must eat occasionally"
 The other day there was a great demonstration of state pensioners be- fore the House of Parliament and someof the cases cited by the deputa- lion to the government were pitiful. These pensioners said they were Starving.
 Meantime the press openly charges that backdoor or illicit trade in food supplies and ether commodities sup posedly under government control is widely prevalent.
 Cienna is suffering from lack of housing facilities. The population is estimated at 100000 to 100000 more than in normal times. The city gov lately has taken few half hearted steps in an effort to bring re- lief A large number of so-called hotels or rather evil reputation, are to be cleaned out of their present oe- cupants and turned over as lodgings flo rthe poor. The same order e&- pels from their premises, often near ly palatial, and confiscates for pull lie housing purposes, the homes of the rich demi-monde. Also it is con- to make use of some of thc splendid and practically unoccupied private palaces.
 The papers and the more spirited and far-seeing men are sounding the alarm of fuelless winter. The h. ter-allied Coal commission has been trying to provide at least a modicum of fuel for city utilities. but they ad- nit it will be only a pittance of the normal supply. All around the city the beautiful forests are being GU: down for firewood. and fuel is the one demand.
 The hotels answer the query o1 every guest or prospective guest NO, we do not hope to have heat 0, not water, only fire for cooking.' . All through the months since the Peace Conference began the Vienesst agh and low have said with simple falth, When the peace is signed ,h1lngs will mend" They cannot ex- plain exactly how or why, but they nave conjured themselves with the dea that some part of miracle vii occur. But the peace has been sign. ga and nevertheless the crown goes 1own day by day and prices go uE ana everything is as bad as ever NOW they say "The preparations commission. An, yes, the commis slon. They will fix things"
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