Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-20
DEMONSTRATING
UNDER SURFACE
One Class Dancing Upon
The Dead, Zoe Beck
ley Finds
BY ZOE BECKLEY.
N. E. A. Staff Correspondent.

VIENNA, feD. ZU.-l went INTO a
restaurant in Vienna for lunch to-
day A portion of fowl was served,
rather old and tough and not too plen-
tiful
I ate it to the bones, and, deciding
was still hungry, turned to look for
the waiter from the tail of my eye,
saw tiny, grimy paw reach fu-
riously to the table and seize the
bones heaped there.
CHANGING in amaZement, | saw an
urchin of about 8, who had slipped in
TO sell newspapers. My quick look
frightened him, and dropping the
bones, and evidently expecting an &C
celebrating look from the waiter, the
poor, little creature bolted out and
disappeared.
l soon followed, and being freshly
arrived in this city where 90 per cent
Of the children are actually enduring
slow starvation, looked about for
signs of tragedy.
Crave For Crusts.
In a walk of less than block | was
stopped by four boys and three wo-
men holding babies in ragged shawls
against bIE4I LiiliE BICdSeS. III bflEIE
faces was not the mere appeal of a
beggar but the craving for crusts of
bread or scraps of anything that can
be eaten is the one feeling left.
You cannot walk along the Ring
strasse at any hour of the day or
evening without shaking off dozens
of little emaciated girls and boys who
catch at you in appeal for pennies or
chocolate and who sometimes kneel in
the street, to kiss your hands, if you
give them the smallest help.
The one happy thing the newcomer
to Vienna sees, among poor children,
is the monday swarm around a kitch-
en- run by the American Relief Ad-
ministration and other life-saving sa-
maritans.
Fed By America.
In the buttonhole of each ragged
the little cold hand swings d tin pail.
the little sold hand swings a tin pail.
AM in each face is a CLEAN of anti
cipation.
One hundred and ten thousand
children thus keep going by American
help, many of them having no other
food than what is given them in this
way.
Doctors Investigations show that
only two children of every hundred
in Vienna are sufficiently ted.
Fresh proof of the mad eagerness
with which the hungry people
of this one time prosperous
city catch at any new chance for food
was shown today. Mr.. Hoover has
made it possible for people in Ameri-
ca to send drafts to friends here
who can exchange same for food at
the Relief Administration Warehouse
notices were posted at several points
IN Vienna telling Of the scheme and
today nearly twenty thousand appL-
cauons tor information were re-
ceiyed.
N All Starving.
You PROBABLY wonder II everybody
IN Vienna Is starving; if hotels are
discontinued and shops closed.
The answer is no. AT first glance
the streets look fairly normal.
There are women in expensive furs.
There are fine automobiles. The no.
tells are open and crowded.
You are told, however, that the
busy people you see hurrying about
the streets and in the hotel wearing
handsome clothes and eating good
food are foreigners and profiteers.
These people," said a Viennese
doctor to me today, ARE dancing up
on the dead. | am thinking" he
explained, at my puzzled look, "of
the coronation of one of the Russian
cZars.
"A grandstand fell, killing a num-
Der Of people, but as the car was lust
arriving, there was not time to dispose
properly Of the bodies in order not to
disturb the serenity Of tie royal
party. The dead were hastily showed
beneath a platform and the revelry
went on undisturbed just above the
poor bodies out of which life had
been crushed. That, it seems to me,
Is like Vienna tod&y."