Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-01-16
by DOROTHY TnoMrSoS
international News Service Sp,claI
Correspondent

Correspondent
VIENNA. Jan. ii.-An over Turone
people are still thinking ana feeling
war. More depressing tnnn IA, mn.
terial wrotchcdncss IL the counties mr..
the hatred and the bitterness which OK.
~ between nations and between men.
no one u thinking peace OF feeling
peace.
HNccit IN Vienna. In the city which
ms suffered most. which is utterly
crushed aud bleeding. have found M
hiSt rchlly hcaricning expression of a
new spirit. ! have seen wurkiuetnen
whose wages are insufficient Ia buy
th"n food who face the rlgors OF the
coming winter almost with terror. Civ.
Ing OF what little they have. In order te
teach their children that hereafter mon
ana nations must live together I'm peac
The work Of the "G,rciischaft dor
kindcrfroundo." In English the Assocl1.
ton 81 the Friends ~ Children ia ann
ported aud maintained entirely by the
Austrian trade unions. It's cxpondl.
lures. compared with the amounts
which re being disburscd Us org,niz,
uons lir the American Relief Commit
tee and the Red Gross. are insignificant.
but II " animated Iy two Of tho blr
gesi Ideas In the world. The first h that
no nation ~ M poor and broken that IL
cannot do something for lts own chill.
dren. and that while one is grateful for
charity In the hour of need. nothing
IfiTfnu
And the second IL that II there II ever
going To hc roal f.e1r'o ~ Nailo-~
II must be founded In a different spirit
than exists IN tine wurlu tonty. -,
the only hope Tor TINT spirit IL In the
children.
Aid for Children
To help g. save the children and odu.
cate them tu love and respect all m.
lions as they de- their own. the working.
men Of Austria contributed last wear
hundred million l,runcn. They
formed an organization with 80 200
members, They took under their caro-
10000 children. They purchased three
farmr with twenty COWS and 100 sheen.
Today they own million square
meters uf land. and direct li5 stations
Tor child care. They have done this IN
the darkest period which any country
has ever gone through. without asking
q cent from those outside their ranks
or without a kruucn OF subsidy. II has
come out e their own meagrc wages.
They not only preach inicrdcpcnd
encc and hrothcrly love between ma
lions 20 their children. hut they give
them chance 20 practise II. Thl,
coming spring the children 81 Austria
VIII inVit" the children NJ France. Italv
Switzerland NORWAY England. who
are suffering from rheumatism ar Other
ills Tor which the famous Austrian
hlths are still cure. To come and NJ
their guests. There little guests will h,
the children If workers from othci
hnde-faihcrs who cannot afford 4,
send their children abroad Tor mcdlca
treatment.
The Austrian worklngmcn. povcrt,
stricken as they are have rented on,
nj the most famous palaces IN tn
world--ihc Summer rctrcat 81 IN,
Auyirlnn Empcrorr. IN Schonhrun.
great park with gardens. fountains
stretches ~ rrecnsward aud shade,
lanes. This place where In the pas
men have plotted Tor war has bccom,
home and school where the children
of workingmcu are planning for peace
went to SChonbrun with the mar
who more than anyone else II rcspnr
siblc for this idea. I have mentioned
him before IN these little sketches q
Ausiria--MaN Winter. the Nicc.Burgo
master OF Vienna. lie II a little mar
with a pointed beard and the kind o
sparkling cyse which would make hin
an Ideal Santa Claus. He II one OF tbs
most beloved men IN Austria. WhcI
he walked up the broad roadway lead
ing Ia the castle aud bordcrcd by tai
Chcitnuts. trimmed In French styl,
int II of gigantic green hc,lg,
wall. M, children spivd him from afar
al ca.'r usuuitlng cat into the No
Ntul r dri..lr tu meet him. clasuins
him around the legs. climbing up hi,
sides AMI ctAtiIng little sauoals ~ dc
light " ;hc children ~ Austria coult
N'tp bo would not BE- the vicc.mayor oi
Nienrl. Ito would hc president of ths
rrprhir I'm not sure that they
~ "ld"'t restore thc monarchy and
make him king
IN ~" rooms whore ladies IN wait
irg Co., che empress used "a sleep there
60. g., 80 md rows 81 little iron cots
TN '.~rnr suite of a prince Is n work
shop for small boys, In a grand salon