Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-27
VIENNA REVELS IN GAY NIGHT LIFE. WHILE THOUSANDS, CLOSE
 BY, ARE FACING STARVATION

VIENNA. Feb. 26.-(By The Asso- ciated Press )-NUlgar display of ex- travagance in food and clothing is a nightly picture at the gay restaurants here while only Ia few blocks itway hungry and scantily-clothed persons are DeIng poorly led III community k;tcnens. slsItUrs to Vienna are snocAed Dy tnIs paradoXical economic condltlon. Others are either harden ed to the contradictory sights or, in tneir inability to alter either extreme, can onIy smut theIr eyes to them.
 crowded theatres and operas at tremendously adv2nced prices, con certs sold out m advance, masked ball following masked ball in an end less not agalnst the coming of Lent, cabarets whose risque dancers would brlng out the police in New York and where nothing to drink but wines IS served. cafes and restaurants with never an empty table not room to be had in the big hotels whose prices go up from week to week-that IS one picture. On its reverse, foreign freIief s;raining itself and demanding lunceasing contributions in aid or suffering populace-
 In Austria it is the custom on New Years Eve to bring squealing sucking pigs to public dining rooms and the red ribbon with which they are decorated is distributed in bits to guests as talismans for the coming year. The newspapers report that III one fashionable resort al woman seized the pig and bathed it in cool
 ar fuI of wine. Other women caught the original idea and initiated 1t to
 the cost of many bottles. That res f taurant. incidentally. has had Its H. cense suspended for constant viola ttion of the food and closing Teguia- tions.
 Viennese. claim that in all these re- sorts where display and expenditure
 of the most vulgar kind are witnessed
 mt one real Austrian can be found' that they have hot the money. They
 say they are supported by the horde
 of orofiteers of every race and every nationality that infest and inject me lefty.
 ! A recent demonstration of the Pof- iulace is acknowledged to have been inspired by this prodigal display oi iextravagance ad ready money on the part of this small element or the pop
 plation.
 The workingmen demand the gov iernment shall suppress profUeerinG and eliminate the sheba lprofiteering Wholesaler or middleman) and the Hort to lower-the daily mounting cost sIeichandler Gllicit traderl in an ef :. of living, else they will undertake tC do so on rheit own account. The! carried a miniature gallows in a re : cent demonstration.
 The authorities and thoughtful
 lAustrians acknowledge that this su
 perficial froth of extravangance ant
 display is doing great harm to the cit!
 and the country. Casual traveller: = who spend a few days in the inner U city, visit these gorgeous resorts anC !, see the high-class restaurants crowd ' ed at every meal, tea dances in tho I afternoon, exceptionally well dressed '' men and women and the display O
 furs and jewels and articles of luxur,
 in the skbp windows probably uheN celled in any capital, are hard to con V vince that beneath this veneer lie' widespread privation and in certain
 strata actual bitter suffering.
 Some 100000 children are being fet V one nourishing meal day by Amer e ican charity. Through American ait }. the hospitals are being refurnishet
 with long absent necessities. Nearl,
 100000 Austrian chibiren are charit. n guests in other counties. Indeed tn, a charity of all non-suffering people: J is being extended bountifdlly to thi: Il country regardless of creed or race
 and all investigators who dig dcepl!