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Show CHRISTMAS SPIRIT CHASES GLOOM AWAY Community Christmas Trees KriKhten Poverty Stricken Coal Areas in Pennsylvania RELIEF1 ORGANIZATIONS RAISE LARGE FUNDS Eatables Rather Than Toys To Be Distributed Among Families By P.UL MAI.l.ON. Fnired Press staff Corres)-ilidcnt. SCHAXTOX, Pa., Doc., 21. Some 2,".0IK under-nourished and lialf clad kids in these hard coal hills will have proof tomorrow that there is a Santa Clans. Brilliantly lighted Christmas trees in the public squares of every village throughout the region will flash defiance of the conditions of iioverty brought about bv the 15 weeks strike in the anthracite mines. Belief organizations have raised nmrly J?1(H).0K) that the God of Christmas tide shall not fail this yoa r. In the spirit of the season, merchants mer-chants who have lcen unable to collect col-lect from most of their customer for weeks have turned over bread, canned goods, coffee and fruits to dispensing organizations. Every town will hold a celebration around the public Christmas treo and presents will be doled out to fathers and mothers as well as their children. There will bo no tin drums or wooden soldiers to march across ; the hearths but there will be plenty ; of bread and soup. j While miles of empty coal oars ! rest idle on the tracks; collieries j are deserted; hungry men pick over the culm dumps for a few lumps of ! precious fujel and bread lines are j tlie means of subsistence for thousands, thous-ands, the spirit of Christmas is more in evidence hero thajr in the million j dollar fur shops in Fifth Avenue, j Xew York. : i |