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Show THE PAYSOXIAN PAGE SIX PaYSOX. UTAH, DECEMBER VIENNA 24. 1920. CHRISTMAS, DEATH RATE BECOMES APPALLING the Day of Gladness I" "C Condition of Children Even More 7i f ' v s Harrowing, Declares Authority on Citys Desperate Plight. A v i Five years of famine have resulted In grcaily Increased mortality and morbidity lri Vienna which before the war was counted as one of the healthiest cities In Europe. Figures prepared by Dr. Gustave Itohn. head of the Vienna Health Department, show thut In 1913 the death rate was 15.3 per thousand. In 1918 the rate was 22.5 per thousand, an Increuse of more than 47 per cent. Professor Huns Spel of the University of Vienna, says that even more terrible than the statistics are those referring to the concilium of children und their mothers. Owing to under nourishment few mothers cun nurse their hubies. and the milk shortage affects not only Infants, but all children In spite of al that has bsen done to help. At Professor Clemens Plrquets clinic In the university some 54,819 children were examined In 1918. Only 4,637 of hese or about were pasted as skin good, fat gooil , 23, GUO were pale und thin, or very pale and very thin. The health of these children shows most disquieting features. Skin disease, rachitis and Pauiows disease are rife. "The chief medical officer of Vienna asks, What Is going to happen to these under-fechildren, in whose bodies the germ of tuberculosis Is latent, when they reach the twenties, at which time it becomes active? To combat these conditions the American Relief Administration of which Herbert Hoover la chairman fed lust winter Id the city of Vienna some 800,000 of the destitute and undernourished children, supplying them with a substantial meal of American food, served In a number of large kitchens opened foi that purpose. The conditions In Vienna are more or less typical of those In Poland and other countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Lust year the Relief Administration was able to reach some 3.500,-00children and this winter the program calls for the feeding of a like mind er. but eight of the of organizations grent charitable America have united under the name of the European Relief Council, of which Mr. Hoover is the chairman The child feeding task will be carried on not only by the American Relief Administration hut by the American Red Cross, the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers), the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America, the Knights of Columbus, the nio-tali- ty v. If Every Day Were Christmas W 'it; I t r '$ VTTV ?,-- w , f' ' ' v ? ftS 14: 6"Ona another; another man eateemeth The HAT If every day were Christmas? suggestion at first blush is perhaps not altogether agreeable. One can imagine numerous protests against the idea be-cause of the excesses to which many go on Christmas holidays. Let it be grant-e- d freely that Christmas is misused, that it is often a season of excesses and extremes; even so, who of us would do sway with Christmas? For despite all the excesses of the holiday season and the hardship it works on many, is there not a rainbow of glory over every recurring Christmas celebration? Christmas is a season of prophetic idealism and a rebuke to selfish living. At the approach of the anni- versary of our Lords birth, men and women whose thoughts have been mostly of self are moved to think of others. The idea of serving others and making others happy affects even the blase and the indifferent. Somehow, the idea that it is more blessed to give than to bargain finds lodgment in minds unused to tender and benevolent thoughts. For a brief period, cruel competitions that so sorely grind human society are lessened if not forgotten. For the time being, all humanity seems to be one family. There is a delight in seeing everybody joyous. The foreigner is made to feel at home. Artificial barriers are broken, and there come even into hard faces some softened lines. The spirit of Christmas penetrates even behind stone walls, and the prisoner is made to know that he is still remembered and that society has not abandoned hope in him. Christmas is the one season of the year when we are especially reminded to take Jesus seriously. The Sermon on the Mount seems practicable then the Beatitudes possible in daily life. Even the great words, Peace on earth, good-wi- ll toward men, actually appear workable at Christmastide. The old text so precious, so peculiarly appropriate, John 3: 16. finds lodgment in orr heart of hearts: For God so loved the world that He gave Ilis only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. There comes into our minds the conviction that we have not taken seriously the lessons that our Lord taught, but that now we take Him at His word; we share, we give, we sacrifice, we find a new joy growing out of these very practical and beautiful ministrations. 4 Sky under-nourishe- ' man esteemeth one day above every day alike. Let every man be fully ensured In his own mind. TEXT Homans 0 M fT V M Sr Jf w riL Sf yM Tf 5? JZ 5 A and Y. W. C. A An appeal for $33,000,000 has been made and cap is the organizations named have Joined Id raising the sum. a V. M. C. An unusually pretty breakfast here offered as a suggestion for gift It Is a spirited model made of taffeta silk and almost covered with crisp, plaited frills of taffeta ribbon. Such a cap requires a crinoline support and a lining of thin silk. LAUGHTER OF CHILD SCARCE IN POLAND J d B r REV. THOMAS U. GREGORY. HRISTMAS, both in its ritual and in its sentiment, is almost as old as Humanity itself. As far back as you can go we find something very like the Yuletide festival a season of rejoicing, attended by a somewhat boisterously joyful celebration. About Christmas there is nothing that even approximates sectarianism or any kind of mental or social narrowness or littleness. Its spirit is as broad as humanity, and all men of whatever race, creed or geographical status, are Invited to, and are entitled to, take part in its glad festivities. Very pitiful is the human being who, in the midst of the Christmas season, feels like flocking off by himself, like for Dundrearys bird. It is a season, not for isolation and loneliness, but to one fellowship and universal brotherhood, as thouPt we were saying another, "ALL HANDS AROUND! with nobody left out. When we pause to think of the way in which the Christmas originated it becomes easy for us to understand why the season is everywhere made to be the occasion of deep rejoicing and multiform gladness. Beyond a doubt the festival had its birth away up in the frozen North, in the region of the aurora borealis, where the battle between the cold and the heat, the darkness and the light, is the longest and the most terrible; and it was quite natural that at the turn of the sun, when thea light sort and warmth began to return, men should turn themselves loose in of paroxysm of joy. And by degrees the festivities of the men of the far north worked their way southward; for even there the return of the sun meant life to men, meant the sunshine and heat without which the human race must perish. The hyperboreans had their Christ, Baldur by name, Baldur the good, the gentle, the compassionate, who, taking pity on them, destroyed the Frost Giant and saved them from death. We cannot very well blame the hyperboreans if, at first, their religion was largely of a material type the worship of the sun, for Baldur was no more than the sun idealized. Christ not the petty Christ of the professional theologian, but the Christ of Humanity stands for OPTIMISM. All is well. Let not your hearts be troubled. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. In reality there is no evil, the thing we call evil being but good in the making. I am come that ye might have life, not death; confidence, not despair; gladness, not Weeping and wailing. . Away with all grouchiness and greed, all doubt and despair! This is the season of love and good will, of hope and gladness. Joy is always and everywhere orthodox and in order. If you are able to do so at no other time of the year, during the Christmas time resolve to have the full courage of your noble self, and to let your worthiest and bravest sentiment assert itself to the full. The Sun Let joy be unconfined Again be is said, ALL IS WELL. is not going to be conquered by the Frost King; the anarchists are not going to overthrow the Constitution of the United States and the government that was inaugurated by our venerated Washington; in spite of the little politicians who are ready to give up to party what was meant for mankind, the ways and means of bettering the condition of mankind will surely be found; the life of men and nations shall not have been in vain; and as for Old Death, who awaits us at the end of the little earthly wf for all that we to the contrary he may turn out to be our best friend. Those who have crossed the north Atlantic in winter need not be g influence of the gulf 'stream. reminded of the uplifting and Those who have felt it can never forget it. Once fairly upon the mysterious river of the sea," the chill and numbness of ones body and soul depart, the rigid muscles relax, the pent-ufeelings let themselves loose in singing, and chat, and sociability and enjoyment, and all the world seems to be refashioned for the better. And such is Christmas, with its good will and good cheer, its brave confidence and spontaneous gladness. It is the gulf stream of life, warming us into the sentiment of a common humanity, with its unselfishness and comradeship, and imparting to us all the glad sense of security and victory. 1 joy-givin- p all-rou- Slovakia, Hungary had received $382,-76Germany had $1,443,019 and Austria $2,046,720. It was estimated that more than 90 per cent of this money had been spent by nationals of these various countries who are now In the United States. There are about 1,500,-00- 0 Poles, 800.000 Hungarians, 800,000 Czechs and 600,000 Slovaks In this country. The profits which resulted from the sale of these food drafts have been turned into the fund for general child feeding. It Is to bring this fund up to the point where It can meet the demands on it, to save the lives of 8,500,-00- 0 children that the European Relief Council has been formed by eight great ellef organizations. 0, Over SO Per Cent of Food Drafts Sent to Europe Gifts From In all the time I was In Poland. 1 Immigrant Population. scarcely once saw a child laugh, declared Dr Harry Piotz, discoverer of Out of their earnings, for the most the typhus baccllus, in a report to the European Relief Council on med- part as unskilled laborers, living from elehand to mouth, the foreign-bor- n ical conditions among the Jewish population of Poland, based on bis recent ment In the United Slates Is contributInvestigations there for the Jewish ing largely to the funds for food supplies to aid the starving peoples of Joint Distribution Committee. The most deplorable sight of all their native lands. t!u miseries In Poland Is the condiFigures from ti e Food Lraft section of the American Relief Administration Dr. Piotz said tion of the children, Infnnt mortality Is exceedingly high show that $593,110 hud been sent to and the Poland, up lo the end of November. because of high percentage of contagious diseases. $158,170 had been sent to Czeeho In large part mothers must resort to artificial feeding as they are unable to nurse their children. In many cities 1 saw underfed children, suffering with diseases, wandering about the streets with no place to go. begging for brend." Tuberculosis has become prevalent among the Jewish children, largely due to ths avarcrowded conditions in which they are forced to live, their lack of nourishing food and warm clothing, according to Dr. Plots. When the government will exact from every merTyphus, which killed thousands of Jews Inst winter In the worst epidemic chant, business man and farmer a complete statement of Poland has ever seen will recur agnln. worse much ho said, as conditions are his business affairs for the year 1920, on which to base the Two lovely gifts, with which to welthe Jews than ever before. income tax. come the stork, are suggested. They among annual Favus, a contagious skin disease, are a little cap of georgette crepe and is now rapidly spreading from child basket and ribbon-frillea In some manner, perhaps, you have been enabled to In Vllna to child, he continued. needs containing everything the baby Jewthe cases are 11,000 among there keep some kind of a record of your business affairs,' but it tor his toilette. ish children alone. Smallpox, too, Is has been exceedingly annoying. Prepare for your next prevalent hroughout Poland and the widewith income tax report by providing yourself with a Ukraine md children, spread eruptions and temperature, have been seen running about the streets. There are thousands of cases every year, which vaccination would prevent, but there ts no vaccine. Dr. Plots told how In Lithuanian S villages he found children, six and . seven years old, unable to walk or in on the the market, which guards against all simplest talk, the result of malnutrition, regions where whole towns had been g errors and enables you to make an accurate statement at destroyed during the war, he found families crowded In miserable dug-out- g anytime. It helps you to keep account of everything, To Welcome tke Bab) under-nourishme- 'IIIIUUI The Time Is Coming silk-line- light and Phone Screens d a W- d m ! d Sachets As Gifts : Liberty Weekly Income Record . As screens for electric lamps or for ladles from beautiful epbones, nce, dressed In the crinoline styles long ago, make useful as well as jhly ornamental Christmas gifts, leir draperies of silk are supported a wire frame. Imported heads at them. qne era required to Among little gifts, that always please dainty women, are sachets. A series of gayly colored satin bags, tied with narrow ribbons and pinmni Those wonderful plushes that are to a wider band with tiny safety pir.s, make a gift worth while, each hag now known as wool furs make neckpieces and muffs that are Just as warm. ready to be transferred to the clothJust as handsome and more durable ing. Another sachet is heart-shapethan those made of skins, and they edged with narrow ribbon frills and are not at all hard to make. A set three little bags are surmounted by a liny doll. made of sea plush is shown hare, The Greatest Gift. Your Christmas gift to tha European child relief collection may help in saving a child's life and if earnestly solicited. Send checks to tho local oommittee of tho Joint organizations or direct to European Relief Council, 42 Broadway, Now York City. 3 merchandise bought, sold, expenses, taxes advertising, 3 etc. The record is so simple that a child can keep it. g 3 g ForSale By jj The Paysonian Publishing Co. 3 Payson, Utah 8 g g g 3 g g g |