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Show VIENNA READY j FOR CHRISTMAS By NORM AN K. MAI SON, (Copyright, 1022 by The .standard-1 Bsa'mlner. ) VIENNA. Dec 9. There arc bright spots In the story of Christmas prp--j aratlons In red Vienna. By one mesns or another HmrthlnK thoroughly, (.'hristmassy will find Its way Into the shabby stockings of thousands of lit-tle lit-tle WM children All tho llttlo children chil-dren of Vienna are war children, their faces tell you without romemberlnp th:it 131-1 was eight years ago. Only thoso now grown heyond the age in which Christmas is the finest, most existing ex-isting adv nf the year remember how Kris Krlhgle came before the war; for many of the others, who have never seen a penny, who can sing the In-ternattonalO) In-ternattonalO) but know not a word of tho old Austrian anthem, who relate milk not to cov s bul I Quakers an I municipal official" Cor many of th ie Strang) urchins of a strange wor' 1. Christmas, 1022. will bf better Uan before. THINGS To PAWN Churches and charitable institutions have arranged Christmas tre celebrations celebra-tions where tiny packages of candy, dollfl economlcallj Improvised, bul ip pealing and books will be given to the children. The skilled workers, whose wages, thanks to the stubborn policy of their unions, h i. kepi pace with the cost of Using will manage to make tin- day a yib-asant'-r on- than 'others for their kinder Tho middle class, the men and women of fixed incomes, will find the day almost as 'difficult as will the poorer workers anJ ithe growing armies of unemployed, ex-jeept ex-jeept that many of the rnlrHle iass still 'have damask table cloths, stlvor can dlertlcks or fur to pawa'i grown-ups gpnrUy, excel millionaires and the hand! eignora, It must l c a drshfl with thought of th. bitter bepun. coal piled high at fM staflonn, but in ;rlce OUt.)J thp majority, arvj thoughsl Problematical forn credfl It Winter, formor maysn and r.o-.v headi of thsfl Friends orpin Iza t Ion, is the In thr- past h" iavs, and sincp Vlennn joined the tjfl brcM.l Hn, die children am ha rxen made to feel mOM l.k- r-anpora ..n fl:rlstmas. 1 r; used, Bfiq Fir WiBtsI tho hi-aris of (cotlstlcsl 1 1 hy received only, and wej feel that they pave and nothing Thlncs should he that they could rie too. Is of the ila i.f. lost. Moreovi cuts shonhl h.- .-nahled to 1 GIVEN AN I) RECED Thesr- are tho outlines ol deinocratlzod Christmas; si many r-hildron a groups 0T tho Children s Friends 3H ChrlTr-ins :r-.. 'in-group f !:! o huv ,.r ntn for otlJ 'Presents will be given and t the uroup in common. Bjl Od it will possible (o put t i r e s of t ht-sr- pu.'ir kids p 1 vnlu trnlv unVi-a-d of spj hob sled, for InvtHnce, a tfl moil.-;-n bulMlTg blocks, clfl .cossorles. the unlvcrsM ;:!) -i no. a.- In-, yfft ."books, books, books.1 4 ' little personal presentaS 'and accepted, too Dr Vj gram makes what conccsslai oni-nv. poyin',r 'o Individ Ev--n if Santa Claus jrai dignanlly exclaims over ths us f'hritnias for the Inn lessons in equality and fl the kld-i who won t hae to I or v --ut.-.i than! fn ii'l - r.i n ' . .'ill doubt! i fun. and '1 i n . round their trees al tn cist a:i merrily youngsters In merica, I'are still pnns and on striped candy canes. |