The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 7, 1920, Page 7

a FAMILIES BROKEN UP TO STOP STARVATION] _ Vienna Mothers Send Children to Stra ngers So They May Be Fed; Zoe Beck. | ley Cables of Misery in Austrian Capital BY ZOE BECKLEY nor the blueness of their hands. It was the look in their faces, | VIENNA, Feb. 7.—Beside me as I stood in the cold, dim|the skin stretched tight over their cheekbones, the terrible | ' railway station at Vienna today, was Franz, age 6, holding, at gre ss of their eyes. by the hand his sister Irma, age 4. | 1 shall never forget their eyes. It was a look both of ter- It was not the frayed and patched little garments which! Tor and of avid eagerne No kiddie should have such eyes. , ’ 2 ne : 2, in charge of| sagged from their emaciated frames that made my heart) All around us were other tots from 3 to 12, in charg | ache, por was it the broken boots that let in so much cold, | White-capped nurses, Italian and Dutch, who marshalled them ADMIRAL CALLS HER Jian rte ind a on PRETTIEST GIRL ON PACIFIC COAST AZIMOV As a celebrated London and Paris dancer fee | 0g “STRONGER HAN DEATH” A tense drama of love, from the novel by I. A. R. Wylie MOTHERS PART WITH CHILDREN SENDING THEM TO STRANGERS These women were mothers, sending their children into foreign lands, into the hearts and homes of strangers, that the little ones might not die of starvation before their eyes. Some of the women stood rigid, with every sign of emotion held in check. Some pressed their hands over their trembling | lips and winked back the tears. Others reached thru the bars lof the railing toward the babies, calling out for them to come for one last kiss, or entreating them with murmured pet names and loving phrases to be good, obedient children. But the tots could not be allowed to go back. * It would destroy order and create a scene, So they waved and threw kisses and promised to be good children and love their foster parents. Then I realized what it was that put the terrible, staring | brightness into the eyes of tiny Franz and Irma. | In order to live, they must leave the mothers who loved them. ' Presently the whistle sounded, the engine hissed, the con- |ductor shouted and swung aboard. Slowly the long train sipped out of the station, the very windows white with little faces pressed against the glass. The babies’ train had started Jon its journey from famished Vienna. |MANY CHILDREN LEFT BEHIND |TO GO IN THE NEXT BATCH It was half an hour before the pack of parents melted from behind the barrier. Few were Spartan enough to con- |ceal their feelings. Most of them relaxed when the train }was out of sight, and with shaking shoulders sobbed into their ragged shawls and patched aprons. Many children were left, evidently brought in the hope that by a miracle room could be found for them on the train. They will go in the next batch, which will be when cities can be found which are willing to take them. Already {30,000 have been sent away, and it is prayed that an equal | number may yet find homes before the terrible winter has |run its course and taken, its toll. : In the faces of the women and men as they left the sta- ‘ tion could be read the tragedy of Vienna. Not by any 7 —.\ s «€ ) sg means were they all of the poorest working classes. There it~. Oo Oliver | was a goodly number of people of middling prosperity, Violet Oliver, 18, of Los Angeles, known as “The Kid®Sis-| whose income is now inadequate to ai even the simplest ter” of the U. S. Marines and the navy for her war work, re-| food, so shrunken has the money value become in Austria. | eruiting activity and general good fellowship, has been| Not one of all the crowd looked nourished, and in some dubbed “the prettiest girl on the Pacific Coast” by Admiral faces was a shadow that told me they might not be there Hugh Rodman, commanding the Pacific fleet. And he kissed when their children returned from the friendly foreign coun- her—in the presence of thousands at a parade—to prove the| tries. courage of his discriminating convictions. One woman told me she had eaten nothing but black} ac. Seer y: eer nce... 2. © S| bread and farina soup for 13 days. Another said for two “Everybody Sing!” (Idaho Officers in : Teo had ante oa ls veh aed . rl months she had not seen a potato, altho the food cards Recital Tuesday Capital Meeting | allow 500 grammes per week, a man assured me. Everybody sing! BOISE. Ida., Feb. 7.—Idaho's STARVING, THEY’VE EATEN ALL PETS, That's the aim of “Captain” peace or eectnmangn ns seep EVEN CANARIES, GOLDFISH AND PARROTS tor of the “Se-| state capitol, accomplished the fol : { RR cieeenkity wthent Pig Sond lowing at thelr first day's semsion.). He said that among the poorer and middle classes there] .” who will hold a recital of Adoption of a statewide criminai]is not a pet animal of any sort left in Vienna—not a cat or a Jocal student talent at the Y. M./registration plan based on finger | dog or a canary or a gold fish, a rabbit or a parrot. Every- © A. auditorium Tuesday night. | prints. ‘one has been used for food. And he hinted things far worse. en opens .ot 8 p.m eee neater nent Police of-| “But if the children only can be fed,” he repeated over Studen ficers’ organization. | omaha of nasi are | being | “Acceptance of a rule that an Tdaho| and over, “nothing else matters.” to lead community sings thruout | Police officer’s duty does not stop at) Farina is the staple, and there is precious little of that. the sity. ; lame was song sender at Fanaa peee ORNS rae |For example, the food card given each person who does Camp s for two years and be-| brings the people of the city closer) active work calls for less than three pounds of bread per peeee thet community singing} together. weeks 250 grammes of farina, 125 grammes of meat, ry an equal amount of fats, which is a useless apportionment since it can rarely be obtained at all. Fourteen pounds of coal per family per week is all that is allowed. The card also permits at intervals one box of sardines, one candle, one small can of petrol and one cake of soap. | _ . piety, ie Sally Hae irda ye gra Pie small, wealthy class. is written in the faces of the workers, in | the hollow eyes of the young mothers, in the rickety bodies oaacee & ciara Sataee whi jof the poor little kiddies who cannot walk alone at three} as been outlawed by the conscience |years of age, and in the tragic necessity of tearing children | of the nation |from their mothers’ arms at the railway stations, that they gn j may be shipped away to get.the necessities of life. Nazimova is quite unlike any other screen actress— The haunting witchery of her face and eyes— Her lithe, pantherine form— Her weirdly fascinating gestures— She belongs to no place, no time—but rather to all time, all ages! CLEMMER MUSIC Liborious Hauptman, Director, playing Rachmaninoff’s Prelude Entire Week—Starting Today CLEMME aATTLF AY HOUSE Violate 3ST PH« ,paign will make the Newberry cam- |faign look ike’ a. Sunday schoo | Seattle Is Second eepong | in Army Rec “It 4s fortunate for the country) go. 14 i that Edwards and Smith have raisea| Seattle stands second ne recruiting districts of the co = the black flag early. Both parties | 1 ts of he ae will be warned. Who will be the Ea-|h€ army's | nation- sere tion to a lawless business, which con- | campaign, according to latest fi [wards and Smith among the repub- | "muss SoCo one . spires against public morals, have| lican candidates? Is our party the | feceived by Col W. BF : i et district recruiting: PH Bee entered upon the task of burying the) only psi be disgraced {nounced today, Bryan Is Caustic in Attack on Liquor Ideas of Two Governors MIAMI, Fla, Feb, 7.—Charging Goy. Alfred E, Smith of New York and Goy. Edward I. Edwards of New Jersey with having “entered upon | the task of burying the democratic | democratic party in the grave with ————= the grave with the|the saloon. If their fight rests upon| Every time anything disagreeable| When a woman can’t think of saloon,” Wiliam Jennings Bryan, in| their individual merits, it will be aj happens to a married man his wife | thing else to say to her hi a statement to the United Press to-| farce. If the brewers and distillers | remembers that she told him so in| cautions him not to eat so! day, answered the Smith and Ed | finance it, the pre-convention cam-| advance. so much. wards speeches made at a dinner |= given to National Democratic Chatr- man Cummings in New York Thurs "| day night ' Replying to a request for a state- ment, Bryan said “Who will now accuse me of doing injustice to Mr. Cummings? He} shows no interest in the democratic | party, His chief business seems to be to act as a sounding board for the champions of the liquor traffic. He party in SHIPBUILDER INDICTED When defective boiler blows up ship in mid-ocean. Innocent partner is blamed. How he gets even is entertainingly shown in ‘THE FALSE CODE” STARRING “Governor Edwards and Governor poth of whom owe © thelr elec- elec IN THE “Egg Crate Wallop” A BANG-UP AMERICAN STORY WITH A SOLAR PLEXUS PUNCH WILL GIVE OF WAGES TO HELP STARVING KIDDIES Editor The Star: Have read with horror of the terrible conditions among the children of Europe who are in no way responsible for them Now let us put on a drive for their relief immediately. My farhily will give of our wages next week $5. Let's go. A READER And Richard Kurtzner has sent $10 to The Star for this fund money is being turned over to the Red Cre If you desire to con tribute, forward your money to the European Children’s Fund, the Red Cross, Seattle. 7 haa ~ {ADMIRAL FIELD For | Reserve Officers’ Meeting Grtp, Influenza, Catarrh,| officers’ meeting to be held at the FOR | Rear Admiral H. A. 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