The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-14
UNIVERSITY MEN
IN WANT IN VIENNA
Thousands Of Graduates on
Verge Of Starvation From
Lack Of Employment.
VICTIMS OF CASTE PRIDE
ny DIR. WOLF VON SCuIuu.
BRAND.


VIENNA. oct. 1l.-Often at the noon
hour I pass In my ramblcs a tavern near
the municipal building. One or two ~.
licemen keep watch. A dense. impatcr,
throng of pale, III clad. hollow checked
young men are waiting to be admitted
one by one inside is the so-called mensa
academica. the free table for university
students in want. For most II is thA
only meal they get a day.
All these hslf-starved youth belong N
the Buildings Proletariat," the Thousands
upo thousands In Austria who have
gone through the higher mental drill
only TO hnd II at the end dead sea fruit
bitter and unwholesome They form
quite a chapter In the Austrian lifc ~
to-day. those proletarians OF first class
Intellectual training. Again and again
during the last decade the danger has
been pointed out by Government official.
statesmen n political leaders, by pcda.
cogues and university professors. hui, 70
no purpose Instead Of diminishing nun.
hers. there has been a steady increase
In these cases which tit no vacancy.
The present val has OF course made
conditions much worse. The advertising
columns of the Vienna dailles spcak
plainly as TO that. with "ad" after "aa'
wherein an accidentally prepared zen.
$500" 'Nt" p'P''a =, '''c''''e' ued1 ~
ii'ins iahsuaees, at Tue rate OF ~. -
or so hellers IS, 10 or IL ccnts) a lessor.
Many OF the men try to obtain a posi-.
ton as tutor and preparing tcache
for boys or girls In public schools n
exchange for board and "A garret, o.
'''her' Most OF these young men ara
nor OILY proletafians, nut lifelong ~.
ures' nI'eo 10 inc orin with the bite.
ness OF hoN-success FOR. by q simple
arItn'hetlcal demonstration, II may b"
easiis SHOWN that the hummer ~ such
Stimulates from coIIese' university, tech
n'caI hlgh schooi' &c, is now about
,"',e that OF the nuinber or possible
herths IN Government subaltern Service,
III s.noo,S ana Isewhere' ana Yet the
hummer Is constantly growing.
Caste Pride 20 Blame.
oyi,y ., ,oo,i,,
,hoir na,, ana ~, r =" "n
Sigh, esteem, Il, n h;oh ga. Wv
occuna.ions and marrai -
descr,ntion ora hs,d n,,,r -
hoys ui,bo,,, nn,uraI at as ~
'hivher' yv,ILs oniv 90
vrecked 1h.ir oo,ro ,hr",aL ~
paratorv schoois and tho r,i,ars,, r'
nar,y-jon u,.ueici.n,I. ni.a
ished ,hev heron,o ..nndr,,oa i'r Va.
with shattered constitu,ions a, ,,,,
llTe N "a nf NINFA@ AHATlE 90. -
strong In ,b.lr vci,s
II ia no wonder tho, .b., - .bo non
10 10, 900 Young men matricula,od q, Y.
emma University alone th,, ANON
were found phvslcalIy unn, for ,'.l.., ry
service of any kind. I-nwi,tingn 80,
Government systematically cor,rfbv,..
10 this ovcrproduction of useless ".n'.'.
,,,,tdiio ~" ''". II" "
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t,es :" ,odi 80 Nv oUa Nv -,
hoisina :, y" -. ~ va
annninmon 90 r,;uaa
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vboiIy insd.,uate s,,,rie. We, c,,c, .,.
ILL.,. - 49,. ."nuI
,ha sn,ia, ~ $50 ia -
he ,I,in,,a coUarnmou. na,san
Slnre IN, beginning ~ ttho n,r -.
sl,ua,io, 10 ,beso 400 failures b,s Aso,
aron,ina ~, 80, ,nrsa n,,,es.,.
tntors are no, ,",cb IN don,.r1 ,r...
d,ys nor .ra nr;ya,o ,ossors IT, So
na;h;.s az. ,ha 80 - -, , ,,,,,.
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n,ornded so,d,srs Tho ,bnusars 49,, 49,.
d,ra naad. -, ,ht. rt,t,,s. s,.,-..
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mas nee, ,oTt "a snare ,or ,ha tbo,...t.
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na,ents ~ i.ast ,ho, ,s,a ., ,i. ..,
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sirh. ao -,
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'hiidren nave war frNrr'
What a contras, with the children te
and little, They all. iucludiug e
nave the war fever. II is fun e, vat p
them playing war; on the hiIls.dos SEA
meadows and tuhblcfelds thar cu,.rse
Vienna tight on three sides. The .1,s
are all supplied with helmets and 'r ~.
tary cans. flags. guns. sabrcs and r4- ts
with tools to dig trenches and guhVs-
cades, spades. rakcs, scythes and brush.
wood. Invariably the question A. SIS.
Who is 10 pIav the enemy And ,heA
is ALWAYS the trst tus-of.wa~ l,to-A
that is settled. Sometimes II IS left -
chance. but always there are charges -
fraud in that case. I'su,lIv m. sut''..,
BOWS or tho last Corners have % play
these parts.
Where there are little girls = 90
party, and usually there are, u is ''ev