Semi-weekly herald., 1915-06-21
charity connected with the war.
Gathering War Material.

drove around Vienna. Our attention
was called to the wagons that were
around gathering metal for the pur-
pose of making munitions Of war.
These wagons had every kind Of
metal on them-iron, copper, brass,
lead. etc. was told that these wag-
ons travel all over Austria gathering |
metal and bringing it to Vienna.
presume every man in Austria be-
lieyes this war is going to be settled
by that country which has the great
est supply Of combustibles, shrapnell,
cts. 1t is said that the patriotic fer
yor runs so high in Austria that when
the metal wagon comes along owners
of homes go quickly inside to gather
up what pots and kettles they can
spare, and that often times stair rods
and stair ratings made of metal are
torn out by force and taken to the
metal wagon.
No Use For Russia.
The feeling in Austria is centered
almost entirely against Russia, with
whom she is engaged in battle on the
frontier dividing the two countries.
The feeling between Austria and Rus
sia is peculiar one and it goes deep.
Russia is slav country and has been
accused of conspiring to make trouble
| in the Balkans. Austria has seven
teen millions of slavs and has always
looked with disfavor on the movement
| frequently mentioned looking to a
Pan-Slav empire in the Balkan penin-
sula. Hence the war between Russia
and Austria is manysided, and has
reference to many things both past
and present. The one tie that bands
the Slav people together is the Greel
church, to which practically all thC
Slavs owe allegiance.
| In one battle between Austria ant
Serbia it will be remembered thai
100000 men of the Austrian army
turned traitor to Austria and Tough
with the Serbians. Austria dare no
undertake to take into Serbia an arm!
partially composed of Slavs for fea
of further treason.
Austria has a greater variety o
population than any of the other coun
tries engaged in the present war
there being some nineteen importan
divisions of the human race livinl
nominally under the Austrian flag.
Looking up Loyalty.
One impo rtant move on the par
of the Austrians has been to fin
out which of these little sub-divi
\ sions would be loyal to the Austrian
government. When speak of Aus
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There is another patriotic move
!, ment in full swing in Austria and tina
. is the donating of gold and silve
to the government. Men and womel
take their wedding rings and throy
them into the melting pot, or deliv
er them over to some officer of tn
government This movement is carri
a ed to a great extreme and amount
9 to fanaticism which might belon,
to the Japanese or Chinese. We pas
. sed the place where the pople go il
to ccntribut their jewelry
1t might usually be predicted tina
people so full of bigoted desir,
could not be defeated, but such peo
: Piles have been defeated in many wars
The Austrian is more like tn,
Frenchman than he is like the Ger
NAL, although you might say that a!
a rule the German language prevail,
in Austria
l have thought many times that il
there were to be consultations oi
governments in Europe reasonabl,
thing would be the consolidation OF
Austria-Hungary with Germany. They
have gone so far as to merge the flags
OF the two countries. Hanging out Of
scores of windows in Vienna / saw
lcurlous long streamers, which did not
seem to be Austrian or German, and
i '''feiiy Nao iolu kIdl IL WAS
the new Pan-German flag-a blend
ing of the colors of the Austrians and
the Germans. | was told that it is
Expected that if Germany wins in this
war, in many respects Germany and
Austria will be one country. The be-
ginning of the union will be the es-
Establishment of closer commercial
agreement and treaties, and it is ex-
pected that this would finally lead to
a consolidation.
Some German Jokes.
The Austrians have great admira-
tion for the German army, and they
never presume to be the equal of the
Germans in military sense. MANY
sly jokes are gotten off at the expense
of the Austrians. One of them is re-
lated somethinp like this. corn,a,,