Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-07
AUS1RIANS NOW MORE FRIENDLY
 1O AMERICANS
Newspapers Point Out Ad- visibility Maintaining of
 Good Relations.


 rart of the war hay: been delighted , 10 notice a distinct change in the feeling of the public C. late a re- version to the old popularity which Americans always enjoyed here. The change has been noticeabl= nowhere more plainly than in the press which has insisted that gocd relations and if possible better re- lations between these countri:s and the republic are desirable for both sides
 One factor is the emigration ques- i tion, which touches Hungary more acutely than il does Austria It is factor that involves some s15o,- 100000 a Y ar. for this is the sum that ! t Is estimated is sent back to Hungary annually from it's citizens who i1 normal peace times wander out to America So consistently have these emi9rants sent back part of their earnings that the gOye nment has come to talk it into careful ac- count when budget and taxation mat ters come up each year.
 Cater to Americans.
 A second factor concerns the bath and cure resorts of Austria, formerly patronized chiefly by the English French and Russians, and now sui fering cruelty from th3 war and hav- ing to exist on none toc free-handed and local German patronage. The shrewd owners figure the matter out this way: No matter how the war comes Cut, it will be decade b fore the old peaca-time patronage from England FTlnce and Russia can be won back. Americans, however, they estimate will almost certainly floc'e to Europe once peac is declared, and they hope that the resorts in Aus t3ia can be made to coax from Ameri- cans the huge sums that they former ly drew from other foreigners.
 The Austro-American steamship lines constitute a third factor in ;Ae friendly relationships, for the theorists count on an unprecedented influx of travellers 10 Europe from the United States, n influx that very cOnceiyablv may tax to the uttermos: limit all existing transportation facili ties, and reckon that f Austria Hungary emerges from tae war with the good will of Americans there is nothing to prevent q veritable ava lanche Of business for steamer lines to Austria, more pa ticularly so # Americans develop a Rartiality for Austrian resorts.
 Austro- -Hungarians also do not hesl- tate to admit that, if this part Of the world is to be put back on normal basis cnce more after war, huge importations of raw materials are going to be imperatively neces- sary for time, and, what is mo Q. an extended credit to cover these inn pCrtations is going 10 be almost cs~ sential.
 Create Suitable Substitutes. Nearly all the nations at war, but particularly Germany and Austria Hungary, have made remarkable ad- | vances in the creation of substi utas 1 for articles and mat rials that have given out. Many of these substitutes will last far beyond the war, but con servative men among the centr T powers feel positive that by and large everyone will go back to the old things in use. The fact that substi- tutes have had to be created is 5si the way of proving that importation of raw materials is absolutely nec4s- sary-and America is the greatest eX. porter of them in the world.
 First and foremost, it is a question l that lis asked not unfrequently whether the monarchy is not gon,. after the war if not during it, to need it's emlgrants to America more tbaa it needs their money. Several army corps of Austro- Hungarians are in the l United States. many or most O. wAom have expressed themselves as willing and glad to come back, but who lre unable to do so.
 1 The financial burdens after the war are of course going to be very heavy in Austria Hungary as in all other countries, and there is also in proa- pect everywhere a shortage of mo- l fer the reconstruction of affairs to T normal state. Whether the emiera 1ts in America by sending their money tC help relieve financial burdens can do more for tn country of their birth than they could by being hege to wo' X for it is l question that has not be .n settled
 Though no one can say with as surance. prevailirT opinion is that certainly for long time after the war there will be a lull in emigra- ticn to Ame rica, because O. the anti cipated need for workers at home Just as many employers and labor experts in Germany feel that wages there are going to go up or stay up on an 4ttractivelv high level. so the fee ling exists in Austria-Hungary that working conditions here will be such that the incliriatioa to leave will be smaller than ever before. In fact. return swing in the tide CT emigration, bringing back many now in America is by no means consider ed an impossibility.
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