Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-20
Many States Are Starting Out
Anew and They Haven't
Learned to Show a ToIer-
ant Spirit Toward Another,
RUMANIANS AND SERBS
ARE L00TlNG HUNGARY
Take the Live Stock, EatabIeS
and Everything Movable,
Including the Kitchen Stoves
and Pictures From Walls,
BY Arno Dosch-Flcurot
(Staff Correspondent of The Albu-
querque Morning Journal and The
New York WORLDLY

New York World.)
Copyright 1919, by The Press Pub
fishing Co.
tThe New York WORLDLY
Paris, Oct. ls.-The political COM
plications of Central Europe are not
half so bad as they look. They are
also easy to solve If tho people will
use Il little common sense and trea.
one another anywhere near decently.
Unfortunately, they have not behaved
very generously, and some OF ON
allies, those we have been the most
favorable to, have been the least gem
erous Of all
The Rumanians have acted the
worst in their conduct toward Hun
gary, but they have not been alone in
applying the principle of loot while
the looting is good. In the good old
days Just after the armistice, when
every country went and took all the
land and all the freight cars 1t could
grab the Serbians moved into part
of the Banat that was more Ruma-
nian in population than anything elsa.
At least SO the peace conference de-
cided and ordered the Serblans to get
out.
So the Serbians went taking with
them everything movable. They took
the live stock, OF course, and the agrl
cultural implements as well as
everything to eat. But not satisfied
with this, they included the kitchen
stoves, the chromos on the walls, the
carpets the knickknacks on the
whatnots. They had such mass of
loot they could not load il all into
freight cars. A large part of il had 20
go by canal boats.
They thought they were getting
away very neatly, when the water
began to sink under the canal boats.
In a short time they were aground,
The Rumanians who held the terri
tory from which the water came had
cut it off SO there lay the cana
boats loaded up like Noah's Ark, and
a commission from the peace confe.-
er ce had to have them hauled back,
SO the cook stoves, chromos and
knickknacks could be redistributed,
Most of the troubles in Central
Europe are not of much more serious
import. The chief difficulty is that
with the breakup of the Austrian
and the Russian empires, every ma
tionality included within their wide
frontiers bred a crop of gentlemen
in frock coats who set up government,
row lives had narrow views Sucn
an idea as trying to find a common
basis of action with neighbors did not
occur to anybody. To each one his
neighbor was his deadly and relent-
less enemy. All they have needed, |
and all they need now is a little of the
spirit of the Rotary club. They need
to go out and boost their neighbors.
But if one of the fat and amiable
organizers of Rotary clubs were to go |
to the Czechs and tell them to boost |
Austria, or to the Serb.ans and tell |
them to get together with the Ruma-
mans, they could not take him seri- f!
ously, and yet they would be delight
ed to use him as go-between.
The states along the Danube occur
to me specially in discussing this
situation. These states are interde-
pendent Relationships, notable In
business, grew up among them under
the empire, and are still legally in
existence But, Vienna being the
capital, was also the financial center,
and all the other new capitals, par
ticularly Prague and Afram are
Jealous They began by putting their
own stamp on the crowns they had in
their possession, SO that Austria, in
self-defense, was forced to do the
same The only unstamped crowns TO
be found now are in Galicia under
Polish rule That was merely sympto-
matte. They closed their frontiers and
created customs frontiers that block
business. Each one is trying to live
within itself.
Austria's Position Pathetic.
To Americans the position of Aus
tria is pathetic. 1t has the most high
ly specialized manufacturers and is
almost entirely dependent on its
neighbors for raw materials. Coal and
iron, which ii needs the most, come
normally from Bohemia, but the Bo-
hemians cannot see it to their interest
to keep Austria supplied and going.
Though there are three or four nun
dred thousand Bohemians in Vienna,
and the interests of the two countries
are so closely interviewer as to make
complete economic separation almost
impossible, still the Bohemians VIII
not meet the Austrians half way IN
fixing UP an amicable arrangement
Politically this is serious matter
as it is forcing Austria into the arms
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