The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-08-05
GENERALS ASK FOR
JOB AS PORTER IN
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

According to reports forwarded to
this country from the European work
ers of the Friends Service committee,
Jobs as hotel porters and head walters
in Vienna pay the best. The conse-
quence is that to fill recent position
that was open for a porter there ap-
peared several lieutenant-colonels,
three colonies and a major-general.
The average yearly incomes OF man.
ual and mental workers now prevailing
in Vienna is said to be approximately
as follows: .,
a Kronen.
Hotel porters and shoemakers, 100000
Journeyman shoemakers So. 10000
Gentlemen's tailors .......... $4,000
University professor GO years
servicel 10000
Director OF Vienna Municipal
ity $4,000
High Law Court Officials 80. 25, 900
Day Labor in gas works .. "a, 900
Navies =. {. ..!..... .... $4,000
Lamplighters ................ 10000
Assistant doctors 5000
These figures are the more impress
sive when it is realized that the before
war value Of the kronen was approx
imately 20 cents, now it's buying power
is about l-3 of a cent.
The Cologne Gazette" of May 2S
quotes the following prices: THE bar
Der charges II X, the morning paper
costs l X. Flour has increased in
price more than 500 per cent in the
past year, fat and butter 300 per cent,
potatoes, 500 per cent, salt 400 per
cent. A suit OF clothes formerly cost
100 K, now costs 10000 to $4,000 K, a
shirt formerly 10 X. win not cost 500
to COO X, collar, 60 K, a tie 200 to
600 K, Shoes 1000 to 5000 K, an
umbrella, 5000 K. This and other alb
normal situations are the result Of new
boundaries which 7.have interrupted
and seriously hampered all transporta-
ton systems. The people of south
eastern Europe have not forgotten old
jealousies and former political sup
preston. stst ~
What the Quakers Are Doing.
The assisting of buying COWS, feed,
cloth and other raw materials from adj
joining countries is performing work
desperately needed but which. no
Austrian could do because of preju-
dice. $4,000 children under the age Of
6 colder children are fed by the
Hoover relief organiZation) are receiv-
ing weekly food rations from the
Quaker Mission. Hundreds Of children
are being sent into the country dis
tricts and milk and eggs are provided
for them. Arrangements were made
for 500 children to spend a year in
England During June 1000 university
students were supplied with a daily
breakfast of bread and cocoa. Cloth
ing depots are operated SO that the
students can buy new or secondhand
clothing at price they can afford to
pay.
Hospitals in Vienna, and also the
districts of Graz, Linz, Innsbruck and
Salburg are being supplied with neces-
sary medicines and bed linen. 240
cows, purchased by the mission and
stabbed near Vienna, are being fed on
imported foodstuffs and 200 quarts of
milk per day is thus secured for hos
pitfalls and infants. Other COWS are
loaned to peasants and their milk pur-
chased by the mission.
The American Friends service COM
mittee is ready to extend it's relief
work in proportion to contributions,
according to the need Of the individual
without regard to race or religion.
Send contributions to Charles F.
Jenkins. Treas, 20 South Twelfth
street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Most expensive Of all Of London's
public buildings are the Law Courts,