Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-06-10
AUSTRIA POLITICAL
MONSTROS|TY,A AS
RESULT OF TREATY
Inorganic Combination OF
Races-Head and Limb,
Minus a Body.
BY PAUL SCOTT MOwRER.
BY Cable to The Star and Chicago
Daily News. Copyright, 1920.

! VIENNA. June 10.-The state OF
| of st. German, Is probably the
greatest political monstrosity in his
tory. 1t is simply not organic. 1t is
a head joined to a single limb without
a body
: Moreover fact which has hitherto
not been sufficiently emphasized--this
| head and this limb are not entirely
of the same flesh. The people OF
! Vienna are mixture of many races
and are different from the pure blood
ed German mountaineers. who In
habit most of the remainder of the
| country.
Concentrated In Vienna.
! country's eastern extremity lies
Vienna, with its 100000 population.
| This is lower Austria. The other
provinces, namely, Upper Austria
Salzburg. Steiermark (Ntyria). Carin-
! thla. Tyrol and Verarlberg, which In
| all have a population of barely 1000.
| 600. trail away westward through the
| Alps. In other words, one-third of
| the country's Inhabitants are con-
| centrated In the capital. This capitai
| was once the metropolis of an en-
pire of 100000 people. Its func-
| tions are nowauEeduced, in words of
| DR.. Alonzo Taylor, to- those of a
county seat.
The people of the provinces are
probably the most purely German
race in existence. The Prussians are
mixed with Slavs and the Prussians
! in turn have mixed with the Bava.
! rians, but in the Alpine valleys OF
!, the Tyrol and Verarlberg the people
| have dwelt and intermarried un.
| Changed during the centuries. !
contrast to this purity of blood tn
| people of Vienna are of many races
| Hither for generations nave come
Poles and Jews, Czechs and Hun
manians.
Religious View of People.
| In the provinces the people are
| Catholic race in Europe. The people
| of Vienna include many Protestants
and Israelites and tend somewhat,
like the people of most cities. toward
! irreligion. The. people OF the prov
| inces are SIM and perhaps even
| somewhat bac - ard. The people OF
| Vienna are h.,hly Intelligent and
highly cultured. Not only We're the
Germans of the mountain provinces
/ merely one of many races whose
/ blood trickled into Vienna, but OF
all the races of the empire were
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| nese had the fewest relations.
| Vienna is city of capitalists. mer-
| chants and workmen. It's invest
| ments were not in the Alps. but in
| Bohemia, Moravia, Galicia and Dali
| malta.
Railroads Are Scant.
| Bavaria had more money invested
| in these mountain regions than had
! Vienna There is only one railroad
running from Vienna westward into
! the mountain provinces. while there
| are four running northward into
| Cechoslovakia. In short, there was
| probably no part of the empire with
which Vienna had fewer important
relations than these mountain regions
| which are now supposed to form a
| single state with this great cosmo-
| politan city.
! Cut off by Theoretically sealed
| frontiers from all the rich regions
| from which they used to draw the
| sap of economic life. it is small won.
| der that the Viennese sit dazed ano
| helpless, wondering what is to be-
come of them; small wonder that the
Tyrolese mountaineers look askance
| at the monstrous head whose eyes
| are sad and skeptical, whose nostrils
| breathe despair and whose mouth is
| always hungry. always devouring
| more than their scant resources.