Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-06-21

Iiudspest. June is.a-You who are ac-
custorned 20 American life ana Aneri-
can way OF thinking can scarcely im-
Hgine what drastic changes have been
brought about as consequence Of
the war In the social life u the people
in the yanaulehed states. In Hum
gary. where modern ideas did not avail
to destroy certain patriarcbal irsti-
tItiona as late q the FIRST half Of the
twentieth century, IL was precisely the
middle class which IN the great up
heavai of the last few years showed
the least powers of resistance, al
though this ciass ought 10 have been
the hrst to initiate the work of re-
organization and restoration after the
devastation caused by the war.
The Hungarian middle class consists
mainly Of people drawn from the ranks
Of those who formerly lived on the In
comes derived from their landed es-
tates and who. accustomed 90 their
patriarchai existence, did not take
kindly to the economic Innovations ~
modern times, but preferred 70 gravi-
tate towards the so-cslled learned pro-
fessions. For you Americans il will
NOT nc Nd&K 10 UF1AtI NfrAtA WHY AAAE
youth Of the middle class who had
to choose a career should not turn 70
productive labor and engage 10 com
rnerce. banking or industry. but should
be brought up TO the idea Of officiating
as barren factors in the service of the
state. II is true that the career Of a
state official was attended with tho
possibility of securing more or less
respectable livelihood, and as the state
official was appointed for life, ne could
resign himself to a comfortable and
ondisturbed course of life without be.
ing exposed To the vicissitudes which
/ accompany tho lives OF men engaged
in free competition in the other open
| professions.
/ This security Of livelihood was nori
esteemed in the eyes Of the Hungarian
race. with it's natural tendency &
i've life IL case and perhaps of IN.
| dolence. than the higher income TO b.
derived from the more precarious pro
/ fessions which demand constant en-
deavor and struggle
/ AS these state Offices were passs,
| on from father to son, " came abou
| that at the time when the war brols
| out the number Of these officials who's
only source of income was the state
| amounted. together with their familie
to one million in state comprisinl
fewer than ten million n Magyar n
habitants. After the war commenced
tho state could not increase the sala
ries Of the officials IN proportion wit
/ the Increase in the price of the frs
II necessities OF life. or IN proportio
with those increag ged. salaries paid b
private firms which could benefit fror
the favorable con3unctures offered b
/ the war. and therefore the situation
of the middle class soon became disas
/ trous.
/ The prices Of clothing and food ros
enormously. and became in fact a hun
dred times dearer than in peace time
H There are many thousands who hav
not been able to purchase new ciothe
or new shoes since the outbreak OF m
war.
The capricious measures adopted b
the revolutionary epoch also signiiie
a further bleeding Of the middle clas
for all who had any sort Of reserve
in the way of clothes. linen and shoe
we're compelled TO give them up, with
out compensation. for the use Of n
public. But what, perhaps most I
all. demonstrates the universal i'm
poverishment is the fact that thor
sands of families even how, at n
present time, exist on the same scani
rations as during the war. aIthoug
the fertile Hungarian soil and revi'
ing trade are slowly filling the shoI
, and markets again with every desi
able kind OF supplies.
Meat appears generally but once
week on the tables of the middle clai
.. land milk and butter, and such nourisi
ment as is of prime Importance to q
.. development OF the rising generatic
are stiIl little more than vain imasiI
fings for the victims Of the war. In az
dition TO all this. the officials WI
were employed on the territori'
! which have been assigned by Il
Treaty OF Trianon to the Czechs, Seri
and Roumanians. have been cast o.
OF their employment and have bee
compelled to return as refugees
what remains of Hungary, which is
, such a condition that II cannot PR