The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-07-08
People Have Lost Every Sense Of Dignity and Their Whole Charac-
ter, French Journalist Says-Country Has Come to
Look Upon Help From Abroad as Matter
of Course

New York.-An interesting picture
of conditions In Austria is given in the
following article written for the New
York Herald by w. John Lenglet,
French journalist attached to the
Japanese military mission In Vienna:
After having been year in Austria
I have come to the conclusion that the
country speciallzes in the art OF beg
ging and insulting. These two faults
combined have been brought to such
a height that the people have lost
every sense of dignity and their whoie
character.
This is specially clear to the for
eigner who stays good deal In Vienna.
The foreigner who merely passes
through brings nothing back but a
remembrance of more or less gay eve
nings and of fantastic figures Of worth
less currency; but he who has to i've
there and take part in the everyday
life of Vienna, especially II ne take
the trouble to look deeply Into the
heart of things, Is certainly convinced
that side by side with certain misery
IN the lower middle classes and priva-
lions among the upper classes, there
exists among the new rich-"schieD-
ers"-an indifference to all the inter-
ests of Austria which Is hardly beliey-
able.
The "schieber" may be the middle
man of business transactions, or even
the business man quite simply. The
s.schieber" Is also the bucket shop
keeper" who speculates Illegally In
exchange, who leads the freihandei
Gree commerce), and 1t is he who
piles up bundles of bank notes, q
single one Of which he will not spend
unless 1t bring him the equivalent In
pleasures or goods. The interest OF his
country He laughs at 1t as at a
splendid joke-the starving children
can be looked after by foreigners. He
can eat white bread and he does 50
without scruple. He can drink cham
payne at 1900 crowns bottle. He
provides his wife with magnificent furs
and precious jewels. He knows no
duty but that Of spending the money,
which he has gained by exploiting bis
countrymen In pleasures and Injuries.
He Ia the immoral being who has
sprung from the Austrian soil since
misery spread over the land.
The vaIute All Important
When the little bourgeois or shop
keeper smells the foreigner, he imme-
diateiy sizes up his "valute." You are
treated In accordance with the value
of your national currency and the shop
man tries to convince you that II he
charges you three times as much as
Austrians are charged he Is still
rendering you great service: "Was
macht das dem In hire valutef"
(what does It matter compared to
the value of your moneyO This be
comes as familiar as the greeting you
get when you 20 into a shop. II you
are good natured you viii simply
accept this as part Of the business.
Worse things exist, for the Austrian
has brought the art Of begging to such
a pitch that he has made the whole
world believe In him. and the whole
world-England and the United States
Mt the head-allows itself to be fooled !
Committees have been formed-Aus-
TIA has been helped on every side
her children have been sent to every
country 10 be nourished and cared for ;
and when they come back from these
countries, dressed 10 new clothes and
improved morally and physically, their
parents say: After all. It Is not much
you see. the clothes are not
chic. the stuff Is not Of the best quality.
and the food. well, they do not trouble
much about food over there"
However. when one Of their CHI
aren comes back. they Do their best 20
send another over to the same eondi-
ffans that means another
les 20 bother about
me man Who lives IN Vienna and
reads advertisements in the English
naberz about starving Vienna cannot