The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-07-08
Austria Specializes in Art
of Begging and Insulting

Dutch and Scandinavians have earned
a lot of money. The South Amefi-
cans are rich. And all this shows tkat
they should come to the help of Aus
tria. The Austrians think that Only
fair. They do not expect otherwise.
With the allies, especially those of
the entente, 1t is quite another mat.
ter. The entente had dared to refuse
The credits requested? What A pity
its prisoners We're not allowed to
starve during the war! The entente
does not want us to join Germany? |
Well, we shall do so without it's per-
mission. The time will come when we |
will ally with Germany to fight the
entente.
That Is the reasoning Of the Ger
man, Austrian. who the pre-war Ger.
man declared was just good enough
to black the boots of the German
army
| have experienced moments during
which the Austrian absence Of char
acter has been made clearly obvious.
| returned in the company Of my
wife and one of her friends one eve
ming from Baden, little mountain
Gus place, where one goes for week
ends. As my companions We're Eng
4 fish we talked English. The tramcar,
capable of carrying about forty pas
sengers, presently filled up. Once on
the way man standing up, a typical
German, started propaganda against
foreigners, and pointing to us desig-
mated us as English or Americans
He mixed himself up in our CONVEX.
sation. He insulted US extensively in
German.
The whole compartment, consisting
of all sorts and conditions Of trav-
elers, supported this man. Vulgar
coarseness succeeded to the insults
and jokes. Everything and all were
passed in review, the allied govern
ments and their chiefs, even Presi-
dent Wilson was not forgotten. In
: fact, he was spoken of most of all
because these people took me for an
American. Then they went on to
: more personal matters-Ourselves, our
] clothes, everything was analysed and
4
t were said by the best-dressed men,
4 and women joined in with degraded
: delight. The tram conductor laughed.
, | pretended not to understand. The
only thing to do with these brutes.
8 | even heard somebody make sug'
r gestion to throw us out of the tram
! at the next stopping place.
o The starving children Of Austria ex
J ist mostly in the imagination of those
y who earn an easy living by begging
e AS a matter OF fact, one does not se'
% more sickly-looking children in Vienn,
r than in any other large town. i
. help were given to the children of th'
X poor, of the unemployed. of the de
h. modified soldiers without means o
d. subsistence In England, America an
France such charity would be put /
a. far better use.
d Waste Of Coal and Light.
lie In order to save coal, France an
England ordered the dancing saloon
IS. and theaters to be closed earlier in tn
n evening. Austria did nothing Of tn
n. kind. Everything was illuminated
er la giorno till midnight. It did n
m. matter If her subjects paid 8 krone
~ a kilogram for coal and her factori'
were obliged to stop work for lack
nv coal.
Die While in most lands one does one
lie best to produce, the slightest incidel
ed here creates a strike. People tai
os- the most futile pretext to have an e
us. ira day Of rest-and all the same tn
led have the courage to complain!
i've Nobody depriyes himself OF ples
ure. One Is prepared to do witho
ov- anything except enjoyment. 1t is
led true that the people who go out
'aw the evenings are all foreigners. Ii
ent en- to the languages spoken In
the dancing saloons and cafes. Vlenne
heir German and pure German predol
cry nate. Look Mt the lines outside |
and theaters where German plays are
bit ing produced. Austrians certai'
lich form the majority Of the frequente
Ives Look also Mt the rows Of taxis arou
the the football field on Sundays, VT
full two local clubs meet. | eeve 81
tired more than 200 Of, them, II Is not
but foreigner who pays 1000 kronen
,,s' more to drive to this rp"c where
The game Goes IN.