The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-08-25
AUSTRIA SPECIALIzES IN ART
OF BEGGING and INSULT TING
People Have Lost Every Sense Of Dignity and Their Whole Charac-
ter, French Journalist Says-county Has Come to
Look Upon Help From Abroad as Matter
of Course

New York.-An interesting pictur
Of conditions In Austria Il given In tn
following article written for the Ne,
| York Herald BY W. John Lenglet.
French Journalist attached to tn
Japanese military mission In Vienna
After having been q year In Austri
have come to the conclusion that tn
|. country specialists In the art Sof BET
ging and insulting. These two fault
combined have been brought to sue
I height that the people Have los
every sense Of dignity and their who'll
character. }as st F fi
This d specially clear to the fos
eigner who stays good deal In Vienna
The foreigner who merely passe
through brings nothing back but ,
remembrance Of moro or less gay eve
ninss and Of fantastic figures Of worth
less currency; but he who has to liv'
there and take part In the everyday
life Of Vienna. especially II he TAXI
the trouble to lsek deeply into thu
heart u things. Is certainly convinced
that side by side with a certain misery
in the lower middle classes and priva'
lions among the upper classes, there
exists among the new rich-"schieb'
ers"-an indifference to all the inter
ests Of Austria which is hardly believ.
able.
The "schieber". may be the middle
man Of business transactions, Or even
the business man quite simply. The
''schieber" Is also the bucket shop
keeper" who speculates Illegally in
exchange. who leads the freihandel
(free commerce), and 1t is he who
piles up bundles Of bank notes, a
single ono Of which he will not spend
Unless It bring him the equivalent in
pleasures or goods. The interest Of his
country He laughs at It as at
splendid joke-the starving children
can be looked after by foreigners. He
can eat white bread and he does so
without scruple. He cah drink cham
payne at 5000 crowns a 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 HIS,
countrymen in pleasures and Injuries.
4 He Ii the immoral being who has
sprung from the Austrian soil since
misery spread over the land.
a:g@a The valute Al Important,
When the little bourgeois or shop
Keeper smells the foreigner, he imme-
diately 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 1
you great service: "Was
macht das dem in Ihre valuteY' |
(What does 1t matter compared to
the value Of your moneyD This be-
comes as familiar as the greeting you /
ret when you 60 into shop. II you
ire good natured you will simply
accept this as part Of the business.
Worse things exist, for the Austrian
las brought the art Of begging to such
/ pitch that he has made the whole
world believe In him, and the whole
vorld-England and the United States
It the head-allows itself to be fooled!
Committees have been fOrmed-Aus-
ria has been helped on every side
Ter children have been sent to every .
ountry to be nourished and cared for:
nd when they come back from these
Ountries, dressed in new clothes and
improved morally and physically, their
arents say: After all, 1t is not much
!. you see. the clothes are not
hic /; the stuff is not Of the best quality,
nd the food, well. they do not trouble
luch about food over there"
However, when one Of their chill
rem comes Back, they do their best to
end another over to the same cOndi-
ions that means another
,ss to bother about! &
The man who lives in Vienna and
eads advertisements in the English
apers about starving Vienna cannot
clip plying the naivete Of the peo-
lie In England and other countries
no send money for the children who
re supposed to be dying In the
reefs. These advertisements are
My speculation on the good faith
{ the public; and the public who
lbscribe are robbed twice over; first
their confidence; secondly. of their
Oney. t,
do not suggest that the commit
.es who insert these advertisements
.e not acting in good. faith, but that !
ley are themselves victims to the I
of the Austrians and {
in Austrian pay, who are |
,termined to get as much sympathy i,
# Austria and as much money as 6
,ssible out Of the foreigner.
At one time the Austrian was in
led Of material help. This help was {
ven him SO generously that he ex-
,cts 1t to go on forever. Z
'MuIcted by Drivers. Q
What do some guilders, francs, dol
rs or pounds matter to the foreign i
:? "Na, ia, aber NIT thren valu- '
nl' well, with the value Of their 4
Oney) J. and as the value of q