The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-04-01

| IL stopped anywhere when II GOT tired
There was no food aboard, and pas
sehgers bartered socks, shoes and
clothing To the peasants for brend and
meat, as paper money was not accept
able
There was no railroad train 10
Szecho-Sloyakia for long time and
no communication by boat along the
Danube. When traffic did begin spas.
medically. savage customs officials met
| tnVeIers nj the frontiers and treated
| mem TO bodily search for money and
saiuables, herdlng them like cattle
anu hurting their luggage violently
about.
IN Germany railroad trafiic was bet
Ter, but there were few trains and no
through service. Such trains ms did
run were shamefully crowded. They
we're unheated and sometimes even
uhiighted. II was only about a year
ago That one OF the infrequent trains
winch left Vienna In the direction Of
switzerland had accommodation for
3oo but 500 or more crowded into II.
PEOPLE were damned Into II like cattle
being shipped TO the packing house. In
Tact, everywhere throughout Central
| Europe travelling, when possible at all,
meant delay. discomfort and peril.
Improvement 10 Marked.
| Such was the situation IN 1910, but
NV tile Improvement, which has been
gradual and imperceptibIe perhaps TO
persons OF single experience. Is
marked. Clean. comfortable trains with
dining car service run between Buda.
| i'est and Vienna IN about Ave hours;
| there Is through train to Berlin by
way OF Prague In fifteen and half
hours and other through trains with
sleeping cars TO Rome. Trieste and
warsaw. One has the choice OF two
direct routes from London to Vienna
and Vienna to London by way of eltli-
er Cainis or Ostend. The traveller TO
England can even take day coach In
Vienna and not be compelled to leave
II 1ntil he has TO board the channel
boat.
In Berlin. city ticket Offices which
were closed not NO long ago will now
sell tickets through 10 London. 10
Paris. to Rome. to Vienna or 10 War
saw. A train which leaves Berlin at
eight In the morning will put you into
London next morning at 10 30, by way
OF the Hook Of Holland. German
sleeping accommodations. with two
persons In a compartment, which were
eagerly sought not long ago land did
not exist nj all Immediately following
Ia .tattxa
second-ciass. A first class ticket calls
for whole compartment. the upper
berth being unused.
There still remain imbecilliIes OF
customs inspections and occasional
rudeness. there is the annoyance OF
having TO buy new tickets Mt some
frontiers In the money of the country
entered and there In the surprise Of
having Polish money refused for n
fare on train In Polish territory. but
everywhere there has been ameIiora.
tion of the disqualification which fol.
lowed -fhe nrInIstice and o tending TO.
ward the normal.
III one IN not too exnctiBg or pefn-
liant lie may now travel over Europe
In comfort. Aud amazingly ciieaply by |
American standards. Two persons who |
recently tonrncyed from London to
Vienna. 10 Budapest. back to Vienna.
10 Prngue. TO Warsaw. TO Danzlg. 10 |
Berlin and TO London. accomplished |
the trip Of q months duration nj an |
expense for both, including hotel bills.
OF approximately $50
II traffic and transportation condl.
iioils are slowly becoming better. 40
too are political relailons Improving
Signs Of Returning Order.
These ARE some OF the symptoms Of
order gradually very gradually. re.
establishing Itself There are s,lil
hue problems al reconstruction that
AUST he met difficult adjustments ihai
r,ust he made. There will certainly be
core minor eruptions before there Is
= settling down. bu, there must be a
beginning of all things. and comparing
the present With what existed In the
very near past. one canno, fail to re-
aark tangible structure emerging
ut 81 The general wreckage
iIie t'.oggtiisss who expected .hat
The filslncnfions Of VAR would he as
easily remeslied MS washing the grlme
from ones hands, heiray iEnoran.r Of
the dut1i!ou Of natural progresses. and
the Isrernlalls whose mouths are filled
with ianeniation take 81 much Joy in
bencaning the gliiterIng shell Of
dead tyranny that they fail to note Ihe
hesiiai'rg beginnings Of new free
dem.