The Holbrook news., 1921-07-15
Austria SpeCializes in Art
 of Begging and Insulting

Dutch and Scandinavians have earned
 a lot of money. The South Ameri- cans are rich. And all this shows that 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, it is quite another mat ter. The entente had dared to refuse the credits requested? What a pity Its prisoners were not allowed to starve during the warI The entente
 does not want us to join Germany? We'll, we shall do so without its 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.
 l 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, a little mOuntain- ous place, where one goes for week ends. As my companions were Eng i fish we talked English. The tramcar, capable of carrying about forty pas sengers, presently filled up. Once on the way a man standing up, a typical German, started a propaganda against foreigners, and pointing to us desig- hated us as English or Americans. He mixed himself up in our cOnver- 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 ridiculed. The most revOlting things were said by the best-dressed men, hOAuCn JOAnCQ III M1lH uCSIduCu delight. The tram conductor laughed. I pretended not to understand. The only thing to do with these brutes. 1 even heard somebody make a sug- gestiOn to throw us out of the tram at the next stopping place.
 The starving children of Austria ex- ist mostly in the imagination of those who earn an easy living by begging As matter of fact, one does not see more sickly-IOoking children in Vienna than in any other large town. If help were given to the children of the poor, of the unemployed, of the de- m0bilized soldiers without means of subsistence in England. America and France such charity would be put to far better use.
 Waste of Coal and Light.
 In order to save coal, France and England ordered the dancing saloons and theaters to be closed earlier in the evening. Austria did nothing of the kind. Everything was illuminated a Ia giOrnO till midnight. It did not matter if her subjects paid kronen a kiIogram for coal and her factories were ODllSeu lO stop WOIh IOr ldck Ol coal
 While in most lands one does ones best to produce, the slightest incident here creates strike. People take the most futile pretext to have an ex- tFa day of rest-and all the same they have the courage to complaint
 Nobody deprives himself of pleas ure. One is prepared to do without anything except enjoyment. It is not true that the people who go out in the evenings are all foreigners. List en to the languages spoken in the dancing saloons and cafes. Viennese- German and pure German predomi- nate. Look at the lines outside the theaters where German plays are be- ing produced. Austrians certainly form the majority of the frequenters. Look also at the rows of taxis around the football field on Sundays, when two local clubs meet. I have seen more than 800 of them. It is not the | foreigner who pays 2,OOO kronen or more to drive to the place where the | gPme goes on.