The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-07-08
Austria SpeCializes i'm Art
of Begging and Insulting

Dutch and Scandinavians lave earned
ii lot of money. The Soath Ameri-
cans are rich. And all this shows that
they should come to the felp of Aus
tria. The Austrians think that only
fair. They do not expect otherwise.
with the allies, especially those %
the entente, it is quite another mat.
ter. The entente had dared to refuse
the credits requested? What Il pity
It's prisoners were Mt allowed 10
starve during the waI! The entente
Ices not want us to join Germany?
Wen, we shall do Sc without its per.
mission. The time will come when we
will ally with Germany to fight the
entente.
mat 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.
L returned liz this company of my
wife and one of her friends one eve.
ming from Baden, a little mountain
Gus place, where one goes for week
ends. AS my companions were Eng.
lish 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-
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.
cOarseness succeeded to the insults
and jokes. Everything and all were
passed in review, the allied govern
ments and their chiefs, wen Presi.
dent Wilson vas not forgotten. In
fact, he "a 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 revolving things
were said by the best-dressed men.
and women Joined In with degraded
delight. The tram conductor laughed.
/ pretended not to understand. The
only thing to do with these brutes,
l even heard somebody make a sug.
gestiOn to throw Is out Of the tram
at the mex stopping place.
The starving children Of Austria ex.
list mostly in the Imagination of those
who carr an easy living by begging
/ AS a matter Of fact, one does not see
more sickly-lOoking children in Vienna
than in any other large town. IL
help were given to the children Of the
poor, of the unemployed, of the de.
mobiliaed soldiers without means OF
subsistence " England. America and
France such charity would be put to
a far better use.
Waste of Coal and Light.
In order to save coal, France and
England ordered the dancing saloon;
and theaters to be closed earlier In the
evening. Austria did nothing Of the
kind. Everything vas Illuminated Q
la giorno till midnight. 1t did: not
matter if her subjects paid 8 kroner
a kilOgram for coal and her factories
were obliged to stop work for lack OF
coal.
While in most lands n does ones
best to produce. the slightest inciden,
here creates a strike. People take
the most futile pretext to have an ex
ira day Of rest-and all the same they
have the courage to complain!
Nobody deprives himself of pleas
ure. One is prepared to do without
anything except enjoyment. 1t is mo-
true that the people who go out ir
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 ut the rows Of taxis around
the football field on Sundays, wher
two local clubs meet. I have seer
more than 500 Of them. 1t is not the
foreigner who pays 1000 kronen OF
more to drive to the place there tn
game e on.