The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-07-08

New York. An interesting picture |
OF conditions in Austria Is given In the
following article written for the New
York Herald by w. John Lenglet,
French journalist attached to the
Japanese military mission in Vienna
After having been year in Austria
have come to the conclusion that the
country specializes In the art OF peg
! cling and Insulting. These two faults
combined have been brought to such
q height that the people have lost
every sense of dignity and their whole
character,
This Is specially clear to the for
eigner who stays good deal In vienna.
Tie foreigner who merely passes
through brings nothing back but a
remembrance of more or less gay eve
nings and of fantastic figures of worth
hess currency; but he who has to live
there and take part in the everyday
life of Vienna, especially If he take
the trouble to look deeply into the
heart of things, is certainly convinced
that side by side with a certain misery
al the lower middle classes and priva-
lions among the upper classes, there
exists among the new rieh-"schiep-
srs"-an Indifference to all the inter-
ests of Austria which Is hardly believ-
able.
The "schieber" may be the middle
imam of business transactions, or even
the business man quite simply. Inc
"seMeber" is also the bucket shop
keeper" who speculates Illegally in
exchange. who leads the freihandel
{free commercel, and 1t Is he who
piles up bundles of bank notes, a
single one of which he will not spend
unless 1t bring him the equivalent IL
pleasures or goods. The interest OF his
country? He laughs at 1t as at
splendid joke--the starving children
can be looked after by foreigners. II,
can eat white bread and he does 81
without scruple. He can drink cham
payne at 5000 crowns bottle. Fl,
provides his wife with magnificent fur
and precious jewels. He knows n
duty but that Of spending the none,
which he has gained by exploiting hi
eountrymen In pleasures and luxurie!
He is the immoral being who ha
sprung from the Austrian soil sine
misery spread over the land. If,
The va,ute All Important
When the little bourgeois or shol
keeper smells the foreigner, he imm
diately sizes up his "Valute." You al
L. H.. x.;t ~ al.
of your national currency and the sho
man tries to convince you that II
charges you three times as much
Austrians are charged he Is SIT
rendering you great service: wv
macht das dem In hire Valutei
tNvhat does 1t matter compared
the value Of your moneyO This
comes as familiar as the greeting "
get when YOU go into shop. II "
are good natured you will simp
accep, this as part Of the business.
Worse things exist, for the Austri
has brought the art Of begging to su
n pitch that he has made the whs
world believe In him, and the VIII,
world-England and the United Stat
at the head-allows itself to be foole
Committees have been formed-A
tria has been helped on every sid,
Ter children have been sent to ev,
,puntry to be nourished and cared f
Hnd when they come back from tn
countries, dressed in new clothes ;
improved morally and physically. Il
parents say After all, 1t Is not m
you see. the clothes are
chic; the stuff Is not OF the best qua
and the food, well. they do not tro'
much about food over there
However, when one Of their
sren comes back. they do their bes
send another over to the same co
lions that means anot
less to bother about
The man who lives tn vienna
veads advertisements In the Eng
pspes about starving Vienna can