The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-03-18

1t stopped anywhere when IT got tired.
There was no food aboard. and pas
sengers bartered socks, shoes and
clothing to the peasants for bread and
meat, as paper money was not accept
able.
There was no railroad train to
Czecho- Slovakla for a long time and
no communication by boat along the
Danube. When traffic did begin spas
medically. savage customs officials met
travellers at the frontiers and treated
them to bodily search for money and
valuables, herdlng them like cattle
and hurting their luggage violently
about.
In Germany railroad traffic was bet
ter, but there were few trains and no
through service. Such trains as did
run were shamefully crowded. They
were unheated and sometimes even
unllghted. It was only about a year
ago that one of the infrequent trains
which left Vienna In the direction OF
Switzerland had accommodations for
$50 but 500 or more crowded into II.
People were jammed into 1t like cattle
being shipped to the packing house. In
fact, everywhere throughout Central
Europe travelling, when possible at all
meant delay, discomfort and peril.
Improvement Is Marked.
Such was the situation In 1919, but
new the Improvement, which has been
gradual and imperceptible perhaps to
persons of a single experience. Is
marked. Clean, comfortable trains with
dining car service run between Buda
pest and Vienna in about five hours
there is q through train to Berlin By
way of Prague in fifteen and hall
hours and other through trains witt
sleeping cars to Rome. Trieste ant
Warsaw. One has the choice Of TIVE
direct routes from London to Vienna
and Vienna to London by way of eth
err Calais or Ostend. The traveller t
England can even take day coach II
Vienna and not be compelled to leav'
II nntil he has to board the channe
boat.
In Berlin, city ticket Offices whicl
were closed not so long ago will nov
sell tickets through to London, I
Paris, to Rome, to Vienna or to Wal
saw. A train which leaves Berlin
eight in the morning will put you Int
London next morning at $50, by wa
of the Hook of Holland. Germa
sleeping accommodations, with tw
persons In a compartment, which wer
eagerly sought not long ago (and di
not exist at all Immediately follow'n
the armlstice) are now regarded 0
second-class. A first class ticket cal
for a whole compartment the uppt
berth being unused.
There still remain imbecillties
: customs inspections and oecasioh'
rudeness; there is the annoyance
having to buy new tickets at SON
frontiers In the money of the counti
entered and there Is the surprise
having Polish money refused for
fare on q train In Polish territory, b.
everywhere there has been anchor
ton Of the Reorganization which IL
lowed the armistice and a tending I
ward the normal
II one Is not too exacting or pet
liant he may now travel over Euro
in comfort. And amazingly cheaply
American standards. Two persons wi
recently journeyed from Lcncon
Vienna, to Budapest. back to vienn
to Prague, to Warsaw. to Danzig,
Berlin and to London. accomplish
the trip of a months duration at
expense for both, including hotel bill
OF approximately $3.50.
4 II traffic and transportation con-
\ lions are slowly becoming better.
q TOO are political relations improviE
n Signs of Returning Order.
n These are some Of the symptoms
81 order gradually. very gradually.
b establishing itself. There are 81
n huge problems Of reconstruction q
n must be met. difficult adjustments Il
n must be made. There win certainly
n ,oore minor eruptlons before there
a settling down. but there must be
beginning of all things. and, compari
the present with what existed 10
N very near past. one cannot fall to
q mark a tangible structure emersl
~ cut of the general wreekage.
~ The tLoughtless who expected q
- the dlslocations Of war would be
- easily remedied as washing the gri
:. from ones hands, betray Ignorance
- :. the durqt.on OF natural processes,
- ,he Jeremlahs whose mouths are o.
=. with lsmentatiOn take 50 much JOY
a. bemoanIng the glittering shell OF
- dead tyrsnny that they fail to note
he hesita;,ng Beginnings Of . new u