The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1921-07-12
AUSTRIA SPEeIAHzES IN ART
OF BEGGING and INSUL TING
People Have Lost Every Sense of Dignity and Their Whole charac
ter, French Journalist Says-Country Has Come to
Look Upon Help From Abroad as Matter
of Course

pay. If you protest, he says But,
sir, what does it matter with the val
ue of your money!" So far he is
very polite; but if you maintain your
refusal, and you only pay the amount
registered on the taXimeter, with a
certain tip-let us say 10 per cent
showers of abuse follow you into
your house.
At restaurant the head waiter is
very cringing when you give your
orders. At the end of the meal, how
ever, when you ask for your bill, he
starts by making mistakes-tO his
own advantage, of course, which by
chance, you may find out and have
the bill changed. Then you give him
10 per cent as tip. The head waiter
goes away and sends you the service
waiter. Another tip required. Think
ing yourself very generous, you with
draw from the table when you sud-
denly hear the buttons" exclaim:
Damned Frenchie (or any other ma
tionality, which this future head
waiter considers YOU'D, not a single
heller for tip!"
I must except the large restaurants,
the stats of which have been EN-
ployed before the war in other coun-
| tries. These are satisfied with 10 per
cent on the bill. However, one can
not go continually to the big restau-
rants with the present high prices.
You are treated in the same way
| by the shOpkeeper and other people
who have put themselves into public
service. The method is only varied
according to the education they pos
sess. In short, the foreigner IN Aus
| tria must allow himself to be bled
| from every vein if he wishes to live
in peace.
Since the note Of the French gov
eminent, in the name of all the allied
governments, threatening to withdraw
all help from Austria in the event
of her uniting with Germany, the
hatred felt by the rescued for their
rescuers rises to the surface. Every
| conversation between an Austrian and
foreigner is full of underlying bit
1
the Austrians hold among themselves
! in public places, regardless of the
| strangers within their midst, are full
of unimaginable insults. Their hatred
does not extend only to the allies, but
there even exists resentment against
| their beneficiaries, the neutrals. The
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.
German Austrian Aims.
With the allies, especially those Of
the entente, it is quite another mat
ter. The entente had dared to refuse
the credits requested? What pity
its prisoners were not allowed to
starve during the war! The entente
does not want us to join Germany?
Well. 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.
| have experienced moments do ing
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
; Gus place, where one goes for weel
ends. AS my companions were Eng
fish we talked English. The tramcar
, capable of carrying about forty pas
= sengers presently filed up. Once OF
the way a man standing up, typica
German, started a propaganda agains
! foreigners, and pointing to us desig
, mated us as English or Americans
[ He mixed himself up in our CONVEX
+ sation. He insulted us extensively il
) German.
D The whole compartment, consisting
> of all sorts and conditions of traY
e elers, supported this man. Vulga
h cOarseness succeeded TO the insult
0 and jokes. Everything and all wer
t passed in review, the allied govern
r ments and their chiefs, even Presi
, dent Wilson was not forgotten. Il
: fact, he was spoken of most of al
s BECAUSE these people took me for al
t American. Then they went on {
e more personal matters ourselves, GU
I clothes, everything was analysed an
e ridculed The most revolving thing
Y were said by the best-dressed mel
S and women joined in with degrade
delight. The tram conductor laughed
n | pretended not to understand. TIL
s sonly thing to do with these brutes
: | even heard somebody make a sug
gestion to throw us out of the tran
at the next stopping place.
/ The starving children of Austria eN
/ list mostly in the imagination of thos
+ who earn an easy living by beggins
r AS a matter of fact, one does not Sc
+ more sickly-looking children in Vienn
n than in any other large town. I
help were given to the children of tn
poor, of the unemployed, of the de
7 modified soldiers without means O