The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-07-08

of conditions in Austria Is given in the
following article written for the New
York Herald by w. John Lenglet, Il
French Journalist attached to the
japanese military mission in Vienna:
After having been Il year In Austria
/ have come to the conclusion that the
country sp~ecializes in the art of beg
ging and insulting. These two faults
combined have been brought ia SUCH
a height that the people have lost
every sense of dignity and their Whole
character.
This IS specially clear to the for
eigner who stays Il good deal in vienna.
The foreigner who merely passes
through brings nothing back but a
remembrance Of more or less gay eve
nlngs and of fantastic figures of worth
less 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
hat side by side with n certain misery
I'm the lower middle classes and priva-
tions among the upper classes, there
exists among the new rich-"schleb-
ers"-an indifference to all the inter-
ests of Austria which is hardly believ-
able.
The "schieber'' may be the middle
man of business transactions, or even
the business man quite simply. me
''schieber" Is also the "bucket shop
keeper" who s%peculates illegally in
exchange, who leads the f~reihandel
(free cOmmerce), and it is he who
piles up bundles OF bank notes. a
single one of which he will not spend
unless it bring him the equivalent In
pleasures or goods. The interest OF his
country? He laughs at 1t as at a
splendid joke-the starving children
can be looked after by foreigners. He
can eat white bread and he does so
without ,scruple. He can drink cham
payne at 1900 crown a bottle. He
provides his wife with magnificent furs
and precious Jewels. He knows no
duty but that Of spending h money,
which he has gained by exploiting his
countrymen in pleasures and luXuries.
He is the immoral being who has
sprung from the Austrian soil since
misery spread owe the land.
The vaIute All important.
When the little bourgeois or shop
keeper smells the foreigner, he imme-
diately sizes up his "Valute." You are
treated in accordance with the value
of your national currency and the shop
man tries TO convince you that IL he
charges you three times as much as
Austrians are charged he is still
rendering you a great service: was
macht das dem in hire Valute!'
(What Ices it matter compared TO
the value of our money! This be-
comes as familiar as the greeting yon
get when you go into a shop. If you
are good natured you will simply
accept this as part Of the business.
Worse thirss exist, for the Austrian
has brought the art of begging TO such
a mitch that he has made the whole
world believe in him, and the whole
worId-England and the United States
at the ~head-allows itself to be fooled
Committees have been formed--Aus-
tria has been helped on every side
her children have been sent to every
country to be nourished and cared for
and when they come back from these
countries, dressed In new clothes anc
improved morally and physically, their
parents a y After all, 1t Is not much
you see, the clothes are no
chic; the stuff is not of the best quality'
and the feed, well, they do not trouble
much about food over there"
However, when n OF their chii'
dren comes back. they do their best 20
send another over to the same cohd''
tions thatN means another
less to bother about!
The man who lives In Vienna anc
reads advertisements In the Engiisn
papers about starving Vienna cannon