The Holbrook news., 1921-07-15

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 a year in Austria I have come to the conclusion that the country specializes in the art of beg ging and insulting. These two faults combined have been brought to 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 a good deal in Vienna. The foreigner who merely passes through brings nothing back but a remembrance of more or less gay eve nings 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 that side by side with a certain misery In the lower middle classes and priva- tions among the upper classes, there exists among the new rich-"schieb- 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. The "schieber" Is also the bucket shop keeper" who speculates illegally in exchange, who leads the freihandel (free commerce), and 1t Is he who piles up bundles of bank notes, 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 it 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 pagne at 5000 crowns d bottle. He provides his wife with magnificent furs and precious jewels. He knows no duty but that of spending the 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 over the land.
 The Value 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 if he charges you three times as much as Austrians are charged he is still rendering you a great service: Was macht das denn in Ihre Valute?" {What does it matter compared to the value of your mOneyO This be- comes as familiar as the greeting you get when you go into a shop. If you are good -natured you will simply accept this as part of the business.
 Worse things exist, for the Austrian has brought the art of begging to such q pitch 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 and improved morally and physically. their parents gay: After all, it is not much you see. the clothes are not chic; the stuff is not of the best quality. ] and the food, well, they do not trouble much about food over there."
 However, when one of their chill dren comes back, they do their best to send another over to the same cOndi- | lions that means another | less to bother about
 The man who lives in Vienna and | reads advertisements in the English | papers about starving Vienna cannot !