The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1921-07-12


Japanese military mission in Vienna:
After having been year in Austria
I have come to the conclusion that the
country specializes in the art OF peg
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 good deal in vienna.
The foreigner who merely passes
through brings nothing back but
remembrance of more or less gay eve
n.ngs 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 II he take
the trouble to look deeply into the
heart of things, is certainly convinced
that side by side with certain misery
in the lower middle classes and priva-
lions among the upper classes, there
exists among the new rich-"schlep-
ers'-an Indifference to all the inter-
ests of Austria which is hardly bellev-
able.
The "schieber" may be the middle
man of business transactions, or even
the business man quite simply. Inc
"schieber'' is also the bucket shop
keeper" who speculates Illegally in
exchange, who leads the freihandel
Gree commerce), and it 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
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 5000 crowns a 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 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 II he
charges you three times as much as
AustrianS are charged he is stlli
rendering you great service: was
macht das dem in hire Nalute!
(What does it matter compared to
the value of your mOneyD This be-
comes as familiar as the greeting you
get when you 90 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
a pitch that he has made the whole
world believe in him, and the whole
world-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~seHt to every
country to be nOtIrished and cared for
and when they come back from these
countries, dressed in new clothes ano
improved morally and physically, thelI
parents say: After all, it is not much
YOU see, the clothes are MOI
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 tC
send another over to the same cOndt
tions that means another
less to bother about!
The man who lives in Vienna ant
| reads advertisements in the Engllsi
papers about starving Vienna capno
| help pitying the naivete Of the PEG
pie in England and other countries
who send money for the children wh'
! are supposed to be dying in thu
! streets. These advertisements ar
| only speculation on the good faitl
of the public; and the public VIII
subscribe are robbed twice over; frs
of their confidence; secondly, of thei
| money.
do not suggest that the commit
tees who insert these advertisement
are not acting in good faith, but tina
| they are themselves victims to tn
explorations of the Austrians anC
journalists in Austrian pay, who ar
determined to get AS much sympath,
| for Austria and as much money a
| possible out of the foreigner.
At one time, the Austrian was il
| need of material help. This help wa
| given him so generously that he eS
| poets it to go on forever.
| MuIcted by Drivers.
What do some guilders, francs, dol
lars or pounds matter to the foreign
| err? INA, ia, aber NIT thren Valu
tent" (Well. with the value of thei
| money! and as the value o
outside money is better than Austrian
currency, why should not the for
eigner help Austria? At least that i
how the Austrian reasons. He neve
\ asks himself who created this stu
alton in his land.
In all classes you meet the SAM
phenoxenon. For instance, if yoI