The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-06
VIENNA 0FFERSBIG
PAY TO TEACHERS
OF LANGUAGES
English and French Are
Especially Sought by
Many Pupils.
.ARISTOCRATS IN LIST
Many Are Girls Who Want
Eventually to Emigrate
to United States.
ARISTOCRATS IN LIST
INSTITUTE IS PROPOSED
Loan of 100000 to $4,000
From Americans Wanted
to Start Project.

Speci0i Correspondence Of TIE NEW YoEK
HERALD.
Copyright. 1921, by THE NEW YORK HERALD.
VIENNA, Jan. 26.-If any one wants
to earn a fortune in Austrian crowns
in a short time he should come to
Vienna as language teacher. Prob
ably. no city in the world viii offer
him so many pupils. The pupils are
here because with the coming of hard
times nearly all that hoped TO escape
poverty thought of emigrating or of
establishing foreign business connec-
tons
Then, besides, the many foreign mis-
sions, military and civil, opened Of
fees in Vienna and were at once be-
sieged by thousands OF young women
of all classes, even the aristocracy,
who wanted to be engaged as pri-
vate secretaries and typists and to
earn English pounds, American dol
lars or French francs. Some, indeed,
captured husbands among the we'll TO
do foreigners.
For IL all a certain knowledge Of for
eign language Is necessary. Veritable
run on foreign language teachers was
the consequence. chiefly on English and
French teachers, but in a minor degree
also on instructors among Italians. Slavs
Of all descriptions. Spaniards and Hun
garians.
The price or instruction has gone up
with the demand, for there are not many
qualified teachers in Vienna The figure
is from 90 TO 100 crowns lesson. and
will probably rise soon to 100 and 200
crowns. L gathered information Of sew
eral of the most popular English and
French teachers.
The majority OF the pupils are girls.
OF late it has become a fad among the
young women of the well-to-do classes
to get jobs at the Austrian section of
the Preparations Commission, which Is
regarded as the most aristocratic among
the missions and pays the highest sal
aries. Many students are determined to
60 to the United States, Canada, Aus
tralia or the East, to anywhere where
young men or women are wanted.
If this exodus should ever become
reality the world will be flooded with
Viennese eager to build new homes. Most
of them are ready 20 go rs farmers or
commercial clerks. but also as house,
keepers, cooks and even as housemalds
Anything is better than life in Vienna,
they declare.
Emigration. however has not increas-
ed and cannot TO countries with stable
currency. At present the drift has been
more toward the southeast of Europe,
especially to Serbia. Bulgaria and Ru-
mania, where qualified and brain work.
ers of all kinds are greatly in demand.
But the language fever is still on the
increase. BY many IL is held TO be
sort of sickness, an intense longing 10
escape the spiritually and materially
lntolerable conditions TO which the av-
erage native Austrian is doomed.
The suffering in Austria has not.
however, impaired that city's reputa-
ton as a music centre 70 any great eX-
tent There has been no extinction Of
the lire OF famous teachers ana COM
posers who since the days OF Beethoven
and List. or OF Mozart and Haydn, TO
90 back further still, have made OF
Vienna one OF the greatest, IL not the
greatest. music centres OF the world
internationally known teachers, artists
and composers who attracted hundreds
OF music students from all over the
world are still there for the most part
but they. like tho rest OF the population
have hard road to travel.
In an effort TO help themselves these
unfortunate musicians have now formed