The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-10-13
Stable Government
Is Need of Austria
Fourth Article-Can Austria Live?

supplies naturally flowing to Vienna
would react upon, agricultural districts
with such disastrous effects that no gov
eminent would dare enforce them.
| Foolish embargoes are not found at
| the frontiers as they once were. The
! peoples in the countries under discus
| sion realize that trade consists of both
selling and buying. The method Of
raising revenue which they favor, is the
direct, rather than the indirect plan of
! taxation. Czechoslovakia, for instance,
| can give Austria one-hah of her sugar
crop and she will not impose an export
| tax on it, She is developing large oil
fields and their products will carry no
I export tax. The policy with respect to
these two stable articles runs through
the whole fiscal system of the new re-
public centered at Prague.
! Assistance to the Benes plan is being
afforded by that branch of the League
! of Nations which was organized for
the specific purpose of facilitating COM
munication between European countries.
/ 1t must not be forgotten that under the
old system in Europe, the attempt to
| enforce starvation upon one country
was not infreQuently a deliberate at
fair. Mr.. Benes states that the transit
and trade project which he is promoting
is meeting with success and that it will
,
has been admitted to the League Of
, Nations
Let US now turn to not what Austria
needs but what she has
| Fortunately the greater part of the
! land in Austria is in small and middle
sized holdings. Only per cent of
agricultural land is in farms Of more
than one hundred hectares "a hectare is
2 IL acres) each. Fifty per cent Of
! ha dc {~, To-,
; Before the war the territory COM
prising the present Austria, produced
| 100000 bushels of grain annually.
This amounts to seven-ninth of what
Austria will consume of bread grains.
! She can easily raise enough potatoes.
/ She grows sugar beets, but not enough.
| Her output of poppy seed, hemp, flax
! and other commercial plants has been
considerable. In the Alpine region alone
in the year 1910, there was an average
of 352 cattle per 1000 inhabitants. The
raising Of chickens, geese and ducks has
| long been a speciality in Austria.
That the old monarchy paid little at
tention to agricultural development is
shown by the fact that while Switzer-
| land produced in milk 27o0 liters per
cow per year, the Austrian average was
only 1900 liters. Thirty eight per cent
of the Austrian area, not counting west
ern Hungary, Austria is inferior in this
respect only to Finland GAG per cent?
Russia $50 per cent?. Sweden az per-
cent?, and Canada (39 percent). OF the
| large wooded estates, one-third belong
| to the government. ..
Austrian Factories Can
Dominate Big Trade
. In the textile industry, the production
of the Austrian cotton spinners is more
! than twice as large as the demand OF
the weaving establishments, so that q
part of the Austrian yarns goes into ex-
ports. The clothing industry Of Vienna
has always been one of the largest or
the continent. The textile industry al
| the beginning of the year was working
on an average of so per cent Of it's ca.
pacity. The paper industry was up tc
| its peace time production, as well a.
the electrical, and certain branches Of
the wood industry. t.,....
/ The iron industry is very important
There are large deposits Of excellent
iron ore in Austria and not one ton o.
the raw material need be imported
There are great deposits of high-gradt
| ores especially adapted to the production
of white pig IRON The largest mine:
are worked as open. cuts under very
favorable conditions. Czechoslovakia !:
dependent upon imports for her iror
ore, especially that which is free from
phosphorus. The Austrian refined stee
enjoys a world reputation, especially fol
carbon or alloy. which is required fol
high class tools and certain structure
parts.
In the construction Of machinery