Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-02-03

in different binding always on exhi,I
bition.
At night there is evidently con-
certed effort to save light. There
IS nothing of the brillianee' that mast
have been there in pre-war times,
Electric signs are unheari of.
And money, This is the only time
in my life that | cannot handle all
the money | have. My pockets are
running over with the stuff and when
eat meal, need basket to hold
my change.
| bought paper from news boy
the other day for 400 kroners and
it was an even swap. We both had
about the same amount of paper.
1t is a fact that some of this money
Is not worth the paper it is printed
on. A hundred kroner note is worth
about cent and a half and | have
not been able to find a single thing
that one kroner note will buy. To-
night my dinner cost me cool thous-
and. 1t sounds big to talk in terms of
big money, but it doesn't amount to
anything, when you realize that a
dollar is worth six thousand kroners.
z Cent Hotel Room.
| am stopping at one of the finest
hotels in Saltzburg-even have steam
heat "a very~rare luxury.) Ny room
costs me $50 kroners a day-every
bit OF seven cents. | get a good
lunch for 500 kroners-eight cents
and for 1000 kroncrs | can have a
regular feast Of the best food obtain
able-all for Is cent?.
Clothes arc out of sight. 1t takes
| 100000 or SO kroners for suit or
overcoat. Meat is very high, as is
butter, eggs and sweets.
All this sounds like Joke to us.
but 1t means ruin and starvation to
these people.
A clerk gets 5000 or 10000 kron-
ers a month-about 40 or so cent Of
our money, with decent meal cost
ing him cents.
how IN the world can man live?
cannot see how they sell things as
cheap as they do, even at that
As a result of the low rate of ex-
change, tremendous number of for
elgners live here-French, Italians.
Germans, as well as English and
Scandinavians. They come to Ans
tra to get something for the well
nigh worthless money of the country.
With such conditions existing.
think they must expect some kind
let revolutionary outbread il Vienna
any time.
There are more banks and ex-
change places in Vienna than there
were saloon in New York before nro-
hlbltlon. The worse the exchange in
q country, the greater the speculation.
livery exchange booth is packed and
damned all day with all kinds of peo-
pie, rough and respectable, male and
female, all buying and selling krop-
ers, marks, dollars OF pounds-specu-
lating
No Industries Now.
There are practically no industries
In the country now. The division of
the peace treaty has taken awav
nearyl all the natural resources. The
result is that practically every ar
tlele is imported from a foreign coun-
try and must be sold at the price it
was worth in foreign money.
There Iit+ln fooJ
produced in Austria and the people
Just cannot pay foreign prices with
valueless money.
An Austrian is really to be ptied
lie cannot leave his county if he SO
desires. All the Central European
countries are jealous of each other.
If an Austrian went to another coun-
try TO. work, he would take a Job
away from one Of the natives of
that country and there would be trou-
bic.
Inc streets are covered with beg
CARS and ex-soldiers shot all to pieces.
| have seen starving women come
INTO a restaurant where | was eating
anu Scfape the Scrape the crumbs Of
food from the plates which | had
Just pushed aside and Cup the scraps
down.
On the other hand, there is a type,
which is rare, but nevertheless. ex-
lists. The people seem to be either
bloated millionaries or almost stary-
ing.
Composite Race.
There is no distinct type of Aus
trlan, as theer is typical French
man, German or Spaniard An Aus
TRAN is not type, He is COM
poSlte conglomeration of Czecko,
Slav, Pole, German and Italian. Peo-
pie from all these countries and ma
tlonalities from the Austrian repub-
lle-they live in Austria.
The result is that one finds very
little show of patriotism for Austria
and no Ill feeling for any of the al.
lied countries,
Money is the only thing that counts
with them now. Now as a rule we
have RECEIVED very hospitable and
fFipndlN L.