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

every one | investigated or six
had either that edition or an edition
in different binding always on exhi-
bition.
At night there is evidently con-
certed effort to save light. There
is nothing of the brilliance that must
nave been there in pre-war times.
Electric signs are unheard of.
And money! This is the only time
in my life that / cannot handle all
the money have. My pockets are
drumming over with the stuff and when
eat meal, | need a basket to hold
Imy change
| bought a paper from a 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 half and | have
not been able TO find single thing
that one kroner note will buy. To
might my dinner cost me cool thous
and. 1t sounds big to talk in terms of
| big money, but it doesn't amount to
Ianythng, when you realize that a
dollar Is worth SIX thousand kroners.
Cent Hotel Room.
am stopping at one of the finest
| hotels in Saltzburg-even have steam
heat Ga very rare luxury.) My room
costs me $50 bfoners a day-everv
blt OF seven cents. get a good
lunch for 500 kroners-eight cents
and for 1000 kroners / can have
regular feast of the best food obtain
Iable-all for / 5 cents.
Clothes are out of sight. 1t takes
100000 OF so kroners for suit or
overeoat. Meat is very high, as is
butter, eggs and sweets.
/. All this sounds like Joke to nc
but 1t means ruin and starvation to
these people.
A clerk gets 5000 or 10000 kron-
ers month-about 40 or so cent of
our money, with decent meal cost
ing him 8 cents.
how in the world can man Ivaq
cannot see how they sell thinos as
cheap as they do, even at that.
AS result of the low rate of ex-
cnange, a tremendous number of for
elgners live here-French, Italians
Germans, as well as English and
Scandlnavians. They come to Ans.
Una to get something for the well
nigh worthless money of the country
! with such conditions existing
Cnlnk they must expect some kind
OF revolutionary outbread in Vienna
any time N''''"
Ihere are more banks and ex-
change places in Vienna than there
were saloon in New York before nro-
hlbltlon. The worse the EXCHANGE in
country, the greater the specuation
Every exchange booth is packed and
damned all day with all kinds of neo-
pie, rough and respectable, male and
female, all buying and selling kron-
ers, marks, dollars or pounds-specu-
lating.
No Industries Now.
There are practically no industries
IN the country now. The division of
the peace treaty has taken away
nearyl all the natural resources. The
result is that practically every ar
tlcle is imported from foreign coun-
| try and must be sold at the price if
was worth in foreign money.
There is little food or clothine
produced in Austria and the people
just cannot pay foreign prices, with
valueless money.
An Austrian is really to be pitied.
lie cannot leave his county if he so
desires. All the Central European
countries are jealous of each other.
IL an Austrian went to another coun-
try to work, he would take a lob
away from one of the natives of
that country and there would be trou-
bic.
The streets are covered with beg
CARS and eX-soldiers shot all to pieces.
| have seen starving women come
into a restaurant where | was eating