The Washington times., 1923-03-19
AUSTRIA REGIRDS HER
LOINS FOR A
COME BACK

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BY HERBERT KAUFMAN
n. USTRA is out Of the hospitals manged wreck Of
~ the double-headed eagle whose widespread wings
Now wing is gone and the other crippled: Hun
gary is separate entity Bohemia once more rich and
plucked her and stuck her feathers in their caps - =
Versailles surgery drained her veins, assorted the
republics s''' ''''e''' ~ as''Ss' 'sn = newborn
All that's left is empty-pocket Vienna, with hand
span q outlying territory to furnish food and provende
But in Vienna are the brains Of all that regionits skin
is there and concentrated centuries of trade cunning
Nations return to power via great cities. would
quickly destroy England first wipe London from the map
Wherever management is conferred, there wealth will
inevitably drift and commerce promptly focus.
For hundreds hun OF years Vienna was promoter sales
supremacy there War stripped her pockets but repair
atoms could not confiscate community intelligence And
that's beginning to assert itself Watch and you'll
see pauper play merchant prince again.
The drone is back at work; exchange is slowly de-
The weeping willow of yesterday has changed to
willing worker. Houses going UP and inequality
passing out
That's the Way to Rebuild.
4 WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST" program
n gives priority Of homes to families. A billion
kronen devoted to real rehabilitation the stmu-
lation Of hope and confidence-has already achieved
Sixty thousand aged persons are enabled, through
treasury aid to live with their people Little ones have
been taken from charitable institutions and returned to
the care of their parents
Infectious outbreaks attacked at the source; the san
tary reguatins of slaughterhouse institutedhe lid
literally capped down disease by the installation of
closed streeWeepng carts boys and girls rescued from
great public baths being opened everywhere, and
abandoned cemeteries made into parks,
That's the way to rebuild. Start with the common
folk and put them their feet and any Phoenix win
rise from its ashes.
Uncle Sam. MuLti-biLL iOnaire and Piker.
4HE United States paying attention to some Of its
between the salary standards of generation
and the living costs of another will shortly go on new
The indefensibe spectacle Of veteran public servants
living in eantos and shacks has weakened
conscience Redistribution is under way. Clerks and
aborers, irrespective of department or SEX viii receive
the pay for the work and much as private
concerns give for equivalent service.
Merit not seniority will hereafter determine promotion
Fundamental efficiency at last reaches the Capitol but
it doesn't reach beyond chiefs OF divisions And that
isn't far enough.
multibiliion- dollar corporation should have first
choice of hundred and twenty million minds Why
should any outside be able to outbid the COM
mon interest for big ideas and the competence 70
execute them.
Bureau of Mines and the best-posted man in America
in his field, is the staff of the Petroleum Institute
wonder oil and steel always in super-dlv1dend
condition. Taxes won't be so high when q share of
them is spent to keep the right man in his place
Captain Reece of the ManteL Piece.
- ECRETARY DENLY proposes to transfer pay
masters and civil engineers to the line. Which is
- the technical way of saying that naval officers,
unframed for the job will have the authority to COM
mand battleships Hank to the bark of the dogs.
Students of Newcomb College, at New Orleans also
to feel that the curriculum makers are not all
that they're cracked up to be- The faculty devised
intelligence test After reading it, the pupils submitted
of their own Here are few sample answers
from the learned professors: Boob McNutt widely
known food preparation; Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
a world war hero young ladies put brliantne in their
eyes make them shine, and fet mgnon is an opera
by Puccni.
NeUs to Make Us Catch Our Breath.
A GERMAN invents a gas pistol for against
~ thieves and criminals, but hasn't yet devised a
d y method to keep them from using it.
English factories start production flying bicycles
Imagine the next with millions of soldiers in the
air. France won't be cocky when swarm of human