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WEDNESDAY. JIT Y 13. 1921
THE MIlLEDGEVILLE NEWS
MILl.EUOEVlLLl-:
AUSTRIA SPECIALIZES IN ART
an 1 theaters to he cV-wd earlier In the
even
in?. Am iria
did nothing
of tlie
kind
Everything
was llltimin
aii-1 a
la s
inni'i til! midnight. Il i
lid not
matt
>*r if her ant
ijiM-ts paid S
k ronen
a kil
logram for co
ill and her f:
icfT.rlt a
wore
; tii si
p work far
ku U of
coal.
People Have Loot Every Sense of Dignity and The : r Whole Cha r a>
ter, French Journalist Say s— Country Has Come to
Lock Upon Help From Abroad as Matter
cf Coerce
imloF
ooun
New York.—An Intcrcstlns P‘<*» -* e
of conditions In Austria is given hi the
following nrticle written for the Now
York Herald l>.v W. John l-en'rlor. »
French journalist attack'd to the
Jitpnnexi military mission in Vienna:
After having 1 • en a year in Auwtla
1 have coma to Iho conclusion that H e
country specializes in the art of b
ging and Insulting. These two faults
combined have been brought to such
h height that the people have lost
every sense of dlguity und their whole
character.
This Is specially clear io the for-
evr.pr who stays a good ileal in \ ionua.
•The foreigner who merely passes
through brings nothing back but a
remembrance of more or less gay eve-
I, ;. ,g S und of fantastic figures of worth
] currency; but he who has to live
there amt take part in the everyday
life of Vienna, especially if he take
the trouble to look deeply into the
,,f things, is certainly convinced
t.ml side by side with a certain misery
in the lower middle classes and priva
tions among the upper classes, there
exists among the new rich—“sell eb-
,. 1 . s "_nn indifference to all the inter
est:: of Austria which Is hardly bellev-
a'ule.
The “sehlchcr” may ho the m'ddle
man of business transact inns, or even
II, ,, business man quite s'mply. The
•'sehlchcr" is also the “bucket shop
keener," who spot dates Illegally in
exchange, who It: the frellinmlcl
(f,-ec eomineree), t, .1 it Is he who
piles up bundles of bank notes, o
si,I,-le one of which lie will rot si-end
It bring him the equivalent in
res or goods. The interest of Ida
lie laughs at it as tit a
.did J.ike—the starving children
tan lie looked after 1>V foreigners, lie
can cat white bread and lie does so
w,th"tit scruple, lie can drink chain
p eue at :? 000 crowns a bottle. H
p i,tides his wife with nmgnitleeni fur-
end precious Jewels. He knows m
il:11hut iliat of sjiemllnp ttie money
widcli tie has gained by exploiting lie
cm ntrymen in pleasures and luxuries
lie is the unmoral being who ha
sprung frnm tlie Austrian soil s net
misery spread over the land.
The Valute All Important.
When the little bourgeois or shop
keeper smells the foreigner, he Imme
ilimely sizes up ids “Valute.” Non an
tv< jited In aceordnnee with the valm
of your mtllomd currency and th.e siiop
men tries to convince you that if hi
charges you three times its much a?
Austrians are charged lie is still
rendering you a great service: "Was
nmcht das denn In Hire Valllte?’
(What tines it matter compared to
tin value of your money';) Tills he
comes as familiar as tlie greeting you
get when you go into a simp. It you
niv good uatured you will simply
accept lids us part of the businc
Worse tilings exist, for the Austrian
lias brought the art of begging to such
a pitch that he has made the whole
world believe In ldm. and the whole
world England und the United States
at the head—allows itself to be fooled!
Committees have been formed—Aus
tria lias been helped 'oil every side—
her children have been sent to every
country to he nourished and cared for;
ned when they come back from these
countries, dressed in new clothes and
Improved morally and physically, itieir
j,;,vents say: After nil, it is not much
. . . you see, the clothes are not
chic; the stuff Is not of the best quality,
und the food, well, they do not trouble
nuu li nltout food over there."
However, when one of their chil-
(iri ii comes back, they do their best to
sci <1 another fiver to the same comll*
t ions . . . that means another
h ■; to hut her aho.it!
The man who li\es in Vienna and
reads advertisements in the English
papers about starving Vienna cannot
help pitying the naivete of the peo
ple in England an I other countries
who send money for the children who
nre supposed to he dying in the
streets. 'These advertisement!! nre
ow
■J.nuran
I • i;g V,
if the e
rr.
M; ids by m
nivti ndvantu
chance, you
the hill chilli;
id per cent in
the head waiter ir
■ii you give you-
J of the meal, how-
n ask for your bid, he
king mistakes—to his
e. of course, which by
my llud out and ltavi
■d. Then you give him
a tip. The head waiter
Wldig ip. n - st lands one dors one’s
t I ;: t prodine, the slightest Incident
j I -re cr ales a strike. People take £«
j tlie nm-t futile pretext to tune an ex-
J tr.i day of r -and ail the same they
have the courage to complain!
No] ody deprives himself of pdeas- (J
I are. One is prepared to do without Vi
anything except enjoyment. It Is not fjjr
true that the people who go out In Y.\
ti c evenings are all foreigners. List- ;
en to the languages spoken in the
dancing sain ms it.id cafes. Viennese- A.f
German and pure Herman prodomi- V-\
mite. Look at the films outside the C?
theatars where Genu,in plays are he- V)
In? prodnied. Austrians certainly p?
foam the majority of the frequenters. | JS
Look also at tlie rows of taxis around t-J
the fo itlmil licid on Sundays, when I (,.1
two local clubs meet. I have seen | bf
more than 500 of them. It Is not the ! )-J
foreigner w it > pays ‘2,000 kronen or
more to drive to tlie place where the
game goes on.
only a speculation on tin
of the public; nnd the
subscribe are fold ed tw'.v
on (idem-
of their
money.
1 do not suggest
tees who insert the
are not acting in go
they are themselve
tit
•mil
.1 faith
die who
, er; first
of t i-.fi r
th. t tlie commit
advertisemettlt
>d faith, hut that
; victims to tin
xploltatlons of the Austrians nnd
journalists in Austrian pay. who nr
determined to get as much sympnthj
for Austria nnd as much money if
possible out of (lie foreigner.
At one time tilt* Ai. tria:i was In
need of material help. This help was
given him so generously ’hut he ex
pee
o go on for
Mu’cW! hy
Wlmt do some gui
lnrs or pounds ntntti
cr? "Nu. Jn. id'cr
Veil, with t
ten
■ nor
Or.vera.
ilers, (runes, dol
>r to the foreign-
tlirea Vnlii-
duc of their
m! t
t Inn
k
. . . and
outside money Is bet
currency, why should not
elgner help AustriaV At h-
liow the Austrian reasons,
asks himself who created
atlon in Ids land.
In all classes you meet the same
phenomenon. For instance, If you
take a taxi, when you arrive at your
value of
i Austrian
the for-
ft that Is
He never
litis situ-
goes away and sends you the service
v,utter. Another tip required. Think
ing yourself very generous, you with
draw from the table when you sud
denly hear the “buttons” exclaim:
"Damned Frettehie (or nnv other na
tionality, which t It is future head
waiter considers you), not a single
heller for a tip!”
I must except the large restaurants,
the staffs of which have been em
ployed before tlie war in other coun
tries. These are satisfied with 10 pet
cent on tlie bill. However, one can
not go continually to tlie tdg restau
rants with the present high prices.
Yotl arc treated in the same way
by tlie shopkeeper and other people
who have put themselves into public
service. The method is only varied
according to the education they pos
sess. In short, the foreigner in Aus
tria must allow himself to he bled
from every vein If he wishes to live
In peace.
Since tlie note of the French gov
eminent, in tlie name of all the allied
governments, threatening to withdraw
ull help from Austria In Hie event
of her uniting with Germany, the
hatred felt by the rescued for their
rescuers rises to tlie surface. Every
conversation between an Austrian and
a foreigner Is full of underlying bit
terness. Tlie conversations which
tlie Austrians hold among themselves
In public places, regardless of tliuj
strangers within their midst, are full j
of unimaginable insults. Their hatred
does not extend only to tlie allies, liul
there even exists resentment against
their beneficiaries, the neutrals. Tlie
Dutch and Scandinavians have earned
a lot of money. Tlie South Ameri
cans nre rich. Ami nil this shows that
tb.ev should curie t > Hie help of Aus
tria. The Atis'.’luns think that only
fair. They do not expeel otherwise.
German Austrian Aiao3.
Wi.ii the allies, especially those of
tln> entente, It Is quite another nutt
ier. The entente had dared P> refuse
the credits request'd? What a pity
Its pris-mcrs were not allowed to
starve during the war! The entente
dees nut want us to Join GermanyV
Well, we shall do so without its per
mission. The time will come when we
will ally with Germany lo fight the
entente.
That is the re.: lolling of the Her-
nmn-Austrlnn, who tlie pre-wur Ger
man declared was Just go id enough
to black the boots of the* German
army.
I have experienced moments during
which the Austrian absence of char
acter has been made clearly obvious.
I returned In tlie company of my
Wife and one of her friends one eve
ning fioin linden, a little mountain
ous place, where one goes for week
ends. As my companions were Eng
lish we talked English. The triunenr,
capable of carrying about forty pns
Kongers, presently filled up. Once ot
the way a man standing up, a typical
German, started a propaganda against
foreigners, and pointing to us desig
nated us ns English or Americans.
He mix d himself up in our conver
se,lion. He instilled t;s offensively in
German.
Tlie whole compartment, consisting
of all sorts and conditions of trav
elers, supported tills i nun. Vulgar
eoarseness sttceecded to tie- Insults
nnd Jokes. Every tiling and all were
passed in review, the allied govern
ments and their chiefs, even Presi
dent Wilson was not forgotten. In
fact, he was spoken of most of r.ll
because these people took me for nil
American. Then Huy went on tu
more personal matters -ourselves, our
clothes, everything was analyzed and
ridiculed. The most revolting tilings
were said liy the Inst-dressed men,
and women Joined in with degraded
delight. The tram conductor laughed
I pi-i.'Seialrd not to understand. Tht
only thing to do with these brutes.
I even heard somebody make a -ug
gestlon to throw ns out id’ the tram
nt the next stopping place.
Tlie starving children of Austria ex
1st mostly in the imagination of Hnfft
who earn nu easy living by begging
As a matter of fact, one dot's not sec
more sickly-iooking children in Vienna
than in any other large town. II
help were given to the children'of tin
poor, of the unemployed, of the de
mobilized soldiers without means id
subsistence in England, America nnc
France such charily would la* put tc
a far better use.
Watts of Coal and Light.
In order to save e-oiti. France nnf
KIND TO ‘TRAMP’; GETS $1,000
Generous Act cf Eleven Years Ago
Pays Handsome Dividend to
Chicago Woman.
Chicago.—Mrs. Joseph Peddlcord,
1 P.'IT Smith Park avenue, North Chi
cago, is figuring how she will spend
her unexpected legacy of $1,500 from
the estate of George Foster Paddock,
former millionaire hanker of Water-
town, N. Y.
Eleven years ago Paddock, having
lost a seecnd fortune, appeared at the
door of Mrs. Peddicord's home and
asked for fond, drink and car fare. A
drink of real Scotch whisky, a break
fast ami 50 cents were forthcoming,
whereupon the tlien tramp remarked:
“I shall not forget your kindness."
When Paddock died Inst Septem
ber, after inheriting n fortune from
Ids brother. It was found that he had
left $1,500 to Mrs. Peddlcord, who iias
Just been notified of her good fortune.
MULE CARRIES HIM 70 MILES
Doctor Mak?3 Tedious Trio Over
Snow-choked Road in Order to
Save Patient.
Yreka. Cal.—The automobile means
much to tlie doctor these days, but It
means nothing to tlie Yreka surgeon
on some of tils calls.
Dr. Robert II. Heaney of tills city
tins Just returned from a seventy-
mile trip over snow-covered country
to Forks of Salmon, where he was
called by the Illness of Miss Georgia
Smith.
The snow was eight to ten feet
deep on part of the trip. Tho physi
cian arrived in time to perform a suc
cessful operation for appendicitis, and
reported tlie young woman on the road
to recovery. Because of tlie barriers
in the path to the place. Hie doctor
tried to rent the airplane of Clyde
Bnnghorn, hut It was in the shop for
repairs, nnd Hie trip had to he made
on a mule.
UNCLE SAM GOES “SEALING”
Expects to Get 30,000 Pribilof Pelts
in Summer Drive This
Year.
Seattle, Wash.—Sealskin coats—ns
ninny ns can ho made from about 30,-
000 skins—will be the objective this
summer In the government's drive on
ils seal preserves on the l'rihllof
Islands, which lie in the Bering sen,
off Alaska.
Slaughter of the Pribilof seals be
gan lids year In June nnd will con
tinue through the summer months, it
was announced here recently. Last
year 28,000 seals were taken and this
year It Is hoped to get 50,000,
Recently the U. S. S. Saturn of tlie
Navy department's transport service
arrived here to loud supplies for the
annual summer campaign on the
Islands. The Saturn is taking to tlie
Pribilofs eight expert furriers from
a St. Louis firm which acts as tlie
selling agent for the government.
door the driver asks you smilingly) England ordered the dancing saloons
Stea's Baby's Bathtub.
Chicago.—The "meanest thief" Is
being sought by the Marquette police, j
He invaded the rear porch of Hie home
of Henry Rumph, 20-19 Fluomoy
street, and stole a small metal bath
tub used by Mrs. Rumph in bathing"!
her daughter Florence, two years old.
Farmer Deliorns Bull,
Tossed to Roof of Barn
Gillette. Wyo.—The fact that
Hie Dull broke loose after the
operation of dehorning, not be
fore It, probably saved the life of
John Call's, who was attacked
by the animal In his burn near
here, Just after he had finished
taking off ils hocus. Cates had
the hull's fret tied, hut the rope
loosened just as the operation
was finished and the hull went
into action. It cornered Cutes,
tossed him to tlie roof of tlie
barn, caught him as he descend
ed, and again catapulted him
against the roof. The bull's head
was so sore from dehorning,
however, that it then abandoned
tlie attack, leaving Cutes dazed
and badly bruised on the burn
floor.
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Speci: Sale of Men's
Shirts
See our show .vitidow,
we;\h up to $3.50 spezini
rale price 3-.95
il t I
1 Not a question of price, but a clean-up sale of or- 3
1 gandicr*, lawns, voiles, and ginghams at prices that $
| will move them quick. All high class merchandise, 1
| this season’s styles, at about half their real value. f
........ w
SPECIAL JULY CLEARANCE SALE
OF ALL READY-T0 WEAR
25 Organdie dresses worth up to
$15.00, your choice for
None altered, none sent on approval
and none charged.
19 BEAUTIFUL SPRING WRAPS
$25.00 and $30.00, take your
choice for
Ladies summer sweaters, only 19
left' coat style and pullovers, worth
up to $6.00, take vour choice for
19 GINGHAM DRESSES
Ladies’ misses’ and children’s, worth
up to $6.50, special July sale price
$1.98
July sale of ladies’ fine Georgette
waists and over blouses, latest styles
worth up to $8.00 special sale price
$5.98
Closing out sale of all bathing suits
$12.00 bathing suits now $7.50
$7.00 and $8.00 bathing suits $5.00
$4.00 and $5.00 ladies fine bathing
suits at $3.50
One lot of childrens bathing suits,
worth up to $3 to close out at $1.50
20 doz. towels, worth 35c special
sale price 19c
40c and 50c towels, spcial closing
out price 29c
81x90 seamless sheets, best qualr
ty $1.39
Pepperel 10-4 sheeting, best that is
made, 45c
1,000 yds. best pajama checks,
worth 30c vd. at 16c
1 000 good quality soft bleaching
worth 25c special sale price 15c
Special Reduction in Silks and
Georgettes
1,000 yds. Georgette in all the new
colors, formerly sold up to $2.50,
clearance sale price $1.99
$3.00 and $4.00 Satines, clearance
sale price
$2.50
$4.98
price
75c
$2.50 and $3.00 Taffetas at $1.98
LADIES FINE SHOES
7 2 pairs worth $ 10, specially priced
$7.50
84 pairs worth $7.00 and $8.00
at $5.98
White pumps, Oxfords and sport
slippers, worth up to $8.00 special
sale price
Everv straw hat that we own, on sale
at half and less than half price
B. P. D. underwear worth 75c per
garment, closing out price
50c per garment
Men’s union suits worth up to $1.50
special closing out price 98c
LADIES MUSLIN UNDERWEAR
Gowns made of soft nainsook, worth
up to $2.00, at
$1.19*
Ladies’ gowns made of fine nain
sook worth $1.50 at
98c
One lot ladies teddies odd sizes and
styles worth up to $1.50, special
sale —
It pays to buy the best. If you want ta > be sure of always getting the best at
the lowest prices shop at