Show f AUSTRIANS SAY AMERICANS ALLI ALL POSSESS GOLD I 1 St Starving al s r t r l ICO People 1 Tl Think All AIl United States Slates Is but butI I Big Big n l Fairyland Fairylands s B By e Frank E. E Mason Corix International anal r cw Service Vienna Jan 31 The 31 The United St States te fairy talo tale land and o of sil silver sll- sll Is tho far away thoughts o of the vcr ver and md sold old in ino Uio of Vienna In miserable hungry people their Imagination most of or the Americans Ameri Amen m millionaires lre all are aro cans i If not quite Prom From Vienna's standpoint it I is nc nearly rl true n 1 American who ho has can If f C lie exchanges hang Cs his Jet get c t co crowns ns Austrian currency lor fo- dollars 5 or their Cabaret artists delight millionaires millionaires million million- of oC American mAric J with songs sonS's s c cafe fo to toI tofo aires In n tho the the tho 1 0 learn what fo trot rhythm rhUlIn you yon cabaret singer sIns would wO do 10 were ere ho an I American merI n. n Being an nn American ho he would naturally b be a I. I plutocrat but he philanthropist Tic Ic would also be a would buy up all o or of Vienna and move more I I to Switzerland where It could set get et plenty to cat and th thaw w out Its chilled bones boncy A favorite story Viennese like ike to tellIs ten tell tenIs ln- ln of a n. VInna Vi Vienna Vienna VI- VI Is Is of or an nn American deman demanding demanding- enna nna bunker banker how host m many ny crowns he will get ct In e exchange ch e fo for one hundred dolla dol- dol olL ol- ol la lars L R. R RAs As many as lS you ou want nt the banker replies with a a. sweeping bow flake tl c But nut bein being an in Am American in Vienna has its disadvantages es If you oU romon- romon strata t because you ou aro charged charAe four our times limes as much as a local inhabitant you ou will be c curtly a led What arc Lre I you U complaining about For two o dollars dollars dol dol- lars s you rou can call hll buy bury the whole CJ city Food smuggling Is true the IC leading In Industry In- In of or hungering Vienna You see sec tho tiro traders sneak as the ul ari called I their knapsacks on everywhere with their backs Practically no effort is I. I to stop the 11 practice You kno know that m man n is a a. why dont don't you arrest him L L. demanded of a a. Vienna policeman y Bec Because I have O a a. wife and two bab baby girls at homo home to feed was his short answer But these people are nrc getting etlin everything every o thing thinS that's wh why you OU dont don't get set your our ration r of or orl your our I argued In spare hours I have to put on my own knapsack and so go 0 into tho the country For one week we had only bread and tea ply I wife and I can live on that but the tho babies c cant nL All Hunt for 1100 1 Instead or of bolter botter or organization to ra ration ration ra- ra tion equally to rich and poor what little food thero there Is it Is practically O er every everyman everyman man man for himself Instead of or bearing tho moderato moderate charge of or large quantity transportation by railroad or in wagons wagons wag wag- ons food tood has the exorbitant price of ln ha having been brought to Vienna on the die hacks backs of or human beings with the additional additional addi addi- increase Increase or of an nn illegal l business So m many n people have e become knapsack knapsack knap knap- sack merchants that shops are arc complaining complaining com com- r they cant can't secure girl clerks clerk Servant girls are arc quitting their work worl to strap a bag to their backs and so go o into the country on bicycles or by train to bu buy provisions from the farmers Then Their back ck In the cit city the they peddle from rom house to house rouse I The iThe tact fact that one has a food foo card carll dO does 8 not lIot insure him that he will get oven alert t the lie size sample sizo ration rallon it calls culls for r. r 11 Hw HI must hunt from store to store until he ho c finds food lood for or sale ale on un cards at the 1 fixed C government 10 price Irice o only lY who olio today get et enough food to live Il on either cither illegal al knapsack k merchants or 01 it nn their own knapsacks and so go into HIo c country |