Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 2, 1920, Page 7

) ' Polish Artist Tells of Misery, Es- pecially Among Middle Classes. OF THER REACH Workers Make ~ Apparently Huge Amounts, but Are Obliged to Spend iIt, All. on Their : Living— Children Suffer'Most. New York—Nicol ‘Schatensteln, a Polish portrait painter, who has’just *arrived ‘from Vienna, said that the|. | reason why heé left the Austrian’cap- . Mtal o come: to .America’ was_ be- causge of the misery he had witnessed for four years and his desire to join his family, who are American citizens. .. He'expects to become an American citizen, too. “The worst Sufferers in Vienna,” the painter said in an ,interview, “are ‘those of the middle class, because they cannot afford to pay the high prices -demanded for food. The working man 18 well. paid, but hehas to spend it on food to keep himself and his fam- 1ly,. Thousands of the children of the masses have been sent to Italy and Switzerland to be fed, but the unfor- “ tunate children of the middle class re- ‘main: in Vienna to share the hunger of 'their parents. When I ‘passed through 'Holland two weeks ago the working people there were glving one guilder, or 40 cents American money, for the starving children of Vienna. Pay Barber More Than Professor. iz ‘parber's assistant “in ‘Vienna,” Mr. Schatenstein continued, “receives 46,000 kroner a year_.(about $9,000 in prewar days), and has to spend it all to live In an ordinary way. Compare GRINAGER’S SUNSHINE GROCERY CARRY-A-BIT '/ SAVE-A-BIT Fresh Jumbo Cranberries * Grapefruit, 15c, 14c Orsdégs, Apples, Extra . Faney, 12%c.. Breakfast Bacon, 45c¢, 35¢ Hams, per pound That Good Coffee, 1b Olives, ripe, 29¢c. .. Fig Pudding, Spanish Onions, pound’ Figs, fancy Turkish, 85c¢, 65¢ 40 e and»..........._....-. © Raisins, 35¢ and .... Brick Cheese, Cream, fancy, a 120 THIRD ST, Phone 851 | #iis with fhe 12,000 kroner pald to professors of the universities in Aus- tria_and the 5,000 to 8,000 kroner a year paid to schoolmasters and office clerks. How can they exist in a city where food I8 scarceand dearer than |/ it 1s In New York? I had plenty of money, but; did not have an egg once a month. Milk I never saw. Butter was' rare and dear. . Meat could be had in the restaurants in small por- tions' and. potatoes on rare occasions. Bread was scarce and so poor that only persons with the digestion of os- triches could eat it. I could never find out exactly what it was composed 'of except that there was scarcely any flour. Wood, straw, rye and dried hyshes were: all_ chopped up fine and baked. into & hard cake to be sold as /| bread. " wihe poor could eat dog sausage, and the.rich could buy horse sausage, ‘| but I could never accustom myself to eat such food. Instead, I went hungry often with money in my pocket. “During ‘one of the hunger rlots in the city last winteér, I saw the mob knock a-police officer off his horse and shoot the animal. ‘Half an hour later the carcass had been cut up and car- ried off by the faminestricken citl- zens, . Lack of Coal Causes Misery. “One 'chief source-of the misery in Vienna was the lack of coal, because the poor could have neither heat nor light. The glassware, porcelain and leather factories were unable to keep going because there was no fuel to|' drive thefr machinery. - Only the wealthy have a warm bath once a week and burn one electric light for | five hours a day when there is enough coal to drive the dynamos in the power houses. Multi-millionaires - told me that, I was a fortunate man.when I was leaving for America. «] was not in sympathy with Aus-| tria in the war, but I think that in the name of our common humanity something should be done for the starving men, women and children of Vienna, especially the middle classes, who are the greatest sufferers. “Just before T left the capital city the doctors in the hospitals went on strlke because scrubwomen recelved higher pay thap 'physicians or. sur- geons, ' : : “The peasants in the country have foodw; but they ‘will not send it to KEXKXEKERKERXXXEXKKH] Signora Bangen shopped in Bemid- X WILTON * %:1 :eéw;enhm‘x,lnlsl o:; Monday. Her nd Orpha Volland, retur X2k 23 420 000 | o Tor B Wil o o tow guyp e O Sidney Bangen is confined to his| Francois Latullipe and Harold home with the measles. ; - (|Helgeson left for Bemidji ~Sunday, Jno. English of Bemidji yisited at|where they are employed in the mills. the home of his son, Charles, between| Halvor Olson. 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Some of the best stores in Vienna keep open in the daytime and have finé artistic ar- ticles displayed in the windows, but If one enters to buy them the proprie- tor, or one of his clerks, says that they are not for sale. He will take or- ders for goods to be delivered when coal arrives and the fantories start up again.” ‘ing of German Prisoners In the War. Washington—~The first German prisoner taken by American forces. was. captured by Adam Blazikowski and John Cochanski of Ironwood, Mich., Representative James of Michi- gan was informed by Adjutant Gen- eral Harris. The men were members of company C, Eighteenth infantry. The capture was made on the night of October :27-28, 1917, in the vicinity of Bures, in the province of Meurthe and Moselle. The prisoner was a com- pany mail carrier and was on his way back to his company when wounded and captured. KKK XK KK REKE * TENSTRIKE * &8 % %k % 3k ok 30k % % Born—to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Booth, Monday, March 29th, a gl:l, weigh- ing eight pounds. The pupils and teachers of the Tenstrike consolidated school are en- joying a week’s vacation while the bus drivers are hoping some of na- ture’s mud will be eliminated by next Monday, when school reopens. Miss Maria Krosceng is spending her vaca- tion in Saum. Miss Leona ‘Woock is in Bemidji and Harold Tuttle has gone to his home in Wisconsin. The Bluebird Lumber, Co. have not been able to open their mill yet, as some new machinery which is to be installed has not yet arrived. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Krohn spent Saturday in Bemid)i shopping. Mrs. J. H. Hermann has as her guest this week her two little nieces, |, Inez and Vida Holder, of Crookston. Services were held in the Catholic church in Tenstrixe last Sunday, Rev. J. Fonmosse, of Blackduck, officiated. Misses Esther and Mabel Hampel were Bemidji callers lasa Saturday. There will- be an Easter cantata given in the Guild hall by the John- ston family of Hines next Saturday ( night. Admission will be thirty-five cents. / Mr. and Mrs. C .A. Smith have taken a couple of rooms in the Paul Haluptzok- residence for 'light house- keeping. Spring is here!. Our yards and streets are now graced by our neigh- bor’s live stock of every discription. The United Community band prac- ticed Tx:fiqday evening under the di- rection Prof. Riggs of Bemidji. Mr. and Mrs. William Murry of ‘;Bemidjl spent the week-end at the 1Joseph Herman home. , s ‘Will: the roads dry up so we oa! jtake a ride Easter Sunday? There was an exhibit of the Cletrac |tractor here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Ferrell of Far- {ley were Tenstrike callers last Sat. urday evening between trainms. 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