New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 1, 1921, Page 21

RESTRICTED EXTRAVAGANCE CLOSE BY DESTITUTE POVERTY IN VIENNA xtremes in Parodoxical Conflict Draws Attention of Travellers—Speculation Runs Rife With Fabulous Profits Reported. nna, March 1—(By The Asso- d Press)—Vulgar display of ex- hgance in food and clothing is a ly pioture at the gay restau- here while only a few blocks hungry and scantily-clothed ns are being poorly fed in com- ity kitchens. Visitors to Vienna hooked by this paradoxical eco- lic condition. Others are either ened to the contradictory sights n their inability to aiter either me, can only shut their eves to pwded thoaters and operas at tre- Rously advance@ prices, concerts out in advance, masked ball fol- g masked ball in an endiess riot t the coming of Lent, cabarets o, ue dancers would bring out in New York and where ing to drink but wine is served, and restaurants with never an ty table, not a room to be had XPOSURE ACHES RHEUMATIC PAINS takes th Behe 0% chem "' the t out em LOSHING around in the wet B and then—the dreaded rheumatic twua:l But not for long when iment is put on the joh! n Moty strains gn s—how soon y friend pemeirales without u ln belpdrive’ml“‘o‘.&nd , t00—~n0 muss, N0 her, ed dano.r-dm abutd‘ run outolgmn -Lh‘- (Wa rming it ® megiore—35c: T0c, $1.40. The bottle holds iz fimes as much the smallest S ® »10a nimentC) Are You Still Go in the big hotels whose prices go up from week to week-—that is one pic- ture. On its reverse, foreign relief straining itself and demanding un- ceasing contributions in aid of a suf- fering populace. In Austria it is the custom on New Year's eve to bring squealing sucklng pigs to public dining rooms and the red ribbon with which they are dec- orated Is distributed in bits to guests as tallsmans for the coming year. The newspapers report that in ome fash- fonable resort a woman seized the pig and bathed it in a cooler full of wine. Other women caught the original idea and imitated 1t to the cost of many bottles. That restaurant, inci- dentally, has had its license suspend- ed for constant violation of the food and closing regulations Viennese claim that in all these re- sorts where display’ and expenditure of the most vulgar kind are evidenced not one real Austrian can be found, that they h not the money. They say they are supported by the horde of profiteers of every race and every nationality that infest and infect the city, A recent deraonstration of the pop- ulace is acknowledged to have been inspired by this prodigal display of extravagance and ready money on the part of this small element of the pop- ulation. The workingmen demand the gove ernment shall suppress profiteering and eliminate the sheba (profiteering wholesaler or middieman) and the sleichandler (illicit trader) in an ef- fort to lower the daily mounting cost of living, else they will undertake to do so on their own account. They carried a miniature gallows in a re- cent demonstration. The authorities and thoughtful Austrians acknowledge that this su- perficial froth of extravagance and display is doing great harm to the city and the country. 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Speakin’ o’ hay, a dish full o’ cheap cigaret butts smells like a2 burnt barn the morn- in" after. play of furs and jewels and articles of luxury In the shop windows prob- ably unexcelled in any capital, are hard to convince that bencath this veneer lies widespread privation and in certain strata actual bitter suffer- ing. Some 400,000 chilaren are being fed one nourishing meal a day by Ameri- cany charity. Through American aid the hospitals are being refurnished with long absent necessities. Nearly 200,000 Austrian children are charity guests in other countries. Indeed the charity of all non-suffering peoples is being extended bountifully to this <country regardless of creed or race, and all investigators who dig deeply into conditions acknowledge it is needed. But not infrequently the visitor, es- pecially the American, when he Is told this, gazes on the evidence of wealth and well-being about him and remarks that it might be well to spend some of this money at home instead of demanding aid from other lands. One answer is that this phase of Vienna life brings money in and keeps it circulating. Another is that the temperament of a people must be considerved. The billboards are filled with an- nouncements of redouts (masked or fancy dress balls). Wine is always served at these affalrs at high prices. Among those about to occur, the star event is one at the State Opera for the benefit of the pension fund of the singers and musicians. The box- es, long since sold, went for 20,- 000 to 28,000 crowds each and single tickets of admission for 2,000 crowns. Even in depreciated Austrian cur- rency 20,000 crowns represents 30 perfectly good American dollars or a good many balanced raution meals such as Americans are giving Vien- na's children. Much of the money thus spent comes from the wild speculation on the stock exchange that has followed the constantly ‘fluctuating crown, and from wide open speculation in for- eign moneys, theoretically prohibit- ed but in full operation in cafes and restaurants and well covered private offices. One American told the correspond- ent that in the Black Exchange, a lit- tle street where these operators gath- er and trade. he saw one man with $200,000 American money and who admitted he had made 1,000,000 crowns a day on speculation. The possibilities of this money mar- ket are made plain in one week's crown quotations against dollars. Pri- vate sales were made on Wednesday at, 800 crowds to the dollar. The mar- 162t closed urday with dellars at 632, - luctvations in the stock market of thousands of crowns per share are commonplacs. Men with foreign money, smuggled in and out of other countries as the exchange rate varies, fatten on speculation and for them all Vienna is the Mecca. on ENGDAND'S GIANT AIRCRAFT ‘Experiments Soon to Be Made Which Will Lead to Passenger Service. London, March 1.—British aviation authoritles have announced that tha R-36, one of the four airships to be used for experiments in commercial work, will bave a passenger saloon with capacity for 50 persons. Thia will bo the first British airship to be fully equipped for passenger service. The R-.36 is now nearing completion at Glasgow. Four airships will bo used in the experiments. The others are the Brit- ish R-37 and the German L-71 and L-64. The first tests are expected to take place on the route to Egypt, Malta and back. If the experiments prove practicability of using: airships for the carriage of goods and passengers, the service may be started fairly early this year. U Horlick's 1 Safe d Mitk \ al ) (MILITARY CENSURE |SNOW SHOES ARE { RULES MODERATED| LITTLE KNOWN OF Are Valuable Assetes in Some| lDishonorable Discharges to Be Reduced in Number, Also Washington, March 1.—Reduction in the number of dishonorable dis- charges from the asmy and a grading down in the severity of courts-mar- tial sentences are¢ expected by the Judge Advocate General's department to result from an executive order lim- iting military peace time punishment which went into effect recently. The order follows wide agitation over courtmartial penalties during the war period. A memorandum from the president attached to the order _directs that maximum punishment and dishonor- able discharges be imposed only in aggravated cases. This is expected to have more effect in reducing pen- alties, it was stated than the actual order, which reduces punishments for | 21 different offenses under the mili- tary code. The old maximum of 18 months’ confinement for desertion by men less than one year in service has been re- duced te one year. and in cases of more than 6 months’ service, from 2% vears to two vears. The period of absence for which desertion pen- alties can be impesed is increased from 230 to 60 days. The maximum penalty for fraudu- lent enlistment has been reduced from one vear's imprisonment to six months. The greatest reduction of maxipium confinement is for assault without deadly weapons, which was 5 years, reduced to one year. The maximum where weapons are used still is 5 years. The maximum for obtaining under false pretenses money or property vvalued at $50 or more is reduced from 5 years to 3 years. “The executive order will not result in a radical reduction of penalties,” Colonel C. A. Kreger, acting judge ad- vocate, declared. -‘‘Punishments for offenses in the army have been based gince 1914 on a consensus of those | shoes. ! l liable than the 10 The latticed snof in a general way et with the handi body of the shoe is long and twelve in at the broadest p ash, hickory or elm. of beech, birch, map The latter wood is I strong as the others. Four Polish Soldi Shot For Steal Cracow, Poland, M soldiers found guilty of nine sacks of American army supplies were shot The executions were under a law passed by. vear making it a capif steal from the army. A also court-martialed | with the flour theft, wi prison, as it was sho taken a minor part in ¢l classed as sporting outfits. strictly for business during the floep snows and the severe winters of the far northern regions. Trappers, huaters and travelers once habitually wore such in winter and mooccasins in summer. Custom has changed somewhat now, in re- gions which have become thickly set- tled, and the snow shoe and the ski have taken their place among imple- ments of sport. The smow shoe, with its broad, lat- ticed, rawhide bottom, is serviceable in walking over soft snow. The wear- er does not expect to develop much which proved such important instru- | SPecc- That s where, budiin Lol ments in the recent rescue of the |, i e faal-a o tibanib oIt reominG| || Lofenoijnosaiple v e gebix IRPRTt, C Northern hunters make snow-bound wilds of Canada, are lit- tle known except in most general | S70% shoes with hatehet and knite, ot at terms outside the localities where | :::d‘fth?al;‘::x:e‘::g‘co:??b: &l s they are commonly used. Still, to | MaRS The Bl R T O Which can be make them is a fine art and to use | o, .innaq in winter as well as in sum- them is J is . ralk- § is an accomplishment. Walk- | o " Baric of several other trees will ng on snow shoes is learning to walk serve also Expert woodsmen know all over in, sav i g $iie sub! sEaln, fesvsfsabuliotn on. the art of heating tne bark to make abject Uvatlis A mErica o e peal in winter and to divide into association. e or braid- Tp In the Hudeon Bay country snow | Strande of comvenient siso fo7 br shoes are almost as important as food. | "G ANS SRR (00 Tk e Skt ma- and often much more important if} . ;)"\ jth nhatchet and wedges; but the food is very far away. The SNOW |, "man ‘who used snow shoes for as the term is usually under- business, nearly always preferred the stood. is short and broad, and instead | PYSIRSS FEETY £ FEVE o Ty raided of being all wood, it generally con-l CORE: Eti DN 2 e, sists of a wooden rim or hoop, cross- strung with thongs of leather. Snow shoes of this kind are not alwaya fixed by different state laws for simi- lar civil offenses. The executive or- der reduces maximum penalties for such offenses as fraudulent enlist- ment, desertion and other peculiarly military in nature, but maximum penalties seldom have been awarded for these offenses. “The president’s memorandum call- ing attention to the Articles of War which previde for a grading down from maximum penalties where cases are not aggravated probably will have more effect in lightening punishments than the reductions which he actual- ly orders. His memorandum, how- ever, but stresses what is already a part of military law.” Since 1890 the president has been authorized by congress to fix the lim- it of military punishment by execu- tive order, and several such orders have been issued from time to time Climes, However Washington, March 1.—Snow shoes, To Stop a Cougl Take HAYE®' HBE. A Double Treatment, tation, heals the t gestion and Cure, good! Children it ona trial.) the ke it NEW SHOES FROM OLD ONES ComéTa andlat e tolt you. what. (ria freans, We denotcobblechors, ‘we rebuild them. We use. the famoun: Goodyeer Welt Systemn.. New Britain Shoe Repairing Co. 352 MAIN ST., Cor. Myrtle. Tel. 1650. ' by different presidents. The Company OF the People, FOR the People—made BY the People The Greatest Life Insurance Company in the World. ) Greatest Lm Greatest £ Service to GePubls Reduction of Mortality Health and Wielsre Wiork In Business Placed In Business Gained In Busincss In Force . METROPOLITAN Greatest LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY . HALEY FISKE, President Assets Increase in Assets during Surplus in 1920 Industnal(woc Total lnsuranoc placed and paid for in 1920 Gain in Insurance in Force in 1920 The Company in 1920 than any Total Amount of Outstandi Number of GammNumberofOn Number of Claims paid in Averaging Amountgeid Reducbonmgenctal (WNCORPORATED BY THE SYATE O NEW YORK) FREDERICK H. ECKER, Vice-President Business Statement, December 31, 1920 s - - -. $980,913,087.17 $116,091,262.62 1920 IagflMMdflyathflCoumthorfl. $947,465,234.24 $33,447,852.93 $1,062,389,920 Mmfianhmmbflplaadmmflbywm.akww. anremmm)lnsuranoe forin1920 - $589,560,231 ever beens placed in one year any Company in the World. $1,651,950,151 World. 1,036,360,080 Mmmmmmwmm”bWMmfiWfl GAINED more insurance in force both in. 1919 and other Company WROTE. _ $6,380,012,514 23,899,997 2,129,326 Move than axy Company in the 1920 312,689 mdampmdfarmryzasmdw dadbm@ryd:hm Policy-holders in 1920 1,257, hwmflfififlawddh&b l’lo-u. 2.7 per t monahtyatagwlto'lfin av‘;‘ms.z ”’:en reduciion, 72 per cent.; Tuberculosis, 40 ,g::d:d-m.nmlyflpam -hdwur of children, ovey 28 per cend. (annual pmmmm)lafelnsm-anccpaxdfur Thhr‘mmw?hcd;nmmbyma-mm Insurance - Larger than that of any other ompany in the Wosld. Policies in Force December 31, 1920 fluuuthatofmal‘hflw-m Policies - orid has ever goisned su one yeoy. In general reduction ‘wnd for each principal cause of death &hhhwflmmflm by statistics of the Registration Area of the United States. - Death Rate for 1920 on the Industrial business lowest in history ot Company. D1v1dcnds declared payable in 1921, nearly M to sick Industrial Poli persons insured under $11,000,000 Nurses made 1,625,271 visits in 1920, free ofcharge -holdets, including 14\,667 v ; policies. Meu-opohtanmdxstfiutndovermghwea