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militaris against its antagonists why,
then the battleground is often in the heart
and mind and family of the young fellow
himself. It is no longer a question of
yielding to contagion. It becomes a mat-
ter of heart searching, bitter conflict in
the home, in the workshop, in the circle of
friends where formerly you found only
the problem of what to play. Strikes and
election campaigns, mass demonstrations
and repression, military abuse and the
hatred they bred these were the matters
that soon took up the time and thoughts
and emotions of our young people. Oh,
they kept on playing, too, of course. They
will never stop playing. That is in the
bone and blood of the Viennes. But they
no longer played with life.
"You see, the city itself developed like
a too fast growing child. In 1850 it was
a comparatively small affair surrounded
by a fortress. The Ring, which is now the
main artery of the city, was then only
country, a free place, a road. Why, as
late as 1890 Marianifestrasse was a sub¬
urb. Today it is one of the busiest of
Vienna's business streets. The city grew
too fast for its small clothes. New de¬
mands were made on hearts to young to
meet them. The result was worry, con¬
fusion, the punishments of life on all mis¬
takes of immaturity. From much of this
Vienna has recovered. But it has not re¬
covered its unthinking youth, its untroub¬
led gayety.
"You must remember that to begin with
Vienna was not quite se light as the world
imagines it." Dr. Schnitzler had con¬
stantly to retrace his characterizations. It
was interesting to see in him the impulse
to skich a character or a situation with
a striking figure of speech, and to see that
impulse overtaken, checked and corrected
by the equally strong passion to present
the same subject in all its fullness and
complexity. Along with Strauss waltzes
Vienna has produced steel and surgery
and contributions to the science of crimi¬
nology and many other things the world
would expect of our neighbors, the Ger¬
mans. We are always being compared to
the Germans, or contrasted rather. Of
course there is quite a striking difference
but not between us and the Germans as a
whole as between us and Prussia. Our
immediate neighbors, the Germans of the
south, of course blend in with our char¬
acter.
In one respect Vienna has had a har¬
time growing up. It finds it hard to take
itself or others seriously, particularly
itself. North Germany, for example, has
always found Vienna amusing. Well, our
people took that as their cue too. It be¬
came the fashion for our correspondents
to foreign newspapers to poke fun at
everything Viennese. The result was
that no native talent was prophetic among
our people. Now there is a great deal of
fine talent among them. But it has a hard
time getting itself appreciated here until
it has received approval abroad. Gustave
Mahler found it so hundreds of others
have had the same experience. Look at
this, for example !"
He took up from the desk a sketch in
sepia crayon of a young woman's relaxed
body. It seemed to me an astounding
achievement. It was a matter of lines of
crayon on paper. But they did not seem
Immobile. Almost I looked for those lines
to move lazily, flexing and turning with
the half asleep comfort of that young per¬
son.
Is the work of a young artist of the
first order," he went on enthusiastically.
Yet Vienna has not opened its eyes to
him; and will not, I suppose, until he re¬
turns a foreign celebrity. And this dis¬
demie, ons oder das
sire for the best in thought and art. Re¬
luctance to accept a prophet of their own
people and the quick appreciation of the
talent and genius of other lands, I sup¬
pose Vienna is adolescent still; its char¬
acter is not yet formed; its inconsistencies
still lie side by side, intact and unmodified,
Or rather I should say that was the con¬
dition of affairs with us in 1914. Since
then there have been fiery years, years in
which the character of Vienna has aged
many times six years.
"The Crown Prince, Franz Ferdinand.
was not very much liked in Vienna, Dr.
Schnitzler went on, his tone changing un¬
consciously as he came to the war. But
his murder produced a genuine shock. Be¬
fore Vienna could recover from it and to
think clearly events came rushing like a
mountainside. Of course they were largely
manipulated and still more they had their
momentum in great economic and political
movements of hostility over which not
only Vienna had no control, but even the
rulers of the world.
I feel that our people have no love for
militarism and that, left to themselves,
they would have sought a solution les
zavage than war; but events and insti¬
tutions dragooned them into it and Aus¬
tria was one of the very first countries to
feel the shock of war. In September and
November of 1914 the Russian armies
swept into Austria like a tidal Wave and
it seemed as though it would go all the
way. In Vienna there was quite a flutter.
To fly or not? Some people, notably the
very rich their very wealth seems to
breed a cowardice did fly in their autos.
But in the main Vienna stayed. Some out
of pride; others because of fatalism; many
because leaving Vienna would be a dis¬
comfort and a strangeness worse than any
evil they could picture of occupation by a
foreign foe.
"The Russians did not come to Vienna,
but a terrible measure of war came to the
Viennes. Every engagement in the field
sent us back a flood of dead and wounded.
Those who had stayed behind to work
staggered under unremitting overwhelming
burdens. But of actual physical want in
the city there was little until 1915, when
bread cards were first given out. Even
then the prices did not rise badly. So that
while our people had superimposed on
them the weight of war, they still had
their old Vienna to help them forget a
little.
"Then in 1917 Vienna began to lose its
lights. That was bad. Theatres began to
close early. Even to-day performances
must close at eight. And Vienna without
its lights at night and without a good long
evening at the theatre is not itself. Worse
still was the early closing hour for our
street railways. Our people are tremen¬
dously social, gregarious. Send them to
bed early and you make them suffer, as
the young always suffer when they are
sent to bed early. Then on top of that
came the endless mounting of carfare,
until to-day it costs something like many
times what it used to cost. Our people can
no longer afford to visit their friends at
any distance, to go to theatres, to cafés.
Deprived of their familiar escape from
the crushing realities of life the Viennese
became a changed people confused, heavy,
spiritless, pondering. A new and terrible
experience crept in on them hunger. One
after another food stocks of every kind
became exhausted on the other hand,
prices went souring so high that thinking
in terms of money took on a kind of crazi¬
ness. The familiar world assumed fau¬
tastic proportions. One saw everywhere
the giudiness that comes of slow starva¬
tion. Great events came to mean little;
that the
life are dispensed with at such times.
great modern city
know that the families of even physicians
a city indomitably
go hungering today. And this class of
tured by great ex¬
people have not the hardihood to take up
fire and made wis¬
cobblestones and help themselves. But
Vienna of the mere
among the desperately poor and others
thoughtless youth,
there has come a new point of view in
the hands of the AI
morality or unmorality. You hear people
there develops an
saying. Since it is permitted to steal¬
stead of being ab
He finished with a shrug of the shoul¬
to itself, becomes
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