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AFFLICT .0^ OF MID-EUROPE
We, Americans, point lingers
of scorn at the European auto
cracy and its bureau-ridden
I governments. In Alaska the on
ly increase noticeable in popu
lation is in the “Federal Bri
gade” and regulation is displac
ing law even to support of the
'judiciary for the bureaucratic
' autocracy.
But the evils of bureaucracy
! are not limited to Rumania. Sal
ay payments for innumerable
'swarms of officials burden the
[.budgets of Middle Europe to
such an extent that useful public
works and other expenditure
must be financed by foreign
| loan:, o. be postponed indefinite -
ly. Bureaucracy not only im
poverishes production by its di
rect salary demands but hinders
it by the multitude of acts, regu
lations and requirements which
it spins like a spider’s web across
every field.
! It took a Hungarian business
[man two years to obtain the ap
proval of competent public auth
! critics for opening a newr stone
! quarry. A premotor of open air
j 1
j musical concerts in Vienna had
I to obtain the consent of twenty
lone different officials for his re
I volutionary proposal.
The Austrian and German bu
reaucracies of pre-war days had
their merits, but they have left
a legacy of distrust and fear.
The State in this part of the
• world is always over the citizen,
I not around him. It is regarded
| by him as a strange, hostile pow
jer to be evaded, which is merely
| a natural act of self-defence.
The State is represented in the
beopular mind by a drafting com
jmiltee and a tax collector, or at
; best by a court. The activities of
| this Moloch are met with stub
born hostility and distrust. Po
jlicemen and gendarmes are not
’soldiers of society engaged in a
, strugyle against crime, but mer
I cernaries of a foreign power.
Employees Underpaid
■ The State’s servants, on the
I other hand, receive small salar
ies but enjoy a preferred posi
tion in society before the law.
Mctternich, who was the father
of Aastro-German bureaucracy,
was the first to economize on
'payrolls at the expense of the
rights of ordinary citizens. The
i
; State servant is still protected
by antiquated laws concerning
|“Amtschrenbeleidigung” w h ic h
means that if you offend him
while he is “in the service,” you
will be sentenced by any court in
'this part of the world without
receiving even an opportunity
to defend yourself.
Let a policeman, for instance,
{declare on his oath as a public
officer that his dignity has been
offended and his statement will
be taken in preference to sworn
evidence by a dozen lay witness
es. And not only are ministers
and policemen sacrosanct but
also telephone girls, street car
conductors, railroad officials, the
smallest clerk in public offices;
yes, even the dogkeeper when he
bs gathering his victims. To call
! that official “Schinder” instead
I of “Wasenmeister,” although the
I English translation of both
words is the same, punishable as
an offence.
A judge in a Budepest court
said to a defendant recently:
“State employees, are taboo,
for everybody, while they are in
service.”
Then he sentenced the man to
some weeks in prison for shout
ing at a railway official to open
the gate of a platform.
Efficient bureaucracy may be a
■ necessary evil, but.in Middle Eu
ropean countries these twe
words are contradictory terms
The telegraph service is a State
function in Austria. Despite
this, or perhaps because of it
there is no night delivery ol
telegrams in Vienna except ir
one quarter, and for this whole
quarter only two messengers are
employed, which meahs that
telegrams even there stand a
poor chance of arriving the day
j they are sent.
To be Continued
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JUDGE WICKERS1IAM FAVORS
INTERNATIONAL HIGHWAV
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ness to the highway and fixed
bases of supplies would enable
aviators to secure assistance
quickly and also to repair any
damage to their plane and con
tinue their journey with little
delay or danger.
Homes Would Be Built
“Settlers will quickly erect
lomes along such a road and ev
ery valley would be opened to
agriculture ana every mineral
ogion to prospecting. As an ex
ample of what always has fol
lowed and naturally will follow
road building in the western
wilderness, the government of
rhe United States has in the past
three years constructed a good
graded highway from Juneau,
the capital of Alaska, for forty
'miles north of that town, and
j during the progress of the work
more than a hundred settlers
jhave built homes along the line
: and new homes are being built
I as the road progresses and
i reaches new good locations. This
j road crosses two small valleys
| and the one nearest town has a
: cozen dairy farms and many
! garden and farming patches and
I fields.
“The main line of this propos
I ed airplane and automobile
i highway will cut British Colum
bia, Yukon Territory and Alaska
i through the center, in the great
valleys between th Coast Range
and the main chain of the Rocky
Mountains, and will extend from
i Vancouver, B. C., to Dawson and
: Fairbanks. Shielded from the
excessive rain and snowfall
| along the Coast by the great
, barrier of the Coast Range, it
vviil pass through a comparative
ly dry region, cold in winter and
hot in summer. The snowfall is
| light and the winter road will be
! hard and passable every day,
| both winter and summer. To se
cure the best development from
; the great main road, however, it
| will be necessary to construct
| several branch lines from the
| main road to favored sea coast
terminals.
Such an airplane and automo
bile international highway with
branch lines across the Alaskan
boundary line to the sea coast,
will require some legislation,
probably, by both the Canadian
and United States governments
to modify some of the present
customs rules and regulations.
Present Rules Stringent
“These laws should be so lib
eralized as to give the utmost
freedom in travel over these
I highways with both airplanes
and automobiles. At present
stringent regulations prevent
the free flying of airplanes across
rhe borders; these must of
course, be modified, and the
highways made free.
“Alaska and Klondike pioneers
have always subscribed to the
Arctic Brotherhood motto.
“There is no boundary line be
tween us,” and that sentiment
should be extended by law to
this great international high
way and its branches.
Some point on the Canadian
side, and Fairbanks, in Alaska,
are to be made great landing
stations on the intercontinental
route from the United States
and Canada to Asia, via the
Behring Strait, to connect with
the Old World lines of aviation.
This British Columbia-Alaska
airplane and automobile high
way should be so planned, con
structed and managed as to be
of the utmost benefit in the or
ganization of the interconti
i nental route. '
, “The aviation and automobile
! interests of the United States
. and Canada are interested in
!the proposed highway, and will
jgive their earnest support.”
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