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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Genius Is Required

Works that employed lo0.o
men were created and 10000 guns
were put in the field. At one time
the Italian government owed the
Ansaldo organization 1900. 900
lire.
The matter ~ financing tho
situation required genius, daring
and substantial strength. Tho aap,-
tai of the company was increased
to SOC, 900, 600 lire and the public
generously subscribed 10 the stock.
A great combination of hanks was
created in order that the organiza-
ton might control and be aided BY
bank Of great financial strength.
In struggle balanced 10 such
a nicely as WAS the great war. when
Paris was saved and perhaps the
whole cause saved by the oppor-
tune arrival Of "A handful Of Amerl-
cans at Chateau Thierry, u can be
justly said Of each Of many factors
that the war could not have been
won without this or that particular
contribution. in that sense II
seems to me 1t can truly be- said
that without tho contribution Of
the Porronl brothers and of their
industrial organization of 100. 600
men that they brought together in
the Ansaldo works the great war
could not have been won. For
ltaly's cause would have been lost
and with that loss might have come
the downfall Of the great cause.
But now what Of the future Of this
and other great industrial establish
mcnts that the war developed in
Ttaly?'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20

Trotzky at all their meetings and do n
onstrations, and declare the imperial
list and capitalist governments of he
Entente to be their worst enemies"
According to this French observer
the two factions that seem to gain as
cendancy amid the general disorsani-
cation are the Bolsheviki and the Clio.
llttlans. The latter ere adhercnt, Of
the former Foreign Minister Giolitt,
who was leader of the neutralist part,
opposing ltaly's entrance into the war
The. article in The New Europe" an
peared on June 10. Since, the appoint
ment of the Nitti Cabinet seems to have
confirmed at least part of the French
writer's forecast, inasmuch as the new
government bases its power partly on
, the support of the Gioltti element
In the French political weekly.
"L'Europe Nouvele," another writer.
signing himself Astolfo. deals with vet
another phase of the Italian crisis. In
the first place, he says, the Italian
Chamber has ceased long ago 20 be
repre- sentative of the Italian peonle
and therefore government deriving
It's strength from this Chamber cannot
be considered really constitutional
IN the second place, the failure of So,
nlno to carry through the extreme IA
tionalist claims has, according to Astol
no, profoundly reacted on the Italian
masses. On the one hand, this failure
was utilized by the extreme Socialists
TO work up revolutionary sentiment,
On the other hand, there is evidence
that the nationalists them selves. led
by d'Annunzio, the poet; by General
Giardini, Colonel Donhet and the
group Of politicians rallied around the
newspaper "LIdea Nazionale." pre-
pared to spring a militarist coun
d'etat, with the double aim of Dust
ing Orlando and declaring war On the
Jugo-Slavs. Astolho quotes the Italian
semi official news agency al Informa.
tore della Stampa" as authority for
this revelation. The plan of tho ma.
tionalists. however. was disclosed be.
fore the stage was set for tho conn
we arc told.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Position Wholly Changed

THE war has wholly changed
this satisfactory position. During
the war Italy incurred foreign obi
cations amounting to $3,1OO,OOO.-
600, the annual interest charge on
which is, say, $155, 100000. This
alone would have thrown her inter-
national account severely out of
balance and would have been ex-
tremely serious because she has no
way by which it is feasible prompt
ly to increase her exports. But
the mourning of the foreign obliga
ton with its annual interest re-
qulrements is only a part of her
present difficulties. The embargo
on travel all through the war and
certain continuance of that en-
barge for further year or two
cost Italy in her international &C
count not less than 5000, 100000
year, while her other source OF
annual income-the remittance from
emigrants - has necessarily been
greatly curtailed because of the re-
turn to the colors Of a great num-
Der Of her industrious sons. These
emigrant remittances have con-
tinued in remarkable volume, but
still there is deficiency there from
pre-war figures that is important in
view of the extreme need for some
thing to counterbalance the abso-
lutely necessary payments that
Italy must make abroad.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20

lated 100000 worth of raw silk
and has created situation in the
SILK market which is perhaps eco
nomica!ly unsound, but humanity
necessary, At least it was necessary
IN some way to keep the industry
of silk production alive. The diff
cultles of the situation were so
great that without government in
tervention the silk mills would not
have taken the risk of purchasing
years crop of cocoons with the
hazards of disorganized market
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
at Frank A. Vander]ip Saw in Italy
Distinguished Financier Sounds
Note of Warning in
New Book

savings of tourists. The aggregate
IRON that source reached very large
ligures IN recent years, figures so
important that thrown into the
scale pans along with her deficient
exports they did much to correct
the balance.
"She had another important
source of annual income. reaching
indeed in recent years to upward
OF S1O0,000,00O, and that was the
savings her emigrant sons sent
home. This has been a constant
and a growing fund which yearly
contributed in an important degree
toward equalizing the international
balance. For several years prior to
the war, and in spite of deficient
volume of exports, Italy was able
fully to balance her international
account without making foreign
loans, through the aid of these two
great sources of annual income
the expenditure by tourists and the
remittance from her emigrants.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20

(mixing it with inferior products) and
then sold 1t to the public at 80 to 40
lire pound! No more complete proof
of the breakdown of governmental food
policy is needed, the paper says.
AS to the political side of Italy's
domestic difficulties, "The New Europe
the we'll known English review of in
ternational relations. prints in it's last
issue an. article signed by "a French
Contributor" who says, in part:
"Slnce the armistice home affairs IN
Italy have shown all the symptoms Of
a true political malady which has al
ready reached seriously critical
stage, but has not yet run it's course
In Italy, since the armstice, the
few efforts which had been made to
heal the body polite have been aban-
doned, all political parties have yan-
ished, all groups have been dispersed,
all political doctrines are discred-
The main cause of the present m al
ady of Italy is that the political life
of the country is absolutely domlnat-
ed not merely by questions of foreign
policy, but by the most trifling events
touching on these questions. 1t is
enough that mere rumor should arise
as to the attrlbution Of this or that
colony to the Allies and i'm
mediately all Italy is on fire"
On the role played by the Socialists
the author says:
"The Socialist party is passing
through the same crisis as in all other
countries, but in a more violent form.
One section of the official Socialists.
by taking advantage Of the incon-
testable economic difficulties of the
peninsula and by provoking constant
strikes throughout Italy, and especil-
ly in the industrial districts If the
north. is working for revolution. To
the strikers must be added the thou
sands of unemployed whom rapid de-
the closing down of mu-
milton works and, it must be added, a
temporary weakening Of the working
spirit have thrown on tho streets.
These extremists applaud Lenine and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20

throughout the year. Here was
where the fuctuation in exchange
made a serious difficulty. The silk
mills, having paid for the cocoons a
definite amount of lire, found when
they came to dispose of the raw
silk some months later that the cur
rencies were so deprecated that
the raw silk could not be sold for
enough to reimburse them for what
they had paid for the cocoons.
"In this trying situation the gov
eminent came to the rescue and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
m S THERE a revolution in Italy?
n To answer this question in the
T. affirmative would be, probably,

m S THERE a revolution in Italy ?
To answer this question in the
H affirmative would be, probably, a
gross overstatement. On the
other hand, the recent outbreaks at
Florence and other cities, where organ
lied mobs have not only seized and
distributed food supplies, but tempo
Yarily usurped administrative functions,
point to the fact that the crisis has
reached an acute stage where thorough
going governmental and parliamentary
measures, executed with utmost tact,
arc needed to avert a fatal upheaval.
The difficulties which the Nitti gov
crnment has inherited from its pred
cccssors and which lie at the bottom
of the recent disturbances are of a
twofold nature: political and economic.
The outstanding phase Of the political
troubles is the failure of the Orlando
Sonnino government to carry through
the demands of Italian nationalism in
the Adriatic settlement. The economic
Reorganization can be summarized
under the heading of the high cost of
living.
The testimony Of Italian newspapers
from last month-the latest to reach
hore--converges in the fact that the high
cost of living has become the salient
roblcm Of Italian life, overshadowing
Sic intricacies of the international sit
ustion and being directly responsible
'or the fermentation generally alluded
u, for brevity's sake, as the spread of
Nolshevism. Columns after columns
are filled with accounts of demonstra-
tions against profiteering and govern
mental impotence in coping with it..
The strike movement, by the middle Of
June in full swing, has issued from the
price situation rather than any other
evil. AS the Italian papers are heavily
censored, expression of editorial opn-
ion is rather constrained even in the
great socialist daily, "Avanti" But
the news columns, giving matter-of-
fact accounts Of the strikes and demon
gtrations at Naples, Rome, Leghorn,
Bologna. Bella. Genoa and other cities,
and invariably stating ~ q reason for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Declares Nation Is Facing
Grave Crisis Calling for
Action

their establishment into the making
OF large guns for the army. Per-
haps, as they believed, there was
German influence still in seats Of
power in the Italian government.
Perhaps there was only a lack Of
vision. but in any event they got
no orders for guns. Lack of orders.
however, did not daunt them. They
believed they could see more clear
ly than the government saw. They
secured from ltaly's allies the de-
signs of the most efficient French
guns. and without single order
from the government and in the
very first days of the war they
started To convert their plant into
an ordnance establishment. Before
they received an order for Il single
gun they had completed 1000
pieces of ordnance Then came the
Caporetto disaster. And not until
that awful defeat did the Italian
government turn to them with criea
for guns. When the first order was
placed the officials were COMPOUNDED
on being told that the guns were
ready for immediate delivery. These
1000 guns were at once put i'm the
field to take the place Of the vast
losses which the Italian army had
sustained and performed a feat in
stopping the advance of the Aus
TRANS the value of which can
hardly be measured The Ansaldo
Company could now get orders. but
through some influence. or perhaps
only through financial inability.
they could not get pay. The orders
were unceasing. The pay continued
elusive. The great works. however.
were operated to their utmost
capacity and performed feat that
those in America will marvel as
who know by experience the diff
culties Of ordnance production.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20

made a fixed price at which it
would buy raw silk 1t was forced
to do this; otherwise the silk mills,
in the face of wildly fuctuating
exchange market, would have had
no secure ground to stand upon in
buying the next crop of cocoons
and the whole silk raising industry
would have become disorganized in
the very seat of production, the
peasant homestead. Under the
working Of this arrangement the
Italian government has accumu-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20

and wildly fluctuating exchange
rate throughout the year during
which they must dispose of the
spun silk.
The production of cheap cotton
fabrics for the Near East has also
been disorganized. During the war
1t was not possible to produce them.
nor would it have been possible to
export them if the production could
have been kept up. Now there is
an unlimited demand in the Near
East, but it is not an effective de-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20

mand because there fS no means
for payment. II Italy could secure
the foreign credits with which to
buy the raw cotton, she has the
mills and the skilled hands to con-
vert 1t into suitable fabrics for the
Balkan countries, Asia Minor and
points further east. But she lacks
the credit with which to buy the
cotton, while these old markets in
which she has shown much skill are
closed because they too lack the
credit with which to buy the goods
which they so much need.
Great Industry Formed
I'm. recent years there has been
developed in Northern Italy, par
ticularly at Turin, Milan and
Genoa, number of great. efficient
industrial organizations. The story
of one Of these is as splendid a
romance of industrialsm as will be
found anywhere There was one
man in the industrial life of Italy
who resisted the peaceful penetra~
ton of German capital He had
large industrial works in Genoa.
There was ingrained in him a dis
trust of the Teuton and. as German
capital penetrated to other indus
tries. he not only resisted any ad-
vance made by that capital for an
interest in his business, but he in
stilled into his two sons what be
came almost a religion Of chauvin-
ism. so far as this great establish
ment was concerned. When the
father died the two sons, with a
touch of Italian romanticism. stood
at the bier and made a stern com
pact one with the other that they
would never admit German capital
into their great industrial inheri-
lance. In these two men there GER
tainly must have been some Of the
blood Of the Caesars. for they had
an audacity, an imagination. a
vision for great accomplishment
such as the men who ruled early
Rome must have had. Theirs was
the one great industry in Genoa.
They developed it in many direc.
tons. At the outbreak Of the war
it and various subsidiaries had be
come stock companies. the whole
group being generally known as
the Ansaldo Company, and it had
great and varied industrial cara-
city. running through shipbullding,
the making Of turbines. the con
struction of locomotives and the
building Of electrical machinery.
Took Chance on Var
With Italy's entrance into tho
war these two men had the i'm
agination to realize that the great
war was a war of industrial capac-
ity. A speech which Kaiser vii
helm made. in which he told his
own people that the war would be
won in the workshops Of Germany,
brought to them a revelation re-
garding the character Of the war
and they felt that they had in their
hands, in the great industrial estab-
lishment that they controlled, an
instrument essential to italy if she
were to play her part in the struggle
which she had entered. Their clear
eyed view of German national
characteristics, their hatred Of Ger
man domination. made them see, as
few men in Italy saw, what the
struggle meant to Italy and what
means must be employed if Italy
was not to be vanquished.
They offered at once to turn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
r n VIEW of the crisis in Italy
the observations made by Frank
A. Vanderlip, as they appear

t!ie oooSi 'doAoHS Htduc ny rank
A. Vanderlip, as they appear
in his book, What Happened
to Italy" are exceptionally inter
esting.
Mr.. Vanderlip, putting it mildly,
appears to be quite shocked over
the financial situation faced by this
nation. He goes on to point out
the dangers which lie ahead and
cites some Of the fundamental fail
ings Of the present system of flnan-
cling. He sees critical times ahead
for the country unless something
radically different is done at once.
The chapter, in part, follows:
when one comes to see the i'm
portance of looking at nation in
the light of its power of self-sus
tenance, he will distinguish sharply
between domestic wealth and a ma
tional ability to command and paw
for necessities of foreign origin.
No matter how rich a nation NAV
be within itself, if it is deficient in
some essential that must be i'm
ported it must also have some COM
modify Of equal value that the
world outside wants and will pay
for. In attempting to gauge the
future of the different European
nations one must at'the very begin
ming include an examination of the
International commodity balances
necessary to the life OF each nation
Rich in Man Po,per
Take Italy, for example. She
is wonderfully rich in man power.
moderately we'll to do in agricult-
ural resources. She has partly
developed her great potential re-
sources of water power, but she has
not a pound of good native coal,
little mineral of any kind and none
Of the great staple raw materials.
She raises silk which she unwinds
from the cocoons onto the bobbins
and spins into skeins, and then, in
the main, exports it to the looms of
France and Switzerland, and for
merly to Austria, to be woven.
1T is absolutely essential to her
life to import about 100000 tons
of coal a month, all Of her cotton,
much of her wool and some of her
food. She exports the lovely skeins
of yellow silk; her looms convert
American cotton with a great deal
Of skill into cheap fabrics for the
Near East. She exports olive oil
and few special food products of
small value in the aggregate, such
as macaroni, cheese and a certain
amount Of wine. In the present
stage Of her industrial development
She has, comparatively speaking,
little to export and an absolutely
lnsistent need for very consider
able imports.
"For many years, therefore,
ltaly's foreign trade has been out
Of balance. She could not sell the
world goods equal in value to the
amount Of goods she must have
from the world. She did have, how
ever, two special and unusual
sources of annual income. To tour
lists Italy has for centuries been the
garden spot Of all the world The
loneliness Ct nature, the deep his
torlcal interest Of the cities and
the monumental remains of her
wonderful history, the unequalled
collection of the art treasures of
all time, have for centuries made
Italy the spending ground for the
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-11
CHARGE POST DELIVERY BOY
WITH APPROPRIATING CHECK
1. u CoEhill Is Held by Commissioner
FleSenheimer for Federal
Grand Jury.

!. r. Coshill. a youth. who has been
workins as special delivery messen-
ger for the post Office, was Yesterday
bound over by United States Commits
sioner Flegenheimer to await the ac-
ton Of the next grand jury in the
United States District Court. Coghill
is charged with appropriating a certi-
fed check for $4,000, which was con-
tanned in a special delivery letter
which was Entrusted TO his care. Com
missioner Flegenheimer placed the
amount of the bond at $1,000.
Miss Eileen Harrison. charged with
using the mails to defraud. was before
the court for trial. but her case was
continued until July Is. 1t Is alleged
that Miss Harrison, as proprietor of
the National Fancy Goods Company. Of
North Fifth Street. furnished materials
to workers. from which fancy goods
were. to be made, requiring a deposit
WHICH. 1t is declared, she failed to re-
fund
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-11
MANY SHIPS ARE DUE
Medical Men md Engineers Expected
At Newport News at
Enrly Dnte,

WASHINGTON. July 1o-Expected
transport arrivals are: Matsonia, New
port News. July Is: Company a. Three
Hundred and Fortyffth Service Bat
ment. Five Hundred and Forty eighth
Engineers: headquarters and medical
attachments: Company a, Five Hun
dred and Sixteenth Engineers; Evacua-
lis. lls and els; SANITARY squad. 50:
Three Hundred and Thirty-sixth Bak-
cry Company; Six Hundred and Eighty
sixth Motor Transport Company:
Eight Hundred and Eighth. Eight Hun
dred and Eleventh. Eight Hundred
Fourteenth Transportation Companies;
elght casual companies and thirteen
officers
suwanee, Newport News. July IS
A to, d; Three Hundred and Eleventh
supply Train: Headquarters Compan-
YES. 10 ID: Three Hundred and Sixth
Service Battalion: Company a. Five
hundred and Twenty-eighth Engineer
Hundred and Thirty-seventh Field
memount Squadron; Five Hundred and
twentieth Motor Truck Company; Six
hundred and Eighth Motor Transport
ana Twenty-seventh Engineers; medi-
cal detachment: Companies A and r.
rive Hundred and Forty seventh En-
sineer Service Battalion.
ton, New York. July Is: Floridian.
July Is. - ~
Steamer Steigervald arrived at Brest
July from Archangel with field and
ganies 4. b. and c. Three Hundred and
Tenth Engineers. also three soldiers
wives and two adopted orphans.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-11
:WEATHER FAVORS CROPS
nenorf of Government Meteorological
80 t'4.-,Indfcatcx Wheat Production
.satES Rather Disappointing.

"A Fair. weather favored crops during
54he week ending July .. according to
sffe report OF Edward A. Evans. me-
ffeorologist of the United states De-
partment OF Agriculture. The report
covers the State.
TIT is as follows:
uninterrupted fair weather
snermitted much needed cultivation and
favored wheat threshing. In most Of
Middle and Southwestern Virginia the
wheat crop Is rather disappointing,
either as to quantity of yield or quail
fly of the grain, or both. In many
sections fine crops o! hay were cut
and cured under excellent conditions.
There are a few localities where corn
and tobacco fields are still grassy but.
aga rule, these crops are now pretty
we'll worked. Corn thrived under the
high -temperature conditions that pc
vailed. 1t is beginning to need gem
eral rain. though II has not suffered
8 for moisture so far Pastures and.
perhaps, white potatoes and truck
also, need rain for best results. The
4 weather was favorable for growth OF
tobacco and peanuts. White potatoes
are doing we'll. and digging In south
s<astern counties shows Satisfactory
yields OF good quality. Growing truck
crops are hourishing and vegetables
a are plentiful on the market"