Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-07
Through Pink Sbectac7es

L hrough Pink CpectdcieS
ITALIAN Communists are putting on their
Utopian spectacles in anticipation of the
Peninsulas tossing its present system of
government into the sea and donning' the
fiery shirt of Bolshevism. From the re-
cent industrial upheavals they augur the GER
tain coming of revolution; wherefore they
are taking mental stock of the countrys re-
sources and calculating it's chances of sub
sistence in case of a not improbable blockade
and boycott by the leading commercial and
non-Bolshevist Powers. Their speculations,
although of scant concern to the practical
minded either at home or abroad, are engag-
ingly ingenious. They acknowledge Italy's
wonted dependence upon foreign sources for
such necessaries as coal, bread, animal fats,
iron, chemical fertilizers and cotton. But
gazing through the magical glasses of Com
munistic theory, they see in a trice how all
these wants could be filled out of native sup
plies now sorely inadequate-if only indi-
vidual ownership be abolished
Thus the Socialist organ, Umanita Nuova
New Humanity, argues to its complete
satisfaction that although Italy imported s.
100000 tons of coal last year, she
could easily get along without another
bunker's being filled from the mines of "cap1
talistic" Britain or 'America-at least, they
twelvemonth How? "Technicians have dem
onstrated that this coal is not now used to
the best advantage, and that from twenty to
twenty-five per cent is wasted. Half of the
remainder is consumed by useless industries
which could be dispensed with 1t is safe
TO estimate that the two million tons now on
-nand which would be requsitioned, added
the domestic production of Ignite and peat,
would meet the demands of the nation during
the first year of the revolution" Likewise a
formidable deficit of grain would be made
Up by stopping the baking of pastries of all
kinds" forbidding further exports of spa
ghett, and by a larger dietary of fresh vege-
tables and cheese
But some still doubling child of the Bour-
geoise may ask, what about sugar? 1t is
lust here that the shades of Lucullus will
tremble indeed, and even the frugalest elves
of the Horatian farm cry out at the doomful
hand which the Communists would lay on
adored custom. ITALY, runs the New HUI
manity's' dehumanized proposal, produces
annually seventy-five million qu1ntals OF
grapes from which are extracted fifty mil
lion quintals of must containing about thir-
teen million quintals of sugar. This is valu-
able food, which now is lost in fermenta-
ton that turns it into alcohol and carbonic
acid. In time Of revolution this must would
be reduced to a pleasant and nourishing
drink, as has been done in the United States
since the prohibition of wine!" Alas!
doughty Utopians, have you not taken your
pitcher of theory once too often to the foun-
tain of Italian nature? If one wishes to
wager that the good King Victor Emmanuel
"A Democrat stanch and true as Junius
Brutus himself could have wished-will die
but of the graces Of his people, one would
best be prepared to pay. 1t may be that
tally, Of all western nations, is nearest
10 Bolshevism" but we doubt exceedingly
hat the dreaded rule Of rabble minority
will come to pass; and assuredly it will be
ahA h0 Of fhn ViIn1
left with only fires of peat to warm by, and
SUMMER rotations than such as the Com
munist organ prescribes.
Were our Soviet friends not under ne
,essity of dwelling this side of Quixotes
realm and of dealing with human clay,
they might make huge success of their
schemes, though even then, fear, life
amongst them would grow monstrous stale.
: Their ultra-modern teachings are, after all,
only the theories at which Shakespeare
good-naturedly laughed three hundred
years ago:
Had I plantation of this isle, my
lord,
T. the commonwealth I would by
contraries
Execute all things; for no kind of
traffic
Would I admit; no name of magis-
trate;
Letters should not be known; riches
poverty,
And use OF service none; contract
succession,
Bourn, bound of land, filth, vine
ard none;
No occupation; all men idle, all;
All things in common nature should
produce
Without sweat Or endeavor: treason;
felony,
Sword, pike, knife gun, or need of
any engine,
Would 1 not have but nature would
bring forth,
OF it's own kind, all folsom, all
abundance
To fed my inocent people"
Neither Italy, nor America, nor any land
If grown-up folk need grow flustered over
the 'isms of the age. They were all test
/. ed and tossed aside hundreds and thou
sands of years ago.
The accepted idea of hell of Ire and
birthstone, and water to be had may be
all right for the unrepentant coal profit
teer; but if the consumer had a vote he'd
make it region of perpetual snow and
Ice, and provide each one with a summer
outfit and palm leaf fan.-Greensboro
On. CO. News.