The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-18

no man has addressed it since the time of the Caesars. Says Mussolini: 'I was in position to close Parliament and form an exclusive Fascist cabinet, but for the present time I do not choose mained in their dug-outs. form ed a coalition government, not to have a majority in Parliament l do not need one-but to unite those who desire to save the na- tion from danger This is the language of a leader of troops It is the way in which Parliaments are addressed by conquerors.
 History exists so that by it's study we may know something about the present. It was in the middle of January, 49 B. C., when Caesar crossed the Rubicon. His career was terminated on the Ides of March, A B. c. During this space of little over five years he crushed, in every part of Europe the armies of his enc mics, and laid firmly the founda- tions of the Imperial Roman power. He gave indeed to man. kind the very word "Imperial.''
 
 The Roman Senate gave exag- gerated and half deified honors to Caesar, adding. says the historian. little to his power. But the title of Imperator, prefixed to his name as a permanent ad- dition, has remained, together with the family name. of him, who first bore it as the title of high sovereignty through out the civilized world.
 
 Mussolini Is not the first man to tell a Parliament that he could get along without majority. History recites how Bonaparte, surrounded by the generals of his party, appeared in the Council of the Ancients and in the Council of 500, dispersing the representa- tives of the country in the name of the people.
 History describes how Crom- well, appearing in the English Parliament with his soldiers about him impetuously took the speakers mace and hustled the representatives out of the house of Parliament.
 
 FTouting Parliaments Is dan gerous. Caesar, though a great man and a benefactor. perished by the violence of other politi- clans. Napoleon, by the power of the nations, died at St. Helena a lonely exile. Cromwell lived out his life completely as a die tator of all England. but after his death his remains were dug up and scattered over the sur face of England.
 
 New York Merchants Associa- tion celebrated it's twenty-fifth anniversary with a mass meeting in Madison Square Garden, last night. Special guests seated on the platform were Charles E. Steinmetz. the great electrical engineer; Prof. Michael F. Pupin, great in the domain of electro mechanics; Dr. Lee De Forest, famous in the development of wireless telegraphy; Cass Gilbert, architect who created the Wool worth Building and Prof. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller h. stitute, genius of bacteriology. Every civilized country has a few such men. not many.
 These superior individuals are the source of progress. Why they exist and why they disappear. as they sometimes do, is mys- tery which has not yet been ex- plained. The things which diff ferentiate the complex life of the people of the United States from the life Of the Hindu farmer or the Abbysinian tribesmen, or even from the life of the first settlers of Connecticut. are of comparatively recent origin and the product of a few minds.
 
 The steam engine, the railroad. the locomotive, the trolley car. telegraph. telephone, running water, airships, enamel bath tubs, and scientific farming are the rich products of a few rich minds. It is the function of the mass of mankind merely to re- ceive the gifts which are provid- ed by these geniuses of the race. Some civilizations are so back ward that the people cannot even do this. Why these things should be so nobody knows. Men