Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-18
FIJJME
BY DR.. Frank Crane

Fiume is picture of the world in minia-
ture.
1t is difficult for our minds to grasp SO
great thing as a world situation. We
become confused before a large generaliza-
ton and take refuge in a petty passion, no
matter how small so long as it is concrete.
The world at present is in the throes OF
an evolutionary change. 1t is struggling up
out of the limited and partial era of ma
tionalsm into a world consciousness. .Ih1s
world consciousness is not necessarily op-
posed by the reactionary element. Those
who hang back are quite as sincere as those
who would go on, and often more passion
ate than they.
It is self-evident that there is no salvation
of the world from the .selfz destruction of a
continual preparation fc~ and indulgence in
war except some federation of the nations
and the unity thai implies.
Yet every yellow newspaper and every tup-
pe-ly statesman, not only in America but in
every nation in Eurone, is still appealing to
national vanity. Thu doctrine Of For Our
selves Alone" has inoculated the whole world
All this we can see drawn to small scale
in Fiume. Y
Fiume and Trieste were the two main
ports of the Hungarian empire before
the war. After the war they became the SUD-
iect of dispute between Jugo-Slavia and Italy
because they lay between these two coun-
tries
The simple and natural thing to do OF
course was for the two nations to get TO-
gether and come to some agreement in re-
gard to Fiume that would be for the best In
ter~-ts of it's inhabitants.
Gabrielle d'Annunzio, a. medieval-minded
Italian poet, threw himself into the situation
however, and captured the place for Italy
and held it for a lon9 time. 1t thus became
, the bone of contention between two conflict
iI.g heated nation llisms.
The business of the town declined because
the Slavs and the Italians could not coop
crate, but could only fight.
All the blind and childish passions repre-
scented on large Gale BY Deutschland Ube1
Alles,'' Britain Rules the Waves" the
."Glory of France" ireland for the Irish,
and America First are concentrated in one
little drop of poison in the town of Fiume, al
the end of the Adriatic Sea.
In the meantime, Italy needs the market
of Jugo-Slavia for her manufactured articles
and Jugo-Slavia eeds the market of Italy
for her agricultural products. Both coun'
| tries need each other. Intelligent working
| together by grown-up minds would be fol
| the benefit of eTerybody.
| But all effort at getting together is frus
| trated = the rampant nationalist. Italy
| will not let go of her hold on the port Of
| Plume, and the Jugo-Slavs refuse to oper
| their railroad. Neither one of them will play
| unless the other kowtows to his flag. The re
| suit is CQaC the port OIL RUNE D6COM6S SIdS
| nant.
Copyright, 1922, by Frank Crane)
i All OF the material things used by man II
! his civilization are merely manifestations Of
| human thought.
| For instance, here is mass of clay dus
| out of the ground.
! One man, whose thoughts are about build
| ings, will turn that clay into bricks. Another
| will turn the bricks into finished house
| skyscraper Or pavement.
Still another man, whose tn ught concen
| trates on metals, will take the same clay
| and from it extract aluminium.
| \ fourth man, with artistic thoughts, viii
shape the clay into a statue. fifth will
| turn it into dish. A sixth, with medica
brain, may decide ihtas curative powers
| when applied a clay pack.
| All material things are simply expressions
Of thought.
The way they shed tears in the movies
shows that spring onions are back in Holly
| wood.
When man is full of himself there isn't
| room for much else.