The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-05
Tacoma Woman Ndrrutes Her
 Experience With the Italian Fdscisti


 cise Everything was as it should be- Signora and Signorina must not be alarmed-such noises were common. Fascist headquarters be. i ing almost directly opposite-and I had thought it the village police station! Of course we were per fectlly delighted with the explana- tion.
 That evening after dinner, over our liquors in the solon, we made friends with a red-haired Russion Baroness of uncertain age and reputation, but of much charm, who spoke French per fectly, Italian fluently and English haltingly. When she warmed up to her subjects her Franco-Italian Amer ican was a tongue to marvel at We were the only Anglo-Saxon represent atives at the pension, but from the Russion, who was extremely welin- 1 formed, and from the Italians, from our fellow guests down to our con- cierge, we extracted quite little in teresting information about our neighbors across the way. They seemed popular, too, except with l those who had socialistic leanings, l or who were uncompromisingly of the orthodox Roman Catholic church; for the Fascisti until recently, when their entrance into politics required it, had no confession of faith. ex- cept a negative one. They are anti. communistic, anti-socialistic, anti catholic. They are against boycott, strike and sabotage. They express their will by primitive direct ac- tion. They go out and chastise those whose ways art not their ways. We heard them doing it nearly every night! They believe that the labofeT whether his labor be physical or in- tellectual, is worthy of the hire that ] the quality of his work brings to him. and they are striving to gal vanize that part of traditional Italy that is it's back bone-the peasant farmers and small traders-with sdf- ficient energy to weild themselves 1 into a social and political unit that l will withstand international anarchy. i These two classes are body and soll with the Fasisti movements; many ot the propertied aristocrats are a part i of it, regarding the Fascist as sav- iors from the tide of bolshevism which flooded Italy from Moscow after the war; and numbers of the liberal Catholics are in sympathy with it's attitude toward the Clerical Pary. Italy's Imperialists are with the Fascist, for it's leaders are frankly Imperialistic; and there are many women who march in it's ranks and wear the black shirt Youth, fervor. idealism, adventure! Every man knows that few women could resist that appeal!
 Emblem Appropriate
 | Their name is a challenge. Fascist means men of the fasces, or bundles of rods bound around the axe, which is the ever familiar emblem of Ro, man justice. The nobler, stronger in
 ternational forces struggling to life
 find the emblem belittled by its iden
 tificatiOn with the egOtistiCal, hot headed Fascisti Proletariat Italy hates the name and the party with :; violent intensity; and to Industrial :, Lombardy the word is anathema
 Yes, in all truth the Fascist have their enemies, Yet Mussolini's ar rival at Rome as premier was not unexpected for Bonomi's summer cab
 met was doomed to die with the fall. Not long ago Don Struzo, the priest who leads the Popular party prophesed of the national struggling
 factOns-''yeste Communists anC
 Socialists, tOmOrrOW-militant FaScls
 ti." Tomorrow is nod today. Wha
 of tomorrow's morrow? Can Musso lini and his leaders hold their fol lowers to their idcalistic program Will they not be forced to make DO
 litical concessions to Socialists ant Monachists alike in order to keep the balance of power The Facisti have
 no particular affection for Victor
 or his house of Savoy. They arc
 tionalist-Republicans rather thar } monarchists. How long will the ], premier find the king "the right mar ) in the right place?"
 They are bold-these Fascisti-but