The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-25
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 United States, has returned to this country and says there is no danger that Signor Mus. solini should abandon the reigns of govern ment. If he did the opposition would find itself dismayed." Perhaps there is a little irony in these words. If Mussolini decided to make new grand stand play by saying, as he has done before, that he intends to return to a parliamentary form of government, he only needs to appeal to the country and stage another election in which castor oil, threats, gagging of the press and incarcera- tion of liberals and democrats plays such an important part. Should he be defeated even then, though everything were arranged in his favor beforehand, he would still have his fascii mobs in the streets, fololwed by an- other march on Rome and another illegal seizure of the reigns of government. Prince Caetani says: "A great deal of good .-as been accomplished by Mussolini." That is true, perhaps. He crushed the internationalist bolshevist movement in the industrial and peasant districts of the north but he himself admits that there is no further danger from that source now. Labor halls lie in ashes and the most violent of oposition papers have long since ceased publication. That is what his dictatorship has accomplished. But, like all dictatorships, there must come an end after the national crisis has subsided. The people of a democratic country will submit to a dictatorship only under stress of an emergency. When that emergency passes they want a restoration of their rights. That is what the Italian opposition demands and that is what Mussolini promised during the tension of the Matteotti murder affair. No sooner had public excitement died down, how ever, then the dictator cOnviently forgot his promise.
 A Ministry Of Arts And Education |
 Extensive repairs have been started on the palace of Tuileries in Paris. All the price less Gobelin tapestries, clocks, paintings and art treasures have been removed for the time being. Every room in this wonderful build ing represents some scene in the tumnltuOus history of France. Ihexpressible sadness, mob rule, conferences of the highest i'm portance for all Europe were held here. Wars were started here, conspiracies matched, re- volts crushed. Here Napoleon took his last and overwhelmingly sad farewell of his little son, the king of Rome. Here Louis XIV had his first secret rendezvous with the beau tiful Louise de la Valliere. Here sat the Empress Eugenie listening to the reports of Marshal MacMahon and Marshal Bazaine who told her in 1870 that the French armies would be in Berlin in three months time and that the French army was so perfect that not a single button was lacking on the gaiters of the soldiers. Here also lived that unfortunate Louis XVI and the Queen Marie Antoinette in their last days, shorn of glory no longer monarchs, just the Capet family Announcement is made by the ministry oi arts and education that there will be no tam pering with historical relics and that the rem ovation will be carried under the strictesi supervision. And the question comes logical | ly: "When is the United States going to have v,in;skev of arta and education Y' Even The Gods Had TOOthache A learned scientist tells discriminating audience in this country that pathological ex. animation of the mummies from the royal tombs in Egypt reveals the fact that several of the pharaOs had cancer and other dis cases One architect, famous in antiquity Il had suffered from gout Besides his physi- cal condition this fact was borne out by the huge collection of filled flasks and bottles ltumblers and botaIs that he had caused to be ] entombed with him. He figured on con tinuing the pleasant pasttime of drinking in the next world and probably hoped to do il 1 there undisturbed and free from the agonizing distress of gout. The surprise in the profes' sor's announcement is not that the ancients had diseases, but that their nature could be determined after thousands of years. As far as disease is concerned we know from Homer that even the immortal gods wree not exempt from physical pain. Did not Jupiter him. self suffer one day from sudden headache which became so bad that he summoned all the gods to Mount Olympus for divine council of his ailment?
 Copyright, 1924).
 
 Why 'KNOT?"
 There was little girl,
 Deep in the social whirl.
 l Who couldn't tie knot: Slip knot,
 Love knot What! Not
 Any Knot?
 l At last she met churl, And with her heart a-whirl, She tied a perfect "beau" knot.- George w. Lyon.
 BOB'S HOBGOBLIN.
 Big Business" is the hobsoblin conjured up by designing politicians to frighten little minds into political hysterics.-Omaha Bee
 ENOUGH TO GO AROUND
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