Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23


men.
| machines can be standardized and
| turned out upon a pattern one after
another in a series. Men cannot be
turned out like that. The effort is
sometimes made. 1t fails. Then there
| is the factor of time.
| "A machine can be made In year.
Frederick the Great calculated that 1t
| took 18 years to turn out a man for
his army in the loves. grades And
| it takes more than IS years to turn
| out the right kind Of man. Men make
machines. but machines do not make
men.
Woe to a world that sets out to
produce men and ends only in produc-
ing machines
But does not Fascism tend to re-
duce life to the uniformity of ma
chine? Does it not exact machine
like obedience from .men?"
Mussolini smiled, this time indul-
gently "Fascism is opposed to exces-
sive individualism. 1t is not opposed
believe in variety, differentiation, the
essential inequality of man.
What impresses me about our, own
century In history is the same mess
it has established in life all over the
world. In past ages, when men went
from one country to another they
were impressed by the differences they
discovered Today, they are aston
ished by the points of resemblance be-
tween countries sometimes very re-
mote from one another.
Folklore Being Obliterated.
THE folklore Of the races is being
obliterated because capitalism, as it is
called, tends to make the life of the
whole world uniform. There is a gem
eral leveling. We seem to live all over
the world in terms of the same rhythm.
We read the same news. We eat the
same food, even if some of us avoid
meat. We wear the same clothes.
we believe in the right of the in
dividual to lead it's own life. so long
as its interests do not conflict with
those of the state''
us it possible to find a formula to
reconcile Fascism and personal lib
erty?"
Again a smile, this time somewhat
cryptic.
THE conception of liberty is not
absolute because there Is no concep-
ton that can be absolute. Liberty
changes its form as time changes
the face upon civilization. What is
liberty in time of peace is not liberty
in time of war. There is liberty in
good times when all things can be
gained easily, but this is not the same
as the liberty enjoyed in hard times.
Liberty is even at times
struggle between the individual and
the state. between the STATE that
seeks to centralize and the Individual
who seeks to remain unhampered by
authority.
Liberty Not Foe of Discipline.
For the individual, left to himself.
is one who. unless he be a saint or
hero, will pay no taxes, will obey
no laws, will enlist in no war. He
calls this characterization bv the
name of liberty.
Liberty does not exclude discf-
pine. Many there are who love dis.
cipline until 1T imposes its rigors
upon themselves.
Democracy" Mussolini continued,
does not really know half the time
what it wants, but when it knows
what 1t wants it is Irresistible. The
problem of democracy is to find out
what 1t wants.
THE eighteenth and the nine
teenth centuries experimental with
democracy. In the twentieth con.
fury democracy should reach it's
AAi0taiA Is' II A1usI ma OUT what II
wants. In Italy, Fascism is the self
realization of democracy. The
twentieth will be the century OF
Fasicisms
will Fascism Tighten the gloom
which you predict for the immediate
future of our country? Will it make
the fate of our average man less
hard?"
New Kind of Poetry.
1T WILL Mussolini replied. More.
over. the statement that times nre
nard may only indicate an increase
In the scale of our wants. There
may be greater prosperity than ever
before in the worlds history neutral
ized by the rise in the standard of
living.
"The standard Of living NAV be
the unsupported cause of hard times.
To maintain the twentieth century
family standard of living, it may be
necessary for husband and wife both
10 labor. In the morning he may
leave the home early to go to the
factory. She may leave the home
Just as early to go to the office.
Some people complain that this
state Of things is taking the poetry
out of life,
Never
There lis simply a new kind of
poetry. Every age has its own school
of poetry. The poetry Of the middle
ages made the marriage tie a matter
OF staying at home. The new poetry
puts life upon another plane.
Life in the twentieth century may
be hard, but 1t will not be lacking in
romance"
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