New Britain herald., 1927-01-13

NIHlS IS lue elStH or series or articles of his daily life and work ty Benito Mussolini, as told to Thomas B. Morgan, Rome manager of the United Press. Each article in this series has been personally re- vised, corrected and approved by Premier Mussolini.)
 One very useful assistance in pushing forward the ways work has resulted from our efforts to reduce the amount of talk to a minimum. The government offices were form erly the abode of babbling tell-tales who dwelled on political gossip or hearsay from morning till night, commenting and recommending, forecasting and adjudicating, taking up the governments time and i'm peding the business of state. From my office down, this prevalence of wasted discourse is now at an end. Government employees cannot en- gage in protracted political chatter on the governments time. I am. severely and pre- eminently no eX- ception to this rule.
 Speeches occupied no little part of a premier's time under the old regime. Some of them made it their principal activity. They de- voted days and days to a singles speech, copying and recopying, changing and adjusting, so as to make great display before the peo- pie. Some even based their capacity to hold the offices of premier on their ability to make a speech. Their administrative functions were subordinated to their oratical repu tations and the government thus suffered for the lack of thorough administrative policy. There is none of that today. Speech-making has been relegated to the background.
 There was a period in which fascism was entrenching it's position. Then it was necessary to carry the people, the meaning of our govern- ment. At that time, first for the in spiration of our own adherents, and secondly, for the instruction of the people, there was real need to tell the people why we had assumed power and what we intended to do for the good of Italy. Today, our mission is well-known and accepted by all classes of the people. There is no need of flowery orations and exhortations. We have translated into acts what we promised in words.
 This spirit of doing and not talk ing has permeated not alone the government organization but also the ranks of the people, high and low. It runs deep in the affairs of the fascist party, from those who direct it to those who serve in the ranks. I have given implicit orders that all oratory and celebrations are 10 be dispensed wit hand have estab- lished that this is the hour of work and that speeches and ceremony can be postponed until after the work was done.
 A recent example of how the spirit of silent work has thoroughly saturated our people, is shown in the construction of the new railroad along the Ionian sea in Calabria. The work of constructing this rail- road has gone on silently and laborl- ously for many months. Thirteen new and extensive bridges have been built and yet, not in single case was there a speech delivered. where as, formerly such events were ac- companied by orations and the flare of trumpets, the clapping of hands and great shouts of joy. The joy was there and the events popular, but no speeches overdid it with use less words.
 Recently, we set up seventeen new provinces to facilitate the adminis- tration of these localities. Such events were usually accompanied by great outpourings, parades and speeches, yet in not one of these new provinces which were overjoyed and rang all the bells of the ancient cathedrals was there any sign of oratical display and all in compli- ance with the new spirit of silent work. The administration of these provinces was organized and set to work without occasioning the slight est furry on the part of the popu- lation, which continued at their tasks more actively than ever, as a thanksgiving for their new dignity.
 While this new feeling has taken root in workshop and field, it has also embedded itself in the upper branches of the government Hith- erto, the Italian Chamber of Depu- ties and Senate were haunts where the politician could pour forth for hours on some unimportant theme for the sole purpose of parading his oratory before the nation. Days and weeks and sometimes months would be spent in the discussion Of a single measure. The members of both branches of parliament applied themselves listlessly to the proceed ings. Some brought their Gtest novels, others their correspondence which had accumulated for weks. others found it comfortable to take their afternoon naps-all, While some one was discoursing fervently upon some trifling theme to what were really, the bare benches. This system was exploited for the sole l purpose of Haunting the oratory of the members upon the public, for the days proceedings were always voluminously reported through many columns daily in the press.
 It used to be great discomfort for me to attend the Chamber before I assumed the Premiership. ] could hardly sit through those intending sessions where nothing for days and days was ever accomplished. When I became premier, it became an amusement for we still had the old alignments of parties and the ora tory continued to flow. It was a di- version to answer the attacks and to go straight to point instead of theorizing and dallying over incense quential points. It was necessary to bring the theorists to the plane of