New Britain herald., 1927-01-06

tThis is the second of a series of artices on his daily life and work by Benito Mussolini, as told to Thomas B. Morgan, Rome manager of the United Press. Each article in this series has been personally revised, corrected and approved by Premier Mussolini
 My day is divided into one hour of recreation, seven hours of sleep and from fourteen to sixteen hours or work. Eating is very, very minor function in my eXistenee,- it is a matter of minutes. This arrangement. l have discovered by experience, is the best adopted my particular needs and enables me to perform the greastest output Of work while keeping my body we'll conditioned for the free and better tunctioning of the brain.
 The nature of my daily toll does not permit me to engage in those forms Of recreation which require time and teams. My recreation is increasing my potentiality for work and is not actuated by the pure amusement of the thing. Sport cannot be q pastime for me for l must choose that sport, which best fits my needs, that is, a recreation, Q diversion which is both a mental relaxtion and a physical good, pro- 1iy n the most in productivity. It must De q means to an end.
 From time to time, I have tried various forms of sport. I enjoy fencing. It eXcites me. The clash Of steel thrills. I vibrate with emotions. I delight in it. and am giving a certain amount of credit for being rather skillful in it. Fencing is a form of eXecrise winch keeps one on the alert, brings into play most of the muscles of the body and trains the eye to exactness and quickness of perception. It has many advantages and, except for the fact that it is a sport which must ne practiced indoors, would enlist ne more regularly in it's use.
 Would Like to Box
 Boxing is sport to which l am greatly inclined. l am a great admir- CT of the manly art It not alone brings practically all the muscles both of limb and trunk into action but has marked utility in the or dinary coming and going of human life. It promotes comhativeness and activity of body and mind, induces rapid decisions and increase agility. would box more, but the call of the open lures me to the freshness of the fields and woods.
 I am lover of all sports. would gladly play golf. tennis, football. if my time would permit. I swim and like the sea, a heritage of race. for we Italians are by nature sea-dogs from the beginning of time.
 Today the sport which I find most adapted to my needs and certainly acceptable to my tastes is that Of horseback riding. I devote my one precious hour allowed by my rigid daily schedule to that sport. It con- Lines a surety to physical fitness with a generous measure of mental relaxation. I am supremely devoted to it. I love horses, I love the eN- ercise, love the out doors and the thrill of the gallop and the jump.
 My love for horses dates back to my childhood. l remember. for 1t is indelibly impressed upon my mind, when I was five. how l was first placed on a horse and learned to trot and gallop without a saddle. renewed the sport while a young man. this time using a saddle and getting the thrills of speed and the ioys of the spring of the animal.
 Today, l have q greater love for the horse; it is the emblem of speed and strength. It may be capricious and tricky but disciplined. 1t IS re- sponsive and sure. Unfortunately. it posse sses no sense of humor but what 1t lacks there it more than compensates in its desire to go the limit,-in heavy harness. to pull hard: in war. to follow the enemy in his flight; on the track, to run the fastest.
 My riding now is enjoyed when the joys and thrills of speed and strength return. I get the greatest pleasure in galloping across the fields, where there are plenty of ob- stacles and plenty of space to give the horse a chance to do it's best. My time does not permit me to fol- low the hunt but l know of nothing more thrilling than to be on thf back of fast galloping stced. with a jump and leap increasing the cX- citement.
 Pleasant is Rome and it's eayirons for the horseman. The stretches or plain on the campagna offer the wide expause and natural roughness adapted to the gallop and the jump There is the free straight away to let the animal out. Along the pain of the ancient Romans. the way goes. where the Claudian aqueduct for fifty-one miles. q masterpi"ce of ancient engineering and archltec- ture. still stands. defing the ages. There, we trot on the hridle path Of the Caesars.
 Denies RumorS of Illness
 have six horses in my stable - eour Arab and two Italian. My Arab horses were presented 10 me by Arabian and African sovcreigns ana ra i've chiefs in our African Coloni"S They are the most beautiful animals have ever seen. They are not quite $, high as my two natiY" bred which came to me from the Ministry of the War. The Arabs are splrlt"d aad nervous. ready 10 make dart across the campagna whenever choose. But my favoritc hors" IS the Italian bred Ruzowich. ltE" nun because he is my best companion, knows me, responds to my touch and trots to my taste.