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Evening star., 1928-10-14

preston of the man. Benito Mussolini
did not strike me as nervous. tempers-
mental and impulsive. though ] do
not doubt that he is On the con-
trary. he was soft-spoken, slow-moving
and rather cautious. He had perfect
poise. He seemed more like tired
business man deeply preoccupied with
his enormous job than the stern. merci-
less dictator of the popular fancy. To
be sure, his large bulging eyes, mas
sive jaw and pugilistic shoulders be-
spoke energy and strength, but his be-
havior was calm, practical and careful.
In dress he was rather ordinary.
Denies Fascism Is Paternalism.
He wore dark gray suit, soft collar
and plain blue tie. He was not shaved.
He moved about slowly. thought a great
deal and seldom raised his voice above
a whisper Many of my questions he
answered with a shrug of the Shoul-
ders or a characteristic wave of the right
hand. He was never excited. Even
the subject of his enemies, which is said
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to be his soft spot. failed to disturb
him. The only time he betrayed a
certain impatience was when described
Fascism as paternalism. This he did
not like. Otherwise he had an air of
tolerance and understanding. which was
the last thing in the world had ex-
pected he would display.
The Duce'S cabinet, known as the
chamber of victory, is on the second
floor of the Palazzo Chigi. 1t is here,
in this artistic palace, that the black
smiths son and former soapboX orator
receives the numerous callers who come
TO him from all parts of the world. The
chamber is an austere, medieval room
at least four times the size of the New
York Office. Mussolini's desk, which is
singularly free of papers. books and
other paraphernalia suggesting active
work, is at the extreme right hand cor
ner as you enter, about 100 feet from
the door. Directly to the right of it is
a splendid bust of Marcus Aurelius and
in the distance a portrait of Austen
Chamberlin. The Duce meets his call
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Canada's memorial to her $4,000 sons
who died in the Great War is the Vic
tory Tower in the Parliament buildings
at Ottawa The tower contains a me-
n1orial chamber and has been given a
rnighty voice in the form of carlton
comprising So bells.
The carlton recitalS given through
out the Summer months from the
"Singing Tower" are becoming re-
rowned, the audiences coming from far
and wide. The largest bell of the
carlton weighs 22,400 pounds and is
100 inches in diameter. The weight of
The smallest bell is 10 pounds and
diameter 8 inches.
The bells are of exceptionally pure
tone and exact tuning. incidentally,
the carlton is keyboard instrument
of gigantic proportions, the sound me-
dunn being the bells, which are ar
ranged in chromatic sequence.
The keys. little wooden handles at
pinch intervals. have depth of
stroke OF about 2 inches. They are
connected to the bell clappers by the
simplest possible system Of wires. the
descent Of the key Nulling the clapper
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Japan's Birth Rate
Now Shows Decrease

For the first time in many years.
Japans birth rate has shown an an.
nual decrease, according to figures Of
,r 1ne statistics bureau Of the cabinet.
ms Is an encouraging sign, for ia
pans population problem has long been
serious in this small island empire
with its 100000 residents. The de-
crease is the first noticed since the
present system of taking population
statistics was adopted in this coun-
try 80 years ago. In 1927 births to-
taled 2,059,364 - 1,048,2S0 male and
!,0l1,O9 female-a decrease Of 45,O4I
In comparison with that Of 1926, which
was 2.l04,405. The number of deaths
last year totaled .209, ,3l3-62i ,345 male
and 587,96s female-an increase of a.
579 over 1925. The increase in popu-
lation during the last year was $50, 0,051.
The rate of increase was reduced by
93,620. in comparison with that Of 1926,
due to both increased mortalities and
fewer births.
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cIuoed, for the Americans living In the
Islands, and the natives as we'll, want
our motor cars, radios and other luxI-
res along with necessities. The item
oI trucks, busseS. passenger cars and
tnooor az o car accessories in 1927 reached
%So'ZSo'lzo This comes under the
heading of machinery and vehicles
what We bought from Porto Rico in
ciuoeS fruits and preparations, s6.s17,-
VI; tobacco and manufactures. sI0-
o8o' o'5o4; cotton and manufactures. So
4So'oo4, and hides and skins. straw
nats. woods, buttons, alcohol and many
otner commodities. The largest SINGLE
item was sugar. Of which we BOUGHT
So5,336.712 worth Coffee accounfed
ior Sl,678.0S6, and 1t is reported that
the hurricane did especially heavv dam
age to the coffee plantations,
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BY EDWARD CORSI.

A BOUT a week before my inter-
" view with Mussolini I had a
"A talk with Enrico Ferri. The
4 L gray-haired disciple of Lom-
broso. who says that he is not
a Fascist only because he is too old
to be one, discussed the Duce, whom
he compared with Caesar. Cromwell
and Napoleon. from physiological
standpoint. "All men," he said, may
be classified into four distinct groups
sanguine, bilious, Emphatic and nerv-
Gus. Mussolini is a pronounced nervous
type. man of action with an un-
usual thyroid gland. which accounts
for his phenomenal energy, Moreover,
he is a young man. an italian, and a
son of Romagna, with nervous tenn
permanent and an impulsiveness which
all Romagnoli inherit from their Gallo
ancestors"
This description was interesting but
it failed to conform with my own i'm
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Note.--The Star today presents the
0rst Of a series, of articles dealing with
Mussolini and the operation in italy of
Fascism. At the request of the Italian
government Edward Corsi visited Italy
and made a complete survey of the
country. its political. social religious
and industrial conditions He inter-
in this article the interview with Mus
solini is siyen as the prelude to those
states the principles and aspirations of
Fascism. Mr.. Corsi in his later articles
tnality. The Star. in publishing this
series. does not commit itself in any
way to the conclusions. of the author,
In this connection it must be added
that Mr. Corsi. director of Haarlem
House in New York. is an italian of
prominence in America. He has been
resident there all his life, is ersduate
of Fordham and editor of La ,Follia, the
largest Italian weekly in the United
States. In his own words he is neither
a Fascist nor an snti-Fascist." and
these articles will reflect mis- own OBJ
Servations.
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r VAIL America! The gangs COM
ing back home! /
It is quite gang, the biggest
L tourist gang in cabin history
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BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

w WITHIN few hours after the
a I smoke of the presidential
W. battle has cleared away an
other American campaign
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scrape Off the Barnacles

Some of the over-zealous vociferators who are
supporting Hoover in danger of nsrespresenting
him to the public by their fanatcal attacks on Smith
Especially is this true of some of the noisy representa-
tives of the Anti-Saoon League, who evidently hope
to hold their grip on the Republican party.
Perhaps it might be nearer to the truth to say
that they are keeping in the limelight in intense
eagerness to hold to their jobs.
Hoover may be dryer than Smith, but certainly he
isn't as unreasonable about it or as fanatical in his
zeal as are Mcbride, Cannon, Nicholson and others
To refer to prohibition as an experiment that has
noble purpose doesn't imply that Hoover is everlast-
ingly committed to the experiment If it fails to &C
complish its noble purpose.
Certainly there is nothing in Hoover's private or
public career that indicates that he would ram down
the peoples Threats anything they convinced him
they didn't want. 1t isn't in the nature Of the marN
or in his Quaker training to find any enjoyment in
reforming his fellow citizens with a club.
Nor is it in his mental makeup to justify cam
paign of billingsgate and coarse abuse against his
political opponent. Hoover is instinctivey gentle
man in the best sense of that word, which is more
than can be said of some Of the Anti-Saloon League
ranters who act and talk if they desperately were
striving to their jobs
Probably they hate Smith more than they love
Hoover for they must know Hoover we'll enough to
know that he himself will be President if elected,
and that he is too intelligent and too courageous to
turn the White House over to faratical reformers
and let them put the Anti-Saloon League ring in his
official nose
Coarse abuse of Smith won't hurt Smith or help
Hoover In the long run it probably won't help those
who indulge in it.
If the Democrats get the political preachers off
the partys back in this campaign, it will be easier
for the Republicans to do the thing later on.
The sooner the better.
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rt-Sighted Suspicious

The Federal Power Commission is unable to carry
out of the most important provisions Of the law
which it was created to administer,
This provision calls for supervision of accounts of
funds actually invested in hydro-eecric enterprises
licensed under the Federal water power act.
If these accounts are not checked by the commits
sion, all sorts of doubtful investments" be in
cluded in the total which rates are based and the
total which the Government will have to pay if it
should take the hydro-eecric plants at the end
of the license period, provided by the law.
With only four accountants available for checking
the accounts of hydro-electric companies claiming
total investment Of about $675Oooo00, the commits
sion asked the last Congress for authority to employ
additional help to do the job.
Congress refused. Some Southern Democrats de-
clared the commission seeking to build up bu-
reaucracy and invade the rights of the State, and
some misguided progressves considered the commits
sion too friendly to private power interests warrant
support.
1t is no more interference with States rights of
course, to keep an accurate check the investment
accounts of companies licensed by the Federal Gov
eminent than it is to take census.
And assuming, for the sake of argument, that the
Federal Power Commission is a reactionary body,
that's no possible excuse for drawing a curtain of
darkness over the accounts of the companies with
which it deals.
Every month of delay in providing the power COM
vestment accounts will increase the difficulty of
scramblng the accounts and fighting out the newt
able legal issues involved.
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Peril of Single Ideas

Whatever else may be said about
it, the complexity of modern life has
done much to make us decent, pa
tient and tolerant.
We have no time to become IA
natical, and that is the real reason
we do not.
Fanaticism has always flourished
among people who had little to dis
tract their attention, whose exist
ence was so drab and monotonous
that they found it easy to visualize
human fate as dependent on some
single idea.
The march of progress has forced
us to admit that no matter how
good ideas may be, it takes a lot of
them to produce civilized life and
keep it going. We can not pick out
any particular idea and fool with it
long enough to get excited over it,
without losing our place in the line,
or getting run over.
Those who keep up with the pro-
cession, who make anything of
themselves, who know what is 60
ing on, are compelled to become
catholic in their taste and attitude.
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NNE crisis follows another. No
~ sooner do we settle down to
mourn over Obregon nan big
Bill' Tilden is barred from the
Davis cup matches, and no sooner
are we ready to fight over that
than Tex Rickard announces he
will get out an injunction against
Gene Tunney if he cannot prevent
the latter from coming to his
match with Heeney in an airplane
any other way.
The God-saving grace Of modern
life lies in the fact that it leaves
us little time to get nutty over
particular events. Stop the parade,
and a good many more of us would
be cutting paper dolls.
Lack of excitement, which means
lack of news, was what made the
old boys fall for so many decisions
Looked at one way it seems
ridiculous that Tilden's exclusion
from a tennis match and Tex
Richards proposed injunction,
should divide honors with Obregon's
assassination, but if they did not,
the latter might grow to mean too
much.
Less tragic events have thrown
the world out OF balance for no
better reason than that men had
too little else to think about.
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Coal Miners Accept Defeat

In abandoning their thirty-year- policy of in
sisting on national wage scale, the heads of the
United Mine Workers have taken step that is GER
tain to have momentous effect on the soft coal in
dustry.
With each of the thirty-one union districts free
to make its own wage arrangements, impetus is given
to the competitive frenzy which already has reduced
the industry to such wretched state.
The miners union by insistance a national wage
scale, had sought to provide at least stable ee
ment in the industry. 1t has failed
Now miners wages in the union fields will be fixed
as part of scramble, with one district played off
against another in wage negotiations.
In Ohio, parts of Pepr 5ylvaria, and some of the
adjacent fields this probably will pave the way for
miners who have been wagng hopeless strike for
fifteen months to go back to work at reduced wages
Then, since wages are about 70 per cent of the
cost of producing at the Mines the Southern
union mines shortly will begin to feel the pinch Of
low labor cost competition in the north.
Having wrecked the mine unions wage policy by
their relentless competition the Southern operators
may reap the whirlwind they have sown. Some of
them may end their coal mining career in the bank
ruptcy courts, whittier they have sent many
Northern operators.
This heightened North-South competitive struggle
unquestionably will bring the interstate commerce
commission farther toward the center of the fray,
through increased efforts of the Southern operators to
have their former favorable freight rate derentials
restored Soft coal will have increased attention in
the national political political
In the meantime the miners, through successive
wage reductions will continue to stand the brunt OF
the
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To Anemia Sufferers

that recent discoveries regarding the value of liver
in the treatment of perniciors anema have caused
flooding of the market with many remedies OF very
doubtful value.
The magazine points out that while liver and liver
extract are of remarkable value to sufferers from
perncious anemia they should never be used except
on the advice of doctor Many anenia sufferers, as
well as people who think they have anemia, but
really have something else, buying utterly worth
less compounds under the belief that they buying
liver extract
Liver has remarkable value in the treatment of
this disease But it should be taken under the direc
ton of physician. Don't go to the corner drug store
and try to be your own specialist with the aid Of
patent medicine.
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Campaign Predictions

Politicians are chronic victims of habit. Some Of
them hand out the same old bunk in every presiden-
tal election When one of them from one State or
another meets one of the candidates, either Hoover
or Smith, he tells him that his particular State is all
right and is dead to give the candidate whoever
he happens to be, big majority.
Except in States that overwhelmingly one thing
the other politically, the politician doesn't know
anything about it, of course. Nobody knows what
slant the election may take especially this early in
the game
Many things may happen to change the current
of public opnion-things politician can anticipate.
It is possible for landslide way the other,
and enough can be guessed to indicate that it is
going to be fight and not foot race.
These pleasant prophecies, given with so much as
surance, don't mean thing, however much they may
tickle the yearnng ears of the hopeful candidates.
And everybody concerned knows it. They are part Of
the fixed furniture of political campaigns, part Of
the pap handed out for public consumption
However they may give the candidate little thrill
of hope and they do no particular HARM because
everybody knows just how little serious attention they
deserve as predictions based upon hope and not upon
knowledge.
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Throwing Off the Yoke

It is easy enough for us to sit
down and work out paper schemes
by which the Mexican government
could have bought the great estates
and divided them without confu-
sion; easy enough to prove why
there was no need of war, and what
lot of useless sacrifice has been
made
All that is because we do not
know our Mexico, do not realize
what a handicap Spanish civiliza-
ton imposed upon her, and what
heroic measures were required to
overcome it,.
Mexico is following the trail
blazed by France in 1879. What we
are pleased to scott at as her radi-
calism is merely the logical reac-
ton of down trodden people who
have lived and died under the re-
straints and restrictions of ruth
less aristocracy.
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middle of the line and just below it you will notice
small and faint star 1t is a fourth magnitude star
and therefore little hard to find You can identify
it, however by it's orange hue.
This star marks the tip of the tail of the dragon.
It's is Gisnsar Arabic name meaning "the
poison place" So you will see that this dragon was
supposed to be very dangerous one with sting in
its tail.
Now starting with Giansar, trace the coils of the
dragon down the sky between the Big and Little Dip
pers.
After Giansar comes uninportant fourth mag
nitude star. Astronomers call it Kappa, the Greek
letter for "K."
After Kappa comes pale yellow fourth magnitude
star This is Thuban a most interesting star
Next the dragon curls about the bowl of the Little
Dipper though at distance from it, Three stars
mark this part of the constellation
The first CT these three is named Ed Asch.
Strangely enough, this name the male Hyena"
1t bears testimony to the fact that the Arabs did not
always regard this constellation as a dragon.
Opposite the middle of the handle of the Little
Dpper the dragon makes another bend and winds
his way down the sky again. There six stars in
this part of the constellation all of them rather faint
The constellation continues to very faint star a
fifth magnitude star which is about on line with
formation of four stars These four constitute the
head.
The accompanying illustration shows the stars and
their names as well as the dragon which the Greeks
thought they formed.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
EncebhalitiS Attacks ON. Mental Forces

with that form of sleeping sick
ness which occurs in Africa due to
a germ that is transmitted by the
tsetse fly.
The African disease bears no rela-
tionship to lethargic encephalis.
The epidemic encephalitic disease
spread rapidly over Europe and
early in 1919 invaded the United
States 1t is now appearing through
out the world, and it is impossible
to predict its extent or limitations.
The cause is thus far not def
nitely established although bacteri-
ologic studies have indicated it's
germ origin.
Unlike meningitis and infantile
paralysis, this disease attacks the
brain more than it does the spinal
cord.
AS a result, all sorts of unusual
symptoms appear, including paraly-
sis, disorders of sensation, double
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40 Acres and a Mule

There has been great deal OF
meaningless bloodshed in Mexico
and there have been offshoots of
the revolutionary movement which
served no other purpose than to ele-
vate unworthy leaders.
Underlying it all, however, there
has been clean-cut desire to re-
shape the economic structure in
such a way as would give millions
of poverty-stricken people an OPP
portunity to better themselves.
Much as the idea of forty acres
and mule" for each peon has been
ridiculed, it not only played a big
part in molding popular opinion.
but visualized a solution of the land
problem that was sensible and i'm
perative.
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Need World Contact

MeXico's weakness-the thing that
has held her back, the thing that
makes the present situation par
ticularly dangerous-is lack of those
facilities by which people can keep
in touch with each other and the
outside world.
Too many Mexicans are still
forced to live in dangerous degree
of isolation and poverty, still COM
PEELED to dwell too much with their
own thought, and still exposed to
the influence of catch phrases and
cure-allS.
The kind of gospel they need is
the kind the peon can translate into
three square meals for his family
and a little wholesome recreation on
the side, the kind of missionary
work that would do them the most
good is the kind that engineers
and scientists can perform with the
help of capital
That is What this so-called revolu-
tionary movement has been trying
to give them, what made Oregon
an idol and what accounts for
Gales political hold. The order of
Diaz and those who came before
him, the order inherited from Span
ish rule, was, stagnating in its effect.
When he authorized the establish
ment Of public school system, Diaz
said that he had probably done
something which would mean his
own destruction, and that is the
way Mexican leaders of his type felt
about every modern innovation.
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Sane Enforcement

Word comes from Buffalo, N Y, that Jacob D.
Hanson, a reputable citizen shot May by coast
guardsmen who suspected him of being rum run
ner is dying. Hanson is entirely blind, and most of
the time he is in a state of coma.
Hanson, it will be recalled, fired on after he
had refused to stop at the command of the two
officers, whom he took to be bandits.
Meantime DR.. James M Doran, the prohibition
commissioner has issued written memorandum
warning agents that drastic action will be taken unless
extreme caution is observed in the use of firearms.
The promscuous hourishing and display of fire
is forbidden Doran reminds his force. Weapons
never should be drawn except in self-defense or to
prevent commission Of felony.
The agent is not to jeopardize his safety, but
extreme caution and cool elaboration should control
mis- actions Officers will be held strictly accountable
and personally responsible for any fatal results from
the use of firearms.
Doran's warning may indicate the beginning of
sanity in the enforcement of prohibition. Had such
policies been stressed from the beginning, tragedies
like that Of Hanson, of which there have been many,
would not have occurred.
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vision, tremors and serious disturb
ances of mental power and moral
character.
Since there are many conditions
that may also affect the brain, con-
fusion sometimes results in differ
entiating epidemic encephalitis
from other brain disorders.
The sinister character of this dis
ease has attracted studies by the
best scientific minds and labora-
tories in the world.
Month by month, day by day, new
contributions are being made which
point toward the possibility Of
eventual scientific control.
Today the physician does what
he can to diagnose the disease, so
prevent it's spread to others, and
by the use of scientifically estab-
lished remedies to control the vari-
Gus symptoms in so far as possible
as they develop.