Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-27
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

consolidated Features-WNU servics.)
NEW YORK.-Gen. Emilio de
~ Bono, taking command of
Italy's southern armies with her en-
try into the war, is said to have had
De Bono First to tine and str rongest
Nail Empire on seizure of en-
Fascist MASTHEAD piritls In
those parts.
Now rs years old, a tiny man,
scarcely taller than Italy's little
king, he has been built up as rough
and-tumble wildcat fighter, a legend
which he sustains by ferocious activ-
ity. They benched him in the mid
die of the Ethiopian conquest be-
cause, he complained, the Ethio-
plans wouldn't step out and fight.
They sent in Gen. Pietro Badoglio
and he finished them with poison
gas.
Early in 1895, General De
Bono recorded his hearts desire
in Mussolini's political review,
Gerarchia, as follows: "One
proclaims, even shouts, often
and perhaps too much, a beau
tiful word that have personally
promised myself not to pro-
nOunce or write any more un-
less it is on the day where one
can by direct action give a real
reason to the why of this great
word. Oh, well, although old, I
will live to see that day."
The word so hallowed he dared
not write it was-"Empire."
The pint-size general was one of
the original quadrumvirate of Fas-
cism and is said to have been the
first to nail the empire slogan on
the Fascist masthead. This writer
remembers having seen him once
an extraordinarily active, bright
eyed, talkative little man, with a
neat white beard-a few hours after
a mob of young blackshirts had
wrecked the house of former Pre-
mier Nitti, in Florence, and slit to
shreds his classical library of books
which ranged back to the Fifteenth
century.
In 1926 General De Bono was
charged with knowledge Of the
political kidnapping and murder
of the Deputy Matteoti. There
was latent opposition to Fascism
then, and; II Duce hastily sent
his little wildcat general to At
RIGA. The incident was forgot
ten and the general went to
work getting Africa ready for
empire day. He was the Fas-
cist chief of police in the early
days of the regime and built up
the Italian Cheka. He entered
the Milan Military academy at
the age of IL, and has put in his
entire career in the army.
THOMAS MAST, the hornet who
l. stung Boss Tweed, is perhaps
the best precedent for David Low.
Similarly, the British cartoonist has
artoonist Lou D pee cen ! s' Il : ing
Early Touched "Apo1ogia
Up Fifth Column G e aanex,
years. A brief cable today reports
the telling effect Of his cartoons in
stirring a new surge of anger
against the trimmers and side-step-
pers of the immediate pre-war
years. Correspondents score this on
the side of new unity and fighting
spirit.
The quiet, bearded Briton
with a big black hat touched
up the fifth column long before
the Norway debacle. Visiting
the United States in October,
1896, he said: "We're becoming
a world of stool pigeons. There
are too many white rats loose
everywhere. Pm pessimistic.
We'd better get ready to save
what we have. That goes for
the U. S. A., too. People who
believe in civilization don't know
what's happening to it. They'd
better find out. Pm trying to
tell them"
During the last two years, his
ten-strike cartoons have been car
ried on the cables and widely re-
produced in this country, the first
to be thus distinguished. They have
found publication in many other
countries-signed LOW" as the
David has long since been dropped.
He says people have to learn to
laugh to win war, and adds, "We
laugh too much from our back teeth
and too little from our stomachs. ;"
He is Of Shakespearian aspect and
says that his neat little beard is in
Difference to the bard and not Mos
COW. He was born in Dunedin, New
Zealand, in 1891 and began his ca
reer as cartoonist with the Sgd
ney (Australia) Bulletin.
6" HE Beautiful Girl of the Bow
i cry Run" heads the move of
the American Medical Women's as
sociation to get military rating for
women physicians in government
service, and to prepare women doc
tors and dentists for effective war
work-if necessary. The above des-
ignation was that of DR.. Emily D,