The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-14
Observations
White Margarine
Found to be Very
DiSpiriting
BY HELEN ESSARY
by HELEN EssARY


Dear OfA-
Not that the complaint is too
Important, but could bear up
better under the yicissitudes OF
getting enough 10 eat II the mar
Karine were less white. Lately
my margarine hasn't come with
ooloring matter There is some
Thug so dispiritin' about a slab Of
flat pallid substance on what used
10 be your bread and butter plate
/ do not like my margarine 10
have a cold cream personality.
Why. dear OPA, don't you save
q little OF the deep yellow coloring
which is used 10 make green
organizes appear ripe and doctor up
the butter substitutes This re
minds me, there has never been any
rationing OF orange paint! mean
paint for oranges. How come -
H +.
NOW TO SOMETHING SER
IOUS, To a thought that con
tinues 10 run through my mind.
! keep wondering II the postwar
world will be swept by a witch
burning ware. am about con
WINGED OF this possibility since the
lynching OF Mussolini and his mis-
tress, Claretta Petacci
The killing OF the man who once
was Italy's idol. however evil he
had become and OF the woman on
whom he had openly sQuandered
his country's money, was evidence
OF the disgust OF thousands OF
Italians
Also il was evidence OF more
than lawlessness and utter mob
rule. Il proved that the everyday
people we're so fed UP with the
degradation symboliEed by Mus
solini and his kind that they had 10
wipe II out with insane hate.
Here is no new evil in which nu-
mainly may engage. According 10
the Law Of averages the pendulum
must swing back to decency. But
meanwhile outbreaks OF hysteria
may be expected.
The pendulum swung back before
in Italy when Savanarola cleaned
up some OF the national filth. once
upon a time the people Of England.
France and Russia sickened Of
monarchs and Topped on assorted
heads.
Perhaps again the tide Of an
xuished disgust with things as they
have been will hnd the world seer
ing ont goodness-and even a reck-
less dash OF old -tims virtue
l TALKED TO AN ITALIAN
GENTLEMAN about the killing OF
Mussolini. He expressed revulsion
at the behavior OF some OF his coun-
trymen. He said it must be re-
membered that Mussolini had once
been supported by millions Of TIA
lians. This, OF course. was in the
early days of II Duce. Mussolini
then appeared 10 have a sincere
wish TO help his countrymen. And
did help.
Later he became q victim OF his
own intolerable vanity. He be
lieved hin self TO be. great lover
and thought ne was a genius Al
statecraft. as well. Such q com
bination OF talent is rare indeed.
Being a dictator like MusSolini
requires control OF the mob. said
my Italian friend To have control
one must know the mind OF the
people who made up the mob.
o woman is to be controlled -
sharply q quote my Latin friend
not my own convictions) The
aging Mussolini did not rule his
people nor his women Claretta
Petacci was influenced by her
brother and by many men who
managed. through her, TO get fayors
from Mussolini.
This situation the Italian people
knew ard brooded upon. II finally
drove them TO a vengetul frenzy
against Signora Petaoci and Mus
solini that will long be a dark
stAin on Italian history. II will