New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 13, 1927, Page 5

“MY TWENTY-FOUR HOURS” By Benito Mussolini, Premier of Italy THOMAS B. MORGAN, Ronie Manager of the United Press Copyright 1927 by United Press Assoclations. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited (This is the ecigth of a series of articles of his daily life and work Benito Mussolini, as told to | Thomas B. Morgan, Rome manager of the United Press. Each article in fhis series has been personally re- | vised, corrected and approved by | Premier Mussolini.) One very useful assistance in pushing forward the way's work has resulted from our efforts to reduce | the amount of talk to a minimum. | The government offices were form- | rly the abode of babbling tell-tales | who dwelled on political gossip or | hearsay from morning till night, commenting and recommenting, forecasting and adjudicating, taking up the government's time and im- 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 government's time. T 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 spee copying and recopying, changing and adjusting, so as to make a great display betore the peo- ple. Some even based their capacity | fo hold the offices of premier on | their ability to make a speech heir administrative functions were subordinated to their oratical repu tations and the government thus suffered for the lack of a 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 its 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 fell the people why we had assumed power and what we intended to do for the good of Itaiy. Today, our | mission is well-known and accepted Dy all classes of the people. There is no need of flowery orations and exhortations. We have translatea into acts what we promised in words. This spirit of doing and not tz ing has permeated not alone the| government organization but also | the ranks of the people, high and low. Tt runs deep in the affairs of | the fascist party, from those who | direct it to those who serve in the ranks. T have given implicit orde {hat all oratory and celebrations arc to 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 Tonian sea in Calabrl The work of constructing this rail- | road has gone on silently and labori- ously for many months, Thirteen uew and extensive bridges have been | built and yet, not in a 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 j The joy | s there and the events popular, but no speeches overdid it with use- less word: Recently, we set up seventeen new provinces to facilitate the adminis tration of these localit Such | events were usually agcompanied by great outpourin ades and | specches, 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 tical display and all in compli- ance with the new spirit of silent | work. The administration of these | provinces org and set to work without occasioning the slight- est flurry 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 itsel in the upper branches of the government. Hith erto, the Ttalian 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 | Loth branches of parliament applied | themselves listlessly to the proceed ings. Some brought their atest novels, others their correspondence which had accumulated for weks, | others found it comfortable to take their afternoon mnaps—all, While some one was discoursing fervently upon some trifling theme to what | were really, the bare benches, This | tem was exploited fér the sole purpose of flaunting the oratory of the members upon the public, for the day's proceedings were always | voluminously reported through many columns daily in the pre It used to be a great discomfort for me to attend the Chamber before | T assumed the Premiership. I could bardly sit through those unending sesslons 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 a point instead of theorizing and dallying over inconse- quential points, Tt was necessary to bring the theorists to the plane of concrete fact and force them to face situations in their stern reality. The Chamber of Deputies and the Senate now function with marked regularity. There is no more of the protracted speeches. The deputies and senators have a revived con- sciousness that their duty is to the nation and not to themselves. The | agenda Is placed before the house and those competent to speak on the measures give their views and the measure is acted upon without those attendant displays of oratory of former days, for which a whole | the former volubility, that the af- | {10 Brothers, Bacon, Keuney | fairs of the government might pro- | explaining that to this custom he | filed here tod; Mr. Callahan died as told to in all parts of the world. system of registry had to be kept that the orators might all speak in in their turn. It is this new spirit of business-ilke service which has pene- trated our people and it is in no place more marked than in the Chamber and Senate. The Deputies and Senators have caught the spirit d perform their functions without ceed with the least possible delay. This spirit has resulted in great saving of time for me. It has not been necessary for me to prepare a speech for either the Chamber of Deputies or the Senate for almost a rear now. The last two addresses I | made were of an educational char- | \cter,—one in Perugia on the open- | ng of the University and the other | in Bologna, before the Ttalian Scien- | | tific Congress, just before an at-| tempt was made on my life. My ad- dresses before the two houses of parliament can now be delivered in a few words. The last time I spoke before the Senate, asking for the passa, of some drastic police measures, I did not say more thar ten words. The time therefore which | was ordinarily spent on the prepara- | | tion of long orations for the pleasure | | of the paliamentarians can now be | devoted to the administration of some practical utility. | And speeches to the Fascist Grand I Council have been cut to a mini- mum. Our work is all prepared and | ed beforehand so that when | who direct the affairs of the | party meet, little time is lost n use- | less rhetoric. Sometimes, it devolves upon me to make a speech to vari- | ous gatherings of fascists, these | speeches are becoming shorter and | shorter. When enthusiastic groups of fascists come to salute me in the | Piazza Colonna and beckon me to | come on to the balcony my words | are few. It is enough to utter a few phrases to give the message and | watch-word of the hour. It has hap- | pened a hundred times, when I have | heen called to the balcony, that I | have simply shouted “No speech! Go | away!” Ttalians have followed my leader- ship and have enlisted in a union which I have called for some fime | “the Corporazione del silenziari.” By that is intended the promotion of acts and the subordination of words. Too long had X discussed | and formulated and pRilosophized. Now we have begun to perform and these performances are making themselves every day more manifest in our increasing production, our in- tensive agriculture, our building of transportation systems, our construc- tion of ships and our manifold ac- | tivities in this complex civilization ltaly is working more and talking less than ever. Iasting two or three times a | month is good for anyone s Premier Mussolinl in his next ar to appear in the Herald tomorrow cribes much of his physical and mental well-being. Mussolini de- clares that he *abhors fat people and has even no sympathy for his brother, Arnauld, who is fat. FormerTl'eacher M;kes Many Public Bequests Springfield, N , Jan, 13 (P) — The interest displayed in his lite- time by John A. Callahan, long principal of the Highland gram- mar school in Holyoke, in assisting | young people to obtain higher edu- | cation was evidenced in his will, recently in Florida and had for some | vears been retired. The will leaves | |t of $16,000 each to Mt. Hol- | yoke, Smith and Amherst colleges and Worcester Polytechnic Insti- tute, the incomes to be devoted to assisting studemts in those colleges who shall have been graduated from | the Highland grammar school and | the Holyoke high school. Mr. Callahan, who amassed a { comfortable fortune through invest- { ment of his earnings in real estafe, assisted many needy college students with loans with the simple provision that the money be returned as the borrower was able to do eo. 'Kneeland Defendant in Two $20,000 Lawsuits | Waterbury, Jan. 13 (®—William | Kneeland of Springfield is defendant | in two suits for $20,000 filed here | vesterday by the estates of Martin de | Lucia and Anthony Musante. Ioth men were killed when a car they were operating crashed into Knee- |land’s truck in Yalesville. Musante | lived in Meriden and De Lucia in this cit | TWO DIE IN FIRE Syracuse, N. Y., Jan. 13 (P—Two | children were burned to death and their mother suffered a broken arm in jumping from a window after an unsuccessful effort to save them | | from fire which burned the Adiron- | dack Tnn and a dwelling house at | prospect, near Ut sterday morn- ing. The father ’\wl a third child | and a brother of the father also| jumped from the window and es- | caped. E IT'S HERE The WHIPPET Sport Roadster America’s New Type Light Car DON'T FAIL TO SEE THIS SMART CREATION ON DISPLAY AT T Elmer Automobile c.. 22 MAIN ST. | sibilities as well as its share of the | to the full force of the winter's cold. | old cars with their open vestibules | zards and icy blasts and it took a | well as any of the trolleymen what | leave the stoking of the fire to his iwas knocked from the running 'BANDITS HOLD UP TRAIN {last night, but were subdued by NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1927, FIVE ‘LD TIMERY' STILL ‘ON THE CARS' and Chipman Are Veterans A quarter century or more of serv- ice with one organization is the record of five employes of the Con- necticut Co. in this city. John Igoe | of Maple street holds the record for length of service, entering the em- ploy of the organization in 1589, At wat time the locomotion was the horse car Wwith its attendant respon- hardships, the driver being exposed Michael Igoe came with the com- pany in 1895 and like his brother had to contend with the early dif- fivdhwt of that mode of travel. H. ). Bacon and James Kenney entered | ',he employ of the company several | vears later, the former in 1900 and the latter in 1901. George Chipman, the last of the five, joined the crew in 1902, It is a far cry from the old horse | car and the coal heaters to the com- rtable cars of today with electric heaters and enclosed vestibules. The ! offered no shelter against the bliz- | good man to weather a winter on | the front end. Clarence Lanpher n(\ the local police force can tell as 1t meant to put in a day on the front end with the thermometer nursing | the zero mark and a gale blowing for good m re. Oftentimes in the sleet storms the motorman had to | passengers, the horses demanding his entire attention. The 25 or more years of service have not slackened the cnergy of the men and any one of the five can be found every day handling his run with the same despatch as in his youth. John Tgoe did not come through his 38 years of service un- scathed, however, receiving severe injuries several years ago when he board of his car by a passing ma- chine. After several months of re- cuperation he came back again to the job but would never again take an open car. His many friends find him daily on the Plainville run al- with a cheerful smile and pleasant word. BUT HELD BY PASSENGERS | One of the Robbers Uses Gun But When it Jams Crowd Jumps Upon Him Pittsburgh, Jan, 13.—(P)—Two | bandits, one of them armed, held up the baggage master and a passen: ger on Pennsylvania railroad train | No. 21, the Keystone express, late other passeng The men, gave their names as W. 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