New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 14, 1927, Page 20

“MY TWENTY-FOUR HOURS” By Benito Mussolini, Premier of Rtaly THOMAS B. MORGAN; Rome Manager of the United Press Cogyright 1927 by Unit ed Press Assoclations. as told to All rights reswrved. Reproduction in whole or in (This is the ninth of a series of articles 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, eorrected and approved by Premier.) In many ways, I am a monastic. * Even though my life has been full| of adventure and struggle, it has never been spent in extravagant Itv- ing. The desires of the body have re- ceived scant consideration. Some- how, I have managed to live above the mere satiation of the cravings of the flesh and to dwell on those things which might lead to substantial and | beneficial achievement. Indeed, I doubt whether many in the monastic orders adhere so closely to their chosen rules of life, as my severe | but self-imposed asceticism forces me. T fast twice or thrice a month, I| lve in solitude and no not smoke or drink. Fasting carrfes with it an ines- timable spiritual good as well as a | physical. I ean readily appreciate why monastic orders have been giv- | en to fasting for it quickens spirit- ual fervor and seems to lift one above the mundane influences with which we are surrounded. New av- enues of thought, outstde those of our every day routine, open and we | Mve in an atmosphere which trans- cends that of the common inter- eourse below. { For thess two or three days every | month, I drink only a glass or two of sugared water. This serves to Reep down the pangs of hunger when they remind me at mid-day that it is | time to eat. Besides, it keeps the or- dinary processes in working order while the absence of nourishment | allows the system to free itsélf of | misused and decayed food. The rest to the organs is of potent assistance in restoring them to efficient func- | tloning and in bringing about a gen- dral adjustment of the mystem. When one has completed the fast, Me cannot but be impressed By the sense of cleanliness which rules the | body and the mind, as well as by | the genuinely healthy feeling which | comes with it. During the abstention | from food, I follow my usual daily routine without taking any special | rest, attending to the affairs of the | government as if it were an ordinary | day. And this occastonal fast, keeping | in all parts of the world. T have made exceptions to this rigid table rule, it may be said, in the case of teas and official ban- quets. Tea is different. It permits of greater ease and is more of a social function. One can change from one person to another. The American hotel-keepers came to tea with me in the Villa Torlonia. It was summer | and we held it in the open air, where there was ogportunity for everyone to fraternize. We cannot call a tea|with fright, and yet when given a # | smoke, they completely relaxed. Men exactly being at table. part prohibited | To fasting and solitude, T add nb-? !sunence from smoking and drink. I | will treat the latter in a later article. | I smoked while at the front. A ei- | garette was a great relaxation. I al-| ways went “over the top” with & lighted cigarette in my mouth. It| permitted a certain measure of | abandon and helped me maintain & cool demeanor. I have seen men in the throes of bombardment, rattled I have & horror of banquets. There | brought from the trenches wounded, are two things I consider unendur- |tense with the terror of the fight, able in life. The one is to listen to a |light them a cigarette and they for- speech being read, and the other is|get pain and horror. to attend a banquet. The latter is| Smoking can be a very pleasant | one of those things that I am un- | distraction. Men enjoy their cigar or equivocally against. Sometimes, ‘it | cigarette with unusual delight. Such | comes in the round of my offical du- | delight comes no more to me. Sqok- | tes to attend a dinner. It is more | ing is a habit to be appraised plrely | than a useless performance for me. All T do is to sit there and watch for what it is worth to the indi- | vidual. I can readily see, that for| the others eat. I am so set against | some men, it permits their complete | these formal dinners that I would do anything te avoid them. The food { menta] relaxation from one or from | many thoughts. I have no need now is too abundant and the ccremony |to cultivate smoking inasmuch as I too elaborate. My stmple tastes are overwhelmed on such occasions. The world owes it to the Ameri- relax whenever I choose and though | 1 may miss a pleasure I may gain in lenergy. cans for a little step forward in the| [For woman, smoking should be in- | serving of banquets. While T do not | dulged in with due regard to her approve of banquets, T agree perfect- ly with the idea of separate tables, ! special needs. If there be danger that her mission in life may be affected, | I hate those long never-ending rows | then smoking should be practised | of eaters, seated as if they were | with due regard for that mission. groups of boys at a severely man- | aged boys' school with a stern rec-| In his next article of this series to tor at the head counting each mis appear in the Herald tomorrow, Pre- taken movement as a mark against mier Mussolini tells why he is a tee- them in their behavior. The small totaler. He says he feels that even table is nearer my idea, and though it does not approach the tdeal of a single place, it at Yeast, bréaks away the lightest wine is a deterrent to perfect efticiency and that while he | favors wine drinking among the la- | from the rigidity of the boax'dlné’ boring classes he thinks it unwise | school. for brainworkers. PULLMAN COMPANY WINS ITS LAWSUIT Nezd Not Sell Tickets to Negrogs, Is Ruling Washington, Jan. 14 0P — An effort to collect damages from the the body and mind in a somewhat special plane of health and thought, | serves also to keep it free from use- less and redundant tissues which | might burden the physical and men- tal operations. I cannot but see im- pediment to these operations when | surplus tissues are allowed to ac- | cumulate. I detest fat. I am unre- lenting in that. I give no quarter to those who allow their bodies to be- | come laden with rolls of burdensome | and unnecessary flesh. I have no compassion on them. My own broth- | er, Arnaldo, is excessively rotund | but he finds no sympathy in me for that. In the rapid pace which fas- ¢ism is setting for all Italians, it is | necessary to be lithe and athietic, Though I have great affection for | Arnaldo, if he eats too much, he must pay the penalty. He can read- 1ly reduce in the same manner as 1 keep my weight down—by a rigid | disciplined selt-control and self-de- | nfal. One day during a fascist march in | Tonor of the poet Oriani, now dead | but living in our doctrine, someone #kid to me that my brother was not 4ble to continue the fast pace 1 was setting. I replied: “I have no pity on fat men. This 1 say to all of you. In reality, 1 la- ment them sometimes, and then| dgain, they amuse me and put me in | & good humor. Fat you cannot be.” | A fat woman is even a greater| abomination. I cannot endure great | tolls of flesh on what might have | been, the frame of a great beauty. Itallan girls to the age of twenty are. surpassing loveliness but often be- yond that, they get careless with diet, eat macroni and”begin to take | on flesh. Then, the lines which one | marked them as the embodiment of | grace, begin to buige and swell and | the onée beduty becomea a monstro- | dity. Each must look to his own prob- | lem to keep thin. Some get fat on| the meagerest diet, others can eat the day long and still remain thin. Each must study that which best fits him in order to keep himself within hs weight. I'ew there are who really have & problem. In most cases, the | question is solved by diet and exer- clse. Eat meagerly and live an ac- | tive life. | And, while I live & most active lite, it Is in some measure a solitary éne. Leaving the Palazzo Viminale | 6r the Palazzo Chgi, I am alone. There {8 never a soul allowed to ac- company me home. I'rom that time, | until 1 return to work, I remain tlone. [ | My meals I insist on taking by my- #elf. 1 cannot tolerate company table. It is a passion in me, I can- | not explain why I must be absolute- | Iy alone during my meals. As I have #said before, it would be en hono even for my own brother, to be in- vited to lunck. When my brother comes to Rome, he eats in his hotel and I eat in my own home. When he comes to see my mes to the Vimina 2 T cannot | strange- | s no philosophy, no rea eing but it is ther s eaid of Byron that he had fity. As much as he Ravenna beauty, | he jeft th , their t tune with mine companion with rmonious | Pullman company for refusal to sell tickets to a negro, while at th same time such tickeis were sold to white persons, failed today when the interstate commerce com- mission held that the section of the law under which an action was ITheft of Copper Wire | Brings Jail Sentence Westileld, Mass., Jan. 14 (P—Sen- tences of two years in the house of | correction were imposed on three ! men from Newburgh, N. Y., in dis- | rict court today after they had pleaded guilty to charges of steal- ing quantities of copper wire, | The men were George Gordon, Clinton Turner and Adrew J. | Glas: who were charged in three | complaints with the thefts. It was alleged that on two occasions they | stole an aggregate of three tons of | | copper feed wire from the Hunting- | iton-\\’r-;(fipld trolley line of the | { Springfield Raillway company which | | is not in operation. In the third com- | i plaint it was alleged that they stole || thres tons of copper wire belonging | to the Turners Falls Power and | | Eledtric comp | brought could not be violated by, such a refusal. The commission took the posi- tion that the refusal was not a discrimination under Section Two of the commerce act, since it did not involve any situation by which one person o transportation for less than anotl: A complaint made by J. P. Har- den, .a negro. lawyer of Chicago, seeking $25,000 damages from the | Puliman . company on the ground | that it refused to sell him accom- | modation was dismissed. The Pullman company, at the same time, denied that its agents or employes were ever authorized | or instructed to refuse Pullman ac- commodations to negro passengers. Harden alleged that he attempt- ed to buy a Pullman berth from Atlanta to Chicago om July 7, 1923, and that the ticket agent and the Pullman conductor on ghe train both refused to make the sale. | Both of these men festified they | had frequently sold berths to ne- groes and had no recollection of refusing to make such a sale at, any time. ] Miami Beach Club Wants | To Feature Chaplin Films | | Miami Beach, Fla., Jan. 14 BP— | The Miami Beach woman'’s club has | | gone on record as petitioning local | | moving picture managers to show all | pictures obtainable that feature | | Charlie Chaplin. 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