Something Is Stirring In Italy
From Our Foreign Correspondents Something Is Stirring In Italy Series of incidents Reveal Wide Dissatisfaction With Glories aft Mussolini Regime (9f A SsaaW \\u\m\awM VtatWMlMMfaflO ' ' On...
...Sailer's that ¦ actually some tendency for those with mt to be more happy than those getting a." rkt to start dancing in the streets on the at Hoover contented-cow school of ecor according to this the depression has fact though hitherto pretty well conmeans for the distribution of untold haptmndreds of thousands of our population, see a man who has just received a wage I come carolling home to his wife and lgmg "Happy days are here again," daddy tad a galumpshious wage cut and worked nto the glee club of Teachers' College...
...In addition to the Fascist militia, the whole party is being militarized...
...But they know very well that neither crime nor exploitation can be completely abolished so long as the private ownership of the great Industrie* prevails...
...Milwaukee, under the guidance of the Socialists, has deliberately tried to afford wholesome recreation, giving youth something better to do than to drift into crime, and thus leading youthful activity into higher channels...
...Mussolini of Italy is doing Just that with the recent loans made from the keepers of the international exchequer, and the blustering bad boy of Bologna is being ebidsd and warned quit* vehemently on that score...
...The old party newspapers, also, while they are bad enough, have to tone themselves down somewhat because of public opinion and because they know there to a Socialist paper to call them ,down if they don't...
...Furthermore, they immediately began to try to realize some parts of their social vision, to create a higher and better citizenship...
...Promethean* in Bondage (Satire on Coal Industry) Brothers of desolation go to Mars If you art seeking fustics...
...the great Italchan^e'was° atoost Certainly 'the result of an 'attentat -aid 'act an anti-Fascist one either...
...The articles give other cities to understand that it would he a wonderful thing for them if they could divorce their chief of police from politics by making it impossible for the Mayor to appoint or fire him...
...If this seems far-fetched, allow me to cite specific oases...
...censoquencs of rivalry among the dsrectors of military aviation,' According to others, it wu due to rivalries among those still higher up...
...In order to report, according to the official version...
...S C. Sailer has been asking 500 stud5f from seventeen to thirty-five years LT saade them happy, and what plunged Spots...
...At all events, so goes the story, accounts given of the explosion and of the way the bodies were mangled almost certainly establish the fact that there was some kind of an attentat...
...If anyone has been hesiSBJ* Socialism until there comes some transformation as was reported in liTtement- let him wait no longer...
...In addition to the old bonds exchanged for new ones, all that could be raised in Italy for the loan, with all the Fascist means of pressure, was 3,500,000,000 lire (worth 5'/4 cents apiece...
...And all the big boys are doing now to to forestall the end of their age-long ¦way -over the destinies of nations . . . and all In vain...
...We Socialists have now and then had occasion to take exceptions to things he has done, especially his handling of an unemployment meeting in March, 1930, and his demand for a few mounted officers...
...The pupils of Professor Rossi,' afterwards condemned to twenty years' imprisonment by the Special Tribunal...
...Again, let us be specific and see Just how it could be done...
...i • • is Item sot, and the next time you see a ig unemployed ice cream, rush up and i heartily by the band, congratulating is new-found freedom from such causes ioeas as money matters, lack of ooncen4 worry over his job, • • • 9s) uninformed, little candy-store keeper itted suicide by drinking poison in New gab...
...According to what some folks say, ft was- the...
...Public natatorlums...
...NothjP" necessary for the loosening of the $ ?* creative ability of man...
...A grafting old party Mayor could undermine him and his fine department in a short time...
...a* five years (the average working life of •atonic** an automobile worker in De•atnged his whole outlook on life from then he left the farm to stand before ilk...
...When homeless, lie beneath" a tent of stars, A shelter which is lacking gates and bars Of special privilege, and aB may shore Of God's pastels of inexhaustible glare That flourish over civilisation scant If naked, clotht yourselves in leafy robt...
...This shows how "remote" the chief is...
...However hi this ease, after sane, careful, due and circumspect consideration, I flat nothing wrong with the formula...
...For that much we are thankful...
...These help some, but they are not the bottom causes at - all...
...And If yon want to know what» wrong wtth the houn' dog...
...The commission consists of five persons...
...The Socialists are fat a minority, but their spirit has made the whole city better...
...In Turin and Leghorn Marinetti, the renegade futurist who became a Fascist academician, was hissed and cursed as never before when one of his pieces Was played...
...And quits shrewd* ly they threaten a scared capitalism . . . The Bol* shekis will get us too, If you don't watch out" Of course, the bankers will be scared to the depths of their doughbags, and eventually make the loan...
...It was a cesspool of corruption and official crookedness...
...What is qk» nnmediate ending of the explottal «y man, and that can be done any g" P as have the courage, intelligence ¦ «kke such a lumpy ending...
...la what a heat and what a crucible this new transformation will take place there to no chsmtrail formula arrived at Just yet Russia to a great sense is Just a state of Fascist procedure...
...man O, time enough, and so appropriate To balm with eloquence, m senseless thing...
...Socialism to the next move of fate...
...They too toe no lilies of the ftold...
...ing our psychological researches, we have astad to read the comments, particularly ¦ by the editorial writers in the New m, on the new wage policy of the Soviet aa announced that skilled workers would t be paid more than the aaasMBsd the atad over what it regarded as the conof those who had been "quietly proclaimfact that human nature could not be • • • f fc good, considering the truth that this suieked at every Socialist speaker from Safest housetop since the days of Robert I that since those days, at the dawn of ski Revolution, human nature has been I a thousand different ways...
...The Socialists brought a new spirit into the city—a spirit of civic righteousness...
...And this mind you from a respectable professor or other of a respectably endowed university...
...and as a matter of fact the present chief of police was Mayor Hoan*v choice...
...A Milwaukee's Larger Ideal The Socialists have also, by precept and example, continually act forth a higher conception, of civic duty...
...And when somebody like that starts to eche what I've said a hundred times In this obscure corner of the earth, a sense of uncertainty settles on my self esteem...
...Ask the Empire State Bunding how It came into actual being...
...a -. m particularly interested In Dr...
...The police force would soon be honeycombed with graft and grafters, and the cjty's crime record would become as bad as that of any other city...
...AH five of them were appolatod by Mayor Hoan...
...If there be urn* to tongue, then let us sing, . My words and words utmw, mm loam to tire Of loveliness, heweutr rick it be...
...Those articles hold that Milwaukee's comparative freedom from crime is due to four things: the high percentage of arrests, the high percentage of convictions,' speedy trials, and the fact that the chief of police is not appointed by the Mayor and cannot be fired by him...
...Bathing beaches for sumener and akating ponds for winter...
...t par, neither do we...
...port from Italy ^startS^S avjatkm accidenttwWcn^cost°the Uvea of Maddalena...
...but in general we approve his administration of the police department He is a mighty lucky chief to have such a man as Mayor Hoan in the mayoralty chair...
...especially by the college boys, who have lost their enthusiasm for the former futurist poet...
...The raids ordered by the Fascist government upon th"e Catholic Pope constitute1*the most coLpteuous sign at an opposition arising in Italy against the TfcfTisSoHTrt iwarhaw...
...That too, prior to a settling down into Social i am of dent' ocratic method and result But Just now she looms before the scared lords of the money chests like a giant bugaboo, and the scene would be searchingiy funny if there were not so much suffering and madness for the masses all over the world as a direct result of the bankers' well-founded fright...
...Even If Fascism cornea fag a spell before the bright beginning...
...and they mention it only to belittle itand try to make out that it means nothing...
...Hence it follows inevitably that he cannot be entitled to the credit for bringing this condition about The best that can be said for him is that be Is entitled to credit for helping to maintain this condition since he became a public official...
...And htm mat trudge on wilk clott^ing Within the glamored kaOs of a desire...
...The1 Bible somewhere speaks of a little leaven leavening the whole ramp...
...It would Tea a mistake to believe the tales of the Special Tribunal to the effect that nearly an those eceakanned for "forbidden propaganda" are Communists...
...AH of these men resigned.'' Undoubtedly he could do the same-with the chief if there were any reason to do so...
...And this agitation is bearing fruit...
...For we're the progeny of Neptune's daughter Mother of all that breathes upon our globot My dull satiric arguments were based . On owner-principles that sour the taste t MELVILLE KRESK . Somebody, almost as smart as myself, has 1st loose a howl in some collage symposium against the religion of ranking money without work...
...In the spring of 1921, shortly before the present chief was appointed, the former chief was sick and off duty...
...The Post articles are therefore utterly wrong In advising other cities that they can cure their police condition by the mere process- of making -it impossible for the Mayor to hire and fire the chief...
...Any number of civic organizations have caught the spirit Even the old party politicians— miscalled "non-partisans"—do not dare to try quite as raw stunts as those of other cities, for they know that public opinion will not stand for it...
...Prevocational schools for the handicapped...
...They would find a way to oust the chief and appoint a grafter to...
...Under collective ownership of the industriesSocialism—the hours of labor oaa be cut down enough to take up the stack and guarantee employment to all...
...Bat that* is no lack of vincing from the point of view of the fcecraating dynamic force of the Anti-Fascist opposition in Italy...
...By ward*, mud wards alone we taint the breaSh Of fragrance from a flamertd saakstm And since philosophy rakes en death Far proof of lave, then keep ear doubts unsaid, And save our erudition for ike dead...
...Fifth Avenue Pi lon/tailan Church |a day on which Dr...
...But at best they are merely throwing good money after bad...
...O let us love in silence then, and wait Till time and words are more appropriate...
...lao need here to repeat to you boys and tat eLtire mental set-Hp and psychologk of a man or a woman who uses powerkaiBery differs as widely from the setktade of that same worker engaged in a, far example, as the driver of an elec•allvt differs from an Australian bushIt when it cornea to matters of social ; a (offerunces such as these which' count...
...peared in the New York Evening Post contain much truth, but they miss the main facts and put the emphasis in the wrong place...
...It was they who dispelled cynicism and restored the confidence of the people in public officials...
...May Day didn't pass entirely unobserved in Milan, Liguria, Turin or Tuscany, And quite recently in Spezla a strike of jute weavers halted a wag* eat, although the police arrested some of the alleged organizers...
...The' present social order, by its very nature, teaches men to struggle against one another...
...The real big commandment that the French have deleted so far from public hearing in their negotiations with Germany for aa emergency loan to . . . "Thou ahaU not lend to the Botohevikt" In the meantime, the industrialists of Germany, hem, haw, howl and harangue...
...had sent the professor a letter expressing their devotion and their hope that he would be acquitted...
...A chief needs back of him a Mayor wno has a high sense of public duty and who in turn has back of him an organization that has an equally high sense of public duty and will support him and not leave him to go it alone...
...necessary for hU happiness are his parasiUc boarders...
...They did it by giving honest, constructive and conscientious service when elected to office...
...That to what has happened In Milwaukee...
...This combination should qualifier the top boy or the lowest in your psychology, however you rate them...
...By means of his power to appoint one member of the fire and police commission each year, and to fill vacancies on the commission if any occur, he could control the commission in three years at the latest Naturally he would appoint grafters like himself...
...Just how remote does this make the chief from tie Mayor...
...than.ether cities...
...A public art gallery...
...Periodically it throws millions out of employment and drives many of them Into crime...
...And to the recent trial of the intellectuals, the force of world protests compelled the Special Tribunal to back water, even after the Senate Lat^tL^rW™ would end with sentences of death...
...or, at least, whan they do try such stunts, they discover that public opinion rebukes them...
...New words are wise mud useful, since the dud Are pitifully dumb...
...second, that the Fascist youth organization must have a still more military character...
...This borrowing money and using rep* aration funds to lend to the Bolsheviks in the shape of technical equipment and industrial supplies is a bit too much for House of Morgan at at, with offices in London, Paris and New York...
...Yet the Post articles barely mention the fact that there is a Socialist Mayor in Milwaukee...
...They give a ring and resonance to lead...
...it • quickie ss form...
...These things nave given young people and older people something else than crime to think about It, is well known that most criminals are young, and that their crimes grow out of idleness...
...Therefore, it is certain that he did not bring it about...
...what could he do...
...Their example has been infectious...
...And whether grief impels, or whether hate Intones the remuieseat we deeply sing . , , The lone that sundered, and the love that healed That came from stillness east became a etorm, That came from out the dark and stood revealed In stunning glory...
...skat iff at —% prvrouM Vpem each fitful >*«**, aw stawjei The stmt of silence with the glass of sound...
...The Social Welfare Work When the Socialists first came upon the political scene in Milwaukee, the city was as rotten as any city in America...
...They enlisted the aid of civic organizations and highminded individuals who were not in complete accord with their final aim but were with them on immediate measures...
...The present chief is a capable official...
...But they can fairly say that they originated the idea and enlisted the help of others to make it come true...
...But the pressure had been so fierce that the covernment was obliged to admit that perhaps the payments wouldn't equal the subscription figure and to decide to "renounce" two of the three and a half bilaren't tho^Tof ^wTmng*^^, sure of its power...
...and^ girls for happiness...
...This condition was in existence before he became the chief...
...And jujfittle blossoms out of sterile wood...
...It is said that Mussolini recently asked far Balbo's resignation as Minister, but that the latter threw the letter into the waste basket and paid no attention to it Ippaj Guinea P m of college students as guinea pigs has t common practice to the psycholj?&t of our universities, and now they jTftTboy...
...They give some credit, but fail to give credit where most of the credit is due...
...The man, been a sUk weaver for many years, who throws ant of his job a year ago, who nsaafsay trundled a pushcart from door nd had finally scraped enough together to udy store, only to have it burned down, t know what higher education is doing be mass distribution of human happiness...
...If his grounds were good he certainly could accomplish the discharge, either by asking him to resign or by bringing charges against him before the commission...
...McAlister Coleman...
...Some of the results may be enumerated...
...The development of the public library until there is a branch within walking distance of every person in the county and a larger percentage of book-readers than any other community...
...ic we will rate about 100% on all of the | if you send out another questionnaire Bok of any additional reasons for worryan like to be in on that too, not Just for ¦par but since the summer of 1888, when jess on the upper West Side, liberally pfk a Celtic melancholy and a New Engi of sin...
...Something that certainly wouldn't be necessary if the government had told the truth when it declared that the result of the conversion loan proved that the whole country was behind the regime...
...In order to look him in the eye, according to those who know Balbo aspires to succeeed Mussolini, who hates him...
...I do not know how the Post writer kept or was kept from finding this out It is obvious to any one who Uvea here...
...belt By the very process of the ' of hit gmi^ by his daily contacts with ¦krattvely new thing as mass production, ¦t aost of the fears and tabus which * dependence upon the climate had put he WM °y the nature of his oc*kjrtic, he is now become a realist The I oi modern industry have created new under both the Russian and Amer|k» the old gag that "vou can't change gk**" U being done to death by every to Bubaies...
...tense on Stalin's part to differenB* the abilities of men, provided alKfaBties are Judged with their social k mind...
...And only a few weeks pass before Balbo again has a close call in an aviation accident that looks more like an attentat than an or-, dinary mishap...
...Well, let's see...
...his place...
...Sailer was telling j men about the results of his test had at the findings of the learned professor, save gone on a jamboree to Coney Island shocking a 1st of nice religious people by ¦ately dying k a back pew...
...They want to have no crime at all —and no exploitation...
...Nobody knows better than we do that this process hap not been carried far mmgtt to save all the youth, but it has succeeded to a sufficient extent so ' that writers for the Pest and other publications—even though they miss the reason why—have to admit that Milwaukee has less crime...
...There is a high, percentage of arrests, a high percentage of convictions, and speedy trials...
...fasst be a somewhat naive person, as rprisec over the fact that the unhappy j bis group did not consider dancing, ', or religion essential to happiness...
...Having discovered that it is a fact perhaps the people of other cities will try to find out why...
...At La Seal a theatre in Milan there was a great demonstration in honor of Toscanini, following the outrage of which he was a victim at Bologna...
...And in our opinion, as so often ^students have answered in the manm-y expected Dr...
...Whenever they can realize the rest of their vision, they will abolish crime and exploitation altogether...
...He is a capable official and I do not grudge him all the praise he deserves...
...It takes no marvelous clairvoyant to ate that the debts are on their way to final cancellation...
...Milwaukee is cited as a shining example of a city where the chief is remote from politics because the Mayor does not have these powers...
...And I ask myself .. . . "Now what can be wrong with what X said . . „ f* dieted, kicked about and generally abused for what he says, thinks and does, a touch of kindness gtvea a creepy feeling to one's skin...
...What the world suffers now from, as it baa suffered all the ages, to the open chance of men to make money Without working for it And by work, I Just don't mean sitting to mm office with a dozen talaahnaaa at hand tor steak and bond Jobbing, for selling or buying commodities, for playing the lawyer's game at piffling clipping coupons ia front of a hank vault Ask any digger of ate* is...
...They rive generous credit to others...
...The development of a splendid park system, with picnic grounds, playgrounds for children, baseball diamonds, tennis courts, golf links, eta...
...Socialist Mayor Ignored...
...Behind the barrage of rumors, tern.-official statements and national agreements In principle eat the) German moratorium, and proposed loans, the inter* national banking division of shock troops waits for a definite and perhaps quite open advance en Soviet Russia...
...L, aeries of tests which the Doctor imi for the victims to check off answers to kg questions: at the following have you worried about ( seat year?* pj appearance, health, lack of concentrajabits...
...The development of playgrounds to all parts of the city, to give the children and youth ample apace in which to play games, with the necessary apparatus for the same, thus keeping them off the streets and giving them healthful recreation...
...SjW rHIKtito aMarmg IB Ttotr...
...They do not claim that they did it all...
...A public musem, with wellattended public lectures on scientific subjects...
...And the demonstration was so vigorous that the Fascist Commissaire charged with looking after the students, not content with merely making arrests and sending three leaders to "the islands" called the students together to warn them against "those who make an idol of certain celebrities...
...If there is anything Bge us into deeper despair than our u throwing around cards, or dancing I gals who shall be nameless, or listenitoiy voices of holy men over the radio, r la our nearest approach to religion...
...money matters, laziness, lack of nmt Job, lack of real future, troubles of friends, and too heavy responsibilities...
...In the ranks mt the Workers the anti-Fascist rnitalmmcj is also in evidence...
...The Italian newspapers hastened to note that Balbo wanted to he received by II Due* even before being attended to...
...From Our Foreign Correspondents Something Is Stirring In Italy Series of incidents Reveal Wide Dissatisfaction With Glories aft Mussolini Regime (9f A SsaaW \\u\m\awM VtatWMlMMfaflO ' ' On «toto...
...Mayor Hoan's Powers The same may be said of the chief of police, to whom the articles also give unstinted praise...
...The man and women who do the useful mental and manual work will receive their fttO earnings and be able to buy the products...
...Sailer wanted...
...Unstinted praise is given in the articles to the municipal Judge for these results...
...Now words art good...
...This will abolish —all three...
...It is even declared that an attentat had been prawned by some of II Duces close friends aimed, not at Maddalena, hut at Balbo, the Minister of Aviation, who had been expected to fly the plane which was wrecked by the explosion of an infernal machine Balbo didn't arrive on time, so Maddalena took bis place before anybody could remove the bomb...
...Such advice is nonsense...
...That it is comparatively free from these evils he admits...
...They are appointed by the Mayor, one each year...
...He, like the municipal Judge, is entitled to credit for helping to maintain it since he became the chief...
...The development of adult education to the point where several tens of thousands of adults take courses of various kinds, from miHlnery to music, from tap dancing to classic literature...
...But the comparative immunity of Milwaukee from crime existed before he came upon the scene...
...In fact, at present the intensified circulation of the clandestine press is being promoted by the masses of the workers, not merely by Socialists, Communists or other revolutionaries...
...Mayor Hoan became convinced that something was not as it should be in the police department To quote his own word*, "I wrote letters to four higher-ups to the police department to resign or face charges...
...K»«, * * ' ¦Kb*?0 trusts every class but Ids own Iff himself first a beggar at the ^^fa* bodies and then a beggar to The "Evening Post" Misses the Point Curtis Journal Finds Milteauhee Crimeless But Fails To' Tell its Readers Why By John M. Work npHE series of articles about J. Milwaukee which recently ap...
...sewer of buttons, lathe hand, or carpenter, what X mean by work...
...Apparently the Feat Writer did not take the trouble to find out the reasons why Milwaukee is comparatively free from crime, gangsterism and racketeering...
...eher** College, Columbia University...
...Lp** to see this world, at last so that It,^?* and not feel that he had left his Iw?*0 * Prey to the greed, the avarice, of mankind.—IngeraoU...
...The Socialists, of course, are net satisfied merely to have law crime...
...As a matter of course the commission consults with the Mayor when such an extremely important matter as the selection of a chief of polkse comes up...
...Chatterbox More Sonnets OLRT mt aw* a* an wail and take . concerning lovt...
...don't ask the fleas, the countless BSStoTii m the" ^"creature"ThSt and live happily there...
...And when you're famished, live on air and water...
...Ask the subway, the railroad, the "asIc ^"merTwh^'-It^ov^r ^ra'urhtlng boards, the fnramsa and the anglasara, the surveyors and the architects...
...Although they by no means j complete the list these are some of the things for whic'- the Socialists furnished the impetus, the inspiration, the enthusiasm and much of the energy...
...Being thert May have consideration, love and cart...
...Civic centers in the public school buildings, with all sorts of recreational and educational facilities...
...Sorza called upon them to withdraw their signatures, but met with definite refusals and had to give up...
...This same commissaire, none other than Deputy Soraa who set the trap that cost the life of amatadols, the Republican leader, had had to record, a few days before, a juvenile antiFascist demonstration much more serious...
...Suppose an old party grafter were Mayor...
...They will not find out by reading the Post articles...
...A mammoth vocational school that is equal if not superior to any other in the world...
...Now suppose Mayor Hoan thought there were good grounds for the discharge of the chief...
...There is in Milwaukee a fire and police commission which has the power to appoint the chief of police and to discharge him for cause...
...And for one strike we hear about there are perhaps half a dozen of which we know, nothing until later .if at all Something is stirring in Italy and Fascism la obliged to notice it And here is what the Fascist party has decided to da First, that all party members must don their uniforms whenever their directors think it opportune...
Vol. 13 • July 1931 • No. 3
