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As the backbone of a nation nucli is the United States or Canada is the agricultural industry, so crops,, and the exports which they make possible, are the first essentials of agricultural prosperity. And so it is, too, in countries of lesser area, more highly industrialised, such as Great Britain and the states of Europe. The farmers' prosperity is generally the best index of the nation's well-being. It is as sure a barometer of economic stability as export and Import figures, ! power or mine or industrial output. Recent statistics coming to us from the Dominion of Canada, where a change of Government is being brought about, indicates that this year's whent harvest will Į be satisfactory, nothing in the way of a record in bulk, but assured of a good market andi á reasonable, If you are.. contemplating to price. The Government, moreover, become a motorist owner-if you has pegged the price at just over are desirous of a change--if you | 85 cents per bushel, making it safe are going on home leave--a word for growers to anticipate a profil from you to
on their crops. More than any- ACQUAINT US OF YOUR thing else, this assurance of an in- REQUIREMENTS AND WE WILL | creased income in the Prairie pro- FURNISH YOU WITH PARTI- vinces will accelerate the Domin- CULARS AND TERMS..
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King, the Libera!
DOME is as surely in the
THIS
M
MUSSOLINI!
IS HE A MADMAN
OR A CAESAR?
To-day is the thirteenth anniversary of the Fascist coup d'etat in Italy, and the tenth anniversary of the famous March on Rome. When Socialists called a nation-wide strike in mid-October, 1922, Mussolini and his black-shirts moved on Rome, "captured" it, turned statesmen out of office and Mussolini became Dictator.
Rinds of scener toe mad with the dreams of personal
day she was
A8
when the ruins which now make her the Mecca of tourists were, instead of lonely and denuded skeletons, then the loveliest and statelicat Party leader, of this world's palaces. whose allies have won a sweeping. No one can say that King victory in the recent elections, Victor Emmanuel rules Italy starts his term of office with a good No one can maintain that the augury. He will have behind him people rule Italy. Benito Mus-
million or more resuscitated solini rules Italy. farmers who, because he will ex-
of Italy. 1 swear
some amazing example of a man decorated for bravery.
After the war he went back ho Does
to his nowspaper. Gone were aggrandizement? prowl about the Hall of the his socialistic leanings. The Emperors in the Capitoline tide of communism began to run
and, muse Museum
over the high among Italian workers. Ten years time when his head will be set Mussolini scowled.
would have up beside these relics of the previously he carlier, empire, or does his soul cheered. truly yearn to make his country Strikes became almost daily a leader among the nations? -events. The government seemed He has indeed announced his powerless, industry was paru- intention of making Italy an ¡yzed. And Mussolini banded Empire. Ethiopin first. What together a few dozen friends, next?
What ever may be in store for Italy it will always remain. for Rome to hold the interest of the world at large through her marvellous relics,
WAS born in Predappio, in the Romag- His father was a black-
MUSSOLINI
sturdy young war veterans, into a black-shirted organization that was to become known through- out the world-the Fascisti.
The Fascisti slowly gained strength. They drilled. They became a compact unit, welded together by Mussolini, the lender. Their moves at first were sporadic-directed against a small-lown strike here, a minor radical weekly newspaper there. As always, Mussolini preferred action to words, so the Fascisti used elubs and revolvers rather than pamphlets.
The reaction to the war-born ·
pect. it and encourage them to be- Mussolini, who governs
"I swear loyalty to Benito the MONDAY, OCT. 28, 1935. lieve it, will bless him for the re- destinies
turn of prosperity. He has yet to devoted and absolute obedience STRONGER NAVY
do something for the general to his government with uncon farmer, the fruit-grower, the dairy trolled "conscience, which in NEEDED
men, the esitle ranchers of the volves the sacrifice of life, the West, but if he can arrange a re- renunciation of all personal Both Mr.
Baldwin and Mr.ciprocal tariff agreement with the initiative and the daily practice Churchill have
out in come
United States, as his predecessor, of iron discipline." strong advocacy of the building Mr. B. B. Bennett. intended to
This is the oath which the na up of the nation's defence inaugurate during his premiership, young men of Italy swore in smith and a Socialist, Mus- forces to a strength adequate to he will have gone far towards win-support of the man who fifty odd solini was eager to learn as a guarantee security. Mr. Neville ning the loyalty and support of the years ago was born the son of youth and
became the village Before he was Chamberlain, the Chancellor of other half of the agricultural.com | a Socialistic blacksmith and schoolmaster. the Exchequer, recently stressed | munity of Canada.
lives to bestow his gracious ap- twenty he ran for a public office 11 wealthy proval this point when he declared that
on the royal house of in opposition to unilateral
Italy and to bundy words with villager and when he was de radicalism that had swept Italy disarmament had
smashed the ballot was setting in. More and more to the Fascisti. CANADA'S PROGRESS
omnipotent Britain and the less feated he
people flocked box with his fists to emphasise The body became stronger and proved a complete, costly and
But agriculture is one thing, and
sure League of Nations.
his anger. The act was pro- dangerous failure. He added:-industry and finance are another.
Now Mussolini dreams intoxi- phetic of his later deliance of ever stronger. "The time has come when we They, too, have shown unmistak cating dreams of a new Roman elections. He fled later to must face realities, when we able signs of revival and expansion,
Empire. From the Palace of Switzerland and became a day More and more the Dominions of must bring our forces up to the the Empire, the great territories of the Senators upon the Capitolino labourer.
There his agitation minimum required for our own Canada, Custralia, New Zealand. Hill he broods, with his pursed -earned-him-banishment, and the self-respect, when we must re- South Africa and, in a different lips and bulging eyes over the order against him was only re- cognise that, in this workaday degree, India, are moving into the Forum below, and the remnants scinded when he became dictator
centre of world affairs. Canada is of the imperial palaces on the of Italy in 1922. world, disarmament must follow nierely one unit of the British Palatine Hill beyond, gazes, re and not precede the establish commonwealth whose influence is sentfully, ambitiously, upon the ment of sense of security. It becoming increasingly great in glory that was Rome. is common knowledge now thut certain spheres. Canadian enter the British attempt to get other prise is advertising itself. The nations, by force of example, steamships it operates
Canadian Pacific Railway and the to follow the lead given in dis- world's greatest gen lanes was the armament, was a mistake. The first of the larger corporations to obsolescent state in which many take the Dominion's business to the of the Navy's component units far corners of the world. There had been allowed to lapse was have been others since. No other the subject of well-informed country can boast of more secure comment on the occasion of the investment opportunities. Silver Jubilee naval review. It has been shown that Britain is short
in practically every category of warcraft, and short
on the
Cana-
And while he gazes and dreams, and incidentally rules Italy with a hand of iron which saved her from chaos thirteen years ago to-day, the rest of the world is torn between conflicting emotions of admiration and con- demnation.
Then
came the climax. A nation-wide strike was called in While the the summer of 1922.
stood powerless government "Mussolini and his Fascisti put it- down. Then, thirteen years ago to-day; the black-shirts moved on Rome, "captured" it, turned statesmen out of office and Mussolini beenme premier.
The police dogged his foot- *steps continually. Disgusted, he went to France. There too From then on the tale is he gained notoriety ns a radical familiar. Bit by bit Mussolini agitator. He led strikes, parti- gathered power, such as no cipated in riots, felt the hands ordinary premier ever held, into of the police on his shoulders, his hands. One by one the and eventually was deported. constitutional limitations were Fascisti. away. The He took refuge in Switzerland. swept
nominally "state police" and He stayed in Switzerland for national guards," became the seven years. He studied con- army, answerable only to Mus- stantly, doing odd jobs to pay solini. Opposition
newspapers dian banks and insurance com was men with the audacity for his books and lodgings, and I was men with the and cast
were suppressed. The parlia panies are rapidly advancing their
always dipping influence, based on a solid reputa-
into, the
mant became a collection of pup- tion for Integrity, and already the who made Rome veritably an activities of the radical element. representatives of these compara- Eternal City. Men of his blood At length his fiery advocacy of pets, moving in obedience to the tively new concerns live built and race two and three thousand socialism got him into trouble strings with only a pretence at acowling dictator who pulled the substantially abroad. We have years ago brought as tribute to seen them extending their opera- their capital the finest that the him. Again he went back to
again, and the Swiss deported concealment. tions In China and Hongkong, world had to offer in military The latest company to branch out
genius, in architecture, in in this Colony is the Confederation prosperous and progressive, institu- made of Rome a city of such to seek his fortune, and each Twice now he had left home Life Association, one of the most science and in literature. They tions In the field, in whose inter-magnificence that even her poor time he had come back pennilcas ests Mr. P. R. M. Wallis, manager scarred and broken stones hold and in bad repute. An in- for the Far East, is at present in within them power to awe the auspicious start, perhaps? liongkong. It is noteworthy that men and women of the twentieth may have seemed so at the time, more often than not the destiny.century. if not the policy, of the concerns "Fashions change in travel, but father, who wanted him to con- As a guide book says,, particularly to his rough old of the Dominions is governed by the passion for Rome never tent himself with a blacksmith's comparatively young men, men minds and sound judgment. That with vision, clear heads, keen is, as it should be. And we, in
Romagna.
It
also in personnel. It is not un- patriotic to repeat these, facts: they are already well known on the Continent and elsewhere. Of the leading naval Powers, the United States, Japan, France. and Italy, all have a larger pro- portion of modern craft than Great Britain. They have been realists, not idealists. Since the War Italy has built 19 of the fastest cruisers, and 56 sub- marines. France in that period has equipped herself with some eighty submarines, to which she has assigned a vital part in her scheme of national defence, and as many as 51 cruisers. Con- Hongkong, should welcome them. und substantial associations work, rising at last to the editor- sidering the naval traditions of. We are a long way from Enginnd. With its very earliest traditions, ship of the official Socialist or- Britain, the present condition We can expect, as time goes on, to The story of the finding of gan, Avanti. And then the war of the Navy is not one in which see Canadian, Australian and New Romulus and Remus on the broke out. we can find cause for satisfac-Zealand enterprises coming into Palatine Hill is well known, greater prominence here, and in and as far back as the fifth cen-
dies."
life.
Rome has indeed romantic Mussolini entered newspaper .
.
was all for
Mussolini's word is law in Italy; it has been since he be- came Dictator.
THE BRITISH ELECTIONS
NATIONAL GOVT APPEAL
London. Oct. 27. The National Government mani- festo, signed by Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Sir John Simon comprehensively 'reviews tion. This, of course, does not
hint, and we should assist and tury before Christ the legend H with Mussolini's ar udvent to power.
TERE came break the Government policy since its imply any criticism personnel, which for years has encourage it. Our interests are was accepted, because to-day socialist party
It putlines the broad measures deplored, with
for maintainance of the inter- interwoven. If we can help them, there is in Rome good
an ancient neutrality. Mussolini crickl reason, most certainly they can help us.
national position and for develop- the apparent indifference of If the ambitions of Canadians and bronze group, executed in that loudly for entrance in the war. ment of domestic needs. politicians and public to the the commercial men "Down Under" distant day, which shows the on the side of the Allies. He
It says "The broad issue is necessity for a strong Navy-an are realised, they will one day twins being fed by the famous was expelled from the Socialist whether the stability and confid- indifference that contrasted enjoy a tremendous trade with wolf. But Rome's history Party; he continued to shout, ence, which the National Govern- strangely with the enthusiasm China, in which Hongkong must stretches far back beyond the this time through the columns of ment has built up are to be pre- of the pre-war days, when the play a part. We want their repre- fifth century, as discoveries in the Milan paper, Popolo d'Italia, forred in a period of special.dim- strength and efficiency of the sentatives in this Colony; and we the Forum have proved.
of which he became editor.
culty and anxiety.
"Gaps in the defences must be Fleet, was made a personal in- enthusiasm, their new ideas and cun uso some of their buoyant terest by every thinking citizen, their resourcefulness. There is
NO there are in Rome to-day Mussolini's agitation had helped.
Italy finally entered the war., repaired."
The manifesto dwelled on the and by every schoolboy as
reason to suppose that within a all the materials well. Now, however, the long-short time certain large Dominion world druma. On the one hand Mussolini was one of the first measures, and declared that the for a And when war was declared improved conditions domestically through a series of legislative overdua nwakening seems to banking organisations may estab- Rome's Imperial relics and have been accomplished, and itllah themselves in Hongkong. The traditions, and on
to volunteer.
advent of a Socialist, Government, the other may be expected that the Gov-Dominions need them here. If they but with will of He saw active service with Fledged to a number of revolu ernment, backed by the people, are to operate to advantage in the
ultimate result could not bo will "look to its mont with the commercial field. There is buni steel, dreaming of a new Em- the Berangliere, being wounded tlonary measures, of which the ness hero for them; and realising pire. The question is, is Mus- twice and scorning a safe bé- clearly foreseen, would inevitably that, they are pretty sure to come i polini of the stuff of which em- hind-the-lines job that Abe followed by the total collapso and get it.
perors are made, or is ho merely, politician offered him. He was of public confidence-Reuter.
utmost energy and determina- tion.
So
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