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THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1938.
IMPERIAL RELATIONSHIPS
peasants have scraped and raked, packing the sparse dusting of soll into terraces; buil gardens and lemon groves against the stone-wall clous and to the there is a green spiral of fertility.
For 2,000 years they have lived Independent, self-contained-out of their own back gardens. The earth hna never let them down.
Down in the valley it is cosier- it is wide enough for a plough, and they make a proilt that nils the ships
[USSOLINI
wartime
-By
HILDE MARCHANT
domestle goods sold to the
THERE are only two ways in which the new State Jms mnde any obvious changes-obvious because the pensants grumble about them. The arst is a regulation for the preservation of bits of the ancient Empire that poke up through the soil on the killafde terraces. Ravello and district was once thriving seaside
hos spa for wealthy Romans, and good ration of ruins,
น
Now when the peosent's spade turns over the head of a column he cannot use it to all a hole in the wall, He has municipal authorities. They investigate, and sometimes and some trensure has to take als plants else- where..
The peasant can't quite understand, this now value put on old stones.. In old Ravello town, where a fine
The
of noblemen's houses was
cored, a family moved in, paid
£500 for the freahold of a whole Roman terrace, bath, fountain, and
several bits of statuary. They sell
A LOT of the personal, Italian women who felt they needed any them were English, French or Ameri- Spanish can. During sanctions they got on Italy many useful tricks. How to sants like to make use of their ruins. well without them or with an Italian economise, and live on the country's copy, and now they feel a certain own strength, is one. pleasure in imposng their own per- sonul sanctions back again.
WO campaigns-or it is only aghetti and oil from under one of
outside Italy that there are the arches. With considerable patch- scruples about the Italian ing up it is now a fine house for up- campaign have taught limited children. The thrifty pen-
Yet it was a cheap rond-they built it on the hard lava rock that was blasted out of Pompeii's grave.
moro
than
propaganda-they
It was not unusual to alt in the square at Ravello and see a woman
Dictator The
secy artistic value in these remnants.
Kreat They have built a magnificent road They are between Naples and Pompell. It is bring home the Empire lesson.
On the walls of the Forum in Rome They show the mops. in Amali Boy,
An American friend of mine in an impressive piece of propagando, Italy's defence being in the earth, Rome is going crazy because her for it steadles the tourists' nerves to are four
friends ride on a real highway instead of growth of the ancient Roman Empire, Europe to Britain. The last map shows the beginning of Mussolini, from peasant stock, has last lipstick-brought by learned the value of frugality--this from Paris-is down to the rim and picking out a path between the imp- spreading over
the Second Great Empire, with Afrien living on what grows under your no one is going to Paris for a month, ing mule carts.
magnified to such a size that the mup hands. But he has had to buy four and I arrived with the usual stump. more ship-loads of wheat: this year's She goes wistfully from shop to shop
did not include Britain. for traitors. crop is not good.
ELE other new law which is Most of the advertising appeal to
Petrol prices are high-not be-
troubling the peasants is MSc From Yoster. Your duty to the Nation, courage people from getting into the bidden to carry a loud or more disn has unken the women is on the lines of a recruiting cause petrol is scurce, but to dis one I appreciated....women are for- the hill slopes into the towns. He and Defence of the Country, is pro habit of private cars. The truffle is twenty kilos (44lbs.). 19 teaching them independence-bably to buy a shampoo which has slow in Rome to keep down petrol making do on what the country pro- an authentic French perfume but consumption. The qutlook of Liberalism induces.
Italian throughout, and if the father isn't quite as good, at least you have Mussolini hos become a pinch- trot through with a tree trunk on her Canada in the matter of the Im-
Sanctions gave them the habit. made a contribution to the welfare penny housewife--but it is only in back, or a leeg of oil.
something 'which made me It was that the He was beginning to ban all manner of the State. It is not a matter of the town where you see the pinch- perial relationship
To the peusunts it is a natural, dance with rage, but the men who country enjoys has somewhat of imported foreign products months expense. You just ennnot buy any ing.
before Geneva made a punishment thing else,
drift around in the sun like sand fles thing.
thought that was just a quaint Eng- changed since the days of Sir out of it. Now he uses the word
Hish notion. It was a woman's na- Wilfrid Laurier, says the Vic- Sacrifice has begun a frantic cam-
tural job to bring the wood up the paign to make the peninsula, a self-
hillside. Walking up that hill with toria Colonist. It was during contained, isolated island.
nothing on my head but a hat reduced the South African War, when
me to exhaustion. Sir Wilfrid was in power, that Canadian Government hesitated as to what course it should pursue, as to whether or not it should assist Great Britain. Public opinion, however, instant- ly made itself felt. It was the desire of the people, with their
They recently held an exhibition pride in the Imperial connection, in Rome to show how the pint bottle
"Oh, Lord," · prayed one Scots to make their weight felt when- goes in at one end, comes out in the cleric in Aberdeen, "give peace in The middle as fluffy cotton wool, goes our time, especially in Lennox Street, ever the eventuality arose.
back, comes out at the end as a whaur, us Ye. ken, Sandy Mac- consequence was that the Gov-check in the Scotch plaid that Roman Dougall's wife got a black eye on ernment and Parliament felt it women are mad about. politic to bow to public opinion. Canada took part in the South African War.
He has made a national martyr out of every woman who Lises sticky tallan lipstick and face cream made of substitute fats instead of the finer French variety.
Substitutes are his way of making ends meet. You should really buy your yard of tweed from the dairy, Mrs. Italy, for the chances are it is made from milk. Mille has been developed as a substitute for wool.
LAUGHTER IN THE KIRK
A RICH humour is often associated
try, ant as for yer silver and gold— with the utterances of many old- let us pray!" time Scottish minsiters, and the fact that the humour was so often un- conscious makes it all the more telling.
Friday night." It is "Chisalfa" and can be patrio-
There was un Edinburgh minister udvertised
as "Our tically
Own who had the reputation of finding his Wool." There is a cotton substitute, congregation something of a handful. fresh from the forest. It is called Stone Sunday he got his own back "Shofucca" and is made from wood, and is "Italy's Own Cotton."
when he was preaching on Jib.
"My brethren," he commented, "Job, in the first place, was a sairly- tried man; Job,, in the second place, was an uncomnibbly patient man;
The lesson taught at that time had its effect on the future policies of Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Twenty-nine years ago, in mov-King had announced that Parlia-
him.
The men resent the new law, but the police, well aware of the bright- ness of their uniforms, are anxious to
enforce it.
They have been told it is for the good of the race. The old way of At a wedding ceremony the minis-piling up your wita's back like a pack ter was attempting to pick out the horse produces a weak race, with a of cripples. And bridegroom, who was a stranger to heavy percentage
they don't make good soldiers.
Motherhood is well boosted hc "Are you the happy man?"
throughout Italy, and in the tourist asked of the most likely looking shops you buy picture postcards of male.
the view or happy Italian mothers other with lots of plump bables.
"That," returned the solemnly, "remains to be seen."
Another minister, who was dis- satisfied with the collections, once announced from the pulpit,
A PROSPEROUS peasant cale
meat on feast days and ...celebrations; the poorer peasant cats
it once a year.
"We have tried to raise the need- ful money by all the usual methods. So far, we have tried honestly, my friends. Now we are going to see what a bazaar will do.
Another well-known minister had
of che obtained the band of
his diet. There are good fresh veget- Guards regiments to play at
When a plg la killed, the meat is dried, the rough meat made into sou sages, the head and waste pickled, and the tail handed over to baby for a toy. That pig lasts a year,
food), bread, Pasta ( vegetables are the daily wine, oll and the
GRIN AND BEAR IT ·
A. W.
By Lichty
money,
carn
There is no need to pity the Italian peasants-they are content.
IN Rome the worker's 'social' position is established by how many times he can eat meat. The city worker, with a salary of 700 Ure (£7.88.) a month, spends 250 lire a month on rent, and still saves one-eight of his salary.
Spaghetti is 20. a pound, and, like the peasant, the city worker practically lives on it. He never drinks wine with his spaghetti, a3- ways lots of water. That makes you fcel us if you have had a good meil. :-
Wine is 3d, a quart, and they plan ga to have one good meal a day with wine and perhaps meat. It costs eight lire (1s. Od.) for four people.. Coffee is expensive-3s, Od. a pound; CERS are cheap.
ing a naval defence resolution ment will do what the people you, in the third place, never special Sunday afternoon service. It ables in the garden nearly all the in the Canadian House of Com want it to do when there is a preached In the Coogate; fourthly, was a miserably wet day, and a year round; and root vegetables are crisis. That is, as experience and lastly, had Job prenched there; cold, srell wind was blowing, but, stored for the winter. Wine is bar- tered a cauliflower a quart battle." mons, Sir Wilfrid said: "The has proved, what Parliament Lord help his patience!"
In spite of this, the church
Pasta and oil, rent and clothes are packed. Wagner's "Gotterdammer-
the only things that need ready House expresses its firm convic-will have to do,
At another Ume, when the mem- ung" was to be rendered. tion that whenever the need When Sir Wilfrid Laurier bers were taking their places very
"The band will now play 'Gott'-"} This is earned by the farm labour- arises the Canadian people will made his declaration of "loyal noisily, this same minister pr pence the preacher began, and then heer who tills the ground at the rate
"Oh, that I could hear the be found ready and willing to and hearty, co-operation
"I can't pronounce it, of seven re (18. 5) a fourteen- birling in the plate at the door wit paused. make any sacrifice that is re- for the maintenance of the in half the noise ye mak w' yer cheepin' friends," he admitted frankly, "but hour day. The wife used to
sticks or oil, but that is dying out quired to give to the Imperial tegrity and honour of the Em-shoon! Oh, that Paul had been there it seems extraordinarily appropriate three lire (7%d.) humping lemons, nów. By the new law they find it authorities the most loyal and pire," it was decreed, under the win lang wudden ladle, for yer for a day like this."
cheaper to use mules. then Naval Act, that the ships coppers are strangers in a far coun- hearty co-operation in every of the Canadian Navy would bo movement for the maintenance placed at the disposal of the of the integrity and honour of British Admiralty at the out- break of any emergency. Mr. the Empire."
How the outlook of Liberalism King has not even given an in- timation that, in the emergency has changed is emphasised by of war, his Government will recent debates. In one of these advise Parliament to render the question of the possibility of whatever assistance this country Canada remaining neutral in a can to the maintenance of the war in which the Empire was Empire's honour and integrity. engaged was canvassed. In an-To that extent he has offered no encouragement to the idea of other debate Mr. Mackenzic
Imperial unity. Great Britain King, the Prime Minister, said: herself has given an entirely dif "Parliament will decide upon our forent answer to the call of that course ..
in the light of all Imperial unity. Her increasing the circumstances at the time." armaments are for the mainten This latter assertion means that, ance of the security of the Em so far as war is concerned in pire, not for herself alone. In Canada, Mr. Ian Mackenzie, which the British Empire finds the Minister of National De- itself engaged, the present fence, has made it clear re- Liberal Government has nopeatedly that what Canada is policy. Sir Wilfrid Laurier.doing for defensive purposes is when he led the Liberals, was simply for the defence of her more specific. He said that own shores, although it is a fact Canada would be ready in the that the frontiers of the Domin- time of the Empire's need, and ion's inviolability are on the tha there is no justifiable reason Soven Seas. Fortunately why Mr. King should not say sayings of politicians have little the same. The saving grace of or nothing to do with the even- the situation is that the people tualities of war or peace. When of the Dominion will be ready in a crisis arises in which the pre- case of emergency; that is, that servation of the Empire la in- their minds will be made up volved, this country will be without any difficulty, however found again playing the same unprepared they may be in apart as she played in the Great military Bonse. It would have | War. been more to the point if Mr.
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Every member of the family has one good suit or dress for the Sun-"- day church walk. It is well cut, but the material is poor and loses shape casily.
The cinema, if they want to go to it, costa 24d, but they are not very Interested. They profer a sort of family whist
Cost of Living in Rome is rising paste is up 30 per cent, oil is up. Ronts have not yet gone up, but there la tale of it. Saiarica pre up, genor- ally 12 per cent..
Every one is happy about it they have a national creed to live on even though they have to turn lagi [coat,"
Year's
Mussolini is building up his de- fences in the home, and in this he has. at least -one, natúral tomupportittie- | Italian woman's" talent" to make ag mical out of a handful of spaghetti, ran onlon, a tomato,modern
Perhaps n litule of the credit should: go to her husband for thinking (32: meal