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A WORLD MENACE.
Winston-Sfllem Journal.
Tho world is scarcely rid of one
Kaiser before another attempts to
rise. Mussolini, of Italy, now boasts
that his dream i»s to restore his
country to the glory and grandeur
and power of the Roman Empire,
under Caesar.
Mussolini is the world’s present
arch enemy of democracy. His ad
dresses of late sound a good deal
like the egotistical ravings of former
Kaiser Wilhelm, of Gemany. He is
an outspoken apostle of ruthless gov
ernment domination. His creed is
summed up in his recent pronun
ciamento, which is as follow:
Democracy is hyproerrsy. 'Hie
theory of personal liberty is a cruel
farce. Such slogans have no place in
the fascisti scheme of government,
because the State cannot be ruled
through democracy, or by people who
believe in the gospel of personal liber
ty.
Machiavelli is my tutor and mas
ter; Caesar is my symbol as a
statesman, and Napoleon is my idol
as a ruler and conqueror.
The proponents of democracy and
personal liberty are idle verbiologists
while the gospel of fascism preaches
action and result.
Democracy Is built on illusion,
fascism is built on realities.
Two years ago when the black
legions of Imola presented me with a
sword on Which was engraved a say
ing of Machiavelli, “Governments do
not rule by words/’ I received my
greatest inspiration.
I have rend and re-read Machia
velli, the most virile, the most il
lustrious, and the greatest states
man that ever lived in any country.
I have pondered over my master’s
gospel of government, and I have
seriously considered the applicability
of his teaching to the government of
Italy.
I have become convinced that if
a State wishes to rule ana rule ef
ficiently, it must rule with acts;
therefore, it must be ruthless.
The head of a Government who
believes this is a dangerous leader.
Italy appears to be in grave danger
of being misled by this man. Europe
has suffered much from the mischief
wrought by firebrands of tne Musso
lini type. And that continent is
destined to suffer much more unless
something is done to check Italy’s
dictator. The only reason he is not
now endeavoring to stride across the 1
continent like another Napoleon is
that he does not have a sufficiently
strong army at his back. Mussolini
will bear watching by all the i>eoples
of the earth who are friends of
democracy and love peace.
TEXTILE WORKERS ARE
WELL PAID. SAYS GRIST
Commissioner Thinks Cost of Living
and Climate Should Be Consid
ered.
Raleigh News and Observer.
Textile workers in North Carolina,
on an average, receive as much for
their work as do the textile workers
in the State of Massachusetts, ac
cording to Frank D. Grist, commis
sioner of labor and printing, who has
just completed a complntion of sta
tistics showing the relative wages
paid mill workers in North Carolina
and Massachusetts.
“Textile workers in the South*’*
said Mr. Grist, “really make more
than those in the North, when the
facts are taken into consideration
with regard to the high cost of liv
ing and climatic conditions in New
England.”
On the basis of wages paid mill
workers in this state last year, the
adult worker received, on an average,
an approximate salary of .S2O per
week while in Massachusetts, on an
average, the adult mill worker re
ceived $19.19 per week, according to
Mr. Grist, who stated that his fig
ures were based on reports from four
teen industrial cities in the New
England state.
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THE ITALIAN PEST.
Charity and Children.
Mussolini is fast following the
course of all dictators who depend
upon the mob for support. Dicta
torship is like a narcotic drug—it
must be taken iii constantly increas
ing does to be effective, Mussolini
became dictator by defying a few
Communists and other radicals. He
strengthened his power a little later
by defying Greece. Now he is defy
ing Germany. Rut at this point the
game grows dangerous. Defying the
Communists was popular, rather
than other wise, with the world out
side of Italy, and a good many other
wise sensible Americans went to
the length of hailing Mussoliifi as a
deliverer. Defying Greece was not so
pretty small potato among the na
tions and what happened to her did
not greatly afect the rest of the
world. Rut when Mussolin goes to
threatening Germany it is a differ
ent matter. The world cannot af
ford to have any more arrogant
swashbucklers blowing upon the
smouldering embers of the fire that
so nearly consumed ns ail ten years
ago. The fire seems to be out, but
that is no reason for permitting any
one to start scattering sparks merely
for amusement. If Mussolini's posi
tion at home is getting dangerous, he
is just the type that would unhesi
tatingly plunge his country into a
foreign war to divert the attention
of tiie Italians from his own short
comings. Rut he cannot start a war
with Germany without involving the
rest of us, and the rest, of us are
not hankering for any more wars.
We may not be particularly anxious
to befriend Germany, but we don't
want any more wars. When Musso
lini threatens to start one, he be
comes an international nuisance. It
is about time for the League of Na
tions to take him firmly by the ear
and start him toward the woodshed.
Abuse of the Padlock Procedure.
New York World.
In the application of the Volstead
act, through the padlocking device,
it is now proposed to make of the
Hotel Rrevoort a conspicuous example
by closing it from top to bottom.
Whether other hotels, or how many,
have been subjected to similar treat
ment the records will show. That
some other than the Rrevoort did not
happen at this time to come under
attack may be a matter of accident.
But under the methods that have been
employed in tile name of prohibition
enforcement, sooner or later the ques
tion was certain to arise how far
this particular contrivance of file law
could be made to serve.
The capricious character of the pad
lock procedure was never more clear
ly, rev ruled. If on the charge thatj
liquor was sold somewhere on the
premises whole properties may be!
summarily vacated and large estab- j
iishments required to suspend opera-1
tion, it is likely to lead to serious
abuse of the processes of the law. In
the case of the Brevoort. it is sought
to padlock the entire building. Ac
cepting that rule, there is no limit
to the power to take property out of
use and for all purposes virtually
place it under confiscation.
If this may be done in one case it
may be done in thousands of cases.
For the offense of some one, respon
sible or not, in dispensing drinks,
whole blocks may become untenanted,
legitimate concerns driven out of bus
iness and the severity of the law
equally visited upon owners and rent
payers. Aside from the Iprimary
question of justice as affecting indi
viduals, there may follow immense
civic waste.
It is a stupied, blind, inexcusable
method for the administration of a
law of which the failure is admitted
by those charged with its enforce
ment.
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Victim.
Chicago. Fob. 24.—Mr--. Madeline
Slaick, 24, is near death today as
the result of the most peculiar street
car accident in the history of Chica
go. Surgeons at the American hospit
al today removed from her body a 33-
inch section of one-inch pipe.
Mrs. Slaick, with her husband, was
riding in a street car last night when
the front wheels of the ear ran over
a piece of pipe two yards long, throw
ing it through the flooring of the car.
The pipe struck Slaieh, knocking him
down, then pierced his wife's leg and
imbedded itself in the woodwork of
the ear, holding Mrs. Slaieh fast.
Firemen were called and released
her after three-quarters of an hour
by cutting tile pipe away from the
woodwork with an acetylene torch.
Mrs. Slaick was then taken to the
hospital where it required thirty min
utes for the surgeons to extract the
pi (s'. Mrs. Slaick lost much blood
during the 45 minutes she was pinned
to the street car and doctors said it
was remarkable that she is still alive.
legislature Will Not Make a Monkey
of Self.
Raleigh Times.
R. E. Powell from Washington
sends word that the Liberty Asso
ciation has listed North Carolina
among the five States tlmt are at
this time planning to pass a law pro
hibiting the teaching of the theory of
evolution. Red and the Liberty asso
ciation both have something on
which to base tlieir repqrt. It is ad
mitted that there are in this State
men who expect to do something
about this “monkey" business.
Some of them are misguided good
people who really believe that God
Almighty needs their assistance in
defending Himself and His Holy
Word from the machinations of the
devil. Others are trimmers who seek
to build up a bit of character and
perhaps curry favor with Provi
dence. A third and not inconsider
able class consists ofthose who have
made material—and can we say
spiritual?—investment in the estab
lished order and will stop at noth
ing to protect it.
• Fortunately, while a majority of
the church membership of North
Carolina is essentially Fundamen
talist in doctrine, there are not a
sufficient number of viciously self
righteous to set up the stake and re
turn to burning heretics. The author
of the Poole resolution at the last
session of the Generally Assembly,
and who will probably return to the
next Legislature with another pro
posed law against evolution, is a
la of approximately sixty summers
—spent for the most part in the
rather thankless job of getting out
a country weekly—whose gentle life
is a constant refutation of his
dyspectic dogma-
Mr. Poole has served notice of hi«
intention to reintroduce the “mon
key” law. He will probably do it.
The measure, however, is not apt
to get as far as the next session as
it did at the last. North Carolina
will have provted by the example of
Tennessee and Mississippi, and will
cling to a sense of proportion which
has always served to prevent ite
Legislature from becoming national
ly ridiculous.
Joe—Do you know the difference
between a parlor and a bathtub?
Eddie—No.
Joe—Then I won’t invite you to
visit at my house.
Englishman (at street Occident in
a Scott* villgae)—Give him some
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Suspicious Native—Give him some
yerself, mon.
MORE PAY DEMANDED.
New York World. /
The strike of worsted mill workers
in Passaic and adjacent towns is four
weeks old today. Thus far it has
been marked by picketing, dispersal
of crowds by police, alleged intimi
dation of non-strikers, arrests, disA
orderly conduct sentences and threats
of marfial law.
The strikers have established coffee
and sandwich stations, begun distri
bution of coal and groceries and are
opening today a central distributing
station to relieve suffering which they
say already exists and is increasing.
They are sending appeals to labor and
other organizations for help. Mill
heads say the. strike hap already cost
them their Npring business and is
now endangering their orders for next
fall.
The Botnny Worsted Mills in Pas
saic, the Garfield Worsted Mills, the
Passaic Worsted Spinning Mills and
the Gera Mills are elosed or practic
ally so. Most of the employees of
the New Jersey Worsted Spinning
Mills ore out. The Forstmann &
Huffmann Mills in Passaic and Clif
ton, practically one plant with the
city line running through it, and
their Garfield plant have been picket
ed two weeks. They claims to have
lost not more than twenty-five em
ployees to the strikers, and that not
more than 100 have stayed away, in
spite of intimidation.
Under normal conditions these mills
employe from 12,000 to 14,000. Esti
mates of the number out vary from
5,000 to 10,000.
The demands of the strikers, ns
stated b!y Albert Welsbord, organizer
of the United Front committee of
Textile Workers, are:
Ketronctive payment of the ten per
cent, wage out made by some of the
mills last September, ten per cent,
increase over the rate that existed
before the cut, time and a half for
overtime, no discrimination against
union members, recognition of the
union, a forty-hour week and sani
tary working conditions.
The employers have made no re
ply.
The groub of mills affected com
prise some of the largest of their
kind in the world. They weave prin
cipally fine worsteds for women’s gar
ments.
The workers have not been organ
ized by the textile unions of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor. There tmve
been strikes before, one in 1012 and
one in 1910, which lasted seven
weeks. The latter reduced the fifty
five hours week to forty-eight.
During 1025 most of the mills ran
on short time and with small forces
due, it is said, to a slump in the
woolen business. Last September the
Botany Worsted Mills announced a
10 per cent, wage cut “owing to
action taken in other textile centers
several months ago, and oiv account
of general market conditions."
Big Earnings Shown
The dissatisfaction caused by this
cut was not lessened b.v the fact that
April 21, 1025, an annual report of
the Botany and Garfield worsted mills
had been made, public showing net
earnings of $2,229,550. a net credit to
surplus of $1,731,208 nnd distribut
able earnings of $5.01 a share on class
A stock nnd sl.Ol a share on com
mon stock.
Organization among the workers is
said to have begun in November. The
United Front committee, according to
Weisbord, is affiliated with various
locals in Lawrence. Mass. He claims
it has a membership of between 3.000
and 4,000 in the Passaic region. Weis
bord says the average earnings of
most of the strikers were sl2 to $22
a week.
Weisbord says he is an American
by birth, went to school in New York
City, was in Camp Devon during the
war, taught mathematics and English
in rehabilitation work at the College
of the City of New York in 1020.
later was graduated from Harvard
Law School, “solely to find out the
tricks of the bosses,” and has since
been occupied in organizing labor.
More Walkouts Predicted.
News dispatches in 1023 show him
to have been national dirtetor of the
Young People’s Socialist League of
the United States. Before going to
Passiac he waß in Hoboken, where he
was connected with a strike in the
Hillcrest Silk Mills.
At strike headquarters it was pre
dicted the Dundee Textile Mill at
Clifton, a silk concern, and the silk
mill at Lodi will go out within a day
6r two, and that the strike will be
come general, involving fifteen plants
and 20,000 workers.
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for you.
Fannie (who deserves much sympa
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