- ■■■ ■ . — mm+Wmm —T I Zrz/e in Italy Today. Alfred Panzeni, in II G iornale d'ltalia (Rome). Ah, the beautiful first class waiting room in the Bologna railway station, with its red velvet sofas, where gen tlemen and ladies used to wait in such dignity for their trains, and where an atmosphere of good breed ing imposed itself as soon as you en tered, and even those who dosed did so with refiinoBocnt! Is it gone? No, not that; it is not gone; it is still there. But It is crowded with a dif ferent kind of people, crowded to the limits. They sit around with their feet on the sofas, in clumsy attitudes, and they steep. But they look as if they would start a row the moment they woke up. The beautiful waiting hall seems to have undergone a process of ac commodation. The sofas are caved In. The upholstery Is threadbare; everything Is covered with a crust of Art. Part of It is honest dust; but general human greasiness is diffused over everything. Seen from a dis tance the trains look just as they used to. But as soon as you enter you note the tremendous change. The cabinet work is bruised and broken. Window panes are lacking. Shades are ta tatters; and the toilet accom modations are neglected, dirty and out of order. But with all this, the number of people who are traveling Is simply incredible. Before me two men are sitting. One is rather el derly, and at first glance both men seem to belong to the petty bour geosie. It is a mistake though. From their conversation, I discover that they belong to the so-called prole tariat One of them, in fact, is re counting his life history to the other; and it apparently typifies the rise of hie class. Bear in mind, I am not inventing this. I am reporting the story literally as I heard it. He said that he began as a little boy, blowing a bellows in a black smith's shop. He carried bags of coal and worked 12 hours a day. He slept In a black hole behind a stall where two horses were kept At mid-day he ate a piece of black bread which his mother gave him. Sundays his mother told him to wear shoes, but his shoes would not go on his feet Whenever he met a gentleman, he in stinctively raised his cap and said, “Torsa!" (your, servant, sir). But now? He boasts of his success; he asserts that he has never had an edu cation, but he does have horse sense. He says that all a man needs is horse sense. On the basis of this, he talks with confidence about art and dPtists and monuments. He refers to the ancient artists, sculptors, and archi tects who worked for a few sous. I get the impression that he takes much amusement, with his “horse sense,” in the thought that artists and scientists work for practically noth ing; and assumes that they do so for their own amusement. There is more or less truth perhaps in his opinion. He got out at Castelbolognese, to go down to the seashore where he says he has a couple of villas. A couple of villas? No «rse seems surprised. I ponder on this new so cial epidermis now in process of for mation—a new bourgeoisie, to be more specific. It is a real physiological process. When a man is wounded and the wound heals, you find a -scar. What seems an overturning of every thing to some, appears an orderly course of development to others. 1 stopped for a day at a village of the Romagna, a,t the seashore—a little village which I knew well. All is peace. The villagers are mostly small proprietors—well to do, industrious, thrifty. And yet 1 find here the same abnormal symptoms. On a white wall under die letter “W" and the name “Lienin,” is painted in black a sickle and a hammer. New names have been given to the streets and squares. There "fe a Lenin street, a bolshevist square, and a soviet road. And all this has happened like a dream. I do not try to explain it; it is simply the flkct. The chamber ol labor has ordered it. It was not done at the behest of any individual. The chamber of labor now telle what shall be done, just as the church used to in an earlier age. I drop in at a tav ern and order a glass of wine. It costs a lira (20 cents). The proprietor said to me. "In the old days, when this wine cost 40 cen times (8 cents) a litre, they used to drink a 30 centime grade. Now 1 have still better wine than this, for 4 lire, and' spme not quite so good for 3 lire; but the people insist on drinking the 3 lire wine." Then he looked me in the eyes and said significantly; “The people have 4roke up!” He then mentioned the high salaries of workingmen and the short hours of labor; but he did not argue upon these subjects. However, the good man seemed assailed with doubt and after saying again that the people had "woke up," he asked: "What do you think about it?” On the platform of the station at Ancona, where we arrived early in the morning, a fish and vegetable market was in full swing. A fish vender shouted his red mullets this way: “Reds, reds, reds, republicans, anar chists!" In the kiosk at the station X, I saw gorgeously jacketed books on sale, with such titles as the follow ing: "Flower of luxury,” "The New Pleasure,” "Arab Delights,” Mem oirs of a Degenerate,” "Why Wives Deceive Their Husbands,” "The Cup of Pleasure,” and so on. Common people, woriAng class women, and yonng peasants were eagerly buying these books in their parti-colored jackets. Just try to recall the time, not bo long ago, when Liuzzati used to break a lance against the traffic in innocent picture postal cards! In the train some peasants and peasant women are devouring fine white bread*, and dismembering with their hands a fat roast fowl. One young peasant girl has used a fash ionable perfumery, and one of the country boys wears an expensive pair of American shoes. 1 am not sure whether this means a real rise in class. Possibly; but it is reasonable to doubt it. How can these country people, after enjoying such luxuries, again reconcile themselves to the hard labor of the fields? Flowland perfumes might not mix well with those used by the country girl. I ponder again on that proletarian from Bologna, who has a couple of villas and boasts of his horse sense. I fancy him inquiring of me: "My dear sir, whose foreign policy do you indorse?” He certainly is in favor of the alliance with the so called pro letarian nations, above all, with Rus sia. I do not dispute his choice, but I have a feeling t^at our Italy, placed half way betweon western and east ern Europe, is frightfully Isolated from either the proletarian or the npitalist nations. For my part, I ■should like to see a foreign policy j which would assure Italy worthy rec ognition. On this little tongue of land we call our fatherland, a poor, very poor land, more than 40.000,000 human beings must earn a living. The hierarchy of the past has been swept away. The new hierarchy has not been formed. I do not know whether it is a mere illusion, caused by our present social disturbances, or whether it is due to the stoppage of emigration, but the population seems to be increasing. Everywhere there are crowds of people. Some praise the proletariat of northern Italy as being superior to the proletariat of southern Italy; but I have my doubts. That gentleman from Bologna boasted of his horse sense and of the property that he and bis like had acquired. He had rea son to boast. But I fancy, dear reader, that he may have made a slight mistake in attributing his property to his horse sense. "No Socialism hi Russia.” From the London Timas. Mrs. Philip Swowden arrived at her home in Golders Green from Russia, which she has been visiting with other tabor delegates. In conversation with a press representative Mrs. Snowden said: "I went to Russia with an open mind, but I have returned with the following decided objections to Lenin’s govern ment. In the first .plaoe, it is not so cialism. There is no socialism in Rus sia. Nor is it communism as I under stand the word. All the socialism and communism of soviet Russia appears to be in their manifestoes. The lend is supposed to be owned by the state, but the peasants pay no rent, .and their eld est sons inherit the property. Apparently it is ail a matter of labels. "In the second place, the Boviet is not democratic, and makes no pretence of being so. Speaking politically, they think democracy is an outworn theory. ■They believe, of course, in what they call the dictatorship of the proletariat, but they have not even get that. They have only got the dictatorship of the ■communist patty. As the communist party in Russia numbers at the most itiOO.'OOO. it is obvious that the dictator ship is the dictatorship of a small sec tion. Jt does not stop there. The com munist (tarty is dictated to by a handful «rl people inside the party. When you got down to the bottom, the dictator ship of the proletariat means the dicta torship of about six men, aided by an extraordinary commission.' The soviet government, Mrs. Snowden added was quite stable,-and was sup ported by the whole population, al though probably the majority of the people did not like it. This apparent paradox site held to be due to the pat riotism of ttve people in uniting against the countries with whom they at war. The present government had the people’s support simply because they saw no alternative government strong enough to protect them from outside enemies. Where Treaty Does Justice. From the New York World. The plebiscite votes taken in portions of east and west Prussia are said to fa vor Prussian nationality. This decision will be heeded. The vote area may not become German as a whole. The count b; made by communes to fix the boun dary in which process "regard will be paid to the wishes of the Inhabitants” and to "the geographical and economic conditiotll* of the locality.” But Ger many will get the lion’s share. Thus a treaty .criticised .in many res pects continues to ascertain and estab lish the popular will. Germany has fctred well in fucb tests. The Eupen and Malmedy votes for Belgium affected oniy small areas. In Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark voluntarily gave up the third zone; the first went Danish, the second German, and after a flurry of court jin goism, which the sensible people sup pressed, Denmark welcomed the result There remains a vote which is of great importance, not because of the size of the area, or even its population, but its mineral wealth, that in Upper Silesia Its mine owners and managers and bus iness men generally are German; the workmen commonly Polish. Kven after the treaty, Prussian militarists were ac cused of cruel acts to force a %’erdict. but such complaints have now been stilled. Tho Germans have turned to Spa, where they urge that they cannot meet heavy reparation payments if Si lesia Is taken from them, handicapping their coal and steel industries. Mani festly, in the interest of qll concerned, the "economic conditions of the local ity" should indicate free trade and wide distribution of Silesian coal, no matter what flag its people may prefer. War Debt Financing. From the Milwaukee Journal While the war developed some amaz ing figures on government expenditures, the speed with which payments are made are almost equally astonishing. Take Great Britain, for instance with her 53,00$0,000,000 expenses from 1914 to May, 1920. No leBs than $19,000. 000,000 of this amount was paid during the same period. In other words, more than one-third of the total war bill was paid up practically while the war was going on. The situation, however, Is even more favorable for. the British than these figures indicate. They show a total debt remaining of $34,000,000,000, but as a matter of fact at least $5,000,000,000 of this was merely advanced to othei countries during the war and will t* paid back. This leaves a net debt lor the British of about $29,000,000,000, or about one and on-half times as much as was raised by taxation during the war. The best part of the whole war debt exhibit is the evident determination ol the British to pay their war obliga tions as fast as possible without crippling industry. Before 1914, a na tional debt was considered a sort ot necessary evil. Now, it Is looked upon as a terrible incubus which should be thrown off as fast as possible. The very magnitude of war clobts has ap parently aroused an intense desire to throw off the load. Sinking funds are now being prpvi«%I which will cancel ] the entire British debt in a relatively aC'ort period, an excellent yocamplo for 1 all nation* with hug* deb's. WHITE UMBRELLA —IDEAL SUIT It has been found that in hot weather the human body does not make lens heat, but makes more beat, assuming that the Individual is equally active in both warm and cold weather. If the individual, because of the heat, decides to lie In a hammock under & fan he wll make less heat, of course. Thus indirectly does a man make less heat in hot wather. The regulation of the body temperature in hot weather is accom plished by increasing the loss of heat from the skin and lungs. If & man takes active exercise and thus increases his heat production he '#11 continue to make heat at an in creased rate for some time after he has quieted down. There is considerable scientific basis for the opinion that a cool hath at night before retiring will increase the comfort of sleep during hot weather. Sfnce the question of comfort in hot climates and hot weather is so closely bound up with loss of heat, we are In terested in the question of clothes for hot weather. Dr. A. Gibbs says that the idea) rai ment for the tropics is a large white umbrella lined with green. 1 have seen negTO children on southern plantations dressed that very way except for the umbrella. They were more comfortable than were the observers. "Since the ideal hot weather sugges tion of raiment," Dr. Gibbs says, “Is not permissible, we should approximate it as nearly as the law allows. He suggests a large brimmed helmet and a loosely fitting white suit of material as thin as possible. If a man's work makes white impracticable he should wear goods as nearly white as is practicable.” Experiments with rabbits and other animals show that black absorbs heat rapidly. When one white and one bluck animal of the same kind are exposed in hot sunlight side by side the temperature of the black one will rise faster, he will suffer from sunstroke quicker and die more promptly. Between the body and the clothing Is a layer of air which is both hot and wet. If Mothing is heavy or of a close weave this wet and hot layer of air is held next the skin and eauses great discom fort. Therefore clothing for the trop ics and for hot weather elsewhere should be as light and porous as possible. A. Breui) and W. J. Young, making in quiry in Australia, found that some pre ferred cotton cloth for hot weather, some woolen, and some linen, but all agreed that the fabrics yhoudl be porous and of light weight. A few garments are better than many. A baby is most comfortable when It wears a diaper and a slip If the weath er is very hot It will be well to leave off the slip. And maybe the diaper can he dispensed with on a hot day. Since most of the surplus heat Is dis posed of by evaporation of perspiration, the clothing must not become "wring ing wtet,” and therefore impervious to air. Panning by Increasing evaporation anS- changing the layer of hot air around the skin adds greatly to comfort. Since so much water is lost by sweating, the individual must drink plenty of water. Sonnet. I am no stranger in the house of paAn; 1 am familiar with its every part. From the low stile, then up the crooked lane To tHe dark doorway, intimate to my Lfi&rt. Here 'did I sit with grief and eat his bread. Here was I welcomed as misfortune’s guest, And there’s no room but where I’ve laid my head On misery’s accommodating breast. So, sorrow, does my knocking rouse you up? Open the door, old mother; It is I. Bring griefs good goblet out, the sad, sweet cup; Fill it with wine of silence, strong and dry. For I’ve a story to amuse your ears, Of youth and hope, of middle age and tears. —Robert Nathan, in Atlantic Monthly. Dechanel Gets “Raise.” From the Manchester Guardian. Taking into account the cost of liv ing and desiring to "enable him to re ceive worthily foreign diplomats and guests of France,’’ the chamber has de cided to increase the salary of the president of the republic by 800.000 francs (nominally $160,000) to a total of 2.000,000 $4,000,000). and those of the presidents of the senate and the chamber from 60,000 to 132,000 ($12,000 to $£6,400). Foch and other marshals of France likewise benefit by an increase of 30,000 francs ($6,000), making a total salary of 64,000 ($12,800). Ministers who receive 4, 000 ($800) less hope to gain the favor of parliament later. The increase in the presidential salary I is certainly overdue, since out of it have to be met all expenses and taxes. It is stated that Poincare's assessment for direct taxation amounted to 300,000 francs ($70,000). No Chance. “Ethelbert, 1 have no use for that young Blithers; he yawned three timnw while i was talking to him.” "He wasn’t yawning, my dear; he was merely trying to say something.” England to Return Flag. England will return to the state of Kentucky a flag which was captured from Kentucky volunteers in the battle of the Thames in Michigan, in the war of 1812. The Kentucky legislature has appropriated mdney to send to England a commissioner who will bring back the flag Tills commissioner, James Bu chanan. of Eov^sville, is a descendant <*. the CPnilTj-nder of the Kentucky GAVE HIM UP IN DISGUST Colored American Put Algerian to the Supreme Test end Then Deliv ered Stem Verdict The total lack of comprehension be tween the American negro and hie Algerian brother will go down In his tory as one of the outstanding features 1 of the war. Thebe was, for Instance, the case of the dusky stevedore at Brest and one of the colored French troops oh doty there. hong and laboriously the Yank tried to establish some means of lin guistic communication, but there was no response. Then a brilliant thought struck the boy from Georgia. He produced a pair of Ivory cubes and rolled them enticingly under the Algerian’s nose. Intelligence still registered zero. "Man,” said Sam In disgust. "You ain't no eullud pusson. Yon ain’t even no human. Yon i» just a corpse.”— The American LeglOD Weekly. To Have a Clear Sweet Shin. Touch pimples, 'redness, roughness or Itching, If any, with Cutlcura Oint ment, then bathe with Cutlcura Soap and hot water. B.tnae, dry gently and dust on a little Cutlcura Talcum to leave a fascinating fragrance on skin. Everywhere itftc each.—Adv. I Good Judgment j leads thousands of 8 housewives to serve | Grape'Nuts in place of foods that require | hours of drudgery in a not | kitchen. Neeas No Sugar* Comes ready to eat from the package. “There's a Reason ’for Grape-Nuts I ■"■xyjra'g. >m 'vxnur„2s±&ar .'SK’Jcr.'"?..-■ r,“.~rsT^^L"n VETERANS QF BIG ROW-WOWS 1 Oldtime Republican* Exchange Rem iniscence* of Convention* In Which They Were Prominent. Chauncey M. Depew and Joseph G. Ounnon got into an argument as to which had been attending national conventions the longer. "Now, Joe,” said Senator Depew to the former speaker, "yon know you are only a comparatively young man in convention history and cannot fig ure in the same class with me. I was at the convention of 3864 and I know you did not come along until later.” "You're both children,” declared former Marshal Lculs F. Payn of Chatham, who was doing his regular quadrennial turn as a member of the New York delegation. "I was here In 1860.” "I'd have been here, too," remarked "Uncle Joe” Cannon, "hut Abe Lin coln beat, roe in a lawsuit the week before the convention and I didn’t have money enough to pay the $2 a week board till unless I walked here to save carfare.”—New York Morn ing Telegraph’s Chicago Story. Cold Water Has Odd Use. For years steam has been used for thawing the frozen soli of mining claims In Alaska, 1b spite of difficulties. Now it lias been discovered that cold surface water, which of course is warmer than the ground, is a much better thawing medium than either steam or hot water, states Popular Me chanics Magazine. This seeming par adox is explained by the fact that the superabuiduiit heat units of steam rise rapidly around the pipe, nod are wast ed, while ihe few heat units carried by the cold water remain in the ground and do their work slowly but thor oughly, In one test In the Nome dis trict. a 2-itKh f'ipc was inserted in a 6-irich drilled hole, und fed with 20 gallons of water a minute at a.tem perature of 52 degrees F the ground being at 2.8 degrees. In 30 hours an 8-foot cylindrical thaw liad been made. Garden Pride. Neighbors of ,1. W. Applin were sur prised one night recently uismt 12 o’clock to see him with a flashlight looking for something in his garden, lie appeared to have another man along with him. It was thought that perhaps he liad lost something valuable and was look ong for it and a solicitous neighbor said the next morning: "Lose some thing in your garden lasf night, Mr Applin?” “No,” was the reply. "I was just showing a culler uur first tomato.”— Indianapolis News. Somnolent Affair. "That old hand wagon you orgun ' ized for yourself turned out to he a heartless constituent. "1 wouldn’t say it was a hand wag on at all,” replied Senator Sorghum. “11 was more like a sleeping car.” ASPIRIN j Name "Bayer” on Genuta* “Buyer Tablets of Aspirin” la genu ine Aqplriif proved safe by milUoaa and prescribed by physicians for over twenty years. Accept only an unbroken ‘Buyer package” which contains proper directions to relieve Headache, Tooth ache, Earache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Colds and Pain. Handy tin boxes of 111 tablets cost few cents. Druggists also sell larger “Bayer packages.” Aspirin Is trade mark Bayer Manufacture Mon oocetlcacidester of Sallcyllcacid.—Adv. Ballad Up the Barber. .lodge Blank is fond of relating how he pot one over on the barber who wished to make a sale. The man had Just shaved him, and wanted to sell him a lotion to use on his face w hen be sliaved himself. “Is that what you use on your cuo t< liners?” asked the judge. “No,” replied the barber, “it’s so ex pensive I cannot afford it.” "Jf you can't afford it when you get 20 cents for shaving a man,” returned the judge, "how do you expect me to afford It when 1 shave myself for nothing?” The barber was nonplussed and pave up trying to make the sale.— Boston Transcript HOT WEATHER Hits the Stomach Hardest Chicago, HI.—Hot wdather upsets the strongest stomach and causes seri ous trouble for the weak ones, so word is new going out to thousands of eatoelc users that they should, dur ing this hot weather, he on the safe *:dke end take one eatoclc tablet about half an hour before meals, as ■well as after eating. Do this and beep the excess acids and poisonous gases from forming in stomach and bowels. Batonic acts quickly; it will help the appetite and take away the hot-weather, feverish, thirsty feeling „ from mouth and stomach, because tt takes up the excess acids, poisons and gases and carries there out of the body and, of course, when the cause of the trouble is removed, there can he no bad feeling. Eatonic is like a bit of candy, and is recommended to. all as a safe, sure remedy these hot iays for stomach and bodily troubles, tanned from overeating and drinking told things. Adv. 8ure1.y Prom Boston. “Heavens, what a man l-’ “What’s the trouble, my dear?” “We quarreled again this morning. 1 said, 'You poor fish, you ran around after mo for 'three years before I’d consent to marry you, dropping on your knees and proposing to me over and ever again in the most absurd fash ion.’ ” “And what did he-say to'that?” "He said, “My love, don’t mix meta phots. A fish couldn’t possibly per form the feats you attribute to me.’ * Threatening Prospect. “How about the watch on tht ithine?” “kWell, if 1:hc Huns don’t beltavf themselves any better than It looki now, it is goltig to be an alarm clock.’ DO ALL Mi HOUSEWORK Before I took Lydia E. Pink ; ham’s Vegetable Compound 1 could hardly stand, aays Mrs. SCwarcinskL Chicago, 111.—“I Buffered with dis placement and irregularities and I die IH/.t, *VI1U W YV Hal IU UU. My mother advisee ■me to take Lydia E. Pinkham’s V egCif, KCAEKA, SttfdWOKM VTTJI**.t other I ekl i<«««ea. i 'tee Me afirngr > or direct fro.’ ASS't&m- *ctiifsafa. Important to Mot her a Examine carefully every bottle of CASTOH1A, that famous old remedy for infants and children, and see that It In Dee for Over 80 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria Stop That Backach? 1 These agonizing twinge* aeroau the ■mall of the hack, that dull, throbiyua 1 ache, may he your wandoa of aerroau ; kidney weakness—serious, 9 negleetcd, i for It might easily lead to giarsT, atone | la the kidney, bladder taflammatton, ; dropsy or fatal Bright’* diaaaaa. & if 1 yon are (offering with a baci hack, haea , dizzy spells, headaches, ' , I spendent attacks or t action, get after the ea Kidney Hilt the ^ been tried oat far yew by A South Dakota Case Clinton Heaton, farmer, R T. 0. No. 1. Roeholt. •. D., s*y*i “1 suffered from weak kidney* and lama back. I rot *o I couldn’t pitch a fork ful of hay. Thor* were time* that 1 would have no control over the accretions. At friend advised me tel try Doan’s Kidney. PUls. .I-*ot two boxes! and used theip as di rected and they cured me." DOAN'S VKS* i POSTER. MILBURN CO, BUFfttUh H. f. j Thousands of Happy Housewives In Western Canada M* helping their huatoaud* to protmex— are glad they encouraged them to go where they oould make a home of their own—save paying rent and reduce the eo*t of living—where they oould reach prosperity and Independence by buying ea easy tenaa Fertile Land at $15 to $30 an Acre —land similar to that whlon through > many years has yielded from*© *® Multiplies Too Fast. At one of the army schoote the per-, spiring aspirants for knowledge were going through the Intricacies of arith metic. One raw youth was having particular difficulty with fractions. "It’s very simple,” encouraged the instructor. "See this role, now. IVnr many tenths are there In It? Ten, of course. Now, how many hundredths? One hundred. Now, bow many thou sandths?" “D——n !” explained the sufferer, "There must he millions of 'em."-— American Legion Weekly. Her Candid Friend. Miss l’assc (in Switzerland)—That handsome guide kissed me a moment ago. r>o you think I ought to deduct something from Ids fee? Miss Keen—I think you ought tu add to it, my dear,—Boston Transcript,