Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-12-03 | Page 4 | Italy under Fascism Spends Vast Sum for Public Works

Italy Under Fascism Spends I Vast Sum f for r P Public Works Works' By THOMAS B. B MORGAN United Fr Press Staff Correspondent ROME Dec 3 UP UP-In UP In nine yea years ot of f fascism Italy has spent 26 milliard lire Ire on public construction enterprises enterprises enter- enter rises it was announced on the opening opening opening open open- ing of ot the tenth fascist year which dates ates from the march on Rome in October 1922 This year nine-year sum Is more than twIce the total amount spent on construction in Italy during the he 60 years previous to fascism In Inthe the he 60 years prior to fascism Italy spent pent 11 milliard millard lire Ire on public works One of the chief preoccupations of PremIer Vernier Benito Mussolini has been the he modernization beautification and Improvement of ot all state public institutions in- in throughout Italy This program involving the expenditure ot of f hundreds of millions of dollars annually annually an an- was in full fun swing when the world economic crisis began to make Itself felt in Italy Slackened Program Necessity of balancing budgets budts ts and keeping the state finances in tn sound round order has forced the government to slacken lacken the rhythm of its reconstruction i lon Hon program but nevertheless Italy is s still forging ahead with ambitious I construction projects which are making making mak- mak ing ng a profound change in the appearance appearance appear appear- ance of at the country During the ninth fascist year from tram October 28 1930 to October 28 1931 the state tate spent pent lire on the construction construction con- con of oC 2038 public works of all kinds There Is not a hamlet village or city Ity in Italy which has not shared in i this state construction work MU- MU lions ions of dollars have been devoted to Improving and especially the main arteries while rivers have bave been dredged ports enlarged swamps drained new bridges constructed not to count the hundreds of new schools state ate buildings and government institutions Institutions In- In of oC all kinds which now have new ew and beautiful quarters Rivalry of Cities Every city In Italy has vied with one ne another in the extent of its new construction This winter both the government and the municipalities are devoting every available resource to new construction primarily to provide work vork for Italy's unemployed unemployed unemployed un un- un- un employed and secondly to continue Mussolini's program of tion ion rh The list of at public buildings and works completed and dedicated on the ninth anniversary of at the march marchon on Rome was so great that it bewildered bewildered bewildered dered the public Among the most conspicuous state enterprises Completed during the ninth fascist year are the Bergamo- Bergamo Brescia highway over one of at the mos most moot scenic routes in Europe and a giant gian bridge over Porto Marghera In Ven Ven- ice Among other noteworthy constructions constructions con con- most of ot them sections of at larger projects initialed several years years' ago are the completion of oC a fifth lock on the new navigable canal between between be be- be tween Pisa and Leghorn a new trunk on the coast line railway in Calabria a a. new aqueduct in tn the region o or of Siena a new commercial basin and the lengthening of ot the dikes in the port of ot Naples and hundreds of oth other r works of major Importance to the development of the country