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Show br Arthur Brisbane When Mussolini Appeared Royalty and Wild Boars As Turkey Sees Us Varnish Drinkers, Beware AT the royal wedding In Rome five Boverelgns, five rulers who had recently lost their jobs, and fifty-four other royalties looked on. Queens, Tilnces and Princesses crowded the chapel. The interesting moment came when Mussolini, Italy's dictator, entered and was saluted by all the royalties with the Fascist salute, the outstretched outstretch-ed right arm. Mussolini did not march with the royalty. But when they saw him and gave him that salute, angels looking down, could easily Identify the real ruler of Italy. It was an lntere3tlng marriage, with special rites reserved by the church for royalty. The Italian King and Queen sat on a throne at one side of the altar, the Belgian King and Queen sat on another throne at the other side of the altar. At the elevation of the host, trumpets sounded, and drums were beaten. That is done only for royalty. Royalties Invited to the wedding have enjoyed a great "Bhoot" on the King's eBtate. Each with a gun, royal ladies and gentlemen stood at positions posi-tions assigned to them. Beaters drove to a clearing wild animals of all sorts, deer, rabbits, wild boar, and as they appeared royalty shot and killed as many as possible. Hundreds of dead animals were laid out In a row, that royalty might admire ad-mire Its prowess. Then, as royalty could not eat all or even a tenth of what was killed, the rest went to the poor in Rome. In the next century there will be no more Kings perhaps. Bui there will be other Mussollnls The people must have leaders, bora or self-made. We exaggerate often the wisdom and skill of the ancients. In South America, many skulls are found, with little pieces cuT. out, as in modern "trepanning,". Surgeons, offhand, said: "How marvelous mar-velous that ancient Aztecs, with primitive prim-itive instruments, could operate on the skull, and, presumably, remove tumors, or other causes of danger." Dr. Herbert V. Williams, who teaches medical pathology .at the University Uni-versity of Buffalo, returns from Peru and Chile with the real story. When the South American of ancient an-cient days had a bad headache, the "medicine man" said to him: "There are evil spirits in your head: I'll tlx that'.' lie cut off a small round piece of the sufferer's scalp, and took out a round piece of bone, "to let the evil spirits out." Strange, barbarous, but it is not so long, since, In Christian lands, the in caDe and the epileptic, supposed 10 be possessed by evil spirits, were often oft-en beaten with horrible brutality, even beaten to death, in an effort to discourage the spirits, and drive them out. The Turkish newspaper, Akoham, describes, sympathetically, results of our recent earthquake in Wall Street, "Former American millionaires are now eating bread, cheese and cabbage," cab-bage," rays the editor. Some American millionaires would gain In health and grace If they adopted adopt-ed that diet, without adding bootleg mixtures to It. Akoham's "news" from America is not more inaccurate than Borne of our news from Turkey, and far less inaccurate inac-curate than the average American idea of the Turkish people. Much power in the Turks, great 6elf-respeet, and a high sense of honor. President Hoover announces a total of four billion seven hundred million dollars to be spent In 1930 on publle works, railroads, and other public utilities. It's a great deal of money and will help, but what the people earn and spend Is the really important item. Wage earners, for instance, collect sixty thousand million dollars a year, They spent forty billions to live and have twenty billions left over, for amusement or investment, almost five times as much aa Mr. Hoover's total. The important thing is to remain cheerful and continue spending reasonably. rea-sonably. Prosperity depends on that. Those in the habit of drinking boor-leg boor-leg liquor, made by redistilling varnishes var-nishes and lacquers, take warning. Prohibition authorities learn that many varnish factories are bootleg institutions in-stitutions disguised. Hereafter, every 100 gallons of alcohol, supplied to paint and varnish makers, must have added four gallons of deadly wood alcohol, and ten gallons gal-lons of other poisons. Prohibition agents believe this will discourage bootleggers. ThlB country is prosperous, full of opportunities. But many of us reach old age poor. A careful survey show In the United States 2.000,000 Individuals, Individ-uals, past 65 years of age, dependent for support on others. (Q. 1929, by JCla Fniwu SrmdictM, Int. |