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Show hr Arthur Brisbane When Mussolini Appeared Royalty and Wild Boars A Turkey Sees Us Varnish Drinkers, Beware AT the royal wedding In Rome five sovereigns, five rulers who had recently lost their Jobs, and fifty-foui other royalties looked on. Queens, Princes and Princesses crowded the chapel. The Interesting moment came when JduBSollnl, Italy's dictator, entered slid 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 gars him that salute, angels looking down, could easily identify the real ruler of Italy. It was an interesting 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 "shoot" on the King's estate. Each with a gun, royal ladles 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 at 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. But there will be other Mussolinis The people must have leaders, born or self-made. 'We exaggerate often th 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 mar-velous 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 Jrom 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 fix that.". He 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 sane and the epileptic, supposed to be possessed by evil spirits, were often- beaten with horrible brutality, even beaten to death, in an effort to discourage the spirits, and drive them out. The Turkish newspaper, Akohani, describes, sympathetically, results of our. recent earthquake In Wall Street. "Former American millionaires are now eating bread, cheese and cabbage," cab-bage," ays the editor. Some' American millionaires would gain in health and grace if they adopt ed that diet, without adding bootleg mixtures to It. Akoham's "news" from America Is not. more Inaccurate than some of oui news from Turkey, and far less inac curate than the average American Idea of the Turkish people. Much power in the Turks, great self-respect, and a high sense ot honor. President Hoover announces a total of four billion seven hundred million dollars to be spent in 1930 on public works, . railroads, and other publk utilities. It's a great deal of money and wil help, but what the people earn ano spend Is the really important item. Wage earners, for instance, collect sixty thousand million dollars a year They spent forty billions to live antf have twenty billions left over, fo amusement or investment, almost fiv-times fiv-times as much as Mr. Hoover's total The Important thing is to reraali: cheerful and continue spending rea sonably. Prosperity depeuds on that. Those In the habit ot drinking boo: leg liquor, made by redistilling var nlshes and lacquers, take, warning. Prohibition authorities learn that many varnish factories are bootleg in stltutlons 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. .This country is prosperous, full ot opportunities. But many of us reach old age poor. A careful survey show? In the United States 2,000,000 Individ uals, past 05 years of age, dependent for support on others. (Q, 1929. by Kias Ftitura Syndicate, Int.) -- -. . - - |