ITALIAN THEORIST
AROUSES STORM BY
ATTACK ON FACISM
(By Associated Press)
ROME, May 5—Benedetto Crose.
whose position as Italy’s leading phil
osopher and foremost intellectual
figure is seldom disputed, has brot
down upon himself the wrath of Fas
cism’s leaders and has become the
storm center of a vigorous contro
versy among publicists of culture by
publishing a spirited defense of lib
eralism.
Rejecting the thesis that liberalism
political and cultural is dead, and
that the present-day struggle is sole
ly between socialism and commun
ism on the one hand and ultra-con
servatism, reactionism and Fascism
on the other, Croce, in a recent ar
ticle, asserted that Fascism notwith
standing, Italy would some day again
have to turn to a liberal government
and to a liberal culture.
Fascist culture, he asserted, was
onesided and superficial. Fascists
were fond of talking of history and
the historical significance of their
cause, but they never had really
learned the true lesson of history
that only a decadent state would
long tolerate an authoritarian re
gime and that a healthy one would
eventually reject it. Fascists also
never tired of talking of Italian na
tional traditions, but they seldom
realized that their extreme nation
alist ideas -were initiated by French
nationalists like Charles Maurras
and Maurice Barres. Authoritarian
ism, Croce declared, was necessar
ily transitory and provisional, and
the Facists were again proving this
to be true by the poverty of their
creativeness.
But, Croce continued, while neith
er the extreme Right nor the ex
treme Left was quite sterile, each
having its partial place in a nation
al culture, liberalism was necessary
to the state because it was the only
creed which expressed “the necessi
ty of giving free play, whenever pos
sible, to the spontaneous and inven
tive forces of individuals and social
groups,” and because it was the only
force which made for real mental,
moral and economic progress.
The article has drown many heat
ed responses from Fascist leader
writers, most of whom declare that
Croce’s arguments need no serious
answers and that his influence is on
the wane among younger Italians.
The spokesmen of the cultural as
pect of Fascism condemn the philo
sopher’s point of view as dry and
pedantic, and assert that the living
force of Fascist youth will create
an Italian culture much more impor
tant than that which Croce has glean
ed from German philosophy. One
of these answers sums up the case
in the sentence: “The true work of
art and thought is born without pre
paration and without education.”
Careless Campers Told
How To Put Out Fires
(By Auociatcd Frees)
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 5.—Six
rules for prevention of fires in for
ests have been prepared by the Uni
ted States Forest Service in connec
tion with American Forest Week,
which passed last week. The rules
follow:
Matches—Be sure your match is
out; break it in two before you
throw it away.
Tobacco—Be sure that pipe ashes
and cigar or cigarette stubs are dead
before throwing them away. Never
throw them into brush, leaves, or
needles.
Making Camp—Before building a
fire scrape away all inflamable ma
terial from a spot 5 feet in diameter.
Big a hole in the center and in it
build your camp fire. Keep your fire
small. Never build it against trees
or logs or near brush.
Breaking Camp—Never break camp
until your fire is out, dead out.
Brush Burning—Never burn trash
or brush in windy weather or while
there is the slightest danger that the
fire will get away.
How to Put Out a Camp Fire—Stir
the coals while soaking them with
water. Turn small sticks and drench
both sides. Wet the ground around
the fire. If you can’t get water stir
in dirt and tread it down until pack
ed tight over and around the fire.
Be sure the last spark is dead.
Male Pedestrians Responsible
for Own Safety Zurich Roads
(By Associated Press.)
ZURICH, May 5.—In the opinion
of a Zurich justice of the peace “mo
tor car drivers must necessarily halt
when they approach women, cattle
or hens, for nobody can tell which
way they will run, but there isn’t
any reason to suspect that two men
standing in the middle of the road
will run in opposite directions when
a driver sounds his horn” With this
reasoning, the judge declined to fine
a driver for running down a male
pedestrian.
The evidence showed that two men
standing in the road paid no atten
tion when *13 driver sounded his
horn, but when the car tried to pass
them they ran in opposite directions
and the driver explained it was im
possible to avoid both of them.
DR. SEIPEL TO LECTURE
(By Associated Press)
VIENNA, May 5.—Dr. Ignatz K.
Seipel, former chancellor of Austria,
has consented to lecture next sum
mer at the University of Vienna. His
subject will be sociology.
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The greatest injury would be in the influence your out
of-town-trading exerted over others. Other people might follow in your
rove detrimental to
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libraries—brightens the town’s lights—makes the parks more attractive—pays
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order buyers the error of their ways—and go out of your way to do it
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