“SAINT” MUSSOLINI.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 August 1927, Page 5

“SAINT” MUSSOLINI.

HOUSE WIVES’ BLESSING

ROME, Aug. 23. The Government of Signo> - Musso liiil is able to announce to-day that in 11 months of the present fiscal year the State Budget .shows an excess in receipts or 948,000,000 lire (about 011,000.030/. This enable® the Government to proceed with further mea--u.re.s, in the 'interests of the nub,lie — lie promised reduction in rates, a diminution of rai way and tram car fares, and, if exhortations, fail, drastic .reduction in food and clothing iprices to a figure four times the average price of cue same articles in 1914. The only thing in which the Government ha.s not yet caused public rejoicing relates to the cost of cigars and cigarettes. There may he cheaper living, hut not cheaper tracking. * . . ' . . However, the energetic action ot Signor Mu.-ist,’ini has made him a more heroic figure than ever in the estimation of Italian housewives. One hears in the market places the familiar threats to butchers, grocers and otner delators, and such expressions as, “Wait till Mussolini, come,- out with a new decree, then von will see.” The de~”ee of ■•educing bv law the rents of flats to four times the average in 1914 issued Inst wcolv is recoguiised '<ls o •! v ,. r ., otv»'»*e nation. House woprietors will not starve, but millions of tenants already bless Mussolini, “Cole un santo” (a real saint).