"Nation of Centaurs"

Once supposed to ride in a limousine with bullet-proof glass because he feared assassination, Benito Mussolini has recently taken to riding a motorcycle, setting informal fashions in dress. Though he sometimes still wears a top hat and cutaway. // Duce decided last week that in the case of lesser Fascist officials even occasional display of such formal clothes should be discouraged. In Rome the Fascist party's Spartan Secretary General, Signer Achille Starace, sent out to all Fascist officials last week the following six-point general guide to official behavior:

"First. Frequent neither by day nor by night the so-called de luxe resorts and de luxe theaters.

"Second. Travel afoot as much as possible; otherwise use an automobile of the useful (as distinguished from the de luxe) type; better yet, use a motorcycle.

"Third. At official ceremonies do not wear a silk hat and do wear the simple black shirt of the revolution.

"Fourth. Do not put on airs, in any wise, in habits or manner of living.

"Fifth. Keep rigorous office schedules and listen to the maximum number of persons with the greatest patience and humaneness.

"Sixth. Frequent populous districts and, in these difficult times, go, not only theoretically but physically,among the people." Recently the Cabinet exempted motorcycles from all taxes in Italy and the Fascist Press called on Italian males to become "a nation of motorized centaurs."

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