Martyrs

The U. S. liner President Garfield was all set to sail from Genoa one day last week--gangplanks had been drawn up, lines were being cast off--when an American sailor gave voice to patriotic fervor. "Long live Roosevelt!" he shouted at the Italian longshoremen on the pier. No good Duce-lover could take that with his mouth closed. "Long live Mussolini!" replied the longshoremen. In a trice groups on ship and shore were bellowing at each other. "Long live Roosevelt. Down with Mussolini!" roared the sailors. "Long live Mussolini. Down with America!" chorused nearly a thousand Italians. Patriotic martyrs were two American sailors, the originators of the shouting, who spent the rest of the voyage in the brig.

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