Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1919 — ROMANS LIVING IN CAVES [ARTICLE]

ROMANS LIVING IN CAVES

High Rents Cause Return to Prehistoric Dwelling Places in • Italian Capital. Rome. —“Cavemen,” relics of prehistoric days of human housing, live in Rome side by side with ihstitutjons of art and learning.” The caves are under the very shadow of the British Art school and the Italian College of Modern Arts. Within a short distance is the national stadium. On the other side of them Is the Porta del Popolo, through which before the days of railways all pilgrims to Rome passed. -* The reversion of Romans to the caves is not retrogression. It is evasion of high rents. Alt efforts of the police to eject the tenants from the caves have failed. The “cavemen” move out but return as soon as the police depart.