The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-10-17
CASTELLI TELLS
OF REAL ITALY
SAYS MOST AMERICANS Pink
ALL ITALIANS ARE LIKE THE
"DAco" TRACK LAYERs-GAvE
INTERESTING LECTURE AT THE
GRAND.

"Just one year ago this evening /
arrived in North Dakota" said signor
Gdulio Castelli last evening at the
Gardner hotel just before going to the
Grand theatre to deliver his lecture for
the evening.
Il was then almost brand new in
America" he continued. Il had ar
rived in this country just about a
month before so you see how new /
was to your practical ways manners
and methods"
Signor Castelli is making a visit
h. America just as Americans visit
Europe. He is spending his money in
our country in the same fashion as
Americans spend their money in
Europe, except that Ii is very rare
for Europeans to visit America as
Americans visit Europe. When he
accounted for this he said: We'll
you take the Europeans who come over
here and make your American girls
their princesses, countesses and dutch
esses, they will not come back here to
visit for fear of allowing the Ameri-
ran relatives to discover how lazy they
are"
When asked how he had selected
North Dakota as the place of his
residence, he said that he knew several
families from Grand Forks before com
ing to America, and as he wanted to
live right among the American peo-
pie he selected Grand Forks. He is
making a study of America and be-
heves that the only way to do this
is to mix among the American peo-
pie as much as possible.
81 am lecturing for two purposes"
said he. One is to give the Ameri-
can people an idea of what Italy is
and the other is to let them know that
there is some other kind of Italian
than the man who lays your railroad
tracks, that you call a dago. You
can see that would have a personal
reason for telling your people Of the
other type Of Italians which they
rarely see.
I'm educational affairs in America
you teach to break away from the
practical and seek more after the ideal. |
In. Europe we have the reverse and |
are continually teaching the students |
to break away from the ideal and come |
down to the practical. However I |
believe the vast majority of Americans |
are we'll educated. You do not carry
education to the high degree that we |
do, but by carrying our education at !
high point We have limited the edu- |
Gated, until today we have far lower |
number Of we'll educated people than
you Americans have"
Castelli speaks English very fuently |
when conversing with anyone, al
though on the platform his vernacu-
lar of our language is slightly strain
ed and broken. He is a great lover of |
America and is much surprised al |
the magnitude Of the country He says
that there are just few Europeans =,
who realize the greatness of America |
and the American people.
81 nor CasteIPs Lecture.
signor Giulio Castelli gave splen-
did address before a good crowd at |
the Grand theatre last evening. He
is native of Rome and his talk on
the modern and old Rome was most
interesting and educative.
As prelude to his address he talk
ed on the agricultural situation as IT
is In Italy, which was brought about
by an American named David Lubin.
He told Of Lubins work with the gov
eminent and of his direction of Italy's
international institute of agriculture
which was projected in the land of
vineards by Lubin.
In the illustrated lecture of the even
ing the speaker showed many of the
most historic and interesting points
of Rome. He gave several
views Of the famous Palestine hill o.
the old Roman city. Thetemples of |
the hill are now in ruins but never
theless presented most picturesque
sight. The views of the old Roman
Forum were numerous and he told of 1
the many great political issues of the
olden days that were fought out in
the Forum.
Many beautiful temples were shown
displaying the various styles of archi-
lecture that predominant in the city's
buildings. Scenes were shown of the
most famous pieces of sculpture that
are about the city, and the vatican.
The vatican itself presented a most
interesting scene to the audience. Sew
eral pictures were shown OF the cathe-
dFals and long Railways of the vati-
can. Castelli gave a short history of
the pope and the state, in their strug
gle for power and control of the coun-
try.