The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13
ITALIAN BUGS
ARE LT|VATED
Anybody With Scheme Can Get a
Hearing Before King Victor
Who viii Listen
to All.
SOME TURN OUT GOOD
Latest One is Andersen's Schemesfor
a Model City of Some Kind,
Very Much Like
Dream.
[By Henry Wood, Rome correspon-
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lBy Henry WOOD, Rome CoTTespou-
dent OF the United Press.]
ROME. July liking Victor En-
anuel. already famous the world over
for the moral and material support
which he gives to people with bugs"
has Just extended both to another.
The odd thing, however, about this
penchant of his majesty is the won
derful reality into which most of
these s'bugs's develop.
1t was to King Victor Emanuel, for
example, that David Lubin. OF Sacra-
mento. after having been virtually
kicked out OF the department OF state
at Washington, and after having vain
ly peddled his bug" about the other
courts of Europe. at last was given a
chance to explain his idea of an in
ternational institute OF agriculture.
King Victor took to 1t at once, ana
today this same institute occupying a
magnificent, permanent palace. OF its
own, at which are maintained perma-
nent ministers from fifty-two differ
ent countries, sis the largest and most
effective example of International CO.
operation and Capitalization in the
world.
It is now to another American with
a bug that the king has again
pledged his moral and material sup
port Hendrix Christian Andersen,
although born in Norway, is an Amer
lean by citizenship and training. He
is sculptor by profession, but adj
mittedly "bug" by occupation-a.
least he confesses to having devel-
oped the greater part of the last nine
years of his life to the development
of the idea which he has now begun
to lay before the royal courts of Eu-
rope,
3 The idea is so large that it is diff
cult to get it into words but, in short,
Andersen says the world has now
reached that point where so many
great minds in every country are
striving for the uplift of mankind
that it is absolutely necessary that
there be established an international
institute, where all of these grea1
minds from every country can work
together in order that that which one
develops may not serve his country
alone but the world at large. This
bald idea In itself might not be so
great, were 1t not for the fact that
Andersen being sculptor, an artist
and a dreamer, insists that 1t be
worked on basis commensurate
with the grandness, the heighth, and
the dignity of the aspirations which
1t seeked to attain.
What Andersen wants, therefore, IS
nothing less than city, city OF
10000 acres. city that will contain
all OF the institutes. all Of the libra
RES, all of the schools, all that Is
necessary for the carrying out of this
worldwide work, together with the
residential palaces of the permanent
delegates that will be sent from the
leading countries OF the world. This
idea of a city has been SO perfected
by him that he was able to presen
to King Victor Emanuel the architec
tural plans of every building ant
every detail involved.
The city, as has been decided upol
by him, would be divided into tire
great parts. The first would be de
voted exclusively to physical cultur
and would have to do with everything
that is being done in every part o
the world for the perfection OF tn
human body and human life. Their
would be stadium, there would b