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He was introduced to the ra-- dio listeners in a short address by Mr. Frank D ento n, th e pr o m in e nt . lawyer who is well known in the Italian colony because of his warm friend-- ship towards the Italians. Mr. Denton spoke about the extra-- ordinary success of the visit of Comm. Villari and his collea-- gues to Canada this winter and the great effect it has had in welding together in a common interest the people of Italy and Canada, and he thanked Comm., Villari for all he had done. " e e s We are told that all roads lead to Rome, but it was from the golden milestone in the centre of the Roman Forum that the roads originated in Rome itself and spread outwards to the most distant provinces of the Empire. That milestone was the centre, the very heart of Rome, as Rome was the centre and heart of the ancient world. Club Dance The Vanguard Club wish to pay homage to a man, represen-- tative of Mussolini in our Queen City, a man who has worked ceaselessly and relentlessly to foster goodwill between our people and Canadians, a true representative of the Italian people for the five years he has been here; a true gentleman in every sense of the word, Chev. Dr. G. B. Ambrosi, Royal Vice Consul. We can think of. no better method of paying our respects to him than by holding a banquet and dance in his ho-- nour. Chev. Ambrosi has earned the respect and friendship of all with whom he has come in con-- tact, both in business and soci-- ally. We are not alone in our praise as it is evident than ma-- ny prominent people will be present at the head table to pay their respects. Everyone is in-- vited to attend. The . roads were the ganglia, the nervous system, the blood vessels whereby the whole of that vast ' world organisation At the conclusion of the ban-- quet to be held in the Crystal ball--room of the _ Royal York Hotel, there will be a dance commencing at 9.30 and conti-- nuing until 2 A. M. To defray expenses, the cost for the banquet and dance is $2.00 per person. If you find you are unable to attend the banquet which commences at 7 P. M., it is possible to purchase a ticket for the dance for the small sum of 75c. This is the first venture of the Italian Vanguard Club, the youngest organization in the I-- talian colony. We seek the co-- operation of you Italian people in order to ensure a successful evening. Remember the date: Wednesday, April 25th. Tickets may be received from any mem-- ber of the Vanguiard Club. Last Sunday evening at eight o'clock, -- Commendatore Luigi Villari -- delivered the following radio address over--a network of Canadian stations . 2 WEDNESDAY A PRIL 25th Past Pres. Gid De Spirt President Joe Piccininni Vice--Pres. Rocco Polito Secretary Jas. Simone Asst. Secretary Fred Catena Treasurer John Longo EXECUTIVE OF THE CLUB il BOLLETTINU 1r7rALO--CANADESE XII E. F. 7.00 p.m. THE ITALIAN VANGUARD The Roads From Rome A dmission Gid De Spirt Joe Piccininni Rocco Polito Jas. Simone «+ BANQUET and DANCE -- The Reyal Vice Consul of Italy in Toronto Chev. Dr. G. B. AMBROSI By Frank A. Scandiffio ON THE QUINQUENNIUM OF HIS WORK OF FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN CANADA AND ITALY VANGUARD CLUB Royal York Hotel was held together. Traces of those roads are visible today al! over Italy, in France, Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, the Danubian lands, the Balkan P en in su la, Asia Minor, and North Africa. Even if the seas interrupted them, they recom-- menced beyond the seas and penetrated far inland, into the heart of the most remote regi-- ons all over the then known world. Wherever «.we see the great, smooth, irregularly sha-- ped blocks emerging above the surface in ploughed fields, fo-- rests or swamps, then we know that there the Romans have passed. To this day the roads branching out from Rome bear the same names as in classical times -- Appia," Salaria, Tibur-- tina, Latina. Along those roads the legions of Rome marched forth to con-- quer new provinces or maintain order, or _ suppress rebellion amid the wilder tribes on the outer rim of the Empire, to re-- pel raids of enemies on the bor-- der. And wherever --the legions went, there the institutions and social organisation of the me-- tropolis was set up. With the armies or after them innumer-- able trains of ox carts and be-- asts of burden proceeded slowly When Adams was called upon to give his version of that well known fairy tale "Jack and the banana stalk" he replied she-- epishly: "Let's stalk about so-- mething else." Quietly ensconced in a dark corner sat Amy, drinking bana-- na after banana in his coffee. The pugilists, Vie Bagnato and Natale, were booked to give an exciting five--round bout which tamely ended up in a square dance, Natale being the best dancer and the subsequent win-- mer of a dozen bananas. "Ask and ye shall receive". The St. Agnes Sodality asked and they received-- plenty. The Vanguard Club, at their re-- quests, were hosts at a banana party given at Henry Barone's house. This party was different and reputed to be the first of its kind, consisting entirely of banana creations -- banana fritters, banana cakes, banana cream pie, banana cream (pla-- in), banana butter, b a n a n a sandwiches, just bananas, etc., ete. ... and then "yes, we have no bananas". Prominent guests were those inimitable banana dealers, Sam Sisto and Anthony Rico. Needless to say, they felt quite at home in this fruitful atmosphere. Bananas must be enticing as we noticed some new faces amongst those present, Mary and Lou Dipede, Helen Bagnato and Pearl Racioppa being the most noticeable. The "Fire Sale Quartette", Lillian and Eleana Missori, Elsie and Alma Morel-- lo bedecked in their resplendent array, were conspicously pre-- sent in their , favourite color, a beautiful .red which proved an excellent background for the gold of the bananas. See you at the dance. CRYSTAL BALL ROOM DEL Wà ÀÎ@ What else then did Rome gi-- ve to the World? Those mighty roads were the vehicles of the great ideas with which Rome endowed world civilisation. The Roman Empire was the first to create an organised system of peoples, united under one rule, but each contributing s o me-- thing to the whole, a great structure made up of most di-- vers elements welded into a harmonious body.. It created the idea of world citizenship, comprising all the peoples of the world as it was then known under the aegis of the immortal name of Rome. Men of all ra-- ces might aspire to the highest positions, to the Imperial thro-- ne itself, for Roman citizenship conferred equality _ of rights and duties on all. Other cities, other _ peoples have founded empires in past ages, empires which have va-- nished like the snows of yester-- day, leaving no trace behind them, save a few ruins, whose very meaning is still a matter of dispute among archaeolo-- gists. along, conveying travellers and merchandise, and mounted mes-- sengers rode swiftly forth be-- aring orders, laws and decrees and private correspondence, the positi equites, fore--runners of our own postal services. But these roads are symbols of something more than the material Roman Empire and its military conquests and its tra-- de, just as the idea of Rome transcends that of territory. What Rome gave to the world was far more. The _ symbols of that Empire are many and splendid. Where-- ver the roads drove through, there the cities, temples, mark-- et places, courts of justice, the-- atres, circuses, walls and forti-- fied camps arose, and their re-- mains survive to this day to tell the great story. Everywhere we find massive walls, graceful columns, beautiful _ sculptures with which the buildings were adorned. Greece has left works of. more perfect artistic beauty, but the Romans built more soli-- dly, and in their remains is un-- folded the history of their civi-- lisation as a whole, its religion, its military achievements, its culture, its trade, its laws. It is in this harmonious complexi-- ty that the true greatness of the Roman Empire lies, a gre-- atness for transcending its ma-- terial aspects. I have mentioned the laws. Here we have another message conveyed along the Roman ro-- ads. It was in Rome that the first great co--ordinated system of civil law was evolved, under the Republic, later with greater perfection under the Empire. then, when the Western Roman Empire had fallen before the o n sl a ught of the Barbarians, while the East Empire conti-- nued to flourish for another thousand years, the whole mass of Roman Law was embodied in the code of Justinian, the Pan-- dects, the Corpus Juris Civilis, and given out to the world, a code destined to outlast the Eastern as well as the Western Roman Empire, directly to in-- spire the legislation of half the civilised world, and indirectly to affect and influence that of the other half as well. But there were. yet other messages conveyed from Rome along those roads. Before the Western Empire fell, it had be-- come converted to Christianity, and so had the Eastern Empire, and the universal C a th ol i e Church established -- its head-- Another great Empire, which lasted but a fraction of time as compared with that of Rome, the Napoleonic Empire, left as its most permanent heritage the modernisation _ and _ simplifica-- tion of Roman law and its adap-- tation to the conditions of the nations of today. Those Napo-- leonic codes with but few alter-- ations are the law of almost the whole of Continental Europe, Latin America and other lands in other continents. BOLLETTINO George F. Sansone, R.O., Editor For many centuries the land which had been the metropolis of the ancient Roman Empire had been in a state of decaden-- ce, split up into many weak, separate States, and parts of it were ruled by alien princes. But Italy was destined to sur-- prise the world once more by her ever resurgent vitality. Ita-- ly, as an independent unified {State seemed. an impossibility. Yet the miracle was accomplish-- ed through the genius of King and by Statesman and the valo-- ur of her soldiers, of Victor Emmanuel II, of Cavour, of Ga-- ribaldi, and since 1861 she has been once more a nation, one of the great civilised nations of the world. In still more recent times she has arisen to higher destinies and has become not a lesser among the great Powers, but a great Power second to no-- quarters in Rome. The law, the organisation and the hierarchy of the Church were likewise de-- rived from Rome. That Church sent its message throughout the ancient world, until most of the nations paid homage to it. Even the schismatic Eastern Church was largely derived from and inspired by that of Rome, and the very Barbarians who had conquered and des-- troved the political Empire en-- ded by being converted to its Church.. In the Renaissance, together with the revival of classical le-- arning -- in itself another mes-- sage from Rome -- there came the Reformation, which wrest-- ed from the Roman Church the allegiance of most of Northern and North--Western Europe. But what that Church lost in the Old World it more than regain-- ed in the New, for the whole of America south of the Rio Gran-- de and a considerable part of the Continent North of that ri-- ver still owes religious allegian-- ce to Rome. Catholic Prelates from all parts of the world sit in the Curia, and the orders of the Vatican are obeyed in the remotest regions of Asia and Africa. Throughout the Middle Ages even the Roman Imperial idea survived, in a much altered form, and the Holy Roman Em-- pire bore witness to the stren-- gth of the 'traditional Roman conception of world rule. It was not until the Napoleonic Wars that the last survivali of that Empire came to an end. Nor must we forget the lan-- guage. Even after Rome had ceased to exist as a political en-- tity, its language, albeit in a debased form, continued to be spoken. Later a whole series of rich vernacular tongues endow-- ed with splendid literatures we-- re developed from the Latin of ancient Rome --_ modern Ita-- lian, French, " Spanish, " Portu-- guese, Roumanian. For many centuries after the peoples of Europe had ceased to speak the tongue of Cicero and Virgil, Latin remained the language of culture, of Government, of the law, of diplomacy, and of the Catholic Church, and is the lan-- guage of that Church even to-- day.. Thus, for many centuries af-- ter the Roman Empire had dis-- appeared, the civilised world was united in one Empire altho-- ugh it ruled only nominally over large areas' the Holy Roman Empire, in one religion, with the Catholic Church, in one language of culture, the Latin tongue. With the formation of the great national States of Europe and later of the Now World, these unities vanished. Yet the spiritual traces of Roman con-- cept and of Roman civilisation survived and they flourish to this day Roman culture, Roman law, Roman literature have per-- meated our yvaried civilisations, the Roman Church still flo-- urishes over vast areas of the world, and if the Roman Latin tongue is no longer spoken, it is still the basis of true culture, both in the Old World and in the New . ne, respected and admired by all, and one capable of influenc-- ing the course of world events. Once more has Rome, through modern Italy, given a message to the world. Under a new and more vigorous regime -- class war, that most odious heritage of the industrial re v o l u t i o n throughout the civilised world, has been eliminated in Italy. has found the solution of eco-- nomic conflict without hatred or division of class, but on a basis of equality and social jus-- tice for all citizens and classes. That is Rome's newest message to the world. For if Italy's new institutions _ and political con-- cepts are the outcome of her own experience and conditions, and the mentality of her own people, and therefore peculiarly her own and not of universal application, _ the principles on which they are based, the idea of nation--wide collabo r a t i o n and of a disciplined and planned economy -- without class war, may prove of value for other peoples besides the Italians. The new Italy like the old has always been inspired by feel-- ings of friendship towards Gre-- at Britain, ever since the days of Italy's struggle for indepen-- dence when she found warm support in British public opini-- on, Italians and British have understood each other better perhaps than any other two peoples of the World. But Ita-- lians do not always realize the significance of the British Em-- pire as a whole, nor the indivi-- duality of the great Dominions composing it. It is very impor-- tant that they should do so, and the inritiative taken by the Ca-- nadian National Council should contribute to increase that un-- derstanding as far as Canada is concerned. For us who have visited Canada under the aus-- pices of that Council, the coun-- try has been a revelation. We have been received and enter-- tained with the greatest cordia-- lity and hospitality, and enabled to see the country in the ple-- Seeing is believing, that old adage, was truly demonstrated at 'the Circolo Colombo dance last , Monday evening at the King Edward hotel. For weeks the press agents boosted to the skies the good things which were in store for the guests of the Circolo Colombo on Easter Monday night and some four hundred people attended to see these promises materialize. CIRCOLO EASTER BAL® -- The programme arranged by the committee was complete in every detail, the well known Circolo hospitality was ever present and as predicted, befo-- re the evening was well under way the whole party was one big, happy -- family. Sociability p erm e ated everywhere. The happy throngs were out to ha-- ve a good time after the quiet Lenten season and they certain-- ly gave vent to their feelings. Old and young alike sought to let loose their suppressed desi-- res in fun and the committee was right on the spot to acco-- modate them. President Jos. Piccininni and his charming wife received as kost and hostess of the evening and this they did in a most ami-- able manner. The--dance was on par with other Circolo Colombo successes and will go down as the outstanding social event of the season. Although the dance proper was held in 'the Crystal ball-- room, part of its success w accounted for by the hospitaîìs- ty shown on the floor below . Loren Cassina and his or-- chestra far surpassed their New Year's performance. Their music was superb and entranc-- ing. ii W-- Successful Event Manager Joe Grittani Chairman H. C. W. A. Sansone Councillors: M. Tassiello, V. Pellettieri, Sal. Cira, N. F. A. Scandiffio. Father Auad Club Chaplain. asantest manner and to meet many of its most representative and interesting citizens. We have . indeed realised what a great country it is, what splen-- did : possibilities it has, and what a fine, vigorous and dig-- nified people inhabit it. A new nation has been created, one in which the -- traditional -- British spirit of order and respect for the law -- two typically Roman concepts --have been establish-- ed amid the new conditions of a pioneer land. That, I think, is the greatest achievement . to Canada's credit. : On returning to Italy we shall endeavour to make our country-- men understand Canada both in herself and as an essential ele-- ment in the British Empire. And I trust that, we, on our part, have helped to make Ca-- nadians understand the Italy of today and its political and econ-- omic and cultural problems. Your Empire, the modern counterpart of the ancient Ro-- man Empire, and Italy, the des-- cendent of ancient Rome and the exponent today of Roman ideas, are destined to collabor-- ate in playing a great and do-- minant part in the new settle-- ment of the world on a basis of peace and justice. If our two peoples make that collaboration ever closer, the other great ci-- vilised nations cannot «but be attracted towards it and b' drawn likewise into the task 0. preserving world peace. One other point the British and Italian people have, in com-- mon, loyalty to their respective Kings. As a great Italian sta-- tesman . said sixty years ago, the Monarchy unites us. That is as true of Italy 'today as dt was then. Similarly in the Bri-- tish Empire the Monarchy is the living symbol of unity with-- in the Commonwealth. A Mo-- narchy under a well beloved and deservedly beloved Sovere-- ign is an idea which in Italy as in the British Empire com-- mands the loyalty of millions. Once again the genial Sal Ci-- ra, "Unc" Lamantia, "Unce" Lo-- presti, etc. were hosts to a lar-- ge number of the guests. Ev-- eryone fortunate enough to re-- ceive an invitation was treated royally. As usual, the writer had the distinction of "clearing up" on the delicious sandwiches. The Bridge club attended en masse, and did they have a good time! It was certainly gre-- at to see Jim Piccininni, Ang. Teolis, Frank Abate and the rest of the bridge "hounds" there. Bob Polito, the chairman of the dance committee, was a pro-- minent figure for the first parf of the evening, but he sudden-- ly disappeared much to the cha-- grin of the beautiful girls with whom he had promised to dan-- ce. Pr. Michael Cosentino and his pal, Geo. Sansone, arrived late, but they made up for lost time. T. Mari was the busiest man on the floor. How that man can take it! He danced. repe-- atedly and with a different girl each time from the beginning until the end of the dance. Oh hum, the quarters at 12 Elm St. must have given him a new le-- ase on life. It is unfortunate that some of the directors of fashion shows were not on hand. They certainly could have picked a complete show -- from amongst our Italian girls. The gowns vrere beautiful. but, of course, so were the girls. EXECUTIVE OF THE CLUB 6 Aprile, 1934