The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-12-09
THE GRIMMEST JEST IN ALL HISTORY
Is the Peace Palace The Hague the Worlds Greatest
Monument to Failure?
written for the VIII ceiling Intenirene.r
BY DAVID STARR JORDAN.
Chancellor OF Leland Sta nford. Ju nior sity

In recent number OF a popular mag
szine well-known writer uses these
words:
Towering over the Carnegie Plein
glitters the Peace Palace. history's
grimmest Jest and the worlds greatest
monument &c failure"
DisreEarding the animus Of this chesp
sneer let US look at the facts
Those people who have struggled TO
prevent this war and who have worked
FOR the supremacy OF Law and decency
affairs have found in Holland for the
last 20 years hospitable reception.
militarism and OF rival explorations.
which In an acceierating degree have
threatened TO ruin Europe. The courtesy
OF the capital city OF Holland has found
place for the meeting of those confer
ences and tribunals devoted 20 the eN-
tension OF security and law The
friends Of peace have also met In other
capitals, notably IN Brussels Berne and
Stockholm, but OF all available cities.
Ihe hague has been usually the most
In recognition 81 these needs. Mr..
! 1arnegie gave to the Government Of
Holland something over q million dol
1 lars. TO be used FOR the erection OF halls
adequate Tor the varied purposes OF in
/ ternational activity. The people Of Hol-
In the Dutch style Of red and white
I brick. and they have surrounded II by
"a beautiful garden.
The building does not glitter" nor
IS II In any sense a palace" though its
Dutch name. "Nrendcnpalast" trans
lates itself as peace palace"
40 one expected that a hall OF meet
ing would Of itself. bring reace 10 a
careless. greedy world which spent half
Us earnings on the cultivation Of hate.
u was simply a meeting place for those
VINO peheNed IN the future rule % sam
ity and who served cause that must
ultimately triumph. n cause which must
outlast armies and navies and kings and
| empires Not TO believe that civiiizn-
tlon can be made law-abidinE would Jc
/ a
Just now we cannot meet in tbess
balls. for the law breakers OF Europe
rslsti5ns M i .hs sna ~ Az International
nc isithtul. Professor Ludwig Guide
OF Munich. finds his place there. ana
We shall and thousand men rcadv Tor
the war against war 20 whore there va-
one ~ TIE careless aud cynical DAYS b. /.
shall We ever need these halls AGAIN .
~ me riot 81 murder and robbery FOR
s,,a,,i,,. ne 90 msn nor nation dare stand
| human achievement TO 70 thS vsv ~
hslincs and Louvain and Rheims il
there no power higher than the armed
voice or God. above the voice of the
~, ss,t - tnt crush % rival mill
lsfh etiiciencieH the end 81 our Christian
We Do not believe this We bs,.
laiih in man and. therefore. in the God
within him. We have been heading
FtraiEht toward war. Esthererinr our
weapons in the sacred name OF peace
We shalt fill the halls again when the
pirates are swept from The lanes II tfsf-
iic There are hundred maybe y thou
sand. who see var to-day Tor what 10 g.
when there Wa one "a year ago
When We have buried our dad and
ied the starving millions that war hes
| robbed Ne shall come 90 The Hague
again. and this Hall Of Peace will BE-
only one u ten thousand We shaii need
and lind all over the 10
what then, O. the .mmest lest the
I cuatlieaf failure o. al history rfa
name 81 Military Erfcfeucy ri O. the
search Tor peace through hate n De- The
afmed peace. the use 81 barbarlsn a.
defense aEainaf bafbarisn. Europe has
spent ten millions ~ dollars a day 10
hire men and "a buy runs 20 defend
Itself against itself Armies and navfes
have their destined purposes Gnf this
purpose % not security nor peace To
- prerarrd Tor war IL % Eet it MIL
tarN FffclenrN may bring victory rf
never hrouGht peace The race Tor arm.
amenf herame The race Tor che ahVaa
and its eud BEL the ruin az Europe En.
hauefi0n reHfilrnfr death the wsirffaf
ffnaEinafion could cor furs ur uofhfnr
worse thar whaf is happening to-day
To safruuafd nrnfe We muaf rrsrars
fer 49, IRIS ls ths eafrhw0rd of
~ Erinmest iest. the costltest fsifurs
In hlsforY.