The Penn's Grove record., 1920-12-03

p~entant, acting as heors Of war.
Mr.. Conover said he regretted the
ar1nistice and belied the Allies should
have gone to Berlin and demanded an
unconditional surrender.
went to Denmark and visited the
scenes of Hamlet whom Shakespeare
has made famous. A couplet from
Hamlet is:
My words go up, my thought remain
below.
Words without thoughts never to
Heaven. go.
Next he went to Finland, thence
to Petrograd in Russia, then back to
Paris. Next he went to Frankfort,
Germany, where industry f1ourished.
The people were friendly but the
Prussian rulers were austere and de-
faint in conversation and reticent in
giving information to a U. S. messen-
ger.
MI. Conover said we must cultivate
peace sentiment in the Germans and
guard against their control of the
small countries given their indepen-
dence at the Peace Conference whose
independence and territorial integrity
the Covenant of the League of Nations
is designed to protect. He visited
Holland, the nation of honest industry,
peace and plenty, the symbol of
democracy.
Again back to Paris he started for
Switzerland, where the beautiful and
rugged alps tower above the gorges
and from which run the rivuletS from
the snow capped tops to make fertile
the planes below. He visited Vienna
where the Food Commission fed
thousands.
Constantinople was visited. Here
the famous Church, St. Sophia, built
was made a Turkish mosque centuries
ago. The great civilizing and Chris
tianizing institution is Roberts Col
lege where young men from different
countries are being educated by the
hundreds and having a great influence
on the development Of civilization
Athens was visited, and the Acropolis
nearby, where are kept the relics of
the pagan religion. He stood on Mars
Hill where st. Paul proclaimed to the
| pagan Greek, Jesus Christ, the God
/ unknown to them to whom they had
left.a niche. Rome was visited The
| vatican viewed where the pope lives
and rules. Here is the ruins OF the
Coliseum where the ancients witness
led the gladiators fight and saw the
learly Christians fed to lions. In the
catacombs under ground are buried
THE dead.
Back again he went to Paris where
the Peace Treaty was made and sign
ed by representatives Of forty-three
nations who are now meeting IN
Geneva, under the League Covenant,
striving to settle present disputes and
prevent future wars. 1t is preposter-
Gus to think this can be done over
again to suit a few U. S. Senators.
While all the Democrats favored the
Treaty he believed a majority OF the
Republicans did also under other
leadership and that a way would be
found to bring a ratification by the
United States Senate.
Nh. Conover is now taking a post
graduate course in Harvard, near
Boston. in U. S. history and govern
ment. He said we have u local
town and township government, our
county and State governments, also
our ndC1OIdl SONCI IiiiCAS.
in each perform a different function
without conflict. There is interna-
tional relations and problems to be
performed and solved The design OF
the League of Nations is to discuss,
solve and advise on international sub
iects in a peaceful way without war.
Mr.. Conover said one learns much
by coming into contact with other peo-
ples and he advised that every
youth should go to a boarding school
or college. If only for six months 1t
would be a social benefit.
Another lesson he learned was that
in most places he visited the people
had a home pride in their town and
cherished its history and relics which
were venerated with pride. Every
town should do likewise.
After seeing famous places and
noted men there is no place like your
old home town. Yet, we should love
peace, work for the peace of the world
and feel that we are a citizen OF the
whole world. /,
Mr.. Conover came from Harvard
near Boston, to deliver this lecture
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