The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-21
CARPENTER GIVES INSIDE GLIMPSE OF GENEVA SCENE
 OF WORLDS PEACE EFFORTS
Uncle Sam Looked Upon As Advance Agent Of nterna- tiona Brothery Love-Liberty Bell Called Assembly To Order And American Flow Of Peace Broke Soil Of The Battefields

skiffs and canoes which ply from town to town and village to village along its banks.
 Geneva is at the southern end or Rhone pours out, on it's way to the Mediterranean sea, dividing the city into several islands over which are bridges from one side of the town to the other On the islands are bath houses, restaurants, cafes, a water works and power plant. One of the bridges covers the site of bridge which Julius Caesar destroyed 78 years before Christ, when he had here his first battle with the Helye- tians.
 The Palace of the League.
 The palace of the League of Ma tions, the administrative building Of this world peace capital, is situated on lands that belonged to the Helvet- ians and perhaps within stones throw of where their battle with Caesar was fought. It Is in the part of the town devoted to the tourist ho- tels' and from which the finest villas iof Lake Geneva are reached. The whole lake Is lined witlfa summer
  and vegetation are beyond descrlp- tion. There is a wide quay running tack of the water front where the people promenade of an evening. Thls has long rows of trees much like the sycamore, whose silvery trunks reach a height of 15 feet and then sprout out into gigantic umbrellas Of green. It is behind this quay with it's trees that the palace of the league looks out on the lake, and across it is Mont Blanc in plain view in the distance.
 have called the capitol palace. This is the nlme given to 1t by the league and the people of Geneva. It makes one think of the palatial wig wam of the Emperor Powhatan as described by John Smith when he wished to impress the poole of Eng land of the glories he had found in America.
 The palace is in fact a summer hotel which has been turned into an office building. It is ur-story structure which you could drop into one of the big hotels of Atlantic City and hardly know it was there. and as to it's beauty, there are many hotels of that seaside resort which surpass it. It has perhaps 200 rooms. The material is stone covered with stucco and painted light brown. There are fine grounds and trees between it and the promenade, and at one end is a sun parlor in which l am told that the council of the league often meets.
 Entering the palace I was glad to find no court flunkies in livery nor soldiers with swords and guns at the door. Admission is free to all, men and women, and of every nation. and there is a messenger behind a desk at the entrance who speaks English, German, French and Italian, to tell xpb what seen. It was through him, when l asked for one of the officials of the information section, that l was di- lected to take the lift to the fourth floor, walk to room 5, and show my self in.
 I took the push button elevator and rose slowly upward AS I stepped out l saw sign over the button which notified me that all persons are expected to walk downstairs although they may ride all the way up. This rapid transit from floor to floor may not mean business efficiency but 1t can be commended on the ground Of economy and of saving the juice. It was in company with Mir. Sweetser, . former American newspaperman and an associate of Ray Stannard Baker as the confidential publicity agent of President Wilson Tn the peace confer ence at Paris, that l explored the palace, going from room to room and meeting some of the higher officials, sitting In on some of the opium con- ferences and trying to get as best could some conception of just what the league is and what it is really doing and trying to do in bringing about better international relations among the many powers and people of this big round earth.
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 What The League Is.
 ..f fRV. believe the idea and purpose of the league as it now exists is different from that in which it was first con ceived amid the shrieking labor pains which followed the treaty of Yer sailles. At that time the league was to be the Big Stick that would club any objecting nation to order. The babe was lusty and it thought to force it's way to it's conclusions. To- day the league is as quiet and as peaceful as the sucking dove Noah sent forth from the Ark, it now eX- poets to do by conference what it planned to do by force. It is largely founded on faith which is described in Hebrews, XI. I. as. "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" But I would say further that this faith promises to be of the kind that moves mountains and that it is already on it's way to dctOflptiSlHitHt
 In brief the League of Nations is an association of states which are pledged to a new way of conducting foreign affairs. These states have signed contract, or covenant. the constitution of the league, to do cer- tain things. They have pledged themselves not to go to War with each other or with any outside na- tion except after bringing their dis putes to arbitration before the league during delay of from three to nine months after the dispute has been submitted. The states at fault are supposed to follow the advice and abide by the decision of the league, and if they go to war without sup- hitting their disputes, the other states are Bound to sever all eco homie and political relations with the offending states. As I under stand, there have been many mental reservations and some notifications of this first provision of the league, and for the time at least, it's poison teeth have been withdrawn.
 The second provision of the league is that all the nations agree to work together for certain non-political subjects which are mainly welfare, financial and economical. These in- clude all matters as traffic in opium and other dangerous drugs. and the suppression of the white slave traf-