Evening star., 1923-10-21


p the Delectabie Mountains, from
isms and ologies to plain COM
mon sense, from a wood pulp
currency worth less than the paper
on your wall to coins as good as the
hne metal which paves the streets
OF Jerusalem the Golden, from ma
tons still racked by war to the
people of perpetual peace, have come
Almost in a night. The distance
from Warsaw across Germany and
France to Geneva is not much great
er than from Cleveland to New Or
leans. It can be made In less than
tTenty-four hours, and with an air
plane II may soon be flown between
breakfast and dinner. The distance
between sanity and insanity is still
less, and / seemed to have jumped
from one to the other.
/ have called the Swiss the people
OF perpetual peace. They have always
had peace, but It has been peace
after lighting. Their fights have been
only for freedom and not fo- robbing
their neighbors or acquiring more
territory. For centuries rh!s little
mountainous country, surrounded as
it were by the bullIes OF Europe, has
guarded It's boundaries and kept it's
independence. Tho city Of Geneva
is embIelnatic OF peace, and its sturdy
fight for liberty has rightly made
at the seat of the league of nations
and the capital or the many countries
which have sta. tro to work for the
peace OF the world.
StroIling today through the towE,
on the other sue of the Rhone,
stumbled upon two monuments which
embody the part that Geneva now
holds. One was mat of the reforma-
'tfon, great wall of sculpture made
or white sandstone 800 feet long and
perhaps 90 feet high. 1t has been
built up against the old wall CT
Geneva. with the moat still washing
%itj feet. Il IS the monument of the
fight this city waged for the free
dom OF religious thought. now more
than 900 yeats ago. In the center.
cgtg-ous- OF the sandstone, stand the
four figures of John Calvin and John
Knox tuEsth.r with those of arel
aud Beza. VITO also lived and worked
here The fgu.es are more than three
times Iire Size and are beyond de-
scription ma.esuo Along the wall
OH both sides OF them stand six
snalIer s,a ues. saoI representing the
most independent Ininker of a great
nafion. One L. Air,,r. Colignv the
Aero OF the IIuguenots; another,
O.Iyer Cromwell, wMu uIougnt nee
dom to England; a third, the great
Dutchnan, William .of Orange, and
fourth. under fhs great Quaker
hat OF Puritan days, is our own
e" WIIlIau.s, VINO founded Rnuue
island.
THE other fbohunxir of peace re-
fer to Is tao ArIerscHn room in
side the ranttna, capitaI and city hall
of Geness- It was tcere that the first
international meeting of the Red
Cross WIS he'd anG .h'Ie. the first
great financial dispute among nations,
I.IaL oL tI,s .,IaDaIl.t. c.aIn.s, was SET
tied by aroitIatioL. rhere by word
of mouth the decree was given
against Ehgian,. % wh".I. she paid
over to tee United states something
like $I5.uuv.u0u tn compensation for
the out-Lges cTti.rit's by British
Drivateers dufing ere civil w.IF.
Among the other relics of the room
is a brass model of the liberty bell
at Philadelphia, as big as q quart
cup. which was sent to Geneva after
the Paris exposition. and which al
most fifty years later rang to order
the first assembly of the league of
nations. Another emblem showing
that, although the United States does
not belong to the league, she has
been in the foresruI.t of the nations
as the exponent OF peace, shows a
piow and pruninA hook made of the
swords Of Union and Confederate Of
fcsrs as en- indication of our desire