Evening star., 1925-05-31
BY MARGARET b. DOWNING.

next month, when she will make a
special trip to the old Swiss city, now
called the peace capital of the world
! Naturally the memory of Woodrow
Wilson is a strong, virile force in the
home of the League of Nations, and
. Mrs. Francis Bowes Sayre, his second
daughter, who has been spending the
Winter and early Spring there, has
frequently been embarrassed by the
, homage she receives. Mrs. Sayre
went TO the Swiss capital to place her
elder children at school, and she re-
mained because Of Mr.. Sayre'S absence
from London, where they are living at
present Mr.. Sayre is the counselor
of the Siamese legation in London,
and is making a visit to the Near
East on business. At the time that
e the permanent seat of the League of
. Nations was established in Geneva
T. the venerable municipality changed
the name of one of its most important
thoroughfares from Rue d'Allemagne
. to Rue Woodrow Wilson. Mrs. Sayre,
taking her young son, Francis BoweS,
jr., now a tall youth in his twelfth
year, along this avenue named for his
grandfather, was the object of so
much attention that she rarely chooses
/. this street now. Americans fairly
swarm this fine old city, and every
inch of space in hotels is engaged
months in advance. Mrs. Wilson. with
her travelling companion. Miss Belle
Raruch will receive much social at
tention, and will, besides, be assigned
seats whenever the public Is admitted
70 the conferences of the international
league.
Representative Nicholas Longworth
is another distinguished American
who will look in on the League or
Nations in operation during the sum
mer, and besides the speaker-elect.
, nearly every member of the National
E, Legislature travelling in Europe Will
be the guest of Geneva some time this
, Summer. Americans i'll residence,
and especially the diplomatic repre-
sentation, of which Mr.. Hugh Gibson
is the chief. are engaged in plans to
celebrate befittingly the 150th
: anniversary of the signing OF
the Declaration of Independence
The ventennial of this transcendent
political event was signalized by the
Universal Peace Union of Philadel-
phia. founded in Geneva ten years be-
, fore, by the dedication OF the Alabama
room In the old city hall overlooking
the lake. This room. now internation-
ally famous as the meeting place of
the American Red Cross. has through
! the generosity OF Mr.. Thomas Atkin-
son of Philadelphia, a member of the
'. Peace Union, received small replica
of the Liberty Bell, on which is in
!. scribed May this emblem Of peace
engender the spirit which should
reign over the world" \ copy of the
declaration and portraits OF the sign
srs are to be hung on the
,150th celebration, July 4. 1925
: and there will be other gifts OF
appropriate character to this splendid
chamber which the Swiss Government
has devoted to American amity and
closer friendship. The Alabama Claims
Commission, which met in Geneva
. first, has given name to the Amer
: lean room.
The Polish Minister and Nine.
Wroblewska, who are sailing for
! home the early part of June and who.
e. with their interesting family, will re-
. main in their home in Cracow until
the school year opens in Washington
in September will be among the
prominent guests at the dedication of
the splendid new Polish National Mu-
scum In Warsaw, some time in Au-
gust. The contents of this museum
are to be removed from the sanctu-
ary found during the last half century
! at the picturesque castle Of Rap
perswil on the Lake of Zurich. Count
:. .Broel-Plater, an ardent Polish patriot
Ein 1870, secretly removed from War
saw the most momentouS artistic and
historic souvenirs, together with in
valuable archives of Poland. in the
:; years of her greatness and with the
{: remnant of his fortune he bought a
lease of SO years on this grand old
chateau which was a medieval strong
hold Count Broel-Plater arranged his
treasures in excellent fashion and the
+. place known as the National Polish
Z Museum has been reverently visited
F. by thousands of Poles every year and
by many of the tourists to Zurich.
Now that Poland is again member of
. the independent nations of Europe,
the administrative authorities in War
saw have furnished a fine old palace
and will bring their archives and
other possessions home. The occasion
will arouse the utmost enthusiasm in
the recently restored country and few
of those of Polish blood in every part
OF the world, who can make the jour
ney home, will fail to do SO.
= DR.. Bayard Dodge, president of the
American College IN Beirut, Syria
which has experienced such vicissi-
tudes since the victorious armies of
Kemal Pasha took possession of Asia
Minor, was recently a guest in Wash
ington comforting with the State De
VOL
his seat Of learning. He sailed within
the week for the East and will go at
once to Beirut. DIR. Dodge is the son
of that Grace Parrish Dodge whose
name is perpetuated in the popular
woman's hotel near Union Station.
conducted by the Y. w. G. A. His
father, Cleveland Hoadley Dodge, is
likewise an eminent philanthropist,
and is familiar to the public through
his generous gifts to scores of worthy
causes. The president of the Amer
lean College in Beirut is graduate
of Columbia University and has since
leaving college dedicated himself to
the relief of Christians in the Near
East. He had been a member of the
faculty of the Beirut institution for
five years before he was elected its
president in 1923. His service as
trustee, professor and as president
has extended through the most trou
bled times the East has seen since
the Middle Ages. AS international
president of the Near East relief COM
'Inittees, he has been much harassed
official and with the heaviest of re-
.sponsibilities. DR.. Dodge married one
of the Presbyterian missioners to
Beirut, Miss Mary Williams Bliss, for
Inerly of Montclair, n. j., in 1914.
Mrs. Dodge remained in Switzerland
during her husbands recent visit and
will join him in Marseille the early
part of June and proceed tn Syria.
Fl Mrs. August Belmont and Mrs. Fred
erick G.. Crane are having large and
enthusiastic parties to view the apple
blossoms now in full riot on their
estates, as, indeed, they are over the
Berkshires and about Dalton, where
both these ladies have handsome orch
Appla blossoms dine in