The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-01-03
KING GEORGE FEASTS
WILSON'S BANQUET
EVENT IS MARKED BY REGAL
sPLENDoR AS IN THE DAYS
OF YoRE.
ROYALTY OF ENGLAND THERE
President and Queen Mary Lead Pro-
.cessicn Into Dining ha'l-Go!d
Plato and Ornaments at cere-
mony Valued $15,ooo,ooo.

London, Dec. 28.-king george Cali
ed at President Wilson's apartments
at 10 O'Clock this morning and wish
ed him many happy returns OF the
day. 1t was President Wilson's BIRTH
day-his sixty-second.
Speaking today in the historic Gullo
Hall, at a ceremonious gathering OF
Great Britian's most distinguished
| statesmen, President Wilson reafflrm-
ed his principle that there must no
longer be a balance of power when
might unsettle the peace Of the world
but that the future must produce a
concert of power which would pre-
serve it.
| There had been Just hint that
the Presidents address would be the
key to the conference he has been
holding with British statesmen and
| the address as it was delivered to-
day was interpreted in American
quarters as confirming previous inti-
nations that these conferences had
been satisfactory from the president
viewpoint.
Big Throne Cheers.
The presidents reception at the
Guild Hall was spontaneous and
, hearty. When he arose to speak
: there was prolonged outburst OF
, handclapping and cheering and his
talk was frequently punctuated by
applause. At the conclusion the
: audience rose and cheered, and 1t
kept up the applause and cheering as
3 he passed out.
The president was given notable
ovation on rising to begin his speech
and some of the points that won re
newed applause were his tribute te
the armies of the associated govern
ments and his declaration that PEG
pie throughout the world wanted
peace and wanted it Immediately
, not, however, by conquest, but By
|. agreement of mind.
After President Wilson's ,arriva
all were grouped on the dial, the lore
, mayor in the center and Presiden
s. Wilson on his right next to thu
Duke of Connaught
vi Play American Anthem.
= The royal artillery band in thu
r gallery player American airs, usher
e in President Wilson in with "Th'
II Star Spangled Banner.
" In the course of his speech tn
d president declared the soldiers ha,
h fought to do away with the old OF
der and establish new one. Tn
old order, he said, had for its cente
the unstable thing" called the ba
\ ance of power, determined by ICON
\ petetive interests" Jealous watchfu
! ness, and an "antagonism of intel
ests." The men who have fought tn
\ war, he said, have been from "fre
\ nations who were determined tina
\ this sort of thing should end now an
forever"
Trustees of World Peace"
N The suggestion for concert {
power to replace the balance of pow
er. he remarked, was coming no
from every quarter and from ever
sort Of mind. The concert to com
he declared, must not be balance
M power or one powerful group of n
= tons set off against another, but 9
single, overwhelming, powerful grou
At of nations which shall be the trustee
of the peace of the world"
The minds of leaders of the BIRTHS
government, the president said, wei
moving along the same lines as h
own and their thought had been tn,
the key to peace was the guarantt
lc- of it and not the items of it. tt
of items of it, he added would
M worthless unless concert of pow
stood back of them.
90 No such potent union of purpo
~ had ever been seen in the world b
vs. fore. he said, as that which now d
le- mandad a concorf of no.ua. - -