New-York tribune., 1921-10-28
Enters Arms Council Will,
Her Good Will Pledged;
If Purpose Fails Other
Nations Shoulder Blame
Group Domination
AT Home Opposed
Georgia Reacts Favorably
to Race Address as He
= Ends Tour at Atlanta

from STAFF Correspondent
ATLANTA, Oct. 27.-The United
States enters the November Conference
on Limitation of Armament so deter
mined to establish international friend
ship and goodwill that the blame can
not rest on America if that meeting
fails, President Harding said here to-
day in an address delivered at the
statue of Henry w Grad, Southern
apostle of national reunion. The world.
he added, might we'll accept the ex-
ample set by reunited and restored
America" where repinings and regrets
have ceased and the way has been
opened toward lasting cooperation.
The President made several speeches
to-day as he passed through Georgia,
all of them pleas for the obliteration
of sectional lines. Although he did
not refer to his Birmingham address
yesterday. in which he urged economic
equality and racial separateness for
the white and negro races. it was evil
dent from his reception throughout
TINS state that tnat speech had in
creased rather than lessened his popu
lar 'ty,. Secretar of the Interior Fall,
wno is IN the Presidential party, at a
luncheon at the Druid Hill Club here
said of that speech: when the people
understand it, they will know that no
message is more to their interest or
one they should take more to heart"
Appeals Through Roosevelt
The President preached posneI of
Deffor a
ute to Theodore Roosevelt and Grady
for their efforts in this direction.
"Who would have ours less than the
great, rich, progressive, powerful and
enlightened America which we Justly
boast to-day?" he asked in his address
at the Grady monument. "Who would
have it less a figure in the world than
it has been in these years of crisis and
disaster? What friend of civilization
Of Christianity, of human advancement
would have wished our part less than
1T has been? Who among US all is not
Proud that we were able to participate
very notably in the rescue Of humanity
in the struggle which menaced its yerv
existence? Who would have US relin-
Qulsh now our service for a better civ
ilization?
II believe, for instance, that every
family which has lost member in the
struggle to save mankind from abso-
lutism, every citizen soldier who has
given years and suherings to that
cause, every gold-star mother or
manned veteran will agree that peace
is preferable to war, and that to train
world in the ways of peace is better
than to prepare it for war"
At Camp Benning early this morning
the Presidential party witnessed milf
tary maneuvers by the cadets in train
ing there for West Point, all of them
World War veterans In a sham battle
that lasted thirty-seven minutes an at
tacking force cleared the "Germans" off
wooded ridge. Several combatants
were "wounied" or "killed." With
tanks and machine guns supporting the
infantry and a lone airplane above
dropping phosphorus grenades on hos
tile positions, the battle was realistic
enough to evoke from the President
the comment that "it was we'll worth
while" and from Secretary of War
Weeks that Camp Benning was one
that must not be abolished.
At Columbus. Ca, the President
made a short speech from q baggage
truck by the railroad track. He ex-
pressed the determination of his Ad-
ministration to deal Justly with all
parts of the country, dealing with cot
ton problems along with wheat. He
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