Evening star., 1921-10-28
TELLS WORLD PEACE HOPE
Atlanta Citizens Told q. S. Will
Not Cause Farley Failure.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, October 2s-President
Harding concluded his visit to the
south yesterday with series of
speeches in Georgia. reconsecrating
his administration to the task of
finally obliterating sectional divisions
In two addresses in Atlanta and one
at Columbus the President told crowds
of cheering Georgians that it was one
of his fondest hopes to see his presi-
dency bring north and south into
complete harmony and cooperation.
Speech on World Peace.
A gospel of understanding and good
will. not only binding north and
south in closer union, but bringing
all the nations of the world into
cooperation and enduring amity. was
preached by President Harding in an
address outlining some of his con-
ceptions of the coming armament
conference.
Speaking at the statue OF Henry
w. Grady. southern apostle OF ma,
tional reunion, the President declared
America would enter the conference
SO imbued with the desire for inter-
national friendship that the blame
must rest elsewhere should the nego-
tiations for reduction of armament
result in failure.
AS Grady counseled reconciliation
for a war-torn nation, said Mr.. Hard
ing. so would the United states plead
that a disrupted world turn into the
paths of peace to seek salvation. SUCH
a leadership, he added, was possible
without jeopardy to national safety
or reversal of the established tradl-
tions of the republic.
II believe it wholly consistent the
President said, ito preach peace and
its triumphs in that convincing
sincerity which an unself1sh nation
| our proper defense.
"Manifestly. mankind is disposed to
! try that experiment. If. trying 1t. ma
tons shall fail. it will be no fault of
| the United States of America We are
| ready to offer a helping hand in the
new path. We have rendered our in
vitation, and the cordial acceptance
which has come from every quarter
leads TO earnest hope of good results.
We Americans have learned the les
| son. on both the national and world
scale. We fought our war of sections
/ and systems. and decided forever in
| favor of peace and unity. Our own
| experience has taught us that we may
hope that like decision will be
! reached by world reasoning amid the
convictions which follow IN the wake
! of a tragedy supreme"
! Tribute to Roosevelt.
| With his praise of Grady the Presi-
| dent coupled tribute to Theodore
! Roosevelt. of whose Georgia lineage
| he declared the whole south should
| be proud. The address follows in
part:
ITO come to Georgia is to come to
| the heart of the south. To come to
Georgia on this. of all days of the
year-the birthday of Roosevelt-is
| TO realize that the heart of the south
throbs for all the nation. To the max
ing of that typical American of the
new era went equally the warmer
strains of the old south and the sturdy
stock that gave the nation its empire
state.
! so it is good. in greeting you men
and women of Georgia. to recall the
| career of that outstanding American
! who in his life, as in his lineage.
! taught US how much we are pros
pered and exalted because of being
united. And. coming thus among you.
! it is peculiarly satisfaction to speak
! from the shadow of the shaft which
you have reared TO the memorya of
one who taught a reunited nation its
| duties. its obligations. its possibilities
For / recall the thrill with which
read. as a young man, the address of
| Henry w. Grady to the New Eng
land Club; that most famous oration,
| l think. of its generation; that inSpir-
! ing call to nation to awaken to it
self. to understand that its yester-
| day was dead. it's tomorrow pregnant
with magnificent opportunity.
l. Grady's Gospel.
| "If ever one man was ordained to
speak with the tongue of conviction
| and the voice of a great people. that
man was Grady. With heart aglow
and tongue inspired, he felt it his
duty to preach the gospel of new un-
derstanding. and, having uttered his
, new gospel at home, he came north,
the evangel of a new day. and made
! his New England speech. Since that
| night he has belonged not to you of
Georgia. but to the nation. to the truly
reunited nation. of which, in his day,
he was the foremost apostle and
| spokesman.
| "The other day there came into my
hands volume of the letters of a
group of eminent Georgians of the
| civil war and reconstruction period.
In the main they represented the
correspondence of Alexander H. Ste
phens. Howell Cobb, Robert Toombs
and Gov Joe Brown. Especially was
IL interested in the extensive corre-
spondence between these southern
leaders and prominent men of the
north which was carried on at that
period. 1t was nothing less than as
tonishing to note how little of bit
terness. of resentment, Of hatred and
irecalcitrance was manifested on
either side. They were all back in
the harness, working for the restora-
Ition of their state, their people, their
preserved country. They held their
heads high. had no apologies to make
for the past. but were looking clear
eyed to the future of indissoluble
union.
Spirit OF Reconstruction.
"That was the spirit which made
Reconstruction, despite bunglfng and
some exceptional manifestations of
,acerbity. on the whole so rapid and
effective a process. when measured
by like incidents in human history.
They wanted to be taken back into
full fellowsh ship. We would rather
have one immigrant from the north
than fifty from Europe wrote one a
few years after Appomatox. and he
urged his northern friend to make
the northern people understand how
welcome they would be. Not even
the unreconstructible hatred of old
Thad Stevens could maintain an ef-
fective front against such appeals as
that. The north did come to you
with olive branch instead of sword
and you went to the north and wesi
and became full partners in making
that new empire which together we
carved out of the transmissour
wilderness, and now TRULY there car
be deserted no sectional division Of
this land.
in the period since the world wal
ended. that the world at large NIGH
well let us show 1t the marvel which
was wrought through reunited ant
restored America. Because there wa.
the will to get down to work. to cease
repinings and regrets. we nave among
us erected here, out of the wreck
age that our war wrought, a countr,
in which we may fltly take the prid,
which every American feels.
"who would have ours less than tn,
great, rich, progressive, powerful
and enlightened America which W,
;..atl.r haa st fadaY2 Who would haYt