Arizona republican., 1921-08-08
HARDING. ENDS
 VACAT|ON IN
 NEW ENGLAND
Republican A. P. Leased WIrel

[RepubHcan A. P. Leased Wlrel PORTLAND, Maine, Aug.7.-Pres- Iident Harding ended his vacation visit to the White mountains of New Hampshire yesterday and crossed Maine to board the yacht Mayflower here to return to Washington. Accompanied by Mrs. Harding and other members of the party, the pres ident made the 40 mile cross country trip by. automobile starting early in
 the day from Lancaster. N. H., where he has been the guest of Secretary Weeks since Tuesday.
 He went out of his way to visit a soldiers sanitorium at Oxford Maine, stopped at Poland Spring for l lunch and game of golf and ac- cepted an invitation to pay brief 1 call and make a speech at Westbrook, 1 just outside of Portland. in the early evening. Sailing late tonight the
 Mayflower is expected to reach Wash | ington Tuesday noon.
 l The stop at Westbrook was arr
 ranged at the request of Senator Hale
 of this state. Several thousand 1 gathered to hear the presidents
 speech, reiterating his prediction that | America would find it possible to as
 sume the leadership for world peace
 at the coming disarmament con | ference.
 | Before he said goodbye today to the mountain lodge near Lancaster, Mir. Harding played round of golf. It was the final match of a tourna- ment for the championship of the party and although Mir. Harding made a low score, the title went to Senator | Hale
 I During the stop at Oxford. both
 MT. and Mrs. Harding assured the disabled world war veterans that the <~r>r 1 IL. | sible for their welfare. Both asked questions about the needs of the pa ! tients. most of whom are suffering
 from the effects of gas.
 T am happy" said the president in ], his short speech at Westbrook ito , say to you how grateful we are for . the cordial greeting we have received in Maine and New Hampshire. T have thought what a change has
 come about. You haven't gathered
 here to greet me personally. because I've been here before and you scarcely , noticed it. But you have come to
 me tonight because I am your spokes- man. When a man is a candidate. : he is always seeking to come among : you and make himself heard but when a man Is in office the people want him to come among them and he ought to come among them. That's as it should be, for this :. Is a popular government and let me s say that TO president ever could do
 anything of which the American peo- g pie did not approve.
 7 Let me tell you also that it is q P difficult thing to conduct the gov
 ernment of the United States. We 2 have just emerged from cataclysmie ! world war Things have been turned , upside down. It is a time when : America must keep her hat on 7 straight. when America must be con- !, fident of herself. And I like to say that have more confidence in Amer
 ica tonight than I ever had before believe America has found her sou 5 and has found the inspiration to be- I come not only the first great repub- T lie, as we are. but to grow into the l, mightiest power In the world, leading
 mankind to higher and higher levels e Knowing your sentiment. I have d recently been able to ask the grea S nations to meet with us around tht e council table and ask each other why = there should be any war We art 1t going to have that kind of a confer r ence and hope it will be my fortune n before my term of office Is done tC h be able to say that our Americ;
 somehow appealed to the conscionc,
 of mankind and that in the awaken
 i ing of that conscience we put asid,
 conflict That is a fine ideal fo
 America"
 As the president finished a hant
 struck up the Star Spangled Banne
 and MT. Harding called out to tn F audience to sing. He and Mrs Hard ! ing joined in and then the crowd gay, e them three cheers.
 9 The presidential party reaches s Portland before ten D. m. and wen if to the home of Mrs. Eugene Hale ;- mother Of Senator Hale. where the :, paid social call while a stree 'o crowd overran the lawn and peere < in at the windows The presiden s came out on the steps and asked tha
 those in the street form line so tha e' he could meet each one and a hand !s shaking session followed In the lin $ was committee of the Kiwanis clut s- who presented Mrs. Harding with
 bououet