The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-10-19
PRESIDENT To
HELP OBSERVE
!. YORKTOWN DAY

trine OF enduring friendship between
! she United States and Great Britain
was pronounced by President Har
ding here today at the ceremon,
commemoratIng the surrender O
British forces to General Washing
=. ton.
Standing within sight OF the 500,
where CORVALLIS laid down hi,
sword the president declared for Q
sentiment Of peaceful relationship be.
tween the two English speaking ma.
tions for all time.
That either Of the nations should
ever again lift the sword against
the other. he said, was "unthink-
able" for the two nations were array.
ed together In the trusteeship Of Pre-.
serving civilization.
WILLIAMSBURG. Va, Oct. 1s.--
When President Harding comes to
williamsburg today to deliver an
address at the Inauguration OF a new
president OF William and Mary Col
lege he will also participate in the
one hundred and fortieth anniver-
sary Of the surrender OF Lord Corn
wallis at Yorktown, Va.
Yorktown Day." while not gener-
ally observed elsewhere. is the oc-
casion OF an annual celebration at
William and Mary, in whose halls
both the British and the Colonial ar
mics quartered their troops during
the Revolution. There was great re-
joicing in Williamsburg when WASH
ington and Lafayette delivered the
city from It's nearby foes and since
then William and Mary students have
journeyed each year to Yorktown
to celebrate the anniversary.
President Harding. accompanied by
Mrs. Harding. will leave Washington
on the Mayflower, October IS. and
will arrive at Yorktown on the morn
ing OF the 10Th. coming first to Will
llamsburg where tho President will
deliver the principal address at the
formal installation OF DR.. j. A. G.
Chandler as president OF the College
OF william and Mary. Governor
westmoreland Davis OF Virginia vii,
preside at the exercises. which II is
expected, will be attended by repre-
sentatives OF several European Uni
versities and OF all colleges and uni
versities In the United States which
are more than one hundred years old.
After the Inauguration the presi-
dent will be the guest OF President
Chandler In the old Presidents
House" on the campus. where Lafay-
ette and CORVALLIS made their head
quarters alternately during the reyo-
luton. The president and party
then will go to jamestown. seven
miles away. the site Of the first Eng
Ilsh colony In America.
william and Mary, founded In
1898, is the second Oldest college In
the country, being ranked only by
Harvard. Among her alumni we're
three presidents-Jefferson, Monroe
and Tyler; four justices OF the Unit
ed States supreme court--John Mar
shall, John Blair. Bushrod Washing
ton and Phillip p. Barbour; four
signers of the declaration OF inde-
pendence-George Wythe. Thomas
Jefferson, Carter Braxton and Benja-
min Harrison; twenty-nine United
States senators; twenty-five govern
ors; three speakers Of the house OF
representatives; ten cabinet officers
and many representatives. William
Barton Rogers, founder OF the Mass
achusetts Institute OF Technology and
General Winfield Scott also were
graduates of the school.
Yorktown, vi here the Mayflower
will land the presidential party was
place almost forgotten by the world
from the time of CORVALLIS surren-
der until the world war, when 1t was
the headquarters for the Atlantic
fleet. A marble shaft, erected In
1881 on the one-hundredth anniver-
sary of the British surrender, stands
in the center of the town and near
the village are remains of forts and
redoubts where Cornwallis, troops en-
trenched themselves before their de-
feat marked the real birth OF the
United States.
There is also small monument
marking the spot where Generai
Washington received the sword OF
CORVALLIS, but old maps are said
to show the spot to be inaccurateiy
marked and the people OF yorktown
are planning to have the monument
moved or erect new one.
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