The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-19

Britain and America to a policy of. accommodation and pacific adjust-s ment for all our differences. There
 has been honorable and unbroksn peace for more than a century, we
 came to common sacrifice and en-
 sanguined association in the world war and a future breach of our peace full and friendly relations is unthink- able. In the truSteeShip of preserv ing civilization we were naturally ar rayed together and the combinations of a civilization worthy of that costly
 preservation will exa1t peace and
 warn against conflict for all time to come.
 Our thoughts lately have been
 concerned with those events which
 made history on the scale of a world,
 rather than of a. continent. Yet the
 lesson is the same. It is the lesson
 Of real interindependence among the
 nations which lead civilization.
 "In our great crisis, nearly "a cen
 tury and a half ago, France came to
 our aid and made our, independence
 possible. In her supremely anxious hour we gladly went to her support and did our part to secure her liber ty A grateful republic fulfilled an
 obligation which the passing genera tions had not dulled."
 "I believe the time is come when there must be recognition of essential
 cooperation among nations devoted,
 each of them. in it's own peculiar na- tonal way, to the common good, the progress. the aQNance or all human kind Let us hope that we stand at the dawn of new day, in which na- tions shall be stronger for contribu- tion to the worFs betterment, because each will feel the assurance of com mon purpose and united aspiration, and the secrity of a common devo- tfon to the ends of peace and civiliza- tion.
 sovereignty, ruling over all the vary ing races, traditions and national cul- lures, because it will never be. No program which seeks to submerge nationality will succeed. This repub- lie will never surrender so priceless a meritage, will never destroy the soul which impelled our gratifying at tainments. In the sober circumspec- tion. retrospection and introSpection of these crucial times we do believe there is sanity and urgent need in bringing the best thought of all great peoples into understanding and CO., operative endeavor which shuns the
 alliances in arms and strengthens the concordS of peace. so that each may
 realize its rfghtfu1 destiny and con- tribute it's utmost to human advance
 ment and attending human happi- ness"
 i President and Mrs. Harding were guests of honor today at the celebra- 1 tions marking the 14Oth anniversary 1 of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis ! to the Colonials under Washington and Lafayette.
 | 1 the capital after an overnight trip on | the Mayf1ower which cast her anchor
 in cove which through many sum
 mer weeks. 40 years ago, reflected the grim ports of the anchored French
 tiet, as lay watching the be1eaguered | British army.
 MT Harding's address. the feature | Of the days program, was delivered
 at the foot of the Yorktown monu-
 ment, erected in 1881. At it's con csusion, ne proceeded to Williamsburg to participate in the installation of pr. J. A. c. Chandler as president of
 the College of William and Mary. Since the original celebration of York town Day, students of the college have
 made it an annual holiday, journey ing to this place in a body to Ioin in | the ceremonies
 From Williamsburg, President Harding plans to go to Jamestown. the site of the original white settle ment on the North American con tlnent. The Mayf1ower will await the party here, probably casting off for the return to Washington this even ing.