Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-19

and America to a policy of accommoda-
ton and pacific adjustment for all our
differences, until today finds the United
States and Great Britain naturally ar
rayed together in the trusteeship of pre-
serving civilization" In this union and
! in the convictions of the two nations
there is warning against conflict for all
time to come, the President declared.
NAME OF YORKTOWN
HOLDS SIGNIFICANCE.
The Presidents speech was in part as
! follows:
Fellow Americans: The name of
Yorktown has ever held for Americans
significance unlike that Of any other
| name in our annals. On this historic
| peninsula were conducted major opera
! tons in our struggle for independence
| and our war for national unity. A few
miles away, across the river, was made
at jamestown, the first permanent settle
ment of our race on this continent, while
your historic Yorktown itself was one
of the very earliest settlements.
Here 40 years ago, Washington &C
copied the surrende. which meant at
| least the freedom of the colonies, the es-
! Establishment Of national independence, the
assurance of this great experiment in pop
ular government which Ne have since
conducted.
zone seeks in vain for parallel 20
this campaign, and the Importance of the
victory to the contending colonies long
since has been surpassed by its 1mpor-
/ lance to the world because 1t paean OF
dawn of a new era In freedom, made Sc
cure in popular government.
| COLONIES TRIUMPH
AIDS LIBERAL VIEWS.
1--WE must not claim for the new world,
certainly not for our colonies alone, all
/ the liberal thought Of century and
half ago. There were liberal views
and attending sympathy in England and
/ a passionate devotion to more liberal
\ tendencies In France. The triumph of
freedom in the American colonies greatly
! strengthened liberal views In the old
world. Inevitably this liberal public
| opinion, deliberate and grown dominant,
| brought Great Britain and America to
| a policy of accommodation and pacific
adjustment for all our differences. There
| has been honorable and unbroken peace
for more than century: we came TO
! common sacrifice and ensanguined asso-
/ citation in the World War, and a future
/ breach of our peaceful and friendly rela-
! tiOns is unthinkable. In the trusteeship
/ of preserving civilization, we We're natu-
rally arrayed together and the conyic-
| lions of a civilization worthy OF that
| costly preservation will exalt peace and
warn against conflict for all time to
come.
Our thoughts lately have been con-
cerned with those events which made his
/ tory on the scale of a world, rather than
| of a continent. Yet, the lesson is the
same. 1t is the lesson Of real inter-
| dependence among the nations which lead
civilization.
! OBLIGATION TO
FRANCE FULFILLED.
In our great crisis, nearly a century
and a half ago, France came to our aid
! do Or1r In nOGEihIp
her supremely anxious hour we gladly
went to her support and did our part TO
secure her liberty. grateful republic
fulfilled an obligation which the passing
generations had not dulled.
Rejecting today on the inevita BILE
ness of our participation, on our ties, OF
kinship, friendship and fellowship and
/ appraising anew the day. the world
Gods good wOrld-must share the as
piratiOps to realize the noblest ideals for
mankind, there is a fresh hungering for
understanding a new call for cooperation
q clear conviction OF purposes and de-
votiOns and Royalties not limited to
| sovereignties nor national boundaries. As
/ the fortunate, successful citizens is both
/ inspiration and example to the cOmmun-
! lty Of his growth, so must the fortunate
/ and successful nations help the world to
/ the higher and nobler levels of acom-
/ plishment. Here Of Yorktown was sealed
/ the charter of the new and free America,
/ but in the charter was written the
rational liberalism of the maturing eight
oenth century crying out from both con-
| tinents.
/ TINE TO RECOGNIZE
COOPERATION OF NATIONS.
Shall mankind, then, go on for gen
fusing to be guided by these7truths? ?"
| Not IL conscience and reason are prop
erly asserted. ! believe the time IS com"
when there must be recognition Of es-
] al ~ nQftnn9
voted, each of them in its own peculiar
national way, to the common good, the
progress, the advance OF all human kind
| Let us hope that we stand at the dawn
of a new day, in which nations shall be
| stronger for contribution to the world s
! betterment, because each Will feel the
aspiration and the security Of common
devotion to the ends Of peace and civil
! liza ton.
zone need not picture world SOW
| ereignty ruling over all the varying
races. traditions and national cultures,
because it will never be That would
mean a social. institutional and inteilec-
| tual Standardization. utterly inharmoni-
Gus with the plan that filed the world
| with differing peoples, civilizations and
purposes. No program which seeks to
submerge nationality will succeed. This
republic will never surrender so price
les a heritage, will never destroy the
/ soul which imPelled our gratifying at
/ III LHb sODSE NAINAtiS PS1tAoht
retrospectlon 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 cooperative endeavor
which shuns the alliance in arms and
! strengthens the concords of peace so
that each may realize its rightful destiny
and contribute its utmost to human ad
vancement and attending human happt-
| ness.
REVOLUTION HEROES
/ WOULD SANCTION.
THE heroes Of the revolution little
knew. the founding fathers little realized,
Washington himself little dreamed that
tremendous significance of the beginning
which was wrought amid their heroic
sacrifices But If we could summon their
spirits this morning am sure they would
| rejOicingly marvel at the republic we have
builded They would sanction, as do we
of Virginia and Ohio, and as do all the
States with shining stars in the field Of
| blue, the riveted reunion where disunion
threatened and they would acclaim with
us 1.-THE nationality which has made the
victory at Yorktown a SURPRISING express
sion Of human progress They would
have us cling to independence. Pregnant