The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-02-06
BETTER EPOCH, :
SAYS HARDING
Is Indicated BY Faith
Plighted Here By
Conferees
EXPRESSED GREAT
GRATIFICATION
AT What the Conference
Had Been Able to Ac-
complish

Washington, D G., Feb. q tBy The
Associated Press) THE address made
BY President Harding at the conclud-
ing session today Of the arms con
ference follows:
@Mr. Chairman and members Of the
conference:
.Nearly three months ago il was my
privilege to utter to you sincerest
words OF welcome to the capital q our
republic, Co suggest the spirit w when
YOU we're invited. and TO intimate TIE
atmosphere in which you we're asked
TO confer. In a very general way, per-
haps, ventured TO express a hope fcr
the things toward which our aspira
tions led M.
"To-day it il my greater privilege,
and even greater pleasure to come 70
make acknowledgment. 1t Is one ct
the supreme compensations of life TO
contemplate a worth while accomplish
ment.
ut cannot be- other than seemly
form. as tile only chief OF government
so circtmstanced as 10 be able 70 ad-
dress the conference, to speak congrat.
ulations. and to offer the thanks 81
our nation. our people; perhaps dare
volunteer to nttcr them for the world.
Nv own aratifcation il beyond my ga
pacity 10 express
~This conference has wrought . tfu-
IL great achievement. 1t i hazardous
sometimes 10 speak in superlatres,
and | win be restrained, but ! viii
say. with every confidence, that the
faith plighied here to-day kept ~ ma
tioual honor will mark the beginning
Of new and better epoch IN human
progress.
@stripped to the simplest fact, what
i the spectacle which has inspired
new hope for the worldf Gathered
about this table nine great nations OF
the earth-not all. to be sure, but tlcse
most directly concerned with the prob
lems at hand have met and have CON
ferred on questions Of great import
and common concern, on problems men
acing their peaceful relationship, On
burdens threatening common peril
In the revealing light OF the public
opinion OF the world, without surren,
der Of sovereignty, without impaired
nationality or affronted national pride,
4 solution has been found in nnanimi-
tv. and to-day's adjournment i marked
by rejoicing in the things accomplished.
II the world has hungered for new as
suranee ii may feast at the banquet
whiemh tho conference has spread.
II am sure the people Of the United
States are supremely gratified and set
there il scant appreciation how mar
velously you have wrought. When
the DAYS were dragging and agree
ments we're DELAYED when there were
obstacles within and hindrances with.
out. few stopped to realize that itre
was a conference of sovereign powers
where only unanimous agreement could
no made the rule. Majorities could
not decide without impungng nation
al rights. There were no victors 70
Command, no vanquished to yield. All
had voluntarily agreed in translating
the conscience Of our civilization and
give concrete expression TO world GRIN
ion.
eAnd You have agreed in spite OF all
difficulties, and the agreements are
proclaimed 10 the world. No new
standards Of national honor have been
sought. but tho indictments Of nation
al dishonor have been drawn and the
world Is ready to proclaim the odions'
ness OF perfdy. or .nfamy.
at is not pretended that the pur-
sait of peace and the limitations OF
ornaments are new conceits, or, that
the conference i new conception
either in settlement Of war or in writ
ing the conscience Of international re-
lationship Indeed i Is not new TO
have met in the realization OF war
supreme penalties. The Hague cen
ventions are examples Of the one, tie
conference of Vienna, ofs Berlin, OF
Versailles, are outstanding instances
of the Others.
~The Hague conventions are defeat
ed by the antagonism of one strong
power whose indisposition TO cooper
ate and sustain led il TO one Of the en-
preme tragedies which have come 70
national eminence. Vienna and Berlin
sought peace founded on the ipiussices
Of war and sowed the seeds Of future
conflict. and hatred was armed where
conference was stified.
eIt i fair to say that human prog
ress. the grown intimately Of interna-
tional relationship. developed ccmmu-
nication and transportation, attended
by a directing world opinion, have set
the stage more favorably here. You
have met in that calm deliberation
and that determined resolution which
have made a just peace in righteous re-
lationship. its own best guarantee.
III has been the fortune Of this con
ference 20 sit in a day far enough re.
moved from wars bitterness, yet near
enough 10 wars horrors 20 gain the
bsreft of both the hatred Of war and
the vcarniug for peace. Too often,
heretofore. the decades following such
gatherings have been marked by the
dificuit undoing decisions. But your
achievement J. supreme because no
seed of conflict has been sown. no re-
action in regret or resentment ever
can Justify resort to arms.
III little matters what We appraise
as the outstanding accomplishment.
Anv one Of them alone would have
iasfifed the conferences. But the whole
achievement has - cleared the atnles-
rhrse that it Wiii seem ike breathing
the rsfrc~hing cir Of = new morn ~
promise
-Yon have written the frsf ieliher-
afs sri elective expression % rrcat
raafrf. in ltc crnec icusne-s II TFaee.
- sars utter fataiif, and Challenged