The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-02-06
HARDING DELIVERS
FAREWELL ADDRESS

Washington, Feb. 6.-President Har.
ding, addressing the final session OF
the arms conference, declared the con.
ference had wrought truly a great
achievement and if the faith plighted
here is kept in the national honor il
will make the beginning of new and
better epoch in human progress. No
new standards of national honor have
been sought, but indictments of ma
tional dishonor have been drawn. You
have written the first deliberate and
effective expression of great powers,
in consciousness of peace, of wars and
utter futility and challenged the san
ity of competitive preparation for
each others destruction. You have
halted the folly and lifted the burdens
and revealed to the world one sure
way to recover from war is to turn
human energies to constructiveness of
peace. No intrigue, no offensive OF
defensive alliances, no involvements
have wrought your agreements, but
reasoning with each other to common
understanding have made new rela-
tionships among governments and
peoples, and new securities for peace.
1t may be that the naval holiday here
contracted will expire with treaties,
but I do not believe it. The torches
of understanding have been lighted
and they ought to glow and encircle
the globe. In the assembly hall of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
the delegates of nine nations marched
in turn to that table and affixed their
signatures to treaties and agreements
to lift the burden of excessive naval
armaments, to promote peace of the
Pacific and give new bill of rights
to China and remove from the Far
East particularly the clouds of war.
Washington, Feb. 5.-The Washing
ton conference on ornaments and Far
Eastern problems will come to an end
tomorrow with plenary session Civ
en- over to the formal signing of
treaties and to farewell address by
President Harding.
Making his first appearance in the
sessions of the conference since he
welcomed the delegates to Washing
ton November IL, the president plans
rXaiee. briefly ibis gratifcation,,oy
the results accomplished and his con-
viction that the experiment has justi-
fed full faith in the practice of set
ting troublesome questions in an Gin
ternational meeting of minds"
Mr.. Harding's belief in confer
ence plan" of conducting international
negotiations has been so strengthened
by the developments here, his friends
say, that he regards the intangible
relationships resulting from the
Washington meeting as of even great
er significance that the formal agree
ments that are to- be brought to con-
summation tomorrow. He is to make
only short speech but it is expected
to contain important utterances on the
geenral subject Of international fel-
lowship.
Despite the small amount of work
left to it, however, tomorrow's session
may cover several hours. Four treat
les and supplement to fifth are to
be signed by the delegates at the big
green table in Continental hall around
which all the public meetings of the
conference have been held the affixing
of war seals and all the exacting work
Of inspecting the treaty text before
signature are tasks of such import
ance That conference officials say there
will be no disposition to hurry.
Two Of the treaties, that relating to
the root "four points" and the open
door, and that dealing with Chinese
tariff problems, must be signed by the
full delegations of the United States,
Great Britain, Japan, France, Italy,
China, Belgium, Portugal and the
Netherlands, while the other two, linn
iting capital ship strength and regu-
lating submarine and poison gas war
fare, are to be given approval by the
plenipotentiaries of the United States
Great Britain, Japan, France and
Italy. All these except Italy are to
sign also the supplemental agreement
defining the scope Of the four-power
Pacific treaty.