The Mena weekly star., 1922-02-09

United States, Belgium, Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, China and Portugal.
 In addressing the conference Pres- ident Harding said:
 Nearly three months ago it was my privilege to utter to you sincerest words If welcome to the capital of our republic, to suggest the spirit in which you were invited and to intimate the atmosphere in which yoJ were asked to confer In a very general ways, perhaps, l yentured to express a hope for the things toward which our as- pirations led us.
 Today 1t is my greater privilege and an even greater pleasure, to come to make acknowledgement. It is one of the supreme compensations of life to contemplate worthwhile accomp- lishment.
 "It cannot be other than seemly for ne, as the only chief of government so eircumstanced as to be able to address the conference, to speak congratula- tions and to offer the thanks of our nation, our people; perhaps I dare volunteer to utter them for the world. My own qualification is beyond my ca nacity to express.
 Truly Great Achievement.
 "This conference has wrought a truly great achievement. It is haz- ardous sometimes to speak in super latives, and l will be restrained. But l will say with every confidence, that the faith plighted here today. kept in national honor. will mark the be- ginning of a new and better epoch in human progress.
 Stripped to the simplest fact, what is the spectacle which has inspired a new hope for the world? Gathered of the earth--not all. to be sure. but those most directly concerned with the problems at hand have met and have conferred on questions of great l importance and common concern, on i problems menacing their peaceful relationship, on burdens threatening a common peril. In the revealing light of the public opinion of the world, without surrender of sovereignty, without impaired nationality or af- fronted national pride, solution has been found in unanimitv. and today's adjournment is marked by rejoicing in the things accomplished. If the world has hungered for new assur- ance, 1t may feast at the banouet which the conference has spread. Stage Favorably Set.
 It is not pretended that the pur. suit of peace and limitations of arma. ments are new conceits. or that tho conference is a new conception in set clement of war or in writing the con science of international relationship Indeed, it Is not new to have met 1T the realization of wars supreme pen alties. The Hague coxventions ar, examples of the one, the conferenc, Of Vienna, of Berlin, of Versailles. ar, outstanding instances of the other.
 The Hague conventions were de feated by the antagonism of on strong power whose indisposition tl cooperate and sustain led to it one O
 the supreme tragedies which hay come to national eminence. Vlenn, and Berlin sought peace founded ol
 the injnstices of war and sowed th seeds of future conflict and hatre } stified "@ Tt is fair to say that huuan nra { eress, the grown intimacy of interna
 nonai relationship. developed con
 munieatlon and transportation. as tended by 2 directing world oosnios have sci the stage more farnrahs
 here. You hsve met ln that calm Az . liberation that determined resolstie.