The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-02-07
IIfRvINC BIDS
AD|EU TO FARLEY
Declares PaGts Halted Folly Of
Preparation For War.
GREAT WORKS WROUGHT
Conference Adjourns Sine Die After
Formal Signing of Treaties ano
Hearinu Presidents Farewell.

|
WASHINGTON, Feb. THE history
| making conference on the limitation
| Of armament and Far Eastern ques
tions came to an end with the slgnins
of the treaties and Il farewell addfe>;
by President Harding.
! With its work characterized by MI
| Harding as "the first deliberate an
effective expressions of great powers
| in the consciousness of peace, of war:
utter futility, the great conference
went to its niche of history to avail
! the judgments and developments %
| the future.
In the great assembly hall of th'
| Daughters of American Revolution
| where ali its open sessions have been
| held, the delegates of the nine nations
assembled. marched i'll turn to space
al the great green baizc table ant
| affixed their signatures to treaties hn(
agreements which are all parts Of tht
structure built to lift from Il WaF-torl
world the burden Of excessive naTa
armaments TO promote the peace o1
| the Pacific; to give Il new bill OF rights
| to China. and to remove from the tai
| East, particularly. the clouds OF war
.tnd as each delegation affixed sig
| natures as plenipotentiaries, pledginE
lie honor of their respective ndtlon>
to the good faith of the settlements
agreed upon, the great audience eX
| pressed the hopes of the world i'll its
loud and prolonged applause.
At the close of the ceremony Of A.gn
ing President Harding delivered h:s
address, formally closing the confer
ence as he formally had opened ii Cor
November 12), little more thai
twelve weeks ago.
There was long applause when Pres
ident Harding digressed to say:
while the settlement of the Fal
Eastern question was not Of direct
import to the United States, we re
joice in common with the world that
an understanding has been reached
AS the president named the Ameri
can delegates and thanked them for
their services to the nation, there was
applause at the mention of each dele
gates name. There was more ap,
plause when the president thanked the
ndvisory committee for its services.
At the end of the presidents address
the entire party stood and applauded
while the executive took his seat.
As the applause died away Rev. DR.
Alternately, pastor of the Baptist
church in Washington, which the pres
ident attends, stepped forward and
pronounced the benediction.
May it be in the heart Of every
nation and every man." he beseeched
"to hasten the bringing OF the era OF
good will
The prayer ended, Secretary OF
State Hughes raped with his gavel
and announced:
THE conference is adjourned sine
die
President Harding, in part, said:
1T cannot lie other than seemly for
me, as the only chief of government so
cfrcumstanced as to be able to address
the conference, to speak cOngratula-
tions and to offer the thanks of our
nation, our people; perhaps l dare vol
unteer to utter them for the world.
My own qualification is beyond my
capacity to express.
"This conference has wrought a
truly great achievement. 1t is hazard
Gus sometimes to speak IN superla-
tives,and I will be restrained. But ]
will say, with every confidence, that
the faith plighted here today, kept in
national honor, will mark the begin
ming 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
about this table nine great nations of
The earth-not all, to be sure, but
those most directly concerned with the
conferred on questions Of great import
and common concern, on problems
menacing their peaceful relations, on
burdens threatening common peril.
Il am sure the people of the United
States are supremely gratified. and
yet there is scant appreciation of how
marvelously you have wrought. When
the days were dragging and agree
mentS were delayed, when there We're
Obstacles within, the hindrances with
out few stopped TO realize that here
was conference of sovereign powers
where only unanimous agreement
could be made the rule.
at has been the fotune of this cen
ference to sit in q GaE far enough re
mo, ed from wars bitterness, yet nea'
enough to wars horrors. to gain The
benefit OF both the hatred of war aHG
the yearning for peace. Too often
heretofore. the decades following sac
gatherings lave been marked by tt.
difficult uHs;oiDg of thor decisions. Bu
y""r achievement is supreme hecauS'
~ seed Of conflict has been SoWn: n,
| rr-.ot'rr IA r"@""t or resentment "ve'
O. ;.-'.itN irs TT 10 arms.
''t- 'i1ttn matters what We appr:l =.
- outstanding accomplishments
= cS them alone would have
~ 49,. cor 't.rnr"; BIT the whni
| achievement has so cleared the atm0s
| piiere that it will seem Ike breathing
| the refreshing air # Il new morn o
| promise.
You have written the first dcliber
ate and effective expression of grea
| powers. in the consciousness of peace
| of wars utter futility. and Challenged
the sanity of comparative preparation
| for each others destruction.
You have halted folly and liftot
! burdens and evealed to the world thu
the one sure way 10 recover from tht
sorrow and ruin and staggering obi
! cations of world war is to end th(
strife in preparation for more of ii