Show r 1 EffORTS I Ir I BENT TO PEACE I HARDING SAYS I President in Roosevelt Birthday Speech at At At- Atlanta I At-I lanta Preaches Gospel of oft National ati t nai Understanding ATLANTA Ga Gar Oct 28 A 28 A gospel of ot Understanding and will good not only binding North and South in closer union but Bringing all an the nations of they the world Into cooperation and endur- endur amity was V preached by President Harding yesterday yest in an address here outlining sontO of his conceptions of I the thc coming v conference Speaking t at the statue of Henry W. W I Grady Southern apostle of n national re reunion reunion reunion re- re union the preb president dent declared America Wo would ld enter the conference so Imbued the desire Mr tr international friendship friendship friendship friend friend- ship that the b blame e must rest elsewhere elsewhere elsewhere else else- where should the negotiations for re reduction reduction reduction re- re of armament result in failure fallu fail fall u ure I r believe it wholly consistent the president said to preach p peace ace and Its triumphs in that convincing sincerity sincerity sincerity sin sin- which tn n unselfish nation comm commands com- com m mands and yet mane make sure sure about our prop prop proper r defense With his praise raise of ot Grad Grady the president president resi- resi toy Theodore dent coupled coupled a tribute to Theodore Roosevelt of whose Georgia lineage hede he he- de declared lared the whole South should be proud The address follows in part To come to Georgia is to come to the heart of the South To come com cometo to to Georgia on this of all days of the year tle t e birthday of Roosevelt Roosevelt-is is to real- real ize that the heart of the South throbs ion for all the nation ROOSEVELT T EULOGIZED SO it is good in greeting you men and women of Georgia to recall the career of that outstanding American who in his life life as in ir his lineage taught us how much we are prospered and exalted because u of being united ni ed And coming thus among you i it Is particularly particularly particularly a satisfaction to speak from the shadow of th the shaft which you have haver r reared ared to the memory of one who taught a reunited nation Its duties its obligations its possibilities For I recall re recall re- re call can the thrill with which I read as a ayoung ayoung ayoung young man the address of Henry W. W Grady to the New England club that most famous oration I r think of its generation n that inspiring inspiring- call to a nation nation nation na na- na- na tion to a awaken waken to itself to understand understand understand under under- stand that yesterday was dead lead Its to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow to- to morrow pregnant with magnificent op op- op The other day there came into my h hands 3 p volume of the l letters of ot a group of f eminent Georgians of the Civil war and reconstruction period In the main they represented the correspondence correspondence correspondence cor cor- of Alexander H. H Stephens Howell Cobb Robert Toombs and Governor Governor Gov Gov- Joe Brown Especially was I r In Interested interested interested in- in in the extensive correspondence correspondence dence between these Southern leaders and prominent men of th North which was carried on at tha that period It was nothing less than astonishing hIng to note how little of bitterness of resentment re resentment resentment re- re of hatred and recalcitrance was manifested on either side They were all back in the harness working for the forthe the restoration of ot their state stare their people their preserved country NORTHE NORTHERNERS NORTHERNERS' NERS' NERS WELCOMED I We would rather have one immigrant immigrant immIgrant grant fr from in the North than fifty from Europe wrote one a few years after atter Appomattox and he urged his Northern Northern North North- ern friend to m make le the Northern people people peo peo- plo understand how welcome they would be Not even the ble hatred of ot old Thad Ste Stevens vens could an effective front against uch such appeals as that The North did come to you with olive branch instead of sword and you went to the North and West and became full partners in making that new empire which together er we carved out of the trans-Missouri trans wilderness and now truly there can be descried no sectional division of this land It has seemed to me mo many times Inthe Inthe inthe In In- the period since the World war ended that the world at large might well weIl let letus letus us show It the marvel which was wrought through a reunited and re restored restored restored re- re stored America I r believe that every family which has lost a member in the struggle to save mankind from absolutism every soldier citizen who has given years and sufferings to that cause every gold star mother or maimed veteran will agree that peace is preferable to towar towar towar war and that to train a world In the ways of peace Is better than to prepare prepare prepare pre pre- pare it for war I r would not have you misconstrue I believe it wholly consIstent consistent consistent con con- to preach peace and its triumphs triumphs triumphs tri- tri in that convincing sincerity which an uns unselfish nation commands and yet make sure about our proper I defense Manifestly mankind Is disposed to try that experiment If It trying It nations nations nations na na- na- na shall fall it will be no fault of the United States of America America- Our own experience has taught us that we may hope that a like decision will be reached by a world reasoning amid the convictions which follow in the wake of a a. tragedy supreme |