Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-22
VIR I ES PPLlUDED
Pilgrim Porefa hers Subject
Ct Addresses at Banquet.
NEW WILLARD HOTEL
ANNIVERSARY OF SIGNING OF
COMPACT 2s5 YEARS AGO.
Justice Brown, Rabbi Simon and Bish
op Satterlee the Speakers-Presi-
dent Roosevelt's Invitation.

The stern virtues of the pilgrim fathers
who came over in the Mayfiower were APP
plauded, and their children were called upon
to copy their God-fearing spirit, at a BAN
quet Of the oSciety of Mayflower Descend
ants of the District of Columbia at the New
Willard Hotel last evening. Some twenty
associations, all affiliated, last night held
similar celebrations of the 235th anniver
sary of the signing of the compact in the
cabin of the little ship and of her anchor
age in Cape Cod harbor.
President Roosevelt had been invited to
be present, but letter was read from him,
in which he said he would have to decline,
but closed with the request, why can't
the Mayfower descendants come to see
me?" The invitation was accepted and
nearly all of the hundred and fifty members
went in a body to the White House at noon
today by special appointment and were
greeted by Mr.. Roosevelt.
Addresses were made after the banquet
by Justice Henry B. Brown of the United
States Supreme Court, Rabbi Abram Simon
Of the Washington Hebrew Congregation
and Bishop Henry Y. Satterlee Of the
Protestant Episcopal diocese of Washing
ton. The governor of the society, Rev.
DR.. j. l.. Ewel, presided.
Themes Of the Addresses.
The laying of the foundation of the ma
ton by the Pilgrim fathers and the ter
rtble hardships of the little band that spent
a lbnely winter on the New England coast
constituted the theme of Justice Browns
remarks.
Rabbi Simon told of the association in the
past of the Hebrews and the puritans in
England, saying that it was through Oliver
Cromwell that the Jews were permitted
to re-enter England after their exile. He
likewise told of the landing of twenty
three Hebrews prominent members of the
West Indies Company, in the city of New
York In the early part of the year 1000
The Pilgrim fathers, with their love of
God, the Bible and uprightness, had much
in common with his race, he declared, and
he prayed for the blessing of the descend
ants of this sturdy sect
Bishop Satterlee, after saying he a
Mayfiower descendant on his mothers side,
called attention to the serious duty be-
fore the descendants OF the Mayfower
voyagers in keeping up the ideas of right
and wrong which stirred the Eosoms of
those men and women The greatest evil
of today, he said, is the laxity of Christian
principles in the home, the prevalence of
divorce and other things that show the
tendency of the nation to worldEness and
sordidness.
Teachings of Pilgrim Fathers.
"It is for US to carry the work forward
and spread the teachings of our Pilgrim
forefathers,'' he said ''those stalwart sons
of God who came to this country in 1920
and laid the foundations of our American
civilization" said Bishop Satterlee. They
came here to have religious liberty and he
homes they established are the homes which
should be the models for Christians today.
Because of the sordid conditions of the
present 1t becomes necessary for US to re-
member the teachings and preoepts set by
that sturdy band which landed on Plymouth
Rock two hundred and eighty-five years ago.
Those teachings will help us to meet the
problems of the world. The divorce evil
must be met, and a better influence welded
over our children. The lack of Christian re-
straint in the average American household
is deplorable. This laxity must go. We
have as duty the preservation of the
forefathers fought for it and maintained it,
Thanksgiving Proclamation.
The Thanksgiving proclamation of the
President was read during the evening by
Thomas S. Hopkins, an ex-governor of the
association. Mr.. Hopkins had charge of the
arrangements for the banquet and the
function was pronounced a success in every
particular.
During the evening Misx BERTHE r. TefYt
played d piano solo, and at the conclusion
of the speeches the guests all Joined in
singing the old version of Psalm XIV sung
In olden times by the Pilgrim fathers of
New England.
The menu card and program was attrac-
lively printed. and contained extracts from
Gov. Bradfords History of Plimoth Plan
tation," together with the Mayfiower com
pact. At the top of the page, where The
names Of the speakers of the evening ap-
peared, was this extract from the history:
Our fathers We're Englishmen, which
came over this great ocean, and were ready
to perish in this wilderness, but they cried
unto we Lord, and He heard their yoyoe
and looked their adyeFsitie, &C. Let the
children of these fathers therefore praise We
Lord. because He is good, and His rnercies
endure forever"
The Guests Present.
Those present were Miss Hattie L. Alden.
Mr.. A. A. Aspinwall. Mrs. Aspinwall, DIR.
Preston II. Bailhache, Mrs Baihachs Mr..
Ernest w. Bradford. Mr.. Southwick c.
Briggs, Mrs. Briggs Mr.. Justice Brown,
Mrs. Marion Burch DR.. Charles T. Cald-
WELL Mrs. Caldwell. Mrs. J. D. B. Chany.
Mr.. A. J. Chapman, DR.. P. C. Clafin, Mrs
Clafl;n Miss Mary cleveland. Capt. C. II.
Ellis, Rev. DIR. ]. L. Ewell Rev VIM. S.
Ewell, Capt. s. E. Faunce. Mrs Faunce
Mrs. Julia A. Ford Mrs Shield, Mr.. Rob-
ert ID. Gardner, Mrs. Gardner, Mr. George
c.. Gorham, Mrs. Sarah L. Hail. Mr. James
III. Hensley, Mrs. Hensley, Mr.. Edwin j.
Hill, Mrs. Hill, Mr.. VIM. H Hoople Mrs
Hoople, Mr.. Thomas s. Hopkins.4Mrs Hop
kins Miss Flora l.. p. Johnson, Mrs Emma
L. C. johnson. Mr.. Jerome f. johnson. Mrs
Johnson. Mrs. Howell, DIR. Joseph Taber
johnson, Mr.. John b. Lafner Mr. Charles
H. Lincoln Mrs. Lincoln. Mr. Alvin M
Lothrop. Miss Lothrop, Mr.. w. L. Marsh,
Capt. F. w. Mitchell. Mrs. Mitchell, Mr.
Guy E. Mitchell, Mr.. Seymour Morris of
Chicago Mr.. Charles F. Nesbit. Mrs Mes
bit, Mr.. E. Southland Parker, Prof George
L. Raymond. Right Rev. Henry Y. Satter-
lee, d. D.. Mr.. James Sheldon, jr.. Mr.. Seth
Shepard Mrs. Shepard, Rabbi 14bran
Simon. Washington Hebrew Congregation;