Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-23

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y William Eilery Charming.
r. pa,rtetisn. born upon this Continent IN
- Rookye soyie Of New England and re-.
kern again and Again as VNesiwarie
rrreade Ne settlements cf cure countrye,
sboid leade 20 way today.
I, this wise, men and women 10 ve
ruinbre OF three Hundred and eightye some
sdAc tYe same bsyuge descendants Of We
eardy band OF Pilgrim Fnthersl were adj
rsonyshed by speakeres Of Renowue and
ysadye Tongue and most faire repute withai
- - Thirtyr-airth yearly Feast OF 70 New
rneinnd society of Pennsylvania. Rt sr
peiievue-stratford Hotel SO Joyous pas
~ gathering and 40 Earnestly were Be
enoken Thoughts received by 10 members of
y raid society and their women-folk yat
4 was not tlli an early hOure today vat
thhy departed from 10 feast of Savoury
viandea and Meanyngfui words and rC-
valred to theyr Divers homes
In dede. to turne 20 ye language OF pc
compiIers OF ncwes, Il has been many day
since such n brilliant galaxy OF speakers
has discourscd so forcefully TO such N dis
tlnguIshed audience seated before the happy
reminders OF 20 elegant banquet Former
President william Howard Taft. former
CONGRESSMAN J. Adam Bcde. OF Minnesota (;
the Rev Nehemiah Boynton, OF Brooklyn,
and cyrus H. N NNfllht pEchlutuN OF INC
Hoclety. formed that galaxy among the
diners werc inanciers whose names arc on
every lin, statesmen. lawyers. clergymen
feadera in the Commemorative life. and
m the veins Of all Of them courses tho hard
Unprecedented blood OF New England.
An almost bewliderlng array OF thought
! was presented by tho speakers In thoIr
striking and optimistic addresses. But out
Of the manifold approaches To the subject
the honoring of worthy ancestry-theTe
cleaned clearly the one gem OF thought--the
lessons which the generation of today and
the generations TO come should learn from
the stern sense of duty, the Eelf-saerlhce,
tho love o, freedom, the patriotism. tho ag-
gressiveness and tho independence Of the
noble Plymouth company that landed from
The Mayhower 206 years ago and planted
the seeds of liberty on the bleak shores OF
the New World.
Mr. Bede. whose address took his henr-
ers by storm, furnished tho crystal thought
when IN the midst OF an impassoned appeal
for patriotism he exclaimed:
"onward. Columbia, from Plymouth Rock
10 the Rock OF Ages"
In on address replete with cplgrams and
Inspiring nights Of oratory, he demanded
patriotism and. because OF the happiness
that human progress brings he welcomed
the problems that come with human prog
ress
use your home State as postofIice ad-
dress, think In terms OF continents and CEN
tures then be Americans" he said earn
estly, amid prolonged applause. I'VE must
think with the international mind The dis.
tinction between the great and the small
mind In statesmanshlp is that the former
has forward-looking prospective and the
latter looks backward, Consider Jefferson
and the Louisiana Purchase and Seward
md Alaska. They were great"
Metaphor and sinile and straight-from-
vVnN tor Nau
used by the speakers to carry the point
that the high ideals fostered In New Eng
land were felt and would be felt further
IN the nation and In world affairs In New
ENGLAND was started the fire OF freedom
that swept across the continent TO the Pa
eihcs In the rock-rbbed soil OF New Eng
land was the foundation OF representative
government; deep-rooted there were the
howering Ideals OF the home. education.
ssateEmanahip. business and religion
Humor flashed from the lips or the
speakers and famed up bursts OF laughter
throughout the ballroom, green with holly
and Vermont spruce and cleaning red and
sold. In his Whimsical homely way OF
driving home his thought. Mr. Bede pre-
dieted national prohibition.
Some folks say that Maine Is State"
he declared gravely. Others think It Is a
condition. But want to say that the con-
dltion is spreading and pretty soon the
rest OF the country will be in the same con-
eltion"
The dinner was pegun ualf an hour late.
due TO Doctor Taft's train being late when
the former President arrived. breathless.
smiling and seemingly In the best Of New
England health the assemblage arose TO
its feet and applauded him.
After the Rev. Or. Floyd w, Tomkins.
ehaplain OF the society. had prayed for
world peace In his invocation, Mr.. Curtis
briefly outlined the purpose OF the dinner
and lauded the New Englander.
~ uoIa asaH bnF ri
he said, and then came the first dash OF
humor that jollihed the dinner, I'VE
landed on rock; we sprung from rocky
soll and we have been throwing rocks ever
since. And we think that we have made
something of a dent on the Quakers.
What have we contributed 10 Phila-
delphiR2 A long line of our hardy race
rom BENJAMIN Franklin to Alba Johnson
ana more than that When ! came TO
Philadelphia from Boston forty years ago l
found that Philadelphia didn't know beans
Now II has real beans. and also Pile In
commerce. art, literature and music we
hase helped 20 make Philadelphia great
Asw York Is merely big"
New Englanders have made the Phila-
delphia Orchestra one OF the finest In the
Norid. he said.
70 the country at large" continued Mr..
Curtis, my own native city has given Long
fellow Tom Reed. william Pitt Fessenden,
winston Churchill. Robert Peary and Neal
Dow. the father OF prohibition that We are
Rearing 80 much Of now and which doesn't
pFohlbit; but II wasn't his fault"
Here Mr.. Curtis declared that dsrespect
foF law by disregard OF enforcement Is one
e the most serious menaees 70 our republ-
san Institutions
Either enforce or repeal" was HIS ulti-
natum
ne New Englander, he continued has
sken the Quaker the spirit OF aggressive
hsaa. hearty cooperation In good works and