The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1919-12-10

First Landed at Provlncetown.
When the Mayflower sailed into Ply.
mouth harbor it came from Province
town, 80 miles directly across Massa.
chusetts bay. where the hundred
hardy souls fleeing from religious per
| secution had already spent a month
/ ashore, where the Pilgrim Mothers
had done q tremendous washing after
two months at sea. with clean linen at
a premium; where Dorothy Bradford,
wife Of William Bradford, subsequent
~ governor of Plymouth colony, had
been drowned by falling from a boat
In the bay, and where-most note
worthy fact Of all--had been written
and signed in the cabin Of the May
flower what is known to the world as
the first purely democratic govern
ment ever produced, the Mayfowef
compact guaranteeing to jewellers an.
der the Pilgrim government equal
rights of living and being, no matter
what their standing may have been
in the past or what it might be in
the future. The compact was signed
on November II, 1920, just 800 years
to a day before the date OF The sign
ing of another great democratic doc.
trine, the armistice Of the world war
to make the world safe tor democ-
racy.
History tells us that the date Of
the landing Of the Pilgrims at
Provincetown and the date of the
compact is November 81. The discrep-
ancy is due to the ten days difference
between old style time and lev style
time. It was just one month later,
December IL, ole style, OF December
21, new style, that 1.-THE Mayflower
poked her nose around Duxbury Point
and headed for the shore.
So if Plymouth feels that the ter
centenary celebration should come to
her, she still realizes that the only
reason why she has the lions share of
the glory of the Historic event is
because Plymouth has always had a
better press agent than her small
rival across the bay.
Plymouth Claims Celebration.
The tercentenary celebration must
be held in Plymouth, say the adher-
ents of the mainland towns because
besides being the hi4torfcally &C
curate place where the Pilgrims
fought their fight against humiliation
and destruction, lit is mbre easily &C.
cessible and allaaround better suited
in every way. lit has more to show
the visitors TO the celebration, and
has a bigger reputation to draw them
to it. The celebration cannot be a
success m1ess:he here.
"The celebration must be held in
Provtncetown,," say the jewellers in
the Cape ;God% eliimant to the honor,
because .ths IL the true landing
place Of the Pilgrim Fathers. Here
they Terminated the terrible wintry
voyage and wwere able to get fresh
water and fresh food at the end Of
the "trip; :he1e theJ NpYa con- T
,Dartf ,untter vwhicbsnN gRerned the
I,rnlonv. tywrs from the.htl. on which
uav 1rdnus the Pilgrims memorial
Monument, that they first saw the
mainland, and it was here ttey spent
Ri month of recuperation befNre press
ing ahead to the West. And we nave
1.-THE monument to prove our claim"
Whether the celebration vii be held
here in Plymouth or in ProYncetown'
or whether it will be held q. all, are
still moot questions. and perhaps
the latter possibility is the lest solu-
ton of the problem. There Is still q
wear to decide, and some WY may De
found Of averting bloodshed in the ar
gument between the two dislutants Tor
anal honors in the 'Pilgrh Arrival
Stakes"