New-York tribune., 1920-09-30
Sui grave Ends
Memorial tn
Pilgrims Here
British, Canadian and
Dutch Tercentenary Del
egations Go To-day to
cetOn University
Lady Rathcreedan Speaks
Makes Strong Plea for
Anglo-American Friend
ship at Mass Meeting

-Four thousand persons attended the
patriotic mass meeting given by the
Sulgrave Institution and associated So
cletles last night in Carnegie Hall
The meeting was the conclusion of the
events in honor of the visiting British
Canadian and Dutch delegations to the
tercentenary celebration in this city of
the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers
To-day the visitors will be welcomed
at Princeton University, and beginning
October they will be the guests of
Norfolk and Virginia for a three-day
celebration.
Fathers drawing up the MayAower r
Compact and procaiming it was an
impressive feature of the meeting last
night. In the role of the Pilgrim
Fathers were Richart T. Leonhardt.
Edward Eoelker, Hobart Kells, Frank
Tegrum and Robert Mclaughlin Alton
B. Parker, chancellor of the Sulgrave
Institution, presided, and addresses
were made by Lady Rathcreedan, DR..
A. j. Rarnouw. of the Netherlands dele
cation; Raoul Dandurand, president of
Tucker, Samuel Gompers and II. S.
Perris.
English Woman's Plea
Lady Rathcreedan, the only woman
in the British delegation and the only
woman speaker on the evenings pro-
gram, appealed to her American sisters
to strive for the maintenance Of ami
cable relations between England and tn e
United States, and asked Americans of
both sexes to reject any thought of
distrust put forward by enemies of
England
I'VE learned many lessons during the
war, one Of them being that neither of
these two countries can get on without
the other, and another that neither of
the sexes can get along without the
other sex," Lady Rathcreedan said.
I'VE learned. too" she said, that
the great benefits of this life are love,
religion and science, and that no one
of these things belongs to one country
alone. They are international"
The women of America, now that
they had won the franchise, she de-
clared, must be prepared to shoulder
the burdens that are the voters re-
sponsibility.
If Americans, she said, could know
the extent that English people appre-
ciate the aid of America in the World
War, there would not be single criti-
cism leveled against England. Any one
who did deign to speak words against
her grateful country, she believed, was
of insignificant mental caliber.
If you understand this feeling of
England for America you viii! not per
nit a single breath against England "
the speaker concluded.
Mr.. Depew Speaks
Chauncey NJ. Depew presided at the
luncheon given to the Pilgrims ycstcr-
day at the Ritz-Carlton. He called at
IL, /
14,000OOO descendants of the Pilgrims
in this country had inherited from their
pioneer ancertors and expressed the
hope that this family reunion" might
be an indication of a more general
recognition of blood ties between Eng
land and the United States. He said,
in part:
There are 14,ooo,ooo of our people
who can claim kinship and descent
from these Plymouth cmigrants. You
will find that as a rule they own the
homes in which they live and arc pros
porous in the occupations which they
have adopted. If you will visit thou.
sand of thalr homes you will be well
coined as members of the family long
lost and lately returned. Each of th nse
households Will point With infinite
pride to a bureau, a table, a bedstead
or a vehicle of solid mahogany which
the ancestor brought over in the May
flower If You value your life do not
question the authenticity of this relic.
You may say to yourselves, we have
seen enough of these evidences of the
thrift Of the fathers to fill the Maure-
tania and the Aquitania, with enough
lett over for the Impe rator. and how
could it all have been slowed away in
the Mayhowc, Of seventy tons?'
But, my friends, the manufacturers
of Plymouth may have possessed three
hundred years ago an art Of compress
ing furniture for transportation which
must be included in the vast and la
mented category, The Lost Arts
Problem of Middle Ages
'1f you go to Plymouth you will find
the rock on which the Pilgrims landed.
1t has been taken out of the ocean and
planted in the public square, 80 that
you can stand on it, as did Miles Stan
dish ard Governor Bradford and Pris-
ella, and without wetting your feet,
but you can recall that the problem of
the monks of the Middle Ages whether
an angel could stand on the point of a
needle will be solved on the three hun
dredth anniversary Of the landing Of
the Pilgrims, when numbcrless millions
Of the spirits of those who lived and
re cjoiced and died in the Pilgrim faith
will stand without crowdJng on Plym
outh Rock.
The civilization and the liberties Of
the world are largely dependent upon
the union and friendship of English
speaking peoples. We got together and
made peace in 1915, and that has lasted
unbroken for one bundled and five
years. We got together again in 1920,