Arizona republican., 1920-12-22

ard the Indian school battalion brought | up the rear.
 Dr. Patton made his first address of the day to the Kiwanis club at the '. M. C. A. at noon. He was next heard at the high school at 1:45 o'clock in the afternoon, when he addressed more than 1000 students.
 pr. Pstton's Address
 His principal address of the day was at the high school auditorium last evening, when he said in part;
 Three hundred years ago a weather beaten band of English men and wom- en landed at Plymouth, in what is now Massachusetts. No other body of men and women, irrespective of numbers, wealth or learning, ever landed on any shore whose landing made so great difference to history. This year and this day, therefore, are sacred to the Pilgrims.
 ''But the immigration of the Pilgrims was the first of series of immigra- tions which peopled Massachusetts with Englishmen. I shall give prece- dence to the Pilgrims and tell their stsry at greater length.
 ''In 1906 some English men and wom- en began to hold religious services in a chapel in the town of Scrooby. It was not much of a town. The men and women who met there were not many not more than 50 or 50. They were come cutters from the Church of Eng land. But there was not one rich man among them.
 These folks professed to have a church of their own. But they had no prayer book, no surplices. no bishops. They just got together and read the Bible and sang the psalms and listened to one of their number talk. People around Scrooby finally became sus- picious of them, pried into their af- fairs and made life uncomfortable for them. But it was not that the Scrooby folks bothered them so much. nor that the interference of the Established church was so intolerable. These folks had an idea of their own. They wanted to build a church on the New Testament model-no bishops, no priests, no ritual, no king at the head of it--just 8 group of pious people get ting together to worship and running their own affairs. It couldn't be done in England.
 Pilgrims Get Ship After a short trial in Holland they began to discuss America. Ships went frequently from England and Holland caught fish off the Grand Banks traded with the Indians and came back to the old country with their cargoes Why could not they do something like that?
 "Deacon John Carver and Robert Cushman went to England to get charter from the Virginia company 1 But what was a charter good for with out a ship to go in, or money 10 gs with?
 At last Thomas Weston of Londor agreed to furnish them money. TheA bought the Speedwell. Cushman hat lreturned to England to make final ar lrangements The capitalists demanded a greater return than they had at flfs agreed to, with result that neariA half of those pledged to make the trlI backed out.
 ..The capitalists finally fitted out th' Mayflower. She was to meet th' Speedwen in the Channel and the tw' ships were to cross the Atlantic to gether. ,-o.
 ",rhe Speedwell was no good-leake' l and was mended and leaked again, ant was finally abandoned. So her passen gers were finally transferred 10 lh Mayflower and the voyage started.
 Voyage No Picnic
 s'The Mayflower was stAuhch a-l' sound, but her 65 days voyage was e1o n, nicnic She sailed on Sept. D. 1oze with 102 passengers on board, A men 1e women and 39 boys and girls. n n | fare during the trip was mostly con lunch. o,,o s.Tn mid-ocean a great storm broke ! Tho messengers were imprisoned pc low On Nov. g they sighted lano The sailors identified is at Cape COG They were a long way from the nortn ern part of Virginia, for whlch the had started. Their charter was Voie Nov. 21. they anchored off FroViilee .,s town. The men went ashore. Not LII righ+ n1ace again. Too much sand l too ,,,i,ch swamp. With the womel and children and some of the me sin on the Mayflower in ProVince E town harbor. IS men sailed away ID E shallon to ind the right place-go into Plymouth harbor, with the mas of the shallop gone. x. syrhe first year was a bad one. Sl of the colony died in December, elgf in January, IT in February, lS March-just half or the colony sus \ cumbs in the first year. Out of th 51 persons left only 23 were grow H ups. Sometimes only six or seve were we'll at one time. They made th N graves in the night and trample down well before daylight, so as not show to the Indians.
 "Then in the autumn a fine harves \ and the first Thanksgiving the
 pulled through the first year. Elect First Governor \ William Bradford, who had been
 boy of IS in Scrooby, was elected gov
 ernor. and from that time till he die \ in 1857, he was governor most of u \ time, and when not governor was fir N assistant.
 "The Fortune came in 1921 ar k brought new colonists, but no foo \ The Anne came two years later, bl k brought only food enough for her ow N passengers Tn 1923 they were close \ starving. Then things began to men X the year 1927 being a sort of turnir K point.
 Up till this time the Pilgrims ha
 been practically alone in New Eng K land. Now, in 1928, began the settle \ ment of Englishmen in large number But the credit belongs to the Pilgrim
 for they had demonstrated that \ group of Englishmen could come these shores without capital, witho
 equipment. head over heels in del \ without knowledge of the kind of Ii
 they would have to live or. the Xii
 of work they would have to do. "When that was demonstrated, tht
 there arose all over England and Fl rope a perfect craze to come to Anne ica. But because Englishmen h; done it. the civilization of this ne ' world was to be. not French, nor Spa ish nor Portuguese, but English.
 "The Pilgrims were the ones wi t did it. They had to build a town L 9