Arizona republican., 1920-03-02
WELSH OF PHOENIX DINE ID CELEBRATE
 q. DAVID FESTIVAL

There were gathered last night the Cecongi and the Ordovices. the Silures and the Dimetae. They had come from Gynedd and from Gwent; from Owed and from Powys; from that vast terri tory extending from Cardiff to Holy head and from St. Gowans to Llanfyl- lin They had come from all those towns and districts with unpronounce- able names invented by the linotype operators of the early centuries-Mer- thyr, Tydvil, Llanelly, Llandrissant, Pontypridd and Llandudno, Etaoin- shrdlu and other puzZling combina- tions of the alphabet.
 The occasion was the celebration of the festival of St. David, the patron saint of Wales, lived in the seventh century and was canonized in the thirteenth. His day is always celes brated on March l. The local Welsh society within the last half dozen years has grown in numbers until the members would constitute a rather imposing population.
 The day was celebrated by ban quet given at the American Kitchen by the Phoenix Welsh Society of the Lloyd George Society of Arizona. The local society consists of about 65 mem bers of a population of not less than 150 in the city eligible, to membership. The banquet room was appropria tely decorated with the banner of Wales, the great Welsh dragon. and tlere were the banners of the society and a portrait of the British premier and of Governor Campbell, who with Mrs. Campbell, were the guests of honor.
 brief but interesting speaking pro- gram had been arranged, and beside that a musical program, for the Welsh of all ages have excelled in music. Among the singers was John R. Jones, with a marvellous voice and one which has received elaborate training Mir. Jones has had the honor of singing before George V. Professor Wendell Jones, who for some months has been prominent in Phoenix musical circles, was at the piano.
 The guests were seated at S:30 o'clock The governor and Mrs. Campbell arrived soon after. w. Ward Davies, president of the society, was the toastmaster. In his address he re- cited the love which welshmen in all parts of the world hold for their he said. the Welshmen of America, while abating none of their love for Wales, feel an equal love for America. The growth of the society of Phoenix, said MT. Davies. was indicative of the great growth of Phoenix. for it was only in cities of considerable size that enough Welshmen were collected to- gether for the organization of such a society.
 The address of Governor Campbell NdS lioSl elOqQcHl lIibulc lO lilt sturdiness of character of the Welsh their good citizenship and their hon esty. Few in numbers, he said, they might be. as compared with other transplanted populations, but they had been in America great in brain and work.
 There was an address by J. B. Lod- wick in which he reviewed the immi- grafton of the Welsh to America with in his own time, and he spoke of the beautiful customs of their native land that had been preserved and the in fluence of religion that had been main tained over them.
 The last address of the evening was by H. A. Davis on the character of Lloyd George
 Between the speeches there were songs in Welsh by J. R. Jones and by a quartet consisting of hims f. Rich ard Jones, Mir. Thomas and Prof. Wen dell Jones.
 The guests of the evening were: Governor and Mrs. Campbell, Mir. and Mrs. w. Ward Davies, Mrs. J. H. Null rein. Mir and Mrs. J. B. Lodwick, MT. and Mrs. Dan Jones. Mir. and Mrs. Leauk, $. l.. Evans and Miss Evans. Mrs. George H. MacBean, Mir. and Mrs. George Griffith, T. H. Harris, Prof. Wendell Jones. Richard Jones. John Rees, Miss Burk, J. H. Chapple, w. w. Edwards, Mir. and Mrs. John Thomas. Mrs. Katherine Bennett and Elias Williams.