Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-12-21
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~SAAS 49, 1AA ~ i
Concentrating Pur.
itan Arrival ]
Plymouth. Mass, Dec, ). 21,--on
the shore of Plymouth bay, where
the breaking waves dashed high !
when the Pilgrims set tooth on Ply
mouth rock December 21, 1920
| their descendants Joined with other
| distinguished men of this genera
| ton in America, Great. Britain and
Holland in Observing. today with
| due solemnity the tercentenary of
| their landing. The. orator was Sem
| ater Henry Cabot Lodge, a suc-
cessor in representation in the
| senate from Massa chusetts of Dan
| iel Webster, who delivered the
| famous plymouth Oration" at the
two hundredth anniversary.
Special Poem Read.
An address was delivered by
Governor Calvin Coolidge, vice
president elect. and a poem, 1920
1920" was read by Dean LeBaron
r. Briggs of the faculty of arts and
sciences of Harvard university.
Hymns appropriate to the occa
sion were sung, including the
Landing of the Pilgrims by Mrs
Felicio Hemans, known to every
American school boy. and girl for
| generations.
Senator Lodge gave scholarly
outline of the Pilgrims story and in
drawing from it lesson for pres
ent day America he pointed out
that they set character first,
south to give men freedom both
in body and mind, and tried to
reduce the sum of human misery
"Whatever our faith" !" he said
"whatever our belief in progress
there can be no nobler purposes foi
man than thus to deal with the
only earth he knows and the frag
ment of time awarded him here
While the great republic is true II
heart and deed to the memory o.
the pilgrims of Plymouth it viii
take no detriment even from th'
hand of time
Puritan Creed Rccited.
In stately measures Dean Brlgg
set forth the vision of the Pilgrims
and their prayerful determination
/, 'Fredom thy newborn nation her
shall cherish;
. Grant us thy covenant, unchang
ing, sure;
Earth shall decay; the firmamen
! shall perish; -.
Freedom and truth, immorta
shall endure"
The answer of their descendant
: to this challenge came in thes
= words
"The Pilgrims faith the Pilgrim
courage grant us;
Still shines the truth that for tn
Pilgrim shone,
We are His seed; nor life, no
death shall daunt us.
The port is freedoms pilgrir
heart, sail on!
The official party came froI
: Boston on a special train and pre-
e ceeded Immediately to the Ol
f Colony theatre where the exercise
it were held. In their number WEI
: official representatives of Grei
IS Britain and Holland, several Ne
England governors, members of II
l. New England judiciary, Senate
: oscar ". Underwood of Alaban
l. and members of patriotic societie
If Lodge Is Speaker.
Ie Senator Lodge touched upon 'ti
d peevish, meaningless objection
l. that if the great men of history hs
r not accomplished the specific dee
N attached to their names "somebo'
10 else would have done all the
a things" and continued:
"The might have. beens have
claim to celebration. That whit
alone is entitled to this high hon
is what was The actual deed al
the men who did the deed whi'
breaks the horizons level line n
RI those who did not do it, even
they thought about it, alone d
serve honor, reverence and cor
u memoration.
ar "Can we. then justly place VIII
a happened here at Plymouth and {
/ men and women to whom we OF
KS the great act, in the SMALL hi
70 class of decisive events due to t
NJ actual doors of great deeds? Clea
o. Iv. | think we can
ne Early struggles Reviewed.
~ The senator sketched briefly {
II early struggles of the Pilgrims a
ny went on:
1T is clearer than anything el
OF those who look into it with &C
siderate eyes, that these men,
rd leaders especially, had profou
n consciousness that they were
lal gagged in vastly greater task II
NJ establishing a colony. They felt
he the depths of their being that Il
,r- were laying the foundation Of
nd ernpire-of a mighty nation. II
It which counted then and has eou
ed ever since was that they set
. ,piritual above the material.
They never for nom
thought that life and its myster
could be expressed in econoi
rerms. which seems If not aetua
avowed. to be~the tendency am'