Norwich bulletin., 1920-11-18
WESTERLY

Rev. Samuel NJ Catheart, a former pastor of the Pawcatuck Congregational church. now retired, presided at the big meeting in the town hall, Wednesday night in celebration of the Pilgrim ter centenary. The event was under the joint auspices of the Westerly Histori- cal society and the Westerly Board of Trade. The British and American view points were presented by a former mem her of parliament P. Whitwell Wilson, correspondent of the London Daily News, and Rev. J. Percival Huget. D. D.. pas or of Tompkins Avenue Congregational church, Brooklyn. x. Y.
 MT. Wilson said in his address: The great issue which confronts you in Amer ica today is whether the ideal of the Msyhower is to continue in your schools and colleges and in your lives. or be swept aside by the tide of immigration from those countries where the May flower is little known.
 There Is not a church, nor chapel, now Q cathedral in England he said, where your country with it's boundless possibil- ties for the future is not held in high. appreciation and honor. Three hundred years is long time. During that time you have grown to full manhood with responsibility to the world and oppor- tunity to come to the relief of distressed humanity.
 "The faith of the Mayhower has grown slowly from precedent to precedent. Three hundred years aTo there was not a single republic in existence, save per hans Holland. Now there are but few nionarchies and in two of these. England and Italy. the form of government is democratic. The theory of the divine rights of kings against which the Pil- Erims protested survives today only in Japan, so great was the force of the deals of the Pilgrims.
 Tn this great country. which the Pil- -rims founded. people of all nationali- ties and creeds have found a safe refuge. They have found political freedom and freedom of conscience. l take it that You are here tonight to dedicate your lives 10 the ideai of the Pilgrims. The deal Of the Pilgrims was not merely that of freedom Of conscience. but was also the ideal of service. You are the rich est country in the world. The question is not what are you going to get but what are you going to give"
 Rev. Dr. Huge.. ~ho spoke on the coming of the Pilgrims to Plymouth from he American point of view, said in sub stance. The voyage of the Pilgrims was part of that uprising on the part of man. kind 10 gain political freedom and free dom Of conscience. At that time, three hundred years ago. there came that great shifting of the worlds political center of gravity, from the centre of the Latin peo- pie near the Mediterranean to the cen ire of the English-speaking world. The leadership of the AnElo-Saxon peoples founded upon the principles of scripture started al that time. This observance commemorates the unity of English speaking people on both sides of the wa ter.
 "Ahove all things else for the future of mankind there must be sympathetic un- derStandinE and human cooperation in spirit and in deed between the peoples of America and England Unless this CO., operation is established there is grave danger of the world falling into a great CT darkness than ever before"
 Pleasing musical selections were given hy the Ashaway trio Miss Maude Briggs violin. Mrs. Mary H. C. Crandall cello and Miss Mildred Taylor, pianist. Hymns were sung by the assemblase.
 The committee in charge was the offi. cers of the Westerly Historical society and the Westerly Beard of Trade, the ministers. and Hiss Julia E. Smith and Eugene E. Pendleton.
 Mer. than three hundred broadsides
 
 l.. Shapley to the Rhode Island Histori cal society. are exhibition in Frovi- dence. They range from poetry to pom ferrous proclams' 'on from scandal tc Washington cou [ humor, writes w. A Macdonald in lne Boston Transcript There is poetry as good as The Battle of StoninEton. and as bad as the call 10 vote for Andrew Jackson. There are broad sides bout he Dorr war-a Rhode Isl. and affair in 1s42 in which someone was accidentally shot-and others about thu notorious minister Ray Potter, who pub icly announced that he would spend thu est Of his life in confession, having spent most of if in sin. Here is the las verse Of The Battle of Stonington, an in cident of the war of 1872:
 Such was the valor on that day
 Of British tars at Stoningtor.
 But some assert on certain grounds, Besides the damage and the wounds tt cost their king ter thousand pounds
 To have dash at stonington.
 Curiousiy the illustration of a soldie at the top of this poem was used thirty