The mirror., 1920-08-26

Service. 1t is valuable both for informa-
tion and for reference.
"On November II, 1920, in the cabin of
the MayAower, tiny bark lying off the
Massachusetts, coast, little band of IL
berty-loving men entered into what his
tory has styled the MayAower Compact.
This agreement bound the forty-one adult
males in the ships company into a civil
body polite for the better ordering, pre-
serving and furthering of their mutual
ends. And it provided for such just and
equal laws and Offices as should be neces-
sary for the general good of the colony.
"Ten days later so records DR.. Charles
w. Eliot's inscription on the Pilgrim
Memorial Monument at Provincetown,
Massachusetts,, the MayAower, carrying
102 passengers, men and women and chill
dren, cast anchor in this harbor, 81 days
from Plymouth, England
"This body polite, established and
maintained on this bleak and barren
edge of vast wilderness, a state
without king or noble, church
without bishop or priest, a demo-
cratic commonwealth, the members of
which were straitly tied to all care of
each others good, and of the whole
by every one.
"With long suffering devotion and
sober resolution they illustrated for
the first time in history the principles
of civil and religious liberty and the
practice of genuine democracy.
"Meantime, uninformed of the Pilgrims,
fellow-colonists of Captain John Smith
had met at James City Uamestown),
Virginia, for the first American Legisla-
tive Assembly. On July 80, 1919, they had
thus broken ground for the foundation of
the present democratic form of govern
ment in the United States.
"This year 1920 these events are be-
ing commemorated in the United States,
in England, and in Holland. The origin
of the Pilgrim movement is being cele-
brated in England this month. And early
in September meetings will be held in
Holland in memory of the Pilgrims So
journ in that country.
"In September a second Mayhower'
will set sail from Southampton, England,
to follow to the American shore the path
taken by the original MayAower. But
this second Mayhower will be modern,
and therefore much more seaworthy than
her smaller predecessor. This boat, carry
ing many prominent people of England,
Holland, and the United States, will an
chor in Provincetown Harbor in late
September. Its arrival will perhaps mark
the crowning dramatic episode of the en-
tire Tercentenary celebrations.
"These events will not be celebrated in
the United States by the citizens of Mass
achusetts and Virginia alone. Nor sole
ly by the New England and South Allan
tic States. Communities throughout Amer
lea are planning to take this opportunity
to review the foundation upon which the
United States rests and to re-emphasize
those principles which these ancestors es-
tablished and which their sons, their fol-
lowers and their followers sons have
handed down to us through our form of
representative government.
"America is appropriating from Ma
tional and State treasures hundreds of
thousands of dollars to be used in plans for
the commemoration. One plan is to erect,
overlooking Plymouth Harbor, colossal
statue of Massasoit, the Indian chief who
befriended the Puritan pioneers. Another
is to set the Plymouth Rock, which in 1741
was raised above the tide, in its original
position.
Seventy American cities, including
New York, Chicago, and Boston, have
started plans for their celebrations of the
Tercentenary. The Sulgrave Institution
formed for the preservation of the Eng
land) and the American MayAower Coun-
Gil have been active in co-ordinating these
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