Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-12-21
TER ] ! E 'E||llAR|Y' | !
CELEBRATION
IN PLYMOUTH
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
Is Principal Speaker
at Ceremonies. iSI

Plymouth, Mass. Dec 21.-On the
shore Of Plymouth Bay, where "the
breaking waves dashed high" when
the Pilgrims set foot on Plymouth
descendants joined with other dis
tinguished men of this generation in 4.
America. Great Brita III and Holland
In observing today with due so1emnity}
the tercentenary of their landing. The
orator was Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge, a successor in represenfatio
in the senate from Massachusetts, OF
Daniel Webster, who delivered the
famous Plymouth Grafton" at the
two hundredth anniversary. sls
An address was delivered by Cow
elect. and poem. 1920 1890, was
read by Dean LeBaron r. Briggs ~
the faculty of arts and sciences oe
Harvard university. Hymns appro-
pirate to the occasion were sung, in-
Guiding the Landing of the Pill
grims' by Mrs. Felicia Henans.
known to every American school boy.
and girl for generations.
Senator Lodge gave a. scholarly Out-
line of the Pilgrim story and in
drawing from it lesson for present
edS AhieIlCd Ic pOIUCCui OUT
they set character rst,'' Sought it4
give men freedom both in body and
mind and tried to reduce the sum
! of human misery" 8sss'
] Whatever our faith he said.
whatever our belief in prOgresS.
there can be no nobler purposes for
man than thus to deal with the only
earth he knows and the fragment of
j time awarded him here. While the
great republic is true in heart and
deed to the memory Of the Pilgrims
of Plymouth it will take no detriment
even, from the hand Of time"
In stately measures Dean Briggs
set forth the vision of the Pilgrims
and their prayerful determination:
(! Freedom Thy newborn nation here
here shall cherish;
| Grant us Thy covenant, unchang-
! ing. sure:
Earth shall decay; the armament
shall perish;
Freedom aud Truth, in1n,orta!
! shall endure" s35
The answer of their descendants to
this challenge came in these words:
The Pilgrims faith, the Pilgrims 3
courage grant us;
Still shines the truth that for the
i Pilgrim shone. tss
\ We are his seed. not life nor death
\ shall daunt .us. Z 4. \, NJ KS
i The port is Freedomsss Pilgrim
1 Heart ~ ill on = ~ 5s II :Ss5. -
1 Arrived from Boston.
I The official party came from Bos-
ton on 4 special train and proceeded
~ mir
ater, where the exercises were held.
In their number. in addition to the
speakers of the day. were official rep
resentatives of Great Britain and Hol-
land. several New England governors,
lmembers of the Ney England Judicial
Try. Senator Oscar W. Underwood Of
Alabama and members Of patriotic
societies, including the Society nf
Mayflower descendants. The presid-
| ing officer was Louis x. Liggett OF
!. Boston. chairman of the Massachu-
sets Pilgrim, Tercentenary commits
sion. w." 4
After the formal exercises the
guests of the day were entertained at
luncheon. The remainder of the day
they gave over to pilgrimage to
Plymouth Rock. the Coles Hill Bury
ing Ground and other parts of the
town intimately connected with the
j, Pilgrims history. t5ss ~
Senator Lodge touched upon .'the
peevish, meaningless objection thar
if the great men of history had not
accomplished the specific deeds at
tached to their names Somebody else
would have done all these things" and
continued
''The might have beens' have no
claim to celebration. That which
alone is entitled to this high honor. il
what was The actual deed and the
men who did the deed which breaks
!. the horizons level linc,' not those who
) did not do it. even if they thought
) about it. alone deserve honor. rever.
fence and commemoration. EI
Can we. then, justly place what
happened here at Plymouth. and ths
men and women to whon1 we owe the
sreat act. in the small. high class OF
decisive events due to the actual
Idoers Of great deeds? Clearly; think
Il we can. jamestown and Plymouth
were the cornerstones of the founda-
tions upon which the great fabric df
the United States has been built up.
Tells OF Struggles.
i The senator sketched briefly the
, Pilgrims and went on: 4 rs rs
d "It is clearer than anything else,
to those who look into it with con-
siderate eyes. that these men,, the
leaders especially. had "a profound
consciousness that they were engagsH
in a vastly greater task than establish
ing colony. They felt in the depths
of their being that they were layiMtdl
the foundation of an empire-ofI & q i
mighty nation. " as 81
The underlying and the lasting
causes, which made the action of the
= Pilgrims decisive event in history
81 ~ ~. 49, rhn<a n. Se,N