New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-03
Call Is Issued
For Pilgrims
TercentenarY
s,,,oraye Institution Asks
Schools, Churches and
Organizations Through
ont u. S. to Celebrate
pageants Are Suggested
ob.eryances to Begin July
20 Concentrating Two
Events of Colonial Days

r, q, address to the American people,
=. su,crave Institution, which has
"a. ,,rsr.ers at 1908 Woolworth Build
~ invites towns and cities throughout
-. United States to take part in the
W 4,.,r.,;cn of the tercentenarv of the
-, of the Pilgrim Fathers and the
lan s.;rs Of the first American Legis-
lstive Assembly. Inc celeofa'ion pe
s'TTSs address of the Sulgrave institu-
80, which is signed by a large num-
.lv", - nrominent men and women, was
p.i ,s nsblic Yesterday. 1t reads:
nav Wars resction, universal absorption
:. hus;ness and work Of reconstruction
u. ...u, to have made Americans less re-
s~rjfuI Of primary things-things OF
sss,rc:ple. tradition and heritage-which
YY.iste 10 the foundation upon which the
ifn;tsd States Of America rests.
ar 90 happens that the year 1920 is
aorhlv significant historically, in that
Sa9 Years ago, beginning the 30th Of
isst iuly. there was being held in James
.ovn Virginia Colony, the first Ameri-
~n legislative Assembly. called by free
Non Of lawful age and Of full under
standing.
Pilgrims Leave Holland
sand while these first Americans
we're instituting self-government on
the American continent, a little group
n English humble folk who during
Twelve years sojourn in Holland. to
which they had fed from Britain to be
free to worship God in the manner Of
which their conscience approved, was
already making ready to 60 to America
and establish in the New World home
Of religious freedom.
$50 one year after the Virginians had
met in Assembly-july 80, 1620-theSe
men and women and children of the Pill
grim band left Leyden for Delfshaven,
from which thew were to sail for Amer
lea by way of Southampton and Plym-
outh in the mother country.
"By one of those strange condolences
which sometimes seem to set aside GER
,sin days and endow them with tradi-
.ional significance, July 80 and Novem-
Der II take on such an endowment
for July 80 joins Cavalier and Pilgrim
together as twin sources of that high
inspiration which met in the Conven-
ton Of the Great Constitution; and
November II is not only the anniver-
ssry day of the Mayfower Compact,
the second assumption by English
colonists in America Of an unalienable
right of self-government, but is also
the memorable day of the beginning of
: that armistice which closed the great
wal, in which the descendants of Pill
grim and Cavalier and their kin across
seas fought and won together.
Fight on Radicals Vital
Therefore the year 1920, being an
historic anniversary year-as we'll as
the fifth year of overmuch dangerous
propaganda, false counsel and loose
statement by public characters-it
would seem to be vitality essential that
there should be brought to the con-
'elousness of the American people in a
great national celebration the meaning
and the priceless worth of our free in
stltutions; and that Americans every
where should challenge with these free
Institutions Of the English-speaking
world the false principles and vicious
practices Of the extreme radical and
all those who would conspire against
orderly government and the Ameri-
can wellbeing.
Therefore, we, the undersigned,
representing organizations having a
membership of many millions of men
and women, urge and invite the people
Of the United States of America to
JON, as free born, free bred and self
governed citizens may do and always
nave done, in celebrating, each locality
n the way 1t deems best, beginning
.ahe 4, 1920, their own free institu-
uoas; and to give grateful recognition
Tue great fact that these institutions
were established in America by the
lashers that from generation to gen.
tasen they have been transmitted.
strengthened and unimpaired, down to
n rIls the sixth generation since 1776,
Snlcn must in its own turn hand over
~ succeeding generation these same
tn.imlltutions, so laboriously and pain
.a!ly conceived, and with 50 much sac
noce maintained.
,, we oTer as suggestion for a pro-
ram son public meetings, special instrue-
. ,tvu IN the public schools, universal
, "a TN service, local pageants relating
syom me North, South, East and West
NU S~ earliest times, etc.
Will holland, Great Britain and Canada
.o m. also celebrate through peonIe's
.ina aa,s and will send representa-
i,s ueiegatlons to take part In carrv-
As cut popular American n.o~r..', >,