The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-02
PLYMOUTH ROCK REDEDICATED BY. PRESIDENT HARD|Ne..
)eIivers Address Few FosS dred Feet of Spot WFos Rock Has Been Encks
 By Iron Palirsr
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Plymouth. Mass, Angus l,-Ply-
 houth Rock. for three centuries a
 kndmarks of American freedom, was
 ededicated by President Harding to-
 lay as symbol of real human
 motherhood" for all the world.
 Speaking at the tercentenary ce1e-
 ration of the landing of the Pilgrims,
 he President declared his fer
 ent hope that the principle of
 oleration and liberty for which
 UT fathers crossed the Allan
 ic might soon awake new world era in which peace and under
 handing would be assured among the
 ations. He referred in particular to
 he nations effort toward disarna- nent, asserting his faith that the movement would succeed.
 With his tribute to the Pilgrims Mir. Harding linked eulogy to the Achievements of the English speak Ing race everywhere, and declared he was convinced that the mission of he race would encompass even great sr things than it had yet accom- |biished. The leadership of the English kpeaking peoples in the present world |crisis, he said, could not be denied |hor doubted by anyone.
 Presidents Address The Presidents address, delivered within a few hundred feet of the spot |where Plymouth Rock has been en- |closed in iron palings to preserve 1t |for posterity, was part of an anni- |versary celebration in which Vice President Coolidge and many other high officials of state and nation 
 Earlier in the day he had headed and reviewed a parade of civi. mili- tary and naval organizations through the historic streets of Plymouth and tonight he witnessed the tercentenary pageant reproducing the landing or the Pilgrims.
 With Mrs. Harding and a party of friends. the President reached Ply mouth from Washington shortly be- fore noon on the yacht Mayflower, named for the Pilgrim ship, which entered this harbor under such widely different circumstances 300 years ago. Three battleships and six destroyers formed an escort for the Mayflower of today. She was welcomed by booming of the presidential salute from a battery ashore, while BTU ish cruiser, the Cambrian, dipped her flag at her anchorage Just outside Plymouth hafbor.
 Troop of Cavalry
 Ashore 8 troop of calvary formed Presidential guard of honor and many organizations, including a unit or British marines from the Cambrian, marched in the parade, which passed in review before MT. Harding ana his party.
 The Presidents hope that Plymouth Rock might become shrine for all free nations was echoed in brief ad- dresses by William H. DeBeaufort, charge of the Dutch legation at Washington, and Capt. Sydney Bay lev. naval attache of the British em- bassy there. Vice President Coolidge, who was not scheduled to deliver an address. satisfied the demands of the throng by speaking briefly. Secre- tary of War Weeks also had a place in the speakers stand.
 The exercises, indeed, were turned into an old home week celebration when, at the word of the chairman that they were to be closed, the crowd called loudly for Vice Presi- don't Coolidge. Senator Lodge, Maj. Gen. c. R. Edwards and Secretary Weeks.
 Leaving late tonight aboard the Mavfliwer. the President and hls party expect to reach Portland, Me-. tomorrow morning and there take automobiles for Lancaster, N. H. where they will spend the remain der of the week at Sechetary Weeks, plare