Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-02
President Harding'S Tribute To Pilgrims
At Tercentenary Celebration at Plymouth of Landing of the Pilgrims.

american freedom, was re-dedlcated by President Harding today as symbol of real human brotherhood" for all the world.
 Speaking at the tercentenary celebra- tion of the larAing of the Pilgrims, the president declared his fervent hope that the principles of toleration and liberty for which the fathers crossed the Allan tic might soon awake a new world era in which peace and understanding would be assured among the nations. He re- ferred in particular to the nations ef- fort toward disarmament, asserting his faith that the movement would sue ceed.
 With his tribute to the Pilgrims MT. Harding linked a eulogy to the achieve ments of the Enslish-s speaking race ev- erywhere and declared he was convinced that the mission of the race would en- compass even greater things than it had yet accomplished. The leadership of the English speaking peoples in the present world crisis. he said, could not be denied nor doubted by any one.
 The presidents address, delivered within a few hundred feet of the spot where Plymouth Rock has been en- closed in iron palings to preserve it for posterity was part of an anniversary celebration In which Vice President
 
 of state and nation participated. Sev- eral thousands heard and cheered him. breaking down police lines to crowd about the speakers stand and get near CT to him. and overwhelming him with applause wherever he went.
 Earlier in the day he headed and reviewed parade of civic, military and naval organizations, through the his toric streets of Plymouth. and tonight he witnessed the tercentenary pageant re- producing the landing of the Pilgrims. With Mrs. Harding and party of | friends, the president reached Ply mouth from Washington shortly before noon on his yacht Mayfiower. named for the Pilgrim ship which entered this harbor under such widely different cir cumstances three hundred years ago. Three battleships and six destroyers , formed an escort for the Mayfiower of today. She was welcomed by a boom 1 ing of the presidential salute from a battery ashore while British cruiser the Cambrian. dipped her sfg at her anchorage just outside Plymouth har- Dor
 Ashore a troop of cavalry formed a presidential guard of honor and many organizations including a unit of British marines from the Cambrian, marched iF | the parade which passed in review be fore MT. Harding and his party. Botf lunch and dinner were taken privately by the party. and at the pageant to- night they occupied special box al guests of honor
 The presidents hope that Plynoutl Rock might become a shrine for al
 free nations was echoed in brief ad
 dresses by William H. De Beafort
 charge of the Dutch legation at Wash ington, and Captain Sydney H. Bayley
 naval attache of the British embass!
 thgre. Vice President Coolidge. who
 was not subjected to deliver an address
 satisfied the demands of the throng b!
 speaking briefly Secretary of Wa
 Weeks also had a place in the speaker
 stand.
 The exercises, indeed. were turned in
 to an old home week celebration whel
 at the word of the chairman that the
 were to be closed the crowd ci&lec
 loudly for Vice President Coolidge, Sen
 ator Lodge, Major General Clarence F
 Edwards and Secretary Weeks. Presi
 dent Harding first brought to the iron
 personally the senior senator fror
 MaSsac achusetts.
 Senator Lodge in brief remarks re
 ferred to the fact that he was the ora
 tor at the formal tercentenary exercise
 here on December 2l, Iasr. He com
 mented on the early Americanism of tn
 Pilgrims, pointing out that once the
 had set foot in the new country the had cut loose from virtually all ties , the old and had begun to love America notwithstanding it was wilderness, an to build for the future.,
 The crowd again and again demande
 to hear Vice President and MT. Coolidg
 also was escorted by the president to tn speakers place. He remarked that ht too, spoke here last December and sai , he had nothing to add to the president . words today or to his own references a that time to the meaning of the pilgrim
 to this country.
 Again the exercises were called to close, but the crowd would not have i ,, They clamored for the appearance c General Edwards. The general came for ward and said it gave him much pleasur ;, to be here because some months ago tn vice president had said that although h |, was neither a prophet nor the son of
 prophet, he would predict that Genera Edwards would be back in New Englan in command before many moons ha passed
 am here" General Edwards observed adding that he attributed the fact [
 the presence in Washington of men fror
 Massa chusetts, "conspirators" he terme 5 them, whose activities win the presider of the United States" had brought hir back to his 'fellow-Y Tanks, who like tn Pilgrims, have never gone back" } The prolongation of the exercises cr
 short the half hours rest which the pres
 dent had planned and he rad barely tim . for dinner before returning to Cole r Hill to watch the pageant
 c Leaving late tonight aboard the Ma! f flower, the president and his party e, = pect to reach Portland, Me, tomorro : morning, and theCe take automobile
 for Lancaster, N. H., where they vi
 spend the remainder of the week res s ing at Secretary Weeks place and sigh ', seeing among the White Mountains. }. At Portland, Mir. Harding probabl - will stop long enough to make a sho n talk from the steps of the city hall. - It was pageant Of high lights ar
 striking color that the president watcht
 tonight olI the land and water stage ( d the Plymouth shore. Added to the spe e tacular setting were the searchiights - the battleship fleet as they p.ay6d aero 0 Cape Cod bay.
 f President Harding and his par- l. leaned forward from their rear be
 seats to catch the voice from the roc
 prologue of the pageant, as it proclaim. 0 with no person visible, "of me, the roc ,- in the ooze they have made corne L stone of the republic"
 f They maintained their interest, to 5, through the succeeding spectacle of vi n ing adventure, non-conforming churC
 folk, harried by King James-pilgrin
 leaving an old world and landing in F new-with wash days. compact signin n, treaty making with the Indians and ru e ming out of radicals