The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-01
President Is Greeted By
Thousands at the Land .
ing Place of Pilgrims

by the United States may bring to the
world a new era of peace and freedom
was expressed by President Harding to-
| day in an address here at the tercente-
nary of the landing of the Pilgrims. Char
acterizing the international situation as
more than promising" the President as
serted that the seed of common tolerance
and understanding planted by the fathers
| here was beginning to bear fruit thou
sand fold in the relations between ma
! tiOnS.
! ~ new hope looms today said the
/ President. we are slowly but very
surely recovering from the waste and
sorrows and utter dsarrangement of our
| cataclySmic war. Peace Is bringing its
new assurances and penltent realization
and insistent conscience will preserve
that peace. Our faith is firmer that wars
/ causes may be minimized and over-bur
dening armament may be largely dimin-
1 iShed and these too without surrender
of the nationality which has inspired or
the good conscience which has defended.
The international prospect is more
than promising and the distress and OPP
preston at home are symptOmatlc OF
early recovery. Solvent financially,
sound economically. unrivaled in genius,
uneXcelled in industry, resolute in deter
mination and unwavering in faith, these
United States will carry on"
In the course of his speech Mr.. Harding
praised the part religious freedom and
other New England traditions had played
in the development of the nation. He also
took occasion to deplOre the common ten
dency to concentrate governmental au-
thOrity in Washington and To reaffirm
his faith in religion as an essential ele
ment of good government.
Just as the Pilgrims had a practical
s,1iY fgs .9s.1
pursuit of their higher ideals so must we
use our inheritance" the President said
our inheritance" the President said
Just as these fathers drew together to-
ward ample community authority to make
the nation and still preserve the freedom
I OF those who compose it, so must we
guard against the supreme Capitalization
of power at home and the super state for
the world. We must combat the menace
IN the growing assumption that the state
must support the people for Just govern
ment Is merely the guarantee to the peo-
pie of the right and opportunity of Gods
people to support themselves. The one
outstanding danger of today is the ten
dency to turn to Washington for the
things which are the tasks or the duties
OF the H cOmmOnwealthS which conSti-
tute the nation. Having wrought the ma
ton as the central power of preservation
and defense let us preserve it so.
1itIt NdS the early ueulcaIl0n TO re-
hglouS liberty and political freedom 1t
was a sublime gift to posterity. We can
not better express our reverence today
than by sweeping aside the errors. the
failures, the diSappOintments. the betray-
ais of our day and plant here for all
America and all the world the standards
of highest justice and real human broth
erhood: This would add to the volume
OF rejoicing on earth and give echo to the
heavens of the nObler aspirations of
united mankind. 1t would dim no torch
OF liberty which was lighted here. but
would set the world aglow with new
nope, new confidence and new exaltation."
Presidents Arrival.
Another Mayfower came to Plymooth
Soday, this one Athe presidential yacht,
! bringing President Harding and an off
cial party to join in formal observance of
the Inc tercentenary of the landing of the
PIlgrIms The Mayfower passengers of
! 3oo years ago landed on a wild coast
marked only by Indian trails Those of
TO-DAY made landings to an official well
| come in scenes that offered striking
contrast with those that faced the fa-
| thers
Through the streets of the town
streamed thousands of persons, 100000
| being one estimate Governors, lesser
officials. men of high social degree and
Jhose OF labor, formed in a eolorfuI pa
rade, in which were direct descendants
or both the first settlers and of the
friendly Indians, with whom they lived
IN peace. In this parade the President
himself took part both as participant
and reviewer
The parade and other incidents served
to set the scene for the principal fea-
ture OF the commemoration program
including public exercises beginning at
p. m. at which President Harding was
to deliver his only speech of the day
and his only set address of the summer
For this he had as a settino a great
! crescent bank of stands seating lOO00
facing the open sea and with its north
erly tip resting almost on Plymouth
rock
On the seas face. thus exposed stood
the battleships, Pennsylvania North
Hakota and Delaware rising in the bay
and the British cruiser Cambrian at an
chor inside Gurnet Point itself looming
u? like battleship in the distance.
Big Parade
The President with his official party
was welcomed at the dock BY a dele
cation headed by William KYLE. chair
man of the Plymouth tercentenary com
mittec. backed by New England COVER
: nors. Mr.. Kyle pinned on the Presi
dents lapel a gold badge carrying with
, 1t the freedom of the town.
, President Harding then presented the
( medals to the New BcdTord school chill
) dren with a broad smile and a ''Well,
| Manuel | congratulate you on having
: won this medal or 'Rose. / am
uleased to see that you have mastered
the English language -; as he gave