The Dolores star., 1924-11-21
ENG7sH1S GOING W CHL79CH
(Is~7tl1S By Souyheo-)

in the as the rocks in the sheep pastures
And, as the poet hath it
Een in the City Boston,
The home aof the Bean and the Cod,
Now the Lowells have o talk to
Since the Cabots speak Yiddish b'gad.
But the patriotic societies of the old Bay state
let out a roar of wrath and anguish. And when
the University of Rochester-New York and Mas
sachusetts always did have hard work to dwell to-
Sether In amity-announced that Plymouth Rock
mad come from Canada, the grand old Common
wealth got into action. Gov. Claiming II. Cox
was out of the state, but Lieut.. Gov Alvan T
Fuller, without waiting a minute ordered an ex-
animation then aaa-there of Plymouth Rock Ca
hadlan geologists are not the only who can
WELD the hammer and juggle the microscopic
What Lieutenant Governor Fullers geology ex-
perts will fnd-or will report-can only be
guessed at this writing. Perhaps it Is better so,
Anyway, Samuel Rice, who Is custodian of
Plymouth Rock and its grand portico and
commonwealth Reservation, reports that 'some
relic hunter has stolen a silver from the rock"
and points out what seems to be freshly broken
spot on the weather-worn surface close TO which
are marks as if some one had been ha ammerng
Plymouth Rock taken from the custody or
the Pilgrim Society of Plymouth in 1920 bv the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts and is now n
ward of the state 1t lies about eight feet below
the flooring of the portco which covers If and n
. Is possible to walk about three sides of it. The
old canopy which covered the rock from 1867 to
1920 was provided with tall steel grill gates which
chance then.
AS to the Thanksgiving Eats" many ,ooa
Americans would doubtless be glad to see Massa
soft more highly honored on Thanksgiving dav II
was ne VINO introduced the cranberry and the
punkin to the American people through the PHI.
grirns Massasoit may have been a poor ipnoron,
savage and all thar, but he and his peonle had
a delightfully."- simple and fairly efficient aprcuI
tural system: Corn In the hill and climbing
bean; pumpkin seed every five hills Mosso
soft showed the Pilgrims the cranberry growing
wild in the marshes and had no diffcultv wbotoyo.
In demonstrating that roast turkey and cronbarry
sauce was one heavenborn combination Tho
Pilgrims, of course, knew about turkeys which
mad been taken across seas from Mexico and had
become common English farms before ,eoo
But 1t was Massasoit who brought turkey Gran.
berry and pumpkin together for the Pilgrims
Massasoit evidently was what in tbesa dave
would be called "a good old scout" At tbe timo
of the arrival of the Pilgrims he was beod cbios
or sachem of the Wampanoags, whose territory ex
tended from Cape Cod to Narragansett bov Iis
nome town was on the site of Warren II 7 ue
was ABOUT forty years of age, "a portly man in
his best years, grave of countenance and snore ~
speech Massasot was good friend to tb. pi,
grms and the offensive and defensive treaty mad.
with them was kept by the chief to the dov of nj.
death in 1861.
The "Mayfower Compact is of course ana 30
the important documents of our American history
1t was signed by the Al male Pilgrims in tIe cabin
of the Mayfiower before the landing on plymoutb
Rock. The agreement:
I'm Ye Name of God Amen-We whole names
are under-written. the loyal subjects of our drood
soveraigne Lord King James. by We grace of Cod
of Great Br.taine France & ireland King Do
fender of the Faith, &C.
"Haveing undertaken for We plorie of Cod nm,