Show I fe ay tate Celebrates 1 h l J 1 x 11 r F fJ I t MASSACHUSETTS II 1 x a HI r pt p M BA B BAc A t f tI I ri t JE Y I t I t 0 A 1630 g 1930 I t. t v f I 1 New En tan I y i l t I 1 Kf f I PA r I 1 r i f I Lo S I eI I J 11 j lr TI O u. u 11 J J lS 1 1 Yu ea ct i d 1 r 2 f o JP I i m I I C 0 j f 1 t 1 0 Mud l I h. h 1 b i I I. I tA J. J I 1 1 I I IE t I h I r. r I l h I i PI J 10 I d i l f II w I 1 r C p. p 1 I 1 11 IZ j j I l J I t I I IJ 01 H I t It rl i i ir r I I It i n 1 or 1 i Tn L t L I X ot J 9 I r 1 l Of ur r roL II I c y l g j 1 0 MASS J W tili til y o 2 J i tt m IJ f II I I i 4 ni l Fa IL w r I i 3 Jl t.- t. 7 I 15 II I ll y q iii Ril af II 1 ft L FA-L q t fH- fH fHi i ri tf JI o nH f e ez 3 I f Z r A. A tiM y t. t e tt I 4 M J. J a j oz r- r a. a J r v r L P 1 1 J tra t L. 1 m r II 4 li f i M. M It o Vt t J dv 91 J iJ 1 d. d rl P 0 H 5 OL r D l 4 PO P POJ 4 J R esC c aar R v f. f i. i f. 4 r l f J r J CI D I w 7 1 rr c 1 c- c 4 Z fJ fJ st lr W 1 4 JJ t R r L r i cro I I I F n 1 t JI i 7 r r Pt o a ar aw J hiJ 76 1 t w r T- T f 0 Y 4 II OCD HOU h i v If J 1 I enter no no encomium n upon Massachusetts the Ibe be ne need needs d. d none There she ehe is Behold her er and Judge for yourselves There Is her history the world knows It by heart Tho The past at least la Je secure cure There Is Boston and Conc Concord rd and and LexIngton Lex Lex- Ington and Bunker Hill and there the they will wUl remain re ra remain re- re main forever 4 By ELMO WAT WATSON N T W WAS S Just a century ago that one of I th the greatest statesmen an and probably THE greatest American n o orator tor utter uttered uttered l R the words ghen given above c The scene was was the senate chamber In IIi the Capitol at Washington the orator was Daniel Webster and the occasion was the debate debate debate de de- bate on a resolution 0 of InquIry respecting respectIng respect respect- Ing the sales sand land surveys of ot western lands introduced by Senator Foote of Connecticut In December 1829 On January Jan Jan- Jan uary 19 1830 Senator Hayne Hayn of ot South Carolina speaking on the res resolution made an attack upon the New England states who ho he tie d declared wished to check the growth of the tIle West Nest In hi the interests of the protective policy Webster felt elt that this attack could not be left unanswered vered and the next day he lie replied to It IL But It was was not until a week later Inter January 2 20 26 1830 following another r attack by Hajne Hayne that he mn made e the Immortal speech known as Websters Reply to Hayne HaJne In III which he not only demolished the principle of nullification nullification but but he be set forth with every very attribute of eloquence the nature of the Union as It has developed under the Constitution and ond took the vague vague popular conception and gave it life and form and character In the course of the speech he u uttered ered his tribute to the Old Bay state In the words which which have become almost as famous as the more mora Important part part of his oration event even Ye though popular conception has erroneously preserved It In the form of ot Massachusetts there ahe he stands I In 1830 Daniel Webster pointed to the years of her history which the lithe world knows by heart And now In 1930 the people of that com coin mO are pointing to her hex years years' of ot history his his- tory and Inviting the world to Join with them in celebrating her three hundredth birthday For this ibis Is Is' Is the year of of ot the Massachusetts Bay tercentenary ter ter- c centenary which Is being celebrated in one form fonn or another throughout the state Parades page taste ants exhibits dedications memorials meetings receptions sports on land and water uter and nd even In the air organized tours fours official c ceremonies In varied form In fn addition to Important business trade and Industrial features pre are some of ot those forms Already some of of them h have ve been lieen een held In on one one place or another r as a part of or the general program but the principal events e will take taLe place during the he live five m months from fiora June me to October One of the high spots of those five months will be b. b June 12 when a replica of an ancient ship named the Arbella will sail Into Salem harbor Fo For it was on June 12 1630 1630 that the original orl-Inal bella belin Arbelin Ar Ar- Arbella which had sailed from Southampton England Eng Eng- land on March 22 1630 1610 with passengers board her anchor in Salem harbor Those on passengers were the settlers of the Massachusetts Bay colony chartered by King fling Charles I land led by John of England England Eng Eng- WInthrop governor and und Thomas Dudley lieutenant governor If it the precious charter which John WInthrop was bringing with him had been other Bay than what It was wils the Massachusetts Massa Massa- Interest tercentenary this year would be Je of ot I mainly to the But since it citizens of ot the Bay nay stat state was what It has was that celebration national sl si significance For this charter primarily a business similar document I Sin In form l to ot of f Its many such Buch a 11 workable day P proved ed to he be guide to action that and government It T served as the direct basis t HO of ot the state of for tor the document In Massachusetts and this turn was model later Inter iSSon state constitutions and nd and for tor for tor that many of ot of the 5 nation J More i oro l than a that the whole t upon thIs i H the chart charter r was form of ot civil ante to all Americans government wl which guarantees guar guar- life lIte of pf happiness as witness ss the liberty first article and pursuit In la the tIle 26 16 t If t 2 v p t oj f. f I code node of one hundred laws called The Body at o Liberties adopted by the Colo Colony y of ot Massachusetts l In 1641 That article reads as follows No 1 0 mans life shall be taken away no mans honour or good name shall shull b be sta stained ned no mans person shall be he restrained banished ed nor any wages punished ed no man shall be deprived of his wife or children no mans go goods ds or shall b be taken away away from him him nor any way under colour of t law or Countenance of ot it be by or of ot generall general Cou Court t and sufficiently published pub pub or in case of the defect detect of ot ota a law luw In any particular case bj by b the tile word of god And In Cap Cap- tall cases or In cases concerning or banishment accor according Ing to that word ward to be Judged judge by the General Generall Court In July o of ot 1630 the Arbella was Joined by six other ships bringing some more colonists and andIn nd In to August It a was as decided to move mo the colony from Salem to Charlestown and the next month hay hav having ing lag fou found d th the water supply there poor t they y l moved oved to the peninsula which lay to the south and west nest of Charlestown There the city of ot Boston was founded so another noth r high spot In th the tercentenary celebration on will be Boston Week September 14 to 20 of this year the seventeenth being the date for tor the fire principal celebration since It lt Rason was Ras wason as on on that date that the General Court of ot Win Win- throes throe's colony tools tool the action that officially organized or or- Boston Bostar Inc Incidentally one part of the celebration celebration cele cele- bration will be the dedication of a memorial on Boston Common to WInthrop and to William WilHam Blar- Blar Blaxton t ton n. n the first white settler of that historic spot It would be impossible In the limits of ot this article art arti cle cie to list all nil of ot the events e in Massachusetts his tory wh which ch pill be recalled during the many celebrations celebrations cele cele- which make up the tile observance of her tercentenary this year nor to name all of ot her ber great men who had a part in that history If It It could be done at all briefly It Is doubtful if It It could be accomplished better than It has been done In the words word of ot a distinguished historian now v Ii a a citizen of ot Massachusetts Massachusetts Prof Prof Prot Albert Bushnell us nell Hart Hurt of ot of Harvard university Writing an article for tor fora n a. a Massachusetts p paper per the Cambridge j Tribune early earls this year under the t title tle of ot Why Massachusetts Pr Professor fessor Hart d well the glory of the Old Bay states state's record In our national annals and tl the e interest which J the tercentenary ter ter ter- centenary y Ims has for tor all 1111 Americans leans ns A A part of ot his article follows tollow t 1 At the st start rt if It a n person or a community I has as la lasted ted to a three three hundredth hundredth birthday y the presumptIon pre pre- gumption Is Is' that something m must st have ha be been n done In the tho Interval H Bence the p proposed tercentennial tercentennial ter ter- centennial centennial doe does not moan mean an m attempt to re re- re re- re vive the experiences of 1030 1630 n nor r to content itself with a 11 movie mo of or what Massachusetts Is tOday We te are proud of our state for state for all nil the l heroic ok deeds and gr grand nd conceptions and mag results which have tta studded the his tory of ot the commonwealth during three centuries 4 We are ore entitled to be proud of t the phy physical substratum of ot Massachusetts I love thy rocks and rills Thy woods and hills The children of the soil soli have long been heen ac acv with the many ninny beautiful scenes of ot seashore and river and plain and mountain and of ot late our OUi neighbors in states less seen seen- fortunate are rediscovering the thu thing The same Indented coast with Its Us two nip nip- capes Is the delight of or the y yachtsman yachts yachts- man the fire fisherman and the bathing person person Ou Our hill villages are ale being rapidly gobbled up because of ot their view besides which of site and Massachusetts Is a lesson in 10 geography hy sIn since c our reputed bounds once I I 1 1 r stretched u a trenchant shadow over ver lakes at and nd d rivers and plains and heckles and Sierras to toay the Pacific Massachusetts was a grown full colony color ay y J S thumbing Its nose in a strictly strictly- co constitutional constitution s ial al manner manner at t the royal government In Eng England and nd while Ne New v York fork and New Jersey and Penns PennsylvanIa Pennsylvania Pennsyl yi- yi vania vanla anel and the the Carolinas were were still all ba back ick ck settlement Hence Massachusetts was able a ato tle le to raise a crop crop of ot American statesmen before etore re reck the and the and the Penns enns and the he Pin Pinck- Pinck ck ck- treys s and the es had b begun un to bloo bloom m m. m What a n rich mouthful is the list st of ot Massachusetts hu- hu nu nuna men who have become part of ot the national na ua ti a- a history of ot the United States l J B Bold old John Smith and winning B Bradford Bradfo ad rd ird and peppery but bur efficient Myles Myles' Standish h John WInthrop p and J John lm EndIcott and nd G Gov Governor ov ov- Dudley Parson Cot Cotton on and President Preside ent at Increase Mather blather and the vast minded Cott Cotton ton on Mather Anne Hutchinson the tire first woman In InAm Am America to start a Yom womans woman's ans an's she club club she need needed led ed no man to tell ten her mind Ann Bradstreet t the poetess J Jonathan nathan Edwards whose ser sermons ons as were were thought by his parIshioners to be i aps a n Hell of a rj a preaching Sir William Phi Ph ps the treasure finder finder and Agnes e t the he treas treasure re found governors governors- and counsellors counsello rs and ensigns and military commanders all all t these ese stud the history of the future Ui United it ted ed States In the pre pre colonial colonial period p Th The American Revolution really b began an In Inal Inthe Inthe the struggles l s of the gentlemen of ot the gene general al alTay court with th the royal governors go all the n way Tay gay i along from the charter of 1693 1033 and the string Ing ng of ot royal governors from Gov GOY Sir Willi William lara am to G Governor General Gage Guge Other co colonial colo olo- olo lo- lo nial legislatures expressed their minds to a an anat and ad at nt their royal royat governors especially In V Virginia Vir Mr- ginia ginta but the c cyclone of or orthe the Revolution fl first rat blew with violence in Massachusetts M a and ad never neter stopped b blowing until Massachusetts was wils a state of the Old Thirteen Massachusetts Massachusetts' asserts asserts no pre-eminence pre In that great movement Dt which h be began an the poll political ti cal eal transformation matlon of ut mankind but In the councils of ot the he Continental side aide congress by side with Jefferson son of ot Virginia and Franklin of Pennsylvania la and Pinchney of ot South Caro linn lina and Livingston of ot New York glitter the tiie names s of tile the Immortal second cousin twins twins John Adams and Samuel Adams of ot Hancock and and Warren Warre 1 of ot fiery old Putt and Manley Hanley fi commander t of ot a national 1 ship of ot war ar The 1 h new Dictionary of American BiograpHy could not do business without that hat cOl couple pl of ot hundred notable number of l Massachusetts Massachusetts' names in the galaxy galax of the Revolution lu on not Wren men uen only only Abigail Abigail Adams and Merc Mercy Wr Warren and other lovely and distinguished women Abigail Adams had hud decided views as es s to the capacity of the female mInd to comprehend d politics cs and as to the d di 0 1 n question whether all nil men are aie created free tree and equal included the female part of mankind From some of those stron strong strong minded u ladles ladies were wele descended the Intrepid l leaders aders of the woman suffrage movement especially Elizabeth Cad Cady Stanton Some of the original 1 states prom prominent nent in the Revolutionary He period run ran out nut of f timber I after t the Constitutional m period but statesmen and oth other r national leaders continued to blos bios som sofa and fruit the on Massachusetts ts tr tree e- e Three Pr Presidents John Adams John Quincy Adams dams and Calvin Coolidge ge is Is' sn Isa s' s n a good allowance allowance allow allow allow- ance for a state of ot limited area on the e edge of the continent Likewise various speakers of ot the house arouse It t Is no boa boast t to say that from 1761 1761 t to the Ue p present day Massachusetts has had a a s share are In national public affairs affairs' f far tar bey beyond nd th the tho e proportion of her population u to the tho whole country t c I f |