Show roamie around with the N E A this is another in a series of articles by albert IV Ep esperion who with virginia and shirley were in attendance at the convention of the national editorial association held in the new england E states I 1 last ast week we told you about our tout tour of plymouth and the various vanous points plinth of interest in in this city of our founding Foun dinK rathers athers F the national editorial as socia tion by a resolution adopted in in november wll imi assembled it plymouth rock for foi a mid alid century re dedication pilgrimage proclamations from ever Y governor in the united states set aside this day june 25 i as a lay day of rededication to the pi c apals of freedom fit edom and alan C publisher of the rock county coi anty star herald at luverne Luve inc minn was he principal speaker iiii his address was broadcast over the broadcasting system bill cunningham Cunnin boston herald columnist and n nationally known commentator also broadcast his sunday afternoon aati moon program from plymouth rock all ali mcintoshn address entitle I 1 we still have tile the same sam e stars to guide Us was as follows from the four corners of this nation the members of tile the national editorial Edi tonal A association have journey jociney ed to assemble here today tod y tire the homespun newspapermen froin the small cities and towns of america these are an the editors who ho next to the clergymen and the doctors doc tois hold the closest in intimacy timney with the families of their hen communities these are the men and women mold the lives and thinking thui kint of the real heart of Amei ici we stand here today with reverent humility the ground on which wo we stand is holy ground hallowed for eternity by the cices of our pilgrim forefathers this rock we now face is no ordinary mass of stone it is nn in ageless shrine for every patriot this is tile the lock that stands as a thundering rebuke to those who say there can be changing standards of integrity or a double standard of morality for individual anil and government this thia rock does docs not mark the beginning bogin of the beli belief 21 that freedom is ia worth tiny any macii let I 1 fice neither does it serve its as an end to that belief this is ia plymouth rock hock this thia simple ceremony today call cannot lie be a rededication re dedication of plymouth rock it was waa dedicated dedica tid and consecrated sec rated for till nil time three thieo centuries ano ago an o by those who died that we might walk its as free nun men this is is a rl ic 2 dedication instead of oui our lives so that we can rekindle re ic kindle in the hearts of our oui countr n tile tho noblest flames of pilgrim idealism on oil the altars of patriotism three centuries after tile the lunding here of the pilgrims Ill Kinns historians histo nans still speculate why they chose this site far fai removed from then original dismal destination one theory now says that the captain of the alay laflower was bribed by 1 I legli ll gli colonial colonia interests to put tile pilgrims ams ashot ashbie L hero her and that on oll arrival a at t plymouth he argued aik d them into staying htay ini like the mayflower that was blown off its course coin so and anc bored in a strange harbor our oui ship of state has been menaced by unscrupulous men who have urged us to steer by something inore than the true star that guided the pilgrims scheming men have arlea to bring us like the mayflowers May Alay flowers into false harbors hiti bois of foreign ideologies not of our oui canos inos mg we have been endangered by cowardly cowa idly navigators is who would run inn with the winds of popular opinion than fight against the storm to stay on course our oui ship of state wallows in the trough of debt di bt buffeted by the winds 13 of special privilege and the pressures of vociferous minorities it drifts perilously close to tho the re i 4 of disaster marking the belief that the government should support tile the people rather than the people support the government novel there is is no need fui for tile mo to today tile the story that eye everyone evio nc knows the story of if that terrifying tossed wretched 66 is lay day voyage of the abo tiny mayflower tile the of two return trips to england the and misery as tile the mountain US ins sells smashed tit at the tiny ves sel we can imagine the stark tinoi that swept sept the seasick company when they learned that tile storm had bad cracked tile the May mayflowers flowers main b beam e arn but gods liand land was vas on that ship an all artisan on board was bringing with him to the new world a giant lion iron with that device and thu the strong aritis aims of stout hearted pilgrims the beam of the tiny mayflower was forced back straight into place we must resolve tod today ay to be the instruments of strengthening and the inabin main benin beam of out our ship of state so 0 o that it can withstand the stresses and sti ains for the centuries cen to conic come it is is tune time that we resolve to work and live by the same true stars of ideals that guided the pilgrims they to do not belong only to the em cm blazoned pages of history so long as mens hearts still burn bum with the belief that a man has the right light to individual liberty and tile the right light to worship as he chooses then the pilgrim spirit still lives before the pilgrims set foot on this chii rock they first met in the crude and dingy cabin of the mayflower it was there they laid for all time the cornerstone of all the republican institutions of america it was in that tiny cabin that the first town meeting was held it was there that the hand band of god helped the pilgrim write ante the immortal mayflower compact that still lights up the sky of the world with the nobility of its purpose and when the pilgrims set bet foot on this rock they knelt and gave thanks to god cynics could say for foi what truly it took stout hearts to face tah ehni waste of sand hills and sea grass graass swamps and briars wind bent tr hiees ees and unknown savages the pilgrims faced realities MIMICS we seek out tile the snug haili ors ut of utopia where we ca an it avoid all struggle while we sniff the deadly opium that deludes us into thinking we can get something in in life for nothing wo we have lave been aci n content to dreahn of the living the world owes us while we sneer at those who prize honesty and thrift it was a desolate sight that greeted gre etca those displaced persons of three centuries cen tunes ago there were no officials on hand to inspect or 0 greet them no park benches or 01 firewood had been aten placed there by a thoughtfully considerate si maiks department no low cost housing project pi eject hit had been b cn provided no inspectors were on liand land to demand that thy they th y vol not more moio than 10 X hours or 01 for less than 75 cents there were no union organizers oiga meis to preach pi each that seniority was more moie important than ability those 1 I 1 I s ol of 16 hai 10 had to su bur r vive or 01 perish by their own efforts and perish half of thern them did that first tuel cruel winter hut but that price of fre freedom edorn was not too for it is to their eternal glory that none turned back for england tile the i next year the pilgrims Pil Kiima came liere here with the same burning hurn we icho echo tho the wish for foi security and free an fn o dorn doni hut but they sought bought the true security of real ical freedom not tile the prison type security wonc inde len lenience dence of action is n forfeited they could have lave had that by remaining in Ell gland plymouth rock ilok is is more mole tit than an just a bridge over which the ho pilgrims crossed from tile the old to the new world it serves selves us its si at monument to the american way of life if it serves as a monument to the fail tire nrc of communism in in america it was tho the love of ficci lom not the lust for money that anix impelled aled the pilgrims to uproot their lives from england they matched their lives against tho the funds raised ly by the 70 merchants kiei chants of england we see here today in plymouth rock lock ilic tho monument to the american way which is based on the striving sti ivin for individual freedom and individual gain it was here boic to that communism failed despite the threat of starvation the share und and share alike system produce enouf enough b food hut but when governor lovci noi bradford assigned it of land to each family then corn coin was raised laifed beyond the wildest hopes in the words auids of the pilgrim governor the women voine ii now went willingly into tile alie fields and took their little ones with them to set corn coin which before would allege weakness and inability whom to have compelled should have been thought great tyranny and opples 8 sion io n if we vc today are aie to be the in st of strengthening lengthening the main beam of our ship of state we must now rededicate re dedicate our lives to t those hose noble purposes of the mayflower compact 1 to the glory of god 11 2 the advancement of the christian faith 1 frame just and equal laws 1 for the general good of all peoples tins this is is a noble const constitution alution toi for any nation a chat chatter chaiter ter fo for r ONE WORLD the na names me s of the pilgrims are emblazoned em blazoned in gold on the immortal tit pages of histon history y because they had tho the courage to dare the seed they bore of religious freedom and popular government bore fruit upon th the shores of a new land W we e too can plant today the seed which will abundantly of the rich fruit of 01 liberty and now new hope for foi generations yet unborn we cannot achieve thi this in in our cur own strength alone we must have god in our daily lives just as god was vas as much a part of the pil grims gams daily life as his gun or his ax axe we must have tho the same hame old fashioned fashio md willingness to freely acknowledge the existence of a supreme being plymouth rock kock is the signpost of it a successful civilization tile the maiker that says this thia was the route loute taken by others who trod safely on before that a successful civilization found this the right light way to go the 1 I he trail blazed here by the gilgi pilgrims ims tells us that this is the route loute but it also bains that can be no painless igau to freedom or 01 security we ave just jus scant cant buy fi freedom wi we dont net get freedom even by fighting for foi it we only gain freedom by living it it ta takes I 1 ces not only raw law courage to do that thai it takes rare raie courage not tile the explosive type of unreasoning unson mg courage but tile the idlest kind sustained courage no one possesses sustained courage chui coui without faith faith is is the substance of things hoped hope for foi the evidence of if things not seen we c mod too tile the fati that says bays god is is with me ine 1 I can meet the crisis I 1 now face these are the hys days that try the souls of nien mun like the pilgrims we have lave much to make our haits falter like the pilgrims we can make no retreat from our rendezvous with destiny on oil the outcome of winch which depends tile the fate of our oui childrens children chik hei we cannot meet destiny by our own ow n puny strength stien nth alone we must KO go forward armed with truth the love of liberty and sustained by fuith faith in god C od plymouth rock flock will stand here heie las as it i monument to liberty lili eity just so long us its we vo in america nave have nw courage to heep alive tin the principles of the pilgrims if we e trade the precious pi cious bequeathed by thorn them to us for foi a achs of pottage from f i oni washington then it would lie be better bf itei if this noble rock lock would cr to dust us as a civilization sinks hinks into the morass of failure we must maintain thu the sovereign dignity of tile individual we must fight tile the encroachment of bigness big nessi in in government business and nd unions unions upon the liberties liberti cb of tile the individual lit let us join hands heio bere today to strengthen and straighten tile the main inam beani beam of our great giat gi at ship of state so that it can sail majestically on through tile the oceans optime of time if wi we look up we find tile the same true tine stars to guide us on that led the pilgrims to this new land like the pilgrims not all of us will survive but that in in itself is is not i important our lives will be justified if the principles we believe to be right and true survive survive we must rekindle re le kindle in in our oui hearts the simple faith in goj god that sustained the pilgrims and cherish liberty of mankind above all worldly let us lift our oui hearts up ill with prayerful confidence to the dawn of a new glory for foi an anici er ica the years yea is that have elapsed since the pilgrims tims trod this rock lock abc but a pinpoint on the pan panorama orania of time but a landmark I 1 in n the history of humanity because the yee lec ord 01 d of what they achieved hue here ts Is written for foi eternity if we vc too can once arain again re ic kindle for foi america the flies fires of freedom and tile the yearning for foi true liberty then we will not have lave made this pilgrimage of re rededication dedication in in vain |