Leaders Honor Bill of Rights As Key to Victory
"Enemies of AH Freedom" "This war is an all-out fight." the Mart* Assails Tyrants Governor declared. "The Nazi, the At the sesqui-ceritoiinial luncheon Leaders Honor Fascist, the Japanese are irreconcil- Mayo~- LaGuardia delivered a speech able enemies of all freedom. They in which he said the governments of must go; they or we will survive; Japan and Germany could not stand Bill of Rights as they or we will influence man's des- ten minutes if those nations enjoyed tinies for generations, perhaps cen- a Bill of Rights. Key to Victory turies, to come." "The Mikado reigns by making his Governor Lehman warned that If people believe he has descended from the democracies lose the war, "time Heaven," the Mayor said. "And con- City Rallies Pear Lehman, will turn back much more than 150 sider Adolf Hitler, that poor deluded years," to the day when man was fool, who really believes he is a good Mayor Predict Defeat "a beast of burden, without rights, ersatz for the Almighty." for AH Foes of Liberty without hope and without dignity." The time has come, Mayor La- An Axis victory, he predicted, means Guardia said, when Americans must "freedom will disappear utterly from give their lives in defense of the" The 150th anniversary of the the lace of the earth." principles of the Bill of Rights. adoption of the Bill of Rights, first Recalling that thousands of men. "We must be realistic." he said. '/We ten amendments to the Constitu- gave their lives in the fight to makej can't preserve and protect the Bil tion, was commemorated in New York America the home of freedom, the of Rights any longer by oratory. We yesterday at many celebrations at Governor asked his listeners to re- can not do it any longer as we wanted member that "freedom was riot to do it—by restraint and by example. which speakers, including Mayor achieved the easy way." We catmot perpetuate it at this time P. H. LaCuardia and Governor Her- "Ifc was won by long1, agonizing and make it effective by literature bert H. Lehman, proclaimed the war, which tried .the souls of men or pamphlets. We must protect these principles embodied in the amend- in the crucible of devotion and rights with our very lives." courage," he said, adding that in At a ceremony in City Hall Plaza ments to be the principles for which the new war the United States must at noon Mayor LaGuardia called 01 America is fighting today. win or lose its freedom. the people of New York to gird While Hitler, Mussolini and the 'Victory will be ours," Governor themselves for a battle for freedom Mikado are still capable of aggres- Lehman asserted. "Of that there "Today, as Mayor of the City o sion and tyranny, speakers said, can be no doubt." New York," he said, "it is my proud the freedoms guaranteed in the Bill Warns of Anxiety Ahead privilege to proclaim that in New of Rights—freedom of speech and The Governor warned that In the York City, a typical American city of religion and of the press, freedom days ahead ".there will be nights of peopled from the descendants of. of assembly and the right of trial anxiety and agony" and that "death every country in the world, we stand by jury—are in jeopardy. and suffering are inevitable." He united, ready to do our part. Amer- President Roosevelt, in a message asked the nation to "enlist whole- ica is ready. We are prepared to to Herbert Bayard Swope, chairman heartedly in the great crusade for meet the situation. Men and women of the Bill of Rights Sesqui-Centen- freedom and security and peace." of New York, on to the fight." . nial defense luncheon, held at the "All men and women and even Helen Hayes, actress, read the ten Commodore, said that "no clearer children in tills conflict," jje con- amendments, each of which, inci- and more eloquent statement of OUT tinued, "are privileged * to play a dentally, was reproduced in large cause was ever written than is courageous and useful part in the signs in City Hall Park. The cere- embodied in the American Bill of defense of their country." mony included a parade and mass- Rights." Governor Lehman called President ing of colors by war veterans and President Roosevelt's Message Roosevelt a "courageous and de-, Boy Scouts. The President's message, read at termined Commander-in-Chief" and! Josephus Daniels, retiring Ambas- the luncheon by Mr. Swope, follows: said: "His is the clearest voice for sador to Mexico, speaking at the "I am delighted to know that you freedom in the world today. His is lesqui-centennlal luncheon at the an unshakable determination that Commodore, said "the brightest star are holding a luncheon in New York barbarism will be crushed and free- to celebrate the sesqui-centennial dom preserved." of the Bill of Rights. There never The Sub-Treasury Building stands was a time when the real inner on the site of old Federal Hall, first meaning of the Bill o Righ\s was capitol of the United States. It was more manifestly clear to all Ameri- there that the first Congress adopted. • cans and to all human beings than the Bill of Rights on Sept. 25, 1789. \ now. It is precisely for the preser- On Dec. 15, 1791, the final necessary! vation of the rights guaranteed by state ratification was voted by Vir-! the first ten amendments of the ginia. In commemoration Governor, Constitution that we are now com- James H. Price, of Virginia, follow- pelled to fight. No clearer or more ing Governor Lehman's talk, which eloquent statement of our cause was was broadcast over the Blue net- ever written than is embodied in the work of the National Broadcasting American Bill of Rights." Company, spoke from Richmond on Governor Lehman, speaking at a the same Bill of Rights celebration on the steps of the Sub-Treasury Building, Walt and Nassau Streets, said free- dom for the United States and its Allies never can be achieved through compromise or appeasement of the Axis powers.
r his own, ox* a mind of his own, or a tongue of his own, or a trade of his own; or even to live where he pleases or to marry the woman he loves; deterioration <#• this generation That his only duty is the duty of our people to preserve liberty is of obedience, not to his God, and as fixed and certain as the de- not to his conscience, taut to termination of that earlier genera- Adolph Hitler; and that his only tion of Americans to win it. value is his value, not as a man, We will not, under any threat, but as a unit of the Nazi state. or in the face of any danger, sur- render the guaranty of liberty our The Order "of Force" forefathers framed for us in our To Hitler the ideal of the peo- Bill of Rights. ple, as we conceive it—the free, self-governing and responsible We hold with all the passion of people—is incomprehensible. The our hearts and minds to those people, to Hitler, are "the masses" commitments of the humaii spirit and the highest human idealism We are solemnly determined is, in his own words, that a man that no power or combination of should wish to become "a dust powers of this earth shall shake particle" of the order "of force" our hold upon them. which is to shape the universe. We covenant with each other To Hitler, the government, as before all the world, that having we conceive it, is an impossible taken up arms in the defense of conception. The government to liberty, we will not lay them down him is not the servant' and thV before liberty is once again secure instrument ox the people, but in the world we Jive in. For that their absolute master and the security we pray; for that security dictator of their every act. we act—now and evermore. To Hitler the Church, as we conceive it, is a monstrosity to be destroyed by every means at his command. The Nazi church is to be the "national church," "abso- lutely and exclusively in the serv- ice of but one doctrine, race and nation." To Hitler, the freedom of men to think as they please and speak as they please and worship as they please is, of all things im- aginable, most hateful and most desperately to be feared. The issue of our time, the issne of the war in which we are en- gaged, is the issue forced upon the decent, self-respecting peoples of the earth by the aggressive dog- mas ei this attempted revival of barbarism, this proposed return to tyranny, this effort to impose again upon the peoples of the world doctrines of absolute obedi- ence, and of dictatorial rule, and of the suppression of truth, and of the oppression of conscience, which the free nations of the earth have long ago rejected. Attempt to "Cancel Out Liberty" What we face Is nothing more nor less than an attempt to over- > ! throw and to cancel out the great upsurge of human liberty of which the American Bill of Rights is ' the fundamental document: to force the peoples of the earth, and among them the peoples of this " continent, to accept again the absolute authority and despotic rule from which the courage and the resolution and the sacrifices; of their ancestors liberated "them many, many years ago. It is an attempt which could succeed only if those who have inherited the gift of liberty had lost the manhood to preserve it. But we Americans know that the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1941 Massing the Colors at City Hall on Anniversary of the Bill of Rights
Herald Tribune—Ke» JLe/i to right, in center foreground, are Mayor LaGuardia, Helen Hay as and Brigadier General William J, Costigan (retired) during play ing of the national anthem before City Hall yesterday. Farther to the right are Civil War veterans who attended the ceremonies
The" truths which •were sell- Roosevelt on Bill of Rights evident to Thomas Jefferson— Challenge In 193$ which have been self-evident t: There is not a single republic But, in the year 1933, there came the six generations of American! WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (IF).—The on this hemisphere which has not to power in Germany a political who followed him—were to thesi .complete text of President Roose- adopted in its fundamental law clique which did not accept the men hateful. The rights to life the basic principles of freedom of declarations of the American bill liberty and the pursuit of happi> Ivelt's Bill of Rights Day address of human rights as valid: A small follows: man and freedom of mind enacted .ness which seemed to Jefferson in the American Bill of Rights, clique of ambitious and unscrup- •and which seem to us, inalienable No date in the long history of There is not a country, large or. ulous politicians whose announced were, to Hitler and his fellows freedom me&ns more to liberty- \ small, on this continent which has and admitted platform was pre- empty words which they piopose< cisely the destruction of the to cancel forever. loving men in all liberty-loving . not felt the influence of that rights that instrument declared. countries than the fifteenth day, document, directly or indirectly. Indeed, the entire piogiam and The propositions they advancec of December, 1791. On that day, Indeed, prior to the year 1933, to take the place of Jefferson's in- the essential validity of the Amer- goal of these political and moral 4 alienable rights were tries?: 150 years ago, a new nation, ican Bill o£ Rights was accepted tigers was nothing more than the through an elected Congress, overthrow, throughout the earth, That the individual humat at least in principle.- Even today, of the great revolution of human being hss no rights whatever is adopted a declaration of human with the exception of Germany, himself and by virtue of hli rights which has influenced the liberty, of which our American Italy and Japan, the peoples of Bill of Rights is the mother humanity; thinking of all mankind i'rom one the world—in all probability four- charter. ( That the individual hirm. s end of the world to the other. fifths of them—support its prin- being has no right to a soul d ciples, its teachings and its glori- nirT^ni^^mmm|]jg||||i||it|-iT1r) tirii-1 ous results.
- "If," he said, "there are those arms? Could they last at ail tf| who are stupid enough or evil We must," he said, "when their peoplo were free to assem- short-sighted men would invoke enough to believe that they can ble and discuss public issues? save their properties or their the sort of censorship that has Could they maintain concentra- disgraced the totalitarian coun- skins by compromise or appease- tion camps and continue a policy ment they ignore or arc blind to tries and their victim nations, of persecution if they had a pro- | hold aloft the Bill of Rights as a the history of totalitarian aggres- vision for indictment and trial by sion. We win the war or we lose 1 I pillar.of cloud by day and a pil- jury? Could they for a moment lar of fire by night." our freedom. have freedom of religion when "This war was not of our the Mikado and Hitler are de- Special statements from many making. Our enemies gave the luded into believing that they | organizations and a meeting this United States ,no choice of de- are the ersatz for the Almighty?" morning at the Federal Court- cision. These evil men who would To each question he replied in house under the auspices of the wipe freedom from the face of the negative. Bill of Rights Committee of the the earth decided that this was Federal Bar Association were j the time to strike. The Japanese "It is not sufficient to cele- among other observances here of attack on us inspired by Hitler brate what we have" he con- the anniversary of the first ten came ruthlessly, without warning tinued. "We must devote our- amendments written to safeguard selves to holding what we have. individual liberty. and with complete disregard of My friends, that means fight. ail decency and fairness. That jneans fight. That' means Parade Precedes Exercises. No Doubt of Victory. now that the war has been de-j On the program before the cere "Victory will be ours—of that clared upon us, we must defend monies at City Hall was a parade there can be no doubt. We will not only our shores and our peo-j of representatives of all American not compromise with the forces pie, but our institutions—the: Legion posts, the Red Cross, the of evil. But do not let us be un- very things that we are com- American Women's Voluntary der any delusion. It is no easy memorating today. It is not go- Services, soldiers and sailors task to which we have set our- ing to be an easy task. It is from the Second Corps Area and selves. There are grave days going to be hard and difficult the navy yard in Brooklyn, Police ahead. There will be nights of and trying and long. We cannot and Fire Department bands and anxiety and agony. Death and the American Legion fife and suffering are inevitable. No one drum corps. The parade, start- of us can escape paying a price ing at 11:30 and circling City Hall in life and limb or in tears and do it by speeches. We must do $*ark to its destination before the suffering. No one of us will it by offering our lives. It will Steps, was led by Lawrence A. avoid—or wish to avoid bearing be costly in lives, but worth McNally, New York county com- the burdens that we must shoul- while. mander of the American Legion. der. All of us must enlist whole- "Today, as Mayor of the city The invocation was given by the heartedly in the great crusade of New York, a typical American Eight 'Rev. Mgr. Francis W. city, people from the descend- Walsh, consultor of the Catholic for freedom and security and Archdiocese of New York and peace. ants of every country in the world—we stand united, ready to vicar delegate of the army and "Some of us will fight with a | do our part. America is ready. navy diocese. Rabbi David be fSfle in our hands. Some* will We are prepared to meet the gfola Pool of the Spanish Portu- fight to preserve the home front. guese Synagogue spoke. Rise There will be a task for each one situation. Men and women of Stevens, the Metropolitan Opera of us. No matter how small or New York, to the fight." Company soprano, sang "The •unspectacular that task may be Nazi attempts at penetration Sftar-Spangled Banner" and Helen it must be performed faithfully in the twenty-one American re-1 ifayes will read the Bill krf and willingly. Each one of us is publics have failed, Mr. Daniels Rights, whose four freedoms, in- a sentinel on duty. Each must declared in his address. In fact, , eluding freedom of religion, of be a cog in the great machine they have so outraged the sove- speech, of the press and peaceful that will move slowly but steadily reign rights that the republics assembly, have been more ar- forward to crush barbarism and have joined forces to preserve dently defended than any other paganism and to bring lasting their independence and to end the section of the Constitution. peace and security again to a totalitarian menace to the seou-j war-torn world. And as war is rity of the world, he said. Pageant to Be Presented. fought today the civilian has al- The United States good-neigh- A pageant staged by Leonidoff, most as great responsibility as bor policy has done more to ce- the singing by the Leonard Laur the fighting man in the front ment this hemisphere solidarity Chorus of a new composition line trenches. All men and women than any "other solvent that called "Bill of Rights" and the and even children in this conflict could be employed." j benediction by the Rev. Theodore are privileged to play a cour- F. Savage, president of the New ageous and useful part in de- Solidarity with Mexico York City Federation of Churches, fense of their country." "A short while before the day closed the_City Hall ceremonies. ( of infamy which precipitated At the"Fe~deral~Bar 'Association war," he added," President Avilio observance this morning, Mark Mayor Poses Some Questions. Comancho of Mexico commis- Risner, member of the New York Pointing to the sign boards in sioned me to convey to President Bar and former chairman of the f'ont of City Hall and taking Roosevelt assurances that his Board of Higher Education of each cUT.de in it, the Mayor country would be found standing New York, declared that if this I asked: by our country for the liberties nation would know why enemies "Could Hitler, the Mikado or they both cherish." have declared war on her, she Mussolini remain in power if He concluded his address withi must seek the answer in her Bill their people had freedom of a warning that we must exercise [ of Rights. speech? Could their governments vigilance that the Bill of Rights' "This precious, document, cher- retain power if they had a pro- is not ivolated in our effort to| ished by our nation and all free vision as to the right to bear preserve it. . I men for a century and a half, is the real objective of the at- tackers," Mr. Risner said. "So
_ long as the spirit of these first ten amendments to our Constitu- tion will be' maintained in this land, so long will the totalitarian enemies remain frustrated in their efforts to impose their devilish will upon the world." In several Jewish groups the celebartion of the Bill of Rights anniversary is being combined iwith the observance of the Han- :
gling for their right to worship as they saw fit. bench for forty years he ha< Palestine Rally Tonight. .seen the Bill of Rights in opera "The Bill of Rights and Han- tion and that it was sound ukkah Lights'" will be the theme Mathias F. Correa, United State; of a Palestine pioneer rally of Attorney5; who is enga£ the New York Council of the rounding up enemy aliens, point Pioneer Women's Organization ed. out in his address that even tonight at the Hotel Astor. Ab- they could look to the Bi!;. ot .raham Dickenstein, * representa- Rights for protection. tive of the Palestine Workers' Other addresses were made by IBank, who arrived from Pales- former United States Attorney tine last week after a trans-Pa- Martin Conboy, former Collector cific flight, will report on serv* of Internal Revenue Mark Sisner, ices by the Palestine Labor Fed- and Judge Edward A. Conger. eration in the Allied war effort. The clipper on which Mr. Dicken- stein returned stopped at Hono-j^ lulu only a few days before thei Japanese bombings. Mrs. Archi- bald Siiverman, Zionist leader, who recently completed a tour of South Amreica, will be another speaker at the pioneer rally. Copies of a condensed version of the Bill of Rights will be dis- tributed today in the Haaren High School, Aviation Annex, 215 East 99th street. The original parchment of this condensation, under the heading, jr "What Every American Should Know: The Ten Commandments of Americanism by Virtue of the Bill of Rights," which has al- ready been signed py the Govern- Jt ors of fifteen States, will be pts-jf seated to, the Library of Co«-|( gress when the remaining Gov- ernors have signed it. Other speakers at the Sub- treasury ceremony were George McAneny, chairman of the Fed- eral Hall Memorial Associates; Major-Gen. Irving J. Phillipson, commandant of the Second Corps Area; Mrs. Helen Pouch, presi- dent-general of the Daughters of the American Revolution; Wil- liam T. Van Alstyne, president- general of the Sons of the Revo- lution; Capt. Richard V. Good- win, president of the Empire State Society of the S. A. R., and Major Elihu Church, president of the New York State Society "of the Cincinnati. The Federal judiciary observed, the day with ceremonies in the Federal Building with members Hun Staff I*hc of the Federal Bai* Association of Children reading Articlt I. at the City Hall Plaza. New York, New Jersey and Con- necticut, and with other Federal ukkah Festival, which falls in the ica, Mrs. Samuel Spiegel, national officials. same week, Announcing the joint president, emphasized that the Former Chief Judge Frederick celebrations by thr 400 sister- kindling of the Hanukkah lights E. Crane of the Court of Appeals hoods of the Women's League of commemorates the ages whon told the assembled jurists and the United Synagogue of Amer- the Jewish people were strug- lawyers that in sitting on the THE NEW YORK SUN, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1941. CITY CELEBRATES BILL OF RIGHTS ANNIVERSARY
Sim Staff Photo. Waiting for ceremonies at City Hall Plaza to begin. HAILS OUR BILL OF RIGHTS "Time will turn back," said the! Governor, "to the medieval ages Many Patriotic Groups March to when man was merely a beast of burden, without rights, without LEHMAN WARNS City Hall to Participate in Hope and without dignity. If we Anniversary Rally. lose this fight, freedom will dis- appear utterly from the face of OF PERILS THAT the earth." sephus camels If the United States loses this In City Hall Park wher. tern war, time will turn back 150 big billboards had been erected,' S BESET FREEDOM years, Gov. Lehman declared to- each displaying in large letters' day in an address on the steps one clause of the Bill of Rights,! Mayor LaGuardia told about i of the Sub-Treasury Building at 5,000 persons at noon that Hitler, Tune Will Be Set Back 150 Broad and Wall streets in one Muss^ini and the Mikado could of several ceremonies in vvnich not i e main in power if their victory Years if feta**, He Says the city joined the nation to ob- countries had such an instru- Gov. L ment. fc* the Allies a a. 1.1 PAGES 20 AND 21 DAILY MIRROR TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1941
A dense crowd stands bareheaded in City Hall Plaza, beneath a mon- tage of the Bill of Rights, celebrat- ing 150th anniversary of adoption of Liberty that freedom-giving document. (Mirror) fo the Fight!' Brandishing a fist to em- phasize his fiery words, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia told listeners at Bill of Rights Day ceremonies, "It is not sufficient to celebrate what we have. We must devote ourselves to holding what we have."
The crowd stands bare- headed as the "Star Spangled Banner" rings out over City Hall Plaza. Color guards from veteran and patriotic organizations presented the massing of colors as a setting for the anthem. (Mirror) ----- (Mirror(.Mirror)j I Another commemorative ceremony was held at the Sub-| . ! Treasury Building, beneath the statue of our first presi- f ) dent, George Washington. Gov. Lehman is shown speaking. |
. LONG WAR, BUT Tokio, Texas, Wants K. •• Tokio, Tex., Dec. 15 (U.R).— WORTHWHILE, IS "K. O. Tokio" was adopted to- day as the slogan of this little West Texas town of three stores, a school and a few dozen houses. LEHMAN VIEW "We don't want to change the name of the town," said D. E. j A long, hard war wiih enemies! Green, postmaster, "but we'd j"more ruthless, more cruel, more, like to see some American ambitious than any that ever-ex-i bombers change the city it's isted on this earth," laces the; named for." American people, Gov. Lehman de- clared yesterday before a cheering Mathias Correa, U. S. Attorney; 'ert i Frederick H. Crane, former chief throng of 2,000 persons at 1 cises commemorating the 350th an- judge of the Court of Appeals, niversary of the Bill of Eights. and Marke Eisner, former chair- The ceremonies were conducted man of the Board of Higher at 12:30 P. M. in front of the Sub- Education. Treasury Building, Wall and Nas- (Picture on page 31) sau Sts., site of the former Federal Hall and first U. S. Capitol, where the Bill of Rights was passed by the first Congress on Sept. 25,1789. Part of the program came by radio from Richmond, Va., where final ratification was voted Dec. 15,1791. Freedom Won by War. "Freedom was not achieved the easy way, but was won by long, agonizing war," the Governor said. "In this war, victory will be ours, and of that there can be no doubt." In City Hall Plaza at noon, about 6,000 persons, including war veterans and members of patriotic societies, heard Mayor LaGuardia declare it a day for "dedicating our lives to the protection and preservation of the liberties and lights contained in these 10 amend- ments." "It is not going to be an easy task," LaGuardia said. "We can- pot do it by speeches. We must do it by offering our lives. It will be costly in lives, but worthwhile." Bill of Rights Read. T)nrini» the Bill of Rights Is Observed Solemnly" Both Governor and the Mayor Warn of Trials Ahead of U. S. The Bill of Rights, the document that guarantees our individual liberties and incorporated in our Consti- tution 150 years ago with the ratification (by Virginia Dec. 15, 1791, was heralded today by Gov. Lehman and Mayor La Guardia in the first of a series of commemora- tive rallies throughout the city. Nationwide observance will cul-* minate tonight in network, broad- Bill of Rights was the supreme casts scheduled from 10 to lip.m., issue in this war. when President Roosevelt will "This is a dedication, rather speak during the last quarter-hour than a commemoration of the Bill of the program, of Rights," the Mayor told the 'Grave Days Ahead.' assembled crowd of some 2000. The tone of oov. Lehman's ad- "They mark the contrast between dress was serious as he spoke from a democracy and a dictatorship. the Sub-Treasury steps at Wall Could Hitler, the Mikado and and Nassau Sts., built on the site Mussolini remain in power if where George Washington took his those countries had freedom of oath of office as our first Presi- speech? Why, of course not! dent. "Could they last at all, if their "There are grave days ahead," people had the freedom to assem- the Governor warned. "There will ble and discuss public issues? be nights of anxiety and agony. Could they for a moment have Death and suffering are inevitable. freedom of religion when the Mi- No one of us can escape paying a kado and Hitler are deluded into price in life and limb or in tears believing they are ersatz of the and suffering. Almighty? America is ready. "Do not let - us be under any Men and women of New York, -delusion," cautioned the Gov- on to the fignt!" ernor. "It is no easy task to ; The Mayor's dramatic call to which we have set ourselves. But arms closed the colorful meeting, victory will be ours—of that there which, included the reading of the can be no doubt. We will not Bill of Rights by Helen Hayes and compromise with the forces of the singing of the Star Spangled evil." To do sp,- Gov. Lehman 'jBanner by Rise Stevens of the said, "would turn us back to me- Metropolitan Opera. dieval ages, when man was mere- ly a beast of burden, without rights, without hope, without dig- nity." Two-way Broadcast, A two-way broadcast of the Governor's speech was made with Virginia, Gov. James H. Price of that-state responding. Mayor La Gliardia, addressing veterans' organizations from the •teps at City Hall, said that the
06 0 ^-0.03^_ or can Legion, a group of Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls, and; !50th Yr.of'Rights'Bill the Fort Jay band added color! to the scene. Hilda Burke, of the Metropolitan Opera, was dressed r> as Miss Liberty as she sang the A Hailed in Ceremonies national anthem. ,,_ i Bill of Rights Day, the 150th anniversary of the adop- L tion of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, was *. Statement y celebrated throughout New York yesterday in ceremonies, The President and Mrs, Roose- the most elaborate of which took place on City Hall steps. velt were unable to att«nd a M A parade that began in Foley.,. luncheon held by^, the Bill of I Square joined 7,000 persons who Rights Sesqui-Centennial Com- lives. Men and women of New mittee yesterday, but the Presi- R heard the Mayor's address, the York, on to the ght!" R Bill of Rights read by Helen On the steps of the Sub-Treas- dent greeted the rally in a letter O Hayes and the "Star Spangled ury Building, the site of Federal R Banner" sung by Rose Stevens, Hall, where the Bill of Rights accompanied by Meyer Davis. was passed by the first Congress, T Ten huge posters, each bearing one of the amendments, were Gov. Lehman spoke o na radio U backdrops. program that picked up greetings E from Gov. Price of Virginia, S Marching were' the American speaking from the steps of the w D Legion, Veterans of Foreign State Capitol in Richmond. Gov. A Wars, the GAR, the United Span- Lehman said: ish War Veterans, the Catholic I
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I I In the midst of a war to pre- bar said that the events of the serve their freedom, Americans last week had given new signifi- celebrated today the 150th an- cance to the 150th anniversary niversary of the adoption of 1he of the Bill of Rights, at cere- BiU of Rights, the constitutional monies held in the U. S. Court guarantee of their civil liberties. House under the auspices of the The climax of the day will Federal Bar Assn. of New York, come tonight, when President New Jersey and Connecticut. Roosevelt will speak over all U. S. Atty. Correa, one of the radio networks between 10 and speakers, said that the prin- 11 p. m. ciples ofjhe Bill of Rights would Mayor LaGuardia set the not be disregarded in the treat- o theme for the observance in ment of enemy aliens although New York City at ceremonies they had no claim to its privil- under the auspices of patriotic eges. societies and veterans' organi- After the City Hall exercises zations in City Hall Plaza at LaGuardia spoke at a luncheon noon. at the Hotel Commodore spon- "It is not a day of celebra- sored by the Bill of Rights Ses- t:on," he said. "It is a day qui-Centennial Committee. Ethel o of dedication, of dedication of Barrymore read Mason's orig- cv.r lives to the protection and inal manuscript lent for the oc- 2 preservation of the liberties and casion by Dr. A. S. W. Rosen- rights contained in the ten bach. amendments. The Bill of Rights On public display at the Li- brings out the issue in the brary of Congress today was world today, the conflict be- the Journal of the House of Rep- tween democracy and dictator- resentatives for Aug. 21, 1789, ship. If the Axis Powers are the day Congress voted to sub- o to prevail, the Bill of Rights mit the charter of liberty to the goes into the discard, and we states. do not intend to discard it." Rally at Commodore He declared that totalitarian -I governments could not endure President Roosevelt, in his for a moment if their people proclamation calling for observ- had the rights of speech and ance of the day, said that "those assembly guaranteed in the Bill who have long enjoyed such of Rights. privileges as we enjoy in time Helen Hayes Reads that men have died to win "Could they for a moment them." have freedom of religion," he Undersecretary of War Pat- asked, "when the Mikado and terson, speaking last night at fc Hitler are deluded into believ- dinner held by St. Paul's ing that they are the ersatz for Church, Eastchester, at the Wal- the Almighty?" dorf Astoria, said the war would The massing of the colors in result in voluntary abridgement City Hall Plaza took place be- of some civil rights, but attack- fore a background of 10 huge ed ihe "sterile dogma" that the bunting-draped placards, each U. S. cannot organize effectively bearing one of the articles of to protect democracy without the Bill of Rights. Helen Hayes losing democracy at home. read the text of the Constitu- "The sacrifices we civilians tional guarantees. will be called upon to make will Gov. Lehman, speaking from b* trifling indeed compared to the steps of the Subtreasury at the sacrifice of the men who Broad and Wall Sts., declared laid down their lives at Pearl b the war "an all-out fight be- Harbor and Luzon," he said. tween freedom loving peoples The National Assn. of Manu- and the enemies of freedom." facturers marked the annivers- "They or we must go," he ary by issuing a statement de- said. "They or we must survive. claring that America's industrial If we lose this fight, freedom progress, made possible by the • will disappear utterly from the Bill of Rights, will bring the face of the earth." U. S. "ultimate, smashing vic- He took part in a two-way tory in this war." broadcast with Gov. James H. Picture on Page 6. Price of Virginia, who spoke from the steps of the Capitol at Richmond. It was Virginia which voted on Dec. 15, 1791, the final rati- fication of the Bill of Rights necessary to make it a part of the Constitution. TJie Subtreasury here was the place where Congress met. TO pass the Bill of Rights and send it to the states for ratification. Prominent' members of the NEW YOU in Liberty Rabbi David De Salo Pool, of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue spoke on "The Four Freedoms." Finds New Voice Lawrence A. McNally, New York County Commander 'of the Amer- ican Legion, acted as Marshal of At City If all Rite the parade, which formed at Foley A vast triangle of living faith — faith in Square. , VIRGINIAN SPEAKS. {democracy, in man's will to freedom, in the con- The program at the Sub-Treas- quering power of democracy made militant — filled ury, highlighted by Gov. Lehman's City Hall Park today in one of the most stirring address, also featured broadcast of patriotic celebrations in New York history. a speech by Gov. James Price of "VYhil American flags waved in a soft Decem- Virginia, frcm the steps of the ber breeze, more than 7,000 State Capitol at Richmond, Va. pien and women heard Mayor The Sub-Treasury building here LaGuardia at City Hall exer- "GRAVE DAYS AHEAD." is site of the old Federal Hall, first cises pay tribute to the Bill of "There are grave days ahead, capitol of the United States. It Death and suffering are inevitable. was in the Virginia capitol that •Eights on its 150th anniversary Wo one of us can escape paying a the State Legislature ratified the jloday with a terse, 300-word Price in life and limb, or in tears Bill of Rights on Dec. 15 1791— address which concluded: and suffering. the final state action required to "The people of New York stand make the document law. "There will be a task for each Amwngr otrrer ceremonies today united with all the people of all «ne of us. Each must be a cog in the cities of America to do their was that in Fairfax, Va., where (the great machine that will move Vice-President Wallace visited part. Men and women of New slowly but steadily forward York--on to the fight!" j crush barbarism and to Gunston Hall, home of George Thus New York joined the na- nd paganism Mason, the farmer-patriot-states- to bring lasting peace and man who drew up the great docu- tion in commemorating an im- war torn mortal document for which Amer- Worid" agaIn * - ment. icans died a century and a half i Listening to the Governor as he PRESIDENT'S WORDS. ago and for which another genera- spoke: were Winthrop Aldrich, rep- President Roosevelt's proclama- tion of Americans is fighting resenting the State Chamber of tion calling for the celebration to- m merce: again. l£ , Maj.-Gen. Irving J. day read in part: A NEW MEANING. jPhillipson, commanding the 2d "These who have enjoyed such The roar of planes, the crash of Corp. Area; George McAneny. privileges as we enjoy forget In feembs in the distant Pacific, gave chairman of the Federal Hall time that men have died to win B«\7 significance to today's day- Memorial Associates, and Alexan* them. They come in time to take mng, coast-to-coast* celebration der Hamilton, president of the these rights for granted and to as- which is to be climaxed tonight by New York Chapter, Sons of th» sume their protection is assured. President Roosevelt's radio ad- American Revolution, and great-' "We, however, who have seen dress at 10:45 p. m. these privileges lost in other con- "This should be a day of dedi- tinents and other countries can cation, rather than celebration," jreat-grandson of the first Sec- now appreciate their meaning to declared the Mayor, sounding the retary of the Treasury. those people who enjoyed them keynote of the national observ- Hilda Burke, Metropolitan once and now no longer can. We ances as Director of Civilian De- Opera soprano, sang, accompanied understand in some measure what fense. 'A day of dedicating our by the Fort Jay Band from Gov- their loss can mean." 'lives to the protection and preser- ernors Island. , Gov. Lehman, Mayor LaGuardia vrtion of the liberties and rights Fire Department bands played, and U. S. Senator Mead are sche- in these ten Amendments. a veterans' parade which began at duled to address the Bill of Rights "It is not sufficient to celebrate, 11 o'clock brought color and mag- dinner of the Americanism Com- what we have. We must devote nificance to the scene and the mittee, Kings County American ourselves to holding what we have. noonday hour was impressive with Legion, at the St. George Hotel, My friends, that means fight. silence as Council President New- Brooklyn, tonight. "It is not going to be an easy bold Morris, chairman of the day, task. It is going to be hard, and introduced Rise Stevens, who sang difficult, and trying, and long. It the Star Spangled Banner. • will be costly in lives, but worth- Among those who stood witJ while. bared heads were two Civil War "As Mayor of New York, I am Veterans, Robert S. Heifertz, 95, proud to say that New York City and Thomas H. Stritch, also. 95. —a typical American city, peopled Helen Hayes, stage star, read the i the descendants of every Bill of Rights in a clear voice which country in the world—stands echoed into the far reaches of the united, ready to do its part." park. Right Rev. Mons. Francis Almost as the Mayor spoke, Gov. W. Walsh, Vicar Delegate of the Lehman, addressing a companion Army and Navy Diocese, gave the assembly at the steps of the sub^ invocation and Dr. Theodore D. Treasury, warned: Savage, president of the Federa- "Victory will be ours—of that tion of Churches, gave the bene- b. there can be no doubt. We will fication. _v^™-_ —— not compromise with the forces of evil. But UJ not let us be under any delusion. Governor Lehman was the prin- 1 cipal speaker at the New York end i dom of religion when the Mikado j of the broadcast and Governor and Hitler are deluded into believ-' James H. Price of Virginia spoke ing that they are the Ersatz for the from Richmond., Two thousand Almighty? And, therefore, if the men and women gathered before Axis powers are to prevail, the the steps of the Sub-Treasury at Bill of Rights goes into the discard, noon and the radio audience heard and we do not Intend to discard it. the program over a network of the "It is not sufficient to celebrate National Broadcasting Company. what we have. We must devote j ourselves to holding what we have. "If we lose this conflict with bar- My friends, that means fight. That barism," Governor Lehman de- means fight. It is not going to be clared, "time will turn back much an easy task. We cannot do it by more than 150 years. It will turn speeches. We must do it by offer- OF BILL OF RIGHTS back to the medieval ages when ing our lives. It will be costly in man was merely a beast of burden, lives, but worthwhile. America is without rights, without hope and ready. Men and women of New Determination to Preserve Its without dignity. If we lose this York, on to the fight!" fight, freedom will disappear utter- ly from the face of the earth." The Rev. Dr. Theodore Savage, Freedoms Is the Keynote of president of the American Federa- Rallies and Speeches The Governor pointed out that tion of Churches, and Rabbi David each man and woman In the coun- De Sola Pool of the Spanish and try was "a sentinel on duty" and Portuguese Synagogue joined that each "must be a cog in the the ceremony. I great machine that will move slow- ROOSEVELT LETTER READ ly but steadily forward to crush Luncheon Bally Held barbarism and paganism and to The letter from President Roose- bring lasting peace and security I velt was read by Herbert Bayard Thousands Hear Lehman and again to a war-torn world." I Swope, national chairman of the The Virginia Governor said half I Bill of Rights Sesquicentennial La Guardia at Meetings in the world was without liberty to- Committee, at a luncheon rally at day and that the freedom of the the Commodore Hotel. Mr. Swope ' Wall St. and at City Hall' United States was threatened. also read telegrams from William j "What the United States does Green, president of the American i now will Influence the trends of the Federation of Labor; Philip Mur- < The 150th anniversary of the Bill world for generations to come," he of Rights was celebrated grimly by said. an America at war yesterday with 5,000 Hear Mayor warnings that the nation is, en- ray, chairman of the Congress of gaged in an "all-out fight" against Mayor La Guardia told another '^Industrial Organizations, and Wil- noon crowd of 5,000 at City Hall the "irreconcilable enemies of free- liam P. Witherow, president of the that neither the Mikado, Hitler nor National Association of Manufac- dom" and that we must "win the Mussolini could remain in power if turers. All pledged their utmost war or lose our freedom." the people of their countries en- fefforts in the preservation of the President Roosevelt, in a letter joyed the freedoms granted by the ^liberties guaranteed by the Bill of ddressed to one of several rallies Bill of Rights. Rights. n this city, said it was "precisely Flanked by veterans, the Mayor stood before massed flags as he Speakers at the luncheon includ- or the preservation of the rights spoke. Rise Stevens, Metropolitan ed Mayor La Guardia and Josephus guaranteed by the first ten Opera soprano, sang the national Daniels, former Ambassador to | mendments of the Constitution," anthem, and Mgr. Francis W. Mexico and Secretary of the Navy Walsh, vicar-delegate of the Army fin the first World War. onstituting the bill of Rights, that Mayor La Guardia warned that we are now compelled to fight." and Navy Diocese, delivered the in- vocation. Helen Hayes, actress, the war would be "hard, difficult, "No clearer or more eloquent read the ten articles of the Bill of long and costly in lives," because tatement of our cause was ever Rights. Then Mayor La Guardia it would take time for the nation spoke. to be transformed "into a gigantic written than is embodied in the j military machine." American Bill of Rights," he wrote. "The very provisions of the Bill of Rights bring out the issue in Mr. Daniels said Western Hemi- Rally at Old Federal Hall the world today," he said, "the con- sphere solidarity in the face of trast between a democracy and a f aggression was a result of this One of the principal events of the dictatorship. country's "Good Neighbor Policy." ay was a rally in connection with Other speakers included Profes- a radio hookup between the Sub- "Could Hitler, the Mikado or| por James T. Shotwell of Colum- Treasury Building in Wall Street, Mussolini remain In power if their ' bia University who traced the Bill people had freedom of speech? Of i of Rights to its source in "the his- ite of the old Federal Hall, and course not. Could their governments he Virginia State Capitol at Rich- > iory of English freedom," and retain power if they had a pro- '• j George Gordon Battle, co-chairman nond, focal points of the adoption vision as to the right to bear arms ? S j of the Council Against Intolerance f the Bill of Rights. It was at the Could they last at all if their peo- I ' |n America and one of the found- Id Federal Hall, first Capitol of pie were free to assemble and dis- \ (j fers of the Bill of Rights Sesquicen- he United States, that the first cuss public issues? Could they [ liennial Committee. Congress enacted the Bill of Rights, maintain concentration camps and * ,nd it was in Virginia that ratifi- continue a policy of persecution if i they had a proviso for indictment \ ation by the Virginia Legislature and trial by jury? Not at all. } n Dec. 15, 5 791, gave the final Could they for a moment have free- tate ratification necessary to tiake the amendments effective.
Q i i i By Wilella Waldorf: "There Shall Be No Night/1 Another War Victim, Ends Tour Thursday Add "There Shall Be No Since then, of course, little Night" to the mounting list of Finland has been moved about theatrical casualties caused by on the European checkerboard 3 our entrance into World War II. until it is now .an ally of Nazi 1 Robert E. Sherwood, author Germany. When the Lunts set 2 of the play which concerns the out on their season's tour this e Russo-Finnish conflict of 1939- fall, doubt was expressed in e 40, decided Saturday that the some quarters that the trek time has come to remove it from would be a success, and Mr. d the boards, and the production Sherwood was reported rewrit- is will accordingly close its tour ing his script to meet new condi- is with Thursday night's perform- tions. This, however, he flatly •d ance in Rochester, Minn. Alfred denied, and the play went on the le Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, who road exactly as it was originally, h head the company, had already except for one or two changes R. made plans to interrupt their in cast. According to the man- ie tour after the Rochester date in agement, the average weekly re- r- order to spend Christmas on ceipts have exceeded $20,000 and )0 their farm near Genesee Depot, not a singla critic has objected it Wis. The company was sched- to the Finnish background of o the play. )0 uled to reopen in Duluth on Dec. 26. Now, however, it will have Now that we find ourselves at t- a longer vacation than anybody war with the Axis powers, how- s- had anticipated. ever, Mr. Sherwood has decided ie It is, of course, too early to- that "the best interests of this 18 make predictions regarding the country" will be served by clos- j future activities of the Lunts, ing the production. r- but there is a good chance that Several other theatrical ven- the premature closing of "There tures have also been directly af- i. Shall Be No Night'1 means that fected by our entrance into the they will return to Broadway war. jWhen the Japanese at- after the New Year in a new tacked Hawaii, Jose Ferrer was an play. about to produce on Broadway •a The Playwrights' Company, a merry farce entitled "The Ad- lr- which produced "There Shall Be miral Had a Wife" laid, of all •d. No Night" in association with places, at the Pearl Harbor Na- id the Theatre Guild, has only one val Base. Needless to fcay, It a play running on Broadway at never opened. in present — Maxwell Anderson's The Gilbert and Sullivan com- nt "Candle in the Wind," starring pany touring under Shubert >y Helen Hayes, also presented in auspices, after opening in Balti- association with the Guild. Al- more last week with "The Mi- u- though Mr. Sherwood is said to kado," hastily removed that s, have been laboring on a new work from the repertoire, as did s, script, he has devoted much of the Savoy Opera Guild, which IS his time in recent months to holds forth in New York at the .1- government work in Washing- Cherry Lane Theatre. "The .2 ton, D. C, and was immediately Mikado," to be sure, is hardly recalled by the President when a pro-Japanese operetta, but a- the Japs attacked Hawaii. managers are inclined to take n Mr. Anderson, S. N. Behrman no chances in times like these. c- and Elmer Rice, his partners in is the Playwrights' Company, also have new. plays on the way, but Stage News none of them seems to be far Nicholas Joy, Frederic Wor- enough along to justify definite lock and Lloyd Gough will be production plans. It has been featured in Aldrich and Myers' pretty generally understood, in production of "Portrait of a fact, that the Playwrights' Com- Lady," starrinf Ruth Gordan. pany would probably step out- Recent additions to the cast have side its membership and pro been Mary Sargent, Jean Mann Kinpslev's "Thomas and Lyle Bettger. "The First Crocus" will have a five- day pre-Broadway en- gagement at the Maryland Theatre in Baltimore beginning Tuesday, Dec. 23. TV Edward Hambleton plans to open the Arnold Sundgaard comedy on Monday night, Dec. 29. Tickets for Billy Rose's pro- duction of Clifford Odets' "Clash by Night," having its New York :| premiere at the Belasco Th*»a-