THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Colonel Roosevelt's career has left
such a vivid impression upon the
people of his time that it is neces
sary to touch hut briefly upon some
of the more strikng phases of his
varied, interesting and “strenuous”
life to recall to the public mind
full details of his many exploits and
experiences.
Called to the White House in
1901 after President McKinley had
been assassinated, Col. Roosevelt,
-12 years of age, became the young
est president the United States ever
had. Three years later he was elect
ed as President by the largest popu
lar vote a president has received.
Thus Roosevelt, sometimes called
a man of destiny, served for seven
years as the nation’s chief magis
trate. In a subsequet decade the
fortunes of politics did not favor
him, for, again a candidate for
president — this time leading the Pro-1
gressive Party which he himself
had organized when he differed radi
cally with some of the policies of
the Republican Party in 1912—he
went down to defeat, together with i
the Republican candidate, William
Howard Taft. Woodrow Wilson,1
Democrat, was elected.
Col. Roosevelt’s enemies agreed
with his friends that his life, his;
character and his writings repre
sented a high type of Americanism. ■
Of Dutch ancestry, born in New!
York City on October 27, 1858, in
a house in East Twentieth Street,
the baby Theodore was a weakling.
He was one of our children who
came to Theodore and Martha Bul
loch Roosevelt. The mother was of
Southern stock and the father of
Northern.
His father, a glass importer and
a man of means, was his constant
companion during his youth, and he
was tutored privately because of his
delicate health. At the age of 17
he entered Harvard University.
There his puny body underwent a
metamorphosis and before gradua
tion he became one of the champion
boxers of the college. This remark
able physicul development was em
l&asized by something which took
place shortly after he left Harvard
m 1880.,He went to Europe, climbed
the Matterhorn, and as a result was
elected a member of the Alpine
Club of London—an organization
of men who had performed notable
feats of endeavor.
A few months after his gradua
tion, Roosevelt married Miss Alice
"Lee of Boston. She died in 1X84,
■leaving one child, Alice, now the
wife of Representative Nicholas
Longworth, of Ohio. In 1X86 Roose-|
velt married Miss Edith Kermit
Carow, of New York, and to them
five children were born—Edith, now
the wife of Dr. "Richard Derby, and |
foil* sons, Theodore, Jr., Kermit, j
Archibald and Quentin.
The public career of the man whoj
was to bf’cme President began not]
long after he left college. His pro
fession w. law but the activities]
that were to c-me left him no time
an which to practice it In 1882,
1883 and b1 he was elected to
the fTew York State Assembly,
,vhe' ' nis efforts on behalf of good
govt xncnt and civil service reform
attracted attention. When the Re
public i Nstional Convention of
1884 won held in Chicago, he was
chair-r. n nf the New York State
<le legal ■: -n.
After this tperience he dropped
out of polities for two years- Go
ing West, he purchased ranches
along the Little Missouri river, in
N'orth Dakota, and divided his time
between outdoor sports, partcularly
hunting, and literary work. Here
he laid the foundation for his series
of books, “The Winning of the
West" which was published in 1889
to 1890, and of other volumes of
kindred character.
Returning to New York he be
came the Republican candidate for
mayor, in 1880. He was defeated.
President Harrison in 1889 ap
pointed him a member of the United
States Civil Service Commission and
President Cleveland continued him
in this office, which he resigned in
1890 to become New York’s police
commissioner.
Honesty was the watchword of
this administration, and the two
years of his occupancy became me
morable through the reforms he
inaugurated, attracting the nation’s
attention while holding a position
which was obscure in comparison
with the events to come. The repu
tation he established as a reformer
won him the personal solicitation
by President McKinley as assistant
secretary of the navy, in 1897. A
year later thu Spanish-American
War broke out.
The Roosevelt temperament did
not allow the man to retain a dep
uty cabinet position with war offer
ing something more exciting; Leon
ard Wood, now a major-general in
France, was then President McKin
ley's physician and one of Roose
velt’s staunchest friends.
The famous Rough Riders were
organized by Wood and Roosevelt,
and Wood became their colonel and
“Teddy” their lieutenant-colonel. In
company with the regulars of the
army, they took transports to Cuba,
landed at Santiago and were soon
engaged in the thick of battle.
Among the promotions which this
hardy regiment’s gallantry brought
about were those of Wood to briga
dier-general and Roosevelt to col
onel.. Some of the Rough Riders
formed the military escort when he
was elected President a few years
later.
When Cuba had been liberated,
Roosevelt returned to New York. A
gubernatorial campaign was in full
swing, with the Republican Party
in need of a capable candidate.
Roosevelt was nominated. Van
Wyek, his Democratic opponent, was
defeated. The reforms Roosevelt
had favored as assemblyman he
now had the opportunity to con
sumate, together with others of more
importance, and it was during this
administration that he is said first
to have earned the hostility of cor
porations.. When the Republican
national convention was held in
Philadelphia in 1900 his paTty in
New York state demanded and at
tained' his nomination for vice
president on the ticket with William
McKinley. In November of that
year this ticket was elected1..
The policies of McKinley, Roose
velt errd’eavored tw carry out' after
he succeeded the former upon the
President’s tragic death at the hands
of an assassin. Roosevelt retained
his predecessor’s cabinet as his own
and he kept in office the ambassa
dors and ministers whom McKinley
had appointed. As much as two
years before the Presidential cam
paign of 1904, Republican organi
zations in various states began en
' dorsing him as their next candidate
At the height of his public and
political career, during the four
years of the term for which he had
been elected, Roosevelt aecomplishec
achievements which historians wil
rank high in the international anc
industrial progress of the country
They included his influential nego
tiations which, conducted at Ports
mouth, N. H., effected peace be
tween Russia and Japan; mainten
ance of the Monroe Doctrine at e
period when European powers wert
interested in the affairs of Vene
zuela; the recognition of Panama
as a republic and his treaty with
Panama, by which the inter-oceanic
canal through that country was put
under way; and the settlement, thru
his moral influence in the face* of
a situation in which there was no
adequate federal legislation, of the
Pennsylvania coal mine strike. For
his part in terminating the Russo
Japanese conflict he was awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906. Four
years later, once more a private citi
zen, he was special ambassador
from the United States at the funeral
of King Edward VII of England.
A rift in the friendship between
Roosevelt and his successor as Presi
dent William Uowad Taft, led to
the former’s announcement of his
opposition to Mr. Taft’s renomina
tion. The ex-President’s influence
had been large in placing Mr. Taft
in the White House. Now his in
fluence was equally strong in pre
venting Mr. Taft from remaining
there. Men who had clashed with
the Taft policies quickly rallied to
Roosevelt’s support Roosevelt then
assembled what he termed as eon
stuctive ideas as opposed to the con
servative ones of the so-called Re
publican “Old Guard”, characterized
them with the description “Pro
gressive” and organized the Pro
gressive Party by withdrawing with
his followers from the Chicago con
vention of 1912. He became the
new party’s candidate for President.
This split in the Republican ranks
resulted in Woodrow Wilson's elec
tion.
During this campaign, as he was
leaving a hotel, in Milwaukee, to go
to a meeting hall to make a political
address, a man standing among the
spectators in the street fired a sKot
which struck the Colonel and smash
ed a rib. Though he speedily re
covered, the bullet was never re
moved. The assassin was sent to an
asylum for the insane.
Roosevelt after leaving the White
House devoted his life largely to
literary work, hunting and explora
tion. He became contributing editor
to the OutlooV in 1909, continuing
this for five years, and later held
editorial positions with the Metro
politan and the Kansas City Star.
From 1882 to 1917 he published
about fifty volumes of works cover
ing the wide range of naval history,
hunting, biography, the Rough
Riders, Americanism, Nationalism,
conservation of womanhood and
childhood, animals, exploration, the
world war and America’s participa
tion in it, and his autobiagraphy.
His hunts for big game and his zest
for exploration took him into the
Amercan West, the heart of Africa
and the wilderness of Brazil.
Upon his return from his African
journey—a return during which he
made triumphant entries into Euro
pean capitals and was "ecci»'eJ by
nations’ rulers, including the em
peror of Germany—he arrived in
i New V'ork to experience what was
generally conceded to be the great
est ovation an American private
I citizen was ever accorded by the
i people of his country. This was in
11910. At the head of an exploring
1 party in South America in 1914 he
j discovered and followed for 600
] miles a Madeira river tributary
j which the Brazilian government sub
I sequently named, in his honor Reo
! Theodore- This was the famous
j “River of Doubt”—so called because
i in many quarters considered author
i itative it was questioned whether
! Roosevelt was the first man to ex
1 plore the stream. During this jour
ney the President contracted jungle
fever which was held indirectly re
' sponsible for the abscesses which
developed malignantly and required
several operations at the Roosevell
Hospital in New York City, in 1918
When the European war began
Roosevelt vigorously advocated s
policy of national preparedness, urg
ing universal military training foi
the nation’s youth.
With the United States a bellig
erent, Roosevelt endeavored to ob
tain the consent of the war depart
men to establish an * rmy division
which he was anxious to take to
France, but the necessary permission
was not forthcoming even though
Roosevelt expressed willingness to
accompany it as a subordinate
officer. Denied the privilege of
fighting for his flag Roosevelt’s
interest was centered on his family’s
participation in the war. His four
sons and his son-in-law, Dr. Derby,
carried out a prediction made ny the
former President before the United
States took up arms- chat if war
came they would enter the service.
Theodore .Jr., became a major ana
Archibald a captam, both in France;
Quentin entered a French aviation
squadron, and Dr. Derby the medical
service, also both n France- Ker
mit, failing to pass a physical ex
amination which would admit him
to the United Slates a,my, receixed
a commission in the British army
and was soon in Mesopotamia.
TO REBUILD FRANCE
—
To reconstruct the destroyed por
tions of France architecturally as
they were before they were ruined
by the Germans is the purpose of
the French government as outlined
by Bernard J. Shoniger, formerly
president of the American Chamber
of Commerce in Paris.
The French government plans to.
accomplish this by reimbursing in
dividuals for their shattered homes,
mills and factories according to:
their value before their destruction,
Mr. Shoninger recently told the
1 executive committee of the Phila
delphia Chamber of Commerce.
Ultimately, he said, Germany
will pay the bill for restoration.
Throughout the war, he added,
French boards of appraisers have
been estimating the values of prop-j
erty destroyed by the Huns and now
have accurate data. To those who i
desire to rebuild, the French gov- j
ernment will issue indemnity bonds
.up to 80 per cent of the former -
value of his property. While the
external appearance of the build
ings rebuilt will be retained, Mr.
Shoninger said, the interiors will be
[constructed in modern, sanitary1
style.
Referring to the fact that the'
French government has made ar-'
rangements to purchase materials;
for reconstruction by pooling or
combining its orders, he suggested I
that American manufacturers would |
be asked to supply some materials!
and that they promote the forma
tion of selling combinations so that
possible huge orders for construe-'
tion - materials from France could
be rapidly assimilated.
E TO VISIT
UP RIVER WORKS
Frederick D. Browne, eningeer in
charge, will leave Nenana, weather
permitting, on Wednesday morning,
January 8, for Fairbanks.
He will be accompanied by Mrs.
Browne, and will make the journey
to the upper town along the right
of way, taking the train into Fair
banks at the end of steel on the
Happy division, near Spinach creek.
Mr. Browne will inspect the work
along the right of way and will also
select suitable sites for the estab
lishment of engineering camps and
supply depots for the pushing for
ward of construction work on the
Nenana-Fairbanks line next season.
The necessary supplies are to be
sent before the break-up and as he
is anxious to make a commencement
with active construction as early as
possibly, the men who will be in
charge of the work along the line
will probably be established in the
various camps early in April.
Mr. Browne is combining business
wth pleasure, and will attend the
smoker to be held by the Tanana
Valley Agricultural Association in
Fairbanks on Saturday night, to
which he has been invited.
“Silence is golden,” observed the
Sage.
“Maybe that is why the average
wife is always broke,” commented
the Fool.
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DALLAS, Tex—More than 25,000 !
flyers have won their “winds’’ at:
Camp Dick, the greatest concentra-:
tion camp in the United States,
since last .January. This was re
vealed for the first time in figures
made available by the end of the
war.
The Dallas camp, while neither a
ground school nor a flying school,
was the neck of the bottle through
which practically all aviators who.
have entered the service since its J
estalishment, Jan. 30, 1918, have |
passed. It was designed as a place
in which the morale of the aviators
could be maintained while the men,
were in transition from one stage
of development to another.
Men came to it from the five
chief ground schools, Princeton,
Cornell and the Texas, Illinois and
California universities. The length
of their stay depended upon the
room available in the flying fields;
to which they were sent as soon as j
possible. Unless they could be
sent direct to the advanced flying
fields, they were kept at Camp Dick
to await assignment. Thus the men
were able to keep up their studies
in a military atmosphere during pe
riods when they could not be cared j
for at the schools.
The success of the plan is shown ;
by figures of the men enrolled, i
Since the camp’s opening there have :
been registered 7,908 flying officers, I
321 non-flying officers, 49 medical]
officers, 18,066 flying cadets, two;
enlisted squadrons of 300 men, a
medical detachment of 90 men and
a quartermasters detachment of 15
men. The camp, which was con
ceived and established by Colonel
E. Z. Steever, is now commanded
by Captain Ormsby McCammon. j
WANT ADS
DOG FISH—8c a pound. Johnson’s
Store. 13
LOST—A Grey Husky Dojf, about
Nov. 27th; has collar on neck.
Finder return to Cochin’s store.
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