Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-08-28
T.R. OUR ONE BEST "AD',

Advertising an advertisement is sometimes good advertising. Modern shopkeepers in this country, for instance, often have purely ad- vertsing display in their shops, but they must needs advertise that fact in the newspapers be- fore the display is able to do what it is intend ed to do-advertise the shop.
 The greatest American advertisement is now circulating in the wilds of Africa, but the good publicity work he has done in the past has not ceased. A Washington traveller who has just returned from tour around the world declares that the personality of Theodore Roosevelt is the most powerful agent in bringing about the change of attitude of all foreigners toward Americans.
 Calling it is to our pride, it must be con fessed that the great majority of foreigners pay about as much attention to American affairs and politics as Americans do to the affairs and politics in New Zealand They know that some interesting industrial and political experiments are being tried out in the United States-that is a except that America is where the tourists come from
 Mr. Roosevelt, not as an advertiser, but as an advertisement, brought the people of all the world to a realization that Washington must be watched every minute. Consequently every American who now travels abriad and meets people is overwhelmed with questions about Roosevelt, opinions about Roosevelt, predic- tions about Roosevelt
 Says the Washington traveller quoted above cit was almost impossible to talk Oriental pol itics with Europeans. They wanted to talk American politics to an American, and their mo- tions on the subject were entirely surrounded ID Al Dutch banker of Amsterdam whom I met on board ship in the Orient. He sat at my side at table, and opposite was an Englishman and German. The Dutchman was proud of Roose- velt's lineage but blamed him for panic in which Amsterdam has suffered. The English man hated Roosevelt because he was convinced that the latter was secretly aiding and abettng Lloyd George to increase the income tax. The German worshiped Roosevelt as dynamic so- caist'
 English was the language at the dinner table. The German was entirely at home with both the Engishman and me, and the English man admitted that he could understand most of what said in American The Dutchman un- derstood English quite well, and could speak it if his hearers would permit him to go slow.
 ''One evening at dinner he began to give us his ideas about Mir. Roosevelt As he warmed up to the subject it became impossible for him to think rapidly enough in English, and he made many little journeys aside int Dutch German, French, Spanish, and even Russian. Then with a purple face and cenched fists he jumped from his chair and cried, I cannot tell you this man Roosevelt in English, for he is too much, but l will tell you him in a written let ter. Sure enough, at breakfast the English man and the German and l were possessed of a Dutch opinion of Mir. Roosevelt in painfully exact English all set out in the copper plate chirography of Amsterdam
 The upshot of the matter was that the Eng lishman and the German and the Dutchman are all on their way to the United States to see for themselves what manner of people it is that can