The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-15
Important Subjects Are DiS-
 CuSSGd at Cambridge
CANAL WORK IS PRAISED
ing World ace Is Commended and C aservation PInns
 re Mentioned

iCCCN@tfAfF~- speakts5 of Applied Ethics" as the Nobe lecturer in Sanders theatre to- nigF Colonel Roosevelt touched briefly on the building of the Panama canal, the progress of conservation and the movement toward general peace as typified by the recent fisheries de- cision at The Hague.
 The Nobel lecture at Harvard Is pro vided by a fund given by Mrs Will liam B. Nobel, in memory of her hus- band, an Episcopal clergyman, and is for the benefit of the students and the faculty. Colonel Roosevelt's visit to Massachusetts was expressly for the lecture although he attended meet ing of the Harvard overseers this fore noon at the office in Boston. Colonel Roosevelt was elected member of the board of overseers last June. Just before going on the lecture platform to- night Colonel Roosevelt learned of the Carnegie peace foundation fund. He hailed the announcement with great delight and was especially pleased with the selection of Senator Elihu Root rs the permanent representative of the United States at The Hague.
 Refers To Carnegie's Gift
 Toward the end of his lecture he made special reference to the gift as providing the means of making real progress in bringing about the results which MT. Carnegie desires to achieve ' "He is entitled to the hearty praise of all good citizens here" said Colonel Roosevelt, "and of all patriots In al countries.
 But remember" he said, that the ultimate worth depends on the gooC practical sense, the Judgment and aoil- ity of the men who. administering tho fund, succeed in translating the the ory into action"
 The translation of the moral theories of government into practice or what he termed applied morality" he sought to illustrate by the Panama canal, under the direction of Colone Goethals; conservation as exemplifieo by the labors of Garffelt anu Pinchot and the peace movement as furtheret by John Hay and Elihu Root
 He declared himself In favor of the fertilization of the canal and of larger navy as the best guarantee of peace.
 RooseveIt's Address
 In his address the colonel said in part:
 Tt Is the easiest thing in the world to sketch out the closest system of govern ment and it is one of the most difficult things in the world to make govern ment really uniform. In just the same IA -trlf- morality and still easier to applaud it when 1t is preached; but it is difficult to do the only thing that counts which is to apply the morality in practice. For that reason when I speak of applied morality-using morality in the largest sense; that is, for the efficient applica- ton of the principles, the carrying out of which means really good government-l wish to give concrete illustrations:
 For instance 1t is greatly to the credit of any nation, of any government, when 1t performs some vast undertaking which will last for many centuries and which adds perceptibly to the sum of achieve ments of mankind Such an undertak- ing is the Panama canal. Last spring when in Europe I was struck by the fact that every statesman I met deemed two acts of the American people during the past decade pre-eminently worth noting those two being the voyage of the battle ship fleet around the world and the bus iness-like efficiency with which we were doing the work of the Panama canal.
 Work On the Canal
 Now. our own people have largely been Ignorant of the really wonderful work that has been done on that canal No men in our history, save only one of the men engaged in the great wars which founded and perpetuated this nation, have such a claim on the gratitude of the na- tion as those who have done such ef- flcient work on the Panama canal. That work represents one of our greatest na- tional assets, one of the greatest feats to he credited to our nation throughout our entire history Enormous sums of money have been spent and yet there is prac- tically no taint of corruption in connec- ton with spending them. Very private business concerns, no matter how well administered, can show such a high standard of efficiency as had obtained among the men doing work on the Pan- anna canal.
 .Take the question of conservation of our national resources of preserving our forests our water supply. our soil and not only of preserving them but of seeing that they are preserved for the use of our people as a whole and not exploited merely for the benefit of a few people of great wealth It Is by no means diffi- cult to make speeches and deliver lec- lures on that subject nor to hold conven- lions in it's favor and applaud declara- tions in favor of conservation. But as soon as men in actual practical work begin to apply the doctrine they meet with all kinds of difficulties. they are brought face to face with all kinds of selfish interests and they are exposed also to the even greater danger of being honestly misunderstood by honest men.
 .'Those who actually do the work of conservation have peculiar claim upon us. While I was president there were no two men to whom I owed more, from the standpoint of public service. than MT. Garfield and MT Pinchot for the work that they did in connection with conservation.
 Those Who Do the Work
 "Their work was done not only with zeal and disinterestedness, but with the utmost efficiency They actually put into practice as working principles the theories which great many men, in ciuding myself, for instance thoroughly approved.
 ''Let me take one more illustration. For over half a century there have been re- peated and organized efforts to further the cause of international peace. Great peace meetings have been held and again in country after country. Now real good has been accomplished at some of the peace meetings; they have sometimes resulted in furthering the cause of peace
 For instance it was fine thing to