Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-09-23
ROOSEVELT TO EXPLOIT
ATLANTA BEFORE WORLD
His Address Here Will Be Big
gest Advertisement City
Could Have

II is beginning to be apparent that
Theodore Roosevelt's approaching visit,
on October S, will attract worldwide at
tention to Atlanta, as much attention, II
not more. than all the great conventions
this city has entertained in the past
and is working to obtain in the future.
When Colonel Roosevelt comes here
to deliver an address under the aus
pices of the Uncle Remus Memorial as
ISOLATION, and for the benefit Of the fund
that organization is raising, two names
of more than national fame will be link
ed with Atlanta's, either one of which
would serve to bring this city promi-
nently before the public eye. One name
is that of the most-talked-of living
American citizen, the other is that Of
Joel Chandler Harris, whose memory Is
the best beloved of all southern authors,
and whose works have placed him with
the greatest writer's this country has
yet produced.
The purpose OF Colonel Roosevelts
coming is one in which not only all pa
triotic Atlantians but all southerners and
all lovers of American literature are
intensely interested, the purchase of Joel
Chandler Harris historic home, The
wren's Nest" and SNAP Bean Farm.
as a permanent public memorial to his
fame.
A WORTHY COMPLIMENT.
It is a worthy compliment that the
first literary address delivered In the
United States by Roosevelt since his re-
turn from Europe should be on the sub
ject of Harris place in American Ut
erature No matter what he came for,
the visit Of Roosevelt would attract ma
tional attention and bring hosts Of news
paper representatives and special writer's
to Atlanta but when he comes to honor
a man who lived and died here and
whose works have been read wherever
the English language is known, the
Roosevelt visit Immediately assumes an
Importance of a sentimental nature TO
the south and of a literary nature to the
country at large which nothing else
could give II.
Roosevelt has announced his intention,
since becoming associate editor OF the
Outlook, to devote a great deal of the re-
mainder of his life to literary pursuits,
and Il is significant that the first literary
address he will deliver in the United
States since his return from Europe will
be before a southern audience on the
subject of southern writer's works
WHAT sTOvALL SAYS.
The coming event has already attracted
wide attention, and not only Atlantians
but Georgians in other cities are inter-
ested in making the lecture a big sue
vannah, editor of the Savannah Press,
himself a literary man of no mean abil-
ity. is particularly happy in his appre-
citation of Joel Chandler Harris, and
the part the great Albanian has played
and will play in the development of the
intellectual life of the south.
"'The people of the south have grown
up with Uncle Remus," says Colonel
Stovall, land will raise generations upon
the ideas which he propounded."
The coming address of Colonel Roose-
Welt. which will be widely copied, will
attract even newer and keener general
interest in the Uncle Remus stories.
wholesome I'm their teaching and guile
less, they should be read by every child.
Amusing beyond measure. delicate in
their fancies, pathetic in their express
sions Of great devotion, and artistic to
the last degree. no one will ever perfect
the negro dialect in print as Joel Chand-
Ter Harris did. No one will ever again
create a character which draws more af-
feciionately the attention and kindly
thoughts of young and old to the gray
haired slave who fondled the offspring
of his master and related to them his In
live forever, and perpetuate the character
of the faithful slave. There are living
beings today who look upon the faithful
slave as the greatest exeWplar of hum
bic affection the world has ever seen.
There was something sublime in his re-
gard, something tender and reverent, and
though 80 years have passed the tradi-
lions will remain.