The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-29
ROOSEVELT TALKS
 BEFORE STUDENTS Cordial Welcome Is Extended at University of Egypt ABILITY IS NECESSARY Colonel Roosevelt Says a Man Can Reach Front Rank in Anything
 by Having Proper Training
 and Intelligence

Cairo, Egypt, March 2S.-Colonel Roose- welt delivered an address before the stu
 dents of the University of Egypt today and made an excellent impression. He was cordially received and at the conclusion of his remarks there was much applause The general opinion is that the speech
 will have a good effect upon the country generally.
 MT. Roosevelt, upon entering the hall of the university found it crowded with Egyptians, officers, students and women,
 who began handclapping the moment he
 appeared. Prince Ahmed Fouad, who is president of the university and is an un-
 cle of the Khedve, introduced MT Roose-
 welt with a brief speech in French. Responding to the welcome, MT. Roose- welt expressed his thanks, but said his
 address was intended only for the stu dents of the university. As a man who
 spoke frequently, he warned his auditors to have nothing to do with the man who did not make good his words by acts. Referring to a student last month as- sassinating Boutros Pasha Ghali, pre-
 mier and minister of foreign affairs. the speaker declared the affair a calamity to Egypt and roundly denounced the slayer. This part of the speech was re- ceived with great applause.
 Colonel Roosevelt in part said:
 RooseveIt's Address
 "No man may reach the front rank who is not intelligent and not trained
 with intelligence. Mere intelligence it. self is worse than useless unless 1t is guided by an upright heart with strength and courage behind 1t. Morality, de-
 cency, clean living, courage, manliness and self-respect are more important than mental subtlety. An honest, courageous
 and far-sighted politician is a good thing
 in any country, where his usefulness de- bends chiefly on his ability to express
 the wishes of the population in which the politician forms only fragment of the leadership, and where the business man. the landowner, the engineer, the man of technical knowledge-men of a hundred different pursuits-represent the average typ of leadership.
 No people have permanently amounted to anything whose only public leaders
 were clerks. politicians and lawyers. Re-
 member always that the securing of a
 substantial education, whether by a
 group of individuals, or a people, is at- tained ony by progress as unit. You can no more make 8 man really edu- cated by giving him a certain curriculum
 of studies than you can make people fit for self-government by giving them a paper constitution. The training of an individuals in order to fit him to do good
 work in the world is matter of years, and the training of a nation to fit 1t suc- cessfully to fulfil the duties of self-gov-
 ernment is not at matter of decade or two, but of generations.
 Paper Consultation 4r.~ granting of a paper constitution, prefaced by some high sounding declarations, in itself confers the power of self-govern-
 ment. This was never so. Nobody can give a people self-government any more than 1t is possible to give an individual self-help. You know the old proverb.
 God helps those who help themselves Tn the long run, the only permanent way for an individual to be helped is to
 help himself. This is one of the things your university should inculcate.
 Man is slow in the grow of char
 acter. The final determining factor in
 the problem with a people, any people possessed of the essential qualities, Is to
 show no haste in grasping power, which l 1t is only too easy to misuse. The slow,
 steady and resoute development of those
 substantial qualities, love. justice. faith, play. the spirit of self-reliance and moder- ation, alone will enable a people to gov-
 ern themselves. In the long. tedious and
 absolutely essential process. believe your university takes an important part.
 Do not forget the old Arab proverb, God Is with the patient If they know how to
 wait This spirit condemns every law less act, evil, envy and hatred, above
 all, batred based on religion or race Shocked by Assassination
 "All good men, all men of every nation
 whose respect Is worth having, were in-
 expressibly shocked by the assassination of Boutros Pacha Ghall It was a greater calamity to Egypt than a wrong to the