The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-03

lIA-l ISeluSuL INOOSeNelJ uuIluS his
visit in California last month, deliver
ed some typical Roosevelt sermons.
The accounts of his visit and speeches
as given in the San Francisco press
are in part as follows
Examiner, March "a: 1t took con
siderable physical and mental jumping
around and prosecuting to keep pace
with Theodore Roosevelt yesterday.
He was up with the lark and drove
in an auto to the Southern Pacific sta
ton at Third and Townsend streets
after breakfast with his family at
! Theodore Jr.'s residence. A special
car was hitched to the o'clock train
and ffty-three minutes later the for
mer President was deposited in a.
cheering crowd at Palo Alto
After dropping a few pearls of wis
dom at the station he was whirled cut
through the fields of California pop
pies and cast into the mouth of the
demon noise. The "sky rocket yell of
1000 students of Stanford University
in Assembly Hall caused him to clap
his hands with pleasure.
Then he tod the professors what
his idea of Constructive Scholarship
was and pointed out the prizes OF the
world that the students should strive
for. His lesson was that this coun-
try must turn out exceptional men in
art end science as well as along COM
mercial and industrial lines if it IS
to take it's place among the greatest
nations.
Lunches and Speaks.
Luncheon with President David
Starr Jordan at the Delta UpsilonI
fraternity was followed by spin down
the peninsula in Doctor Jordan's au-
tomobile to the ferry depot in San
Francisco.
Roosevelt appeared on the stage of
the Hearst Greek theater at the Uni
versity of California at o'clock to
face a gathering of 5000 persons. He
delivered the first of the e. T. Earl
lecture series, held under the auspices
of the Pacific Theological Seminary.
1t brought out as much enthusiasm
as a college throng ever permits itself
to indulge ina murmur of apprecia.
ton and the soft clapping of soft
hands.
In this lecture, entitled "Realizable
Ideals" Roosevelt virtually preached
a serm n on spiritual values. He want
ed one and the same morality in bust
ness and in private life He said that
the great menace to this republic was
the worship the people give to the ma
terial successes of the multi-million-
aire.
Ideals that could be lived must be
preached, he said. AS all know the
value of money the child must not be
taught that money is nothing.
Money Not Highest Ideal.
The main 'realizable ideal" is this
After a man has made enough
money to give his family comforts he
should turn to the things of the spirit
and of the intellect for his inspira-
lions and excuse for living.
Let us strive to create that kind OF
public feeling that makes a scoun-
drers success hardly worth having"
he said.
The clergymen were not left out.
- They were told that they must not
preach against innocent pleasures lest
the young confound them with vice.
In all it was hearty sermon. When
it was over and Roosevelt had been
able to shoulder himself through the
mob he was driven to the ferry again
and embarked for his sons residence
to pass the evening and night
Roosevelt was escorted to Palo Alto
by Professor E. B. Krehbiel of the
Public Exercises Committee of Stan
ford He improved his time on the
way down by reading a magazine.
When he saw the crowd in sunny
Palo Alto he smiled with pleasure.
One of the first men to shake his hand
was an old buffalo hunter that Roose'
welt had known on the Little Missouri
twenty-eight years ago. The old
hunter, now a farmer, almost shed
tears.
Poppies in His Hand.
A great bunch of peoples was thrust
into his hand as he mounted the stage.
A thousand or so were gathered, to
whom Roosevelt gave his little homily
on the virtues of strong character
I building.
BE dead game, boys" he said to a
group of wide-eyed youngsters at his
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