The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-27
COLONEL GIVES IDLE
PART OF PEACE PRIZE
Roosevelt says Hen Use $4,000 of
10000 to Help Needy.

Co Theodore Roosevelt announced last
isIt IN his speech for the benefit OF the
Unemployed at the Metropolitan Opera
ious,. that Il a. AL -',so and o7i...potcG."
Congress permits him he viii devote SlO.-
600 Of the Nobel peace prize money to the
alienation OF suffering in this city.
HIs Intention of giving the money for
tls purpose, which was greeted with
much applause from the orchestra and
boxes was voiced few hours after the
Colonel had heard that his plan to use the
10000 peace prize in a Foundation for
the Promotion of Industrial Peace would
BE- defeated in Congress.
\ bill WAS introduced In Congress yes
t.day by Senator Lodge 10 dissolve the
foundation and restore the $40, 900 to Col.
Roosevelt
With Co'. Rouseyelts subscription it
49, estimated that more than $4,000
Ms raised at the meeting arranged by
the NCw York Federation OF Churches.
More than $1,000 was contributed by
tie audience during the interval between
Col Rooseyelts speech on unemploy
mont and his lecture on his South Ameri-
can trip. The receipts from the sale Of
tickets brought the total 10 more than
$4,000.
Opera House FiIIcd.
TIE opera house was hlled before tho
Colonel appeared on the stage. Chairs
GRE even placed In the space usually
cupcd by the orchestra, With him
"c'" seth Low. who introduced Mayor
Mitchell, the presiding officer, and the
Kew Nehemiah Boynton, chairman Of the
iHicrchuroh relief committee.
Ih' men and women Ia the audience
were In strong contrast to the subject
on which they heard 80 much from the
iIree Chict speakers. The orchestra pre-
scented solid lines OF men In evening garb
ana women In costly gowns and in the
boxes we're other men IN evening dress
and women VINO wore necklaces and
laIas II might have been An opera
night but for the red velvet stage cur
tame bordering ON the white screen for
the 'olouels pictures.
~ me told Of going down on the Bowery
"n"rc men vino would work II they could
slept ON tho shwdust covered floor OF
saloons or in the IN ventilated rooms Of
employment offices or stood wedged in vile
places 50 tightly that they could not fall
ana % slept strange murmuls that might
have been sympathy or astonishment broke
from hls ftshouIbly clad hearers and
ipuod about the horseshoe.
COL Roosevelt turned to Mayor
mitchell ana complimented him on the
ahr'ent work OF the Municipal Lodging
House, and then went on to describe
his experiences on his trip of inspection
toou, a month ago. The men he saw ne
DIVIDED INTO four ClasseS-thOse who did
lot want to work those who were mem
laay deficient, those who were too weak
lom priyation to do work, and those who
'''r M and eager 10 work but could find
10 work to do.
sees Duty to Aid Idle Men.
The frs, three classes, he said, would
l. taken care Of when men were fully
CIVILIZED but il was the duty OF the COM
MHnlty to help the men who sought WORK
NI,uIy
tn, city government cannot do more
'1an certain amount he said, ia
edition, the decent citizens who have
''ns, the decent citizens who have
""N'y are bound to try in practical fash
'' 10 show their belief In the doctrine
.". each man and each woman must I'D
some sort the keeper of his or her
&c. fortunate brothers and sisters"
i' quoted a sentence from the Ep.stlo
=. IaueS BE yc doors OF the word and
.'' hearers only" THAT means" hC
'dacd, don't merely come here and think
'' YOU go away that you have done
soneibing worth while"
NJ For Mitchell pointed ont that the re-
'"'"n,llty for relieving the problem OF
n' 'ymcnt rested ON the who,e peo'
rH uCi alone on the city government
'''u OF creating the Mayors Commit,
'' Unemployment, headed by Judge
.,tH. and .aid
'h1t il cannot solve this problem alone
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