Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-24
Colonel Roosevelt's Book

The reps dispatches last week told
IS that Colonel Roosevelt had been or
dsrcd by his physician to cancel all
syccc hes and social engagements and
TAX. absolute rest for time. We were
given to understand that Mr.. Roose
Ncits active tour Of the West, in which
ht had made a great many speeches
oi a patriotic nature and forcefully de-
nun iatory ~ the country's enemies at
home and abroad, had so undermined
his health that the warlike T. II. was
likely to b, laid on the shelf for some
I me to come. But the Colonel comes
bu-k' like the thousand Of brick"
crI.,- down. and denies that he is dead
~ has been dead, that he is Ill or has
been IN. that any doctor or anybody
else has given him orders or is likely
~ right away. In fact the Colonel,
with Characteristic straightforward Ian
suagc. says that somebody has lied.
He was getting too heavy for fighting
trim and so he went out to somebody's
farm where an athletic expert pre-
s,ribes allopathic doses Of physical ex
Gre sc for the various Ills of clogged
Human machinery. and. has there put
himself in such condition that he IS
now ready TO fight. run or wrestle with
anything that wears shoe leather
That tg al tho
Spectacular and most admired Ameri-
can pf this generation. He will not
down He always comes back. physi-
ca.ly. mentally and attractively, In a
way to appeal to the American love of
the forceful. the outspoken and the
svper-active. And SO r. h. appears in
II George II. Doran Co. New York. 1t
is gwen the title The Foes Of Our
own Household" II is a book in which
the Colonel has not minced words or
failed Of the courage OF his convictions
IL ,hsracteristically lambasting every
EVIL head in sight and telling the peo-
III ~ hHl'li1d NHtlt W liIlu tiiclIi -
single chapter chosen at random in
forms the reader that Colonel Roose-
vel. has lost none of his verbal
punch He still has a wallop left
II spite OF his recent declaration that
he Is totally blind in one eye. And
every vallup is an .Americanism from
the bottom Of the Coloners patriotic
heart. assuring those who trust to his
keen analysis Of national and inter-
tolerance OF any halfway Americans
oi halfway measures in the world
fight for democracy and peace.
Il. this book. the Colonel is at his
hest With all my heart" says he,
4 believe that our people have in them
the same patriotism, the same nobility
coin were able to appeal ! ask that
the appeal be made, the appeal for
effort, and with it the guarantee by
actual governmental performance that
the effort shall not be wasted" In the
long run. he AYERS. we have less to fear
from foes without than from foes with
in: for the former will be formidable
only as the latter break our strength.
The men who oppose preparedness in
our military and industrial life; the
business or political corruptionist or
reactionary and the reckless dema-
Eogue who is his nominal opponent.
the man Of wealth and greed who cares
for nothing but profits. and the SIMS
ter creature who plays upon and in
fsmes the passions Of envy and vio-
lence; the hard materialist. the self
irduisent lover Of ease and pleasure.
ard the silly sentimentalist-all these
Re places In one and the same cate
cory. az the permanent foes of our
own household" From their ranks, he
says, are drawn our immediate foes;
the puzzle headed who refuse TO I'm
derstand her, and the men of foul soul
who do her evil bidding. He observes
that the Hun within our gates mas
querades in many DISCUSSES; that he Is
our dangerous enemy and that he
ehould he hunted down without mercy
He maintains that high minded men