Arizona republican., 1919-12-03
The RooseveIts

shortly after the appearance of the book of Theo- dore Roosevelt on the Cuban campaign referred to by Finley Peter Dunne in of those dialogues between Mir Dooley" and MT Hennessey," as "The Rough Riders; or. Alone in Cuba. the latter part of the title referring to the cooners frequen use of the pronoun, I made necessary by descrip- ton of the activities of the famous organization of which he so large a part.
 The colonel enjoyed many hearty laugh over that title and he said that Mrs Roosevelt was accus- toned to recall the latter part of the title, Alone Cubia" whenever he was riding unusually high horse That title was beginning of a friend ship between the colonel and the humorist. In one of the letters of the former Teddy Jr in France he wrote according to George Palmer Putnam in the Peoples Magazine for December: Did l tell you that Peter Dunne met the other day grinned and remarked, We'll the first thing you know your four will put the name of Roosevelt the map' But the Roosevelt boys would keep the the map if it needed keeping The of great usually fall down" IL is necessarily because they are below the average They merely fail in the fierce light of the comparison between them and their ilustrious fathers. Few great have pro- duced sons worthy of them in the estimation of the world. That is not because the line too nearly exhausted in the production of the great father but generally because the relied too much upon that greatness and did not his own wings and his powers.
 We have reason to believe, though that the careers of the Roosevelt boys will prove exception to a rule, an exception due to the constant training ad- ministered to them by their great father: the con- stantly impressed duty of servce the disregard of self; the necessity of hard hitting the independence of outward aid. In letter written during the war Colonel Roosevelt said:
 The last five years have made bitterly
 conscious of the shortcomings of our national
 character; but Roosevelts Americans,
 and can never think of being anything else, and
 wouldn't be anything else for any consideration
 the face of the earth; a with our way
 of looking at things change his
 country than he can change his mother; and it
 is the business of each of us to play the part of
 good American and try to make things as
 much better possible.
 Therein is the continuity of the Roosevelt spirit the unbroken line between father and sons The war gave to the Roosevelt boys their first great oppor- tunity. How they met it all the world knows ard how Theodore Roosevelt has held to it since his return to his country has been observed with satis- faction by all Americans
 Colonel Roosevelt long before his death wrote and with what pride he must have written to his oldest son.
 stranger writes that her cousin is under
 you, ana Tn recent letter says: My major is
 the best man I met utterly fearlass
 and the most amazing astounding energy
 he is as big as his father who
 happens to be Theodore Roosevelt. There isn't
 man or an officer in this outfit who would not
 start to take message to Berlin tonight if
 he asked him"
 greater measure of opportunity came to the eldest son than to the younger whom gave all he had to his country and died as the colonel would have died and as he would have wished every Roose- Veit to die, after having performed the last service