Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-02-14
PULLMAN PAYS TRIBUTE
TO FORMER PRESIDENT
college and Pullman People Honor
Memory of Late Statesman-Good
Program Rendered

Memorial services in honor of the
late Theodore Roosevelt were held
in the college auditorium Sunday
Many tributes were given to the
memory of the late President by Pull
man citizens and college professors
The first number on the program
was an organ solo by Prof. Meyer
Dean Laidlaw of the Episcopal
church offered prayer, which was fol-
lowed by selection by the College
Chorus.
Owing to the absence of President
e. o. Holland, Attorney d. c. Dow
paid high tribute to the ability, ac-
complishments and character of the
q deceased statesman.
: DR.. Bruce McCully delivered
glowing appreciation of the services
OF Mr.. Roosevelt and was followed by
NJ J. Chapman, who read an appro-
pirate poem. The program closed
with occasional by Frof Meyer.
Il In his appreciation, DR.. McCully
d paid tribute to Mr. Roosevelts
j. vigor and versatility, asserting that:
h no other man of this generation
had so many and such varied inter
Is ests outside of his professional field.
l. He was statesman, he was a sol
|, der, he was a student, he was read
70 er, he was writer, he was speak
d or; he lived and preached the strenu-
/ GUS life, and at the same time, as the
n apostle of play, he was the conspicu-
# GUS and leading outdoor sportsman of
y his age. The wonder OF his achieve
: ment is the greater when we recog-
nize that by nature he was a weak
/ ling and that he was slow to learn.
!. He made himself what he was by
. willed effort and persistent discipline.
"a At bottom then his strength was
% moral strength, and it is to be OBJ
a served that moral intensity and earn
estness ran through all his life.
His political service was great. A
= mere list of the offices he held is inn
pressiVe. He built the Panama
canal; he led the Rough Riders in the
war with Spain: things such as these
:. are the sufficient monument of less
: er men. But in the case of this man
= they do not tell the story at all. He
: entered public life at a time when
the oppressive power of great wealth,
its ability to encroach upon the UNI
doubted rights of men, was becoming
the supreme political issue If our de-
mocracy was to survive. 1t is Mr..
Roosevelt's first great service to his
country and humanity that through
out the years of his public life, with
supreme courage and devotion, he led
the forces of freedom in this fight.
His residence in the west gave him
peculiar acquaintance with his
country as a whole. He saw 1t in the
large as no other man had seen it;
his vision became the foundation of
his enthusiastic Americanism. The
America of which he dreamed must
not live unto herself; it was for ma
tons as we'll as for individuals to live
1.-The strenuous life" His country
must therefore become powerful in
fluence for civilization as far as her
power could reach. Less than this
seemed less than duty to this apostle
OF our new nationalism.
One more supreme servic he rem
dered. When the very foundations
of our civilization were threatened in
the storm of world war, our eyes
were strongly holden and we did not
see. Men came from the ends of the
earth to oppose the Prussian men
mace, but the young giant of the west
lay strangely asleep. 1t had been
shame indeed had we never walked
II was shame that we waited so longi
The credit for the fact that we were
finally aroused, that we did grid our
selves for the battle before 1t was
eternally too late, is due to few
great souls, and chief among these
under the providence of God was
Theodore Roosevelt.
We are too near him to appreciate
him at the full. but there is no doubt
that when the verdict of time Is rem
dered Theodore Roosevelt will take
his place among Americas very great
est men.