Weekly journal-miner., 1919-02-12
IS EULOG|zED BY
 LODGE
IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY IN CONGRESS HEN MASSACHUSETTS, SENA- TOR REVIEWS ACHIEVE MENTS OF COLONEL.
By Associated Press.

memory of Theodore Roosevelt.
 Members of congress, supreme court
 justices, members of the cabinet,
 army and navy officers, and diplo-
 mats of many nations heard Senator
 Lodge of Massachusetts, praise
 Roosevelt as a statesman and as
 man.
 Crowded galleries and the throng
 of men and women who could not
 gain admission testified to the per
 sonll feeling for the man whose
 death shocked the world. It was this
 that Senator Lodge, a close friend
 of the man he eulogized, referred
 when he spoke these words in the stiffness of the house chamber:
 "A tower is fallen, a star is set!
 Alas Alasl for Celin.
 "The words of lamentation from
 the old Moorish ballad, which in
 boyhood We used to recite, must, I
 think, have risen to many lips when
 the world was told that Theodore
 Roosevelt was dead. But whateve,
 the phrase the thought was instant and everywhere.
 "Variously expressed, you heard it in the crowds about the bulletin boards, from the man in the street, and the man on the railroads, from the farmer in the fields, the women n the shops, in the factories, and in tke homes. The pulpit found in his life a text for sermons. The judge on the bench, the child at school, alike paused for a moment conscious of loss. The cry of sorrow came from men and women of all condi- lions, high and low, rich and poor, f-cm the learned and the ignorant, | from the multitude who had loved and followed him, and from those who had opposed and resisted him. ! The newspapers pushed aside the ab- sorbing reports of the events of these fateful days and gave pages to the man who had died.
 Flashed beneath the ocean and | through the air went the announce ment of Theodore Roosevelt's death, and back came a worldwide res ponse from courts and cabinets, from press and DeC-le, in other and far G'stant lands. Through it all ran a | golden thread of personal feeling which gleams so rarely in the som- Der Journalism of public grief It would seem that here was a man, a private citizen, conspicuous by no of- flee, with no glitter of power about him, no ability to reward or punish, gone from earthly life, who must have been unusual even among the leaders of men, and who thus de- mands our serious consideration.
 Senator Lodge was the only speaker and the services were sim pie. Prayers by the senate and house chaplains and anthems and pa triotic hymns by the marine band added to the stirring spiritual nature of the services.
 "We can not approach Theodore Roosevelt along the beaten paths of eulogy or satisfy ourselves with the empty civilities of commonplace fu- nereal tributes,' said Senator Lodge, "for he did not make his life journey over main-travelled roads nor was he ever commonplace. Cold and pom pous formailties would be unsuited to him who was devoid of affecta- tion, who was never self-conscious, and to whom posturing to draw the public gaze seemed not only repell- ant but vulgar. In his spirit of de- votion to truths simplicity, I shall try to speak of him today"
 Referring to RooseVelt's inherit- ance of comparative wealth, Senator Lodge said: "FLe lacked the spur of necessity to prick the sides of his intent. Theodore Roosevelt put behind him temptation to life of sports and pleasure to Iettered ease, to an amateurs career n one of the fine arts, perhaps to a money making business.
 How he refused to tread the pleasant paths that opened to him on all sides and took the instant way which led over the rough road oi : oil and action, his life diclcoses."
 MT. Lodge outlined the life of the man who came to play such big part in the nations life. With deli ,ate health and near-sightedness in he became by sheer hard work an athlete and a rifle shot. This was typical, said Mir. Lodge. :, He spoke of how Roosevelt persist z d ill the unusual how he made him \ ,elf national figure in one year at :, he age of 24 while serving in the . New York state legislature; how he ought and won for civil service re- q orms when civil service was scoffed 1t by influential leaders and how he y applied himself strenuously to the z, ask of expelling fayoritism and pol tics from the New York police orce, through which "a purely local i