Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-03-30
ROOSEVELT HOME
 WILL REPRESENT
 LIVING MEMORIAL
Women of Country Desire To Secure Residence for
 Posterity.

The Woman's Roosevelt Memorial Association, organized in January i'm mediately after the Ceath of Colonel Roosevelt, has just announced the form of the permanent memorial
 the women of America will erect to
 the memory of the great leader
 The Association is to acquire Col onel Roosevelts oirthday at 2S East Twentieth Street, and adjoining prop erty at 26 East Twentieth Street, New York Sity. The place of his birth is to be restored and the interior re produced And the whole "Roose- welt House," with it's assembly halls. is to be not merely museum, not merely record of the vigorous life and growth of our great American, to be visited by those all over the country who loved him and who
 would study the influences that made up his growth. It is to be, more than this. a centre of citizenship activities. living thing, place where the boys and the girls of America-and the men and women as well-will come together in citizenship activities in order that their understanding of America may become deeper and keeper and in order that the great ideal of practical service to our coun- try, of indefatigable activity in it's .behalf, shall stir and move with vivid power all Americans that frequent or visit Roosevelt House."
 "That Colonel Roosevelt's vigor of life, robustness of belief, and energy of will may be eternally to the youth of America, is the real spirit and background of this memorial," said the officers of the Association in making their announcement at the As sociation offices at 1 East 57th Stret. Long and careful consideration has been given to the possibilities. Mrs. Leonard Wood is the Honorary President of the Association and Mrs. William Curtis Demorest is the Presi- dent. Other officers include Mrs. Joseph H. Choate, Mrs Whitelaw Reid Mrs. Thomas Preston, Mrs. Robert Bacon, Mrs. James Roosevelt, Mrs. William Bayard Cutting, Mrs. Elihu Root, Miss Louisa Lee Schuyler, Mrs. Robert Winthrop, Mrs. James T. Lea witt, Mrs. Henry A. Alexander, Mrs. John Henry Hammond, Mrs. Henry A. Wise Wood, Mrs. Charles A. Bry- an and Mrs. A. Barton Hepburn.
 I've now urge every woman in| America who believe that the spirit of Roosevelt is the spirit of greater America, and of sounder American youth, to join us,' said the Presi- dent of the Association. We want this memorial to be raised not by a small group of woaYSsil here and there. but by the women of America in al great body, following nationwide impulse thus to memoralize the great living spirit we want to see carried on by our own sons. We believe it is fitting that as the women, and the mothers, of America we should thus in this concrete, symbolic yet practi- cal way, in the place and the house of his birth, hand on the torch of that viborous flaming never-dying spirit to the youth of America.
 "A few years ago Colonel Roose- welt wrote to a friend protesting against meaningless mausoleums and monuments to the dead It seemed unthinkable to us to perpetuate his memory in that way. Colonel Reese welt lives; The being dead, yet speak eth.' We want place set aside for the objects and ideas that character ized him, pervaded by the influences that developed him, gathereing place for the men and women and boys and girls he loved, where his voice may, year after year, be clear ly and strongly heard. In the letter we have just spoken of the Colonel wrote, As for the rest of us who with failures and shortcomings but accord ing to our lights, have striven to lead decent lives-if any friends of ours wish to commemorate us after death, the way to do it is by some expression of good to those who are still living.
 No contribution is too small The Association wishes this to be an all American tribute The names of all who give one dollar or more are to be inscribed in book of donors to be placed in the Memorial. Every contributor will receive as a receipt, the emblem of the Association which is to be small bronze pin bearing one of the Colonel's best likenesses.
 The work must be begun immed- lately. It is urged tllat subscriptions and contributions be sent at once to the Treasurer Mrs. A. Baron Hep burn, New York Trust Company, 1 East 557th Street, New York City, and that this public notice be con- sidered as an individual appeal to all Americans eaper to do honor to Colonel Rooseelt.