Arizona republican., 1919-10-09
Nobody was ever so cunning as to conceal his being so; and everybody is shy and distrustful of crafty men.
 Locke.
"The Great American"


 Not long after the death of Colonel Roosevelt there organized g movement the erection of memorial to his great achievements It was pe- cuar movement with peculiar motive. It differed from any previous project for commemoratng the lustrious dead. Usually that had been matter of form. The practice had been to raise fund by ap- propriation or by subscription to the services of a sculptor architect pay him for his statue, his arch or his edifice. It all done in official manner rather perfunctorily.
 In the movement for the Roosevelt memorial there was something much than the creation of object to do Colonel Roosevelt posthumous honor to recall his name For either of these purposes moral is needed. The fame of Colonel Roosevelt will long outast bronze marble It was not Roose welt to be honored by memorial but the American people. They, too, to be profted by it.
 It was that in their hearts mNght be kept alive the principles which had animated this foremost of Americans and the ideals which to such great tent became the ideals of the country. It not feared that the people would forget Roosevelt but that in time they might come to remember him only for his great public achievements for his unchal- lenged American leadership throughout nearly twenty years of his public and private life for he was none tRe less the leader after his retirement from the public service.
 The name of Roosevelt never be forgotten and it can never dimmed but in the feetng years we might see less clearly those things for which Roosevelt stood with respect only to rela- ions to the country but also to relations among ourselves While we would always cherish the of Roosevelt, the president and the statesman, would lose sight him Roosevelt the citizen the ra.p +he fafb of mil who l.e an inspiration his countrymen.
 It was not desired, therefore, that the memorial td Roosevelt should be one within the ordinary idg or that the memorial should be created in ordinary manner. The large required could lsily have been raised among comparatively few oa the friends of Colonel Roosevelt. It could have bn raised quietly with very little lapse of time, hh so raised the real purpose the memorial would hawe been lost, and it would have been much what other memorials have been. merely an edifice
 It was therefore desired that the fund for the crSction the memorial should be freewill offer inS of the people, that should represent the great est possible number of Americans. A limit placed upon the amount which any one might subscribe. But no offering could be too small.
 There has been apportioned to each of the states not merely certain part of the fund to be raised but a portion of the privilege of raising it, and estimate of the number of persons of each state who win avail themselves of opportunity to secure membership in the memorial association This prvi lege has been further apportioned to the counties cities and towns of the state It is estimated that the number for Maricopa county is 37oO. We believe that this apportonment is too small; that than that will want to identify themselves with this move nen which will enter upon it's intensive period here on october 20 and will end october 27, day which will be glorious in history the birthday of Theodore Roosevelt
 The organization for the creation of the fund is non parasan and national It could not be other wise IL embraces the governors of sixteen states of Inc north and the south and fifteen former oe northern and southern states To this organza- tiou is committed the loving duty of preparing uorial which will be dedicated to "The Great American"