The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1919-02-12
LARGE GATHERING AT
ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL
Dr.. Hicks Honored the pepast ted
Statesman in 4 Able Address J.
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Nearly two hundred people gather
ed at the Congregational church last
Sunday evening at the Roosevelt
memorial service. =, Prof. Qualheim
presided and opened the meeting
with short address, stating the
purpose of the gathering and paid
a tribute to the late Theodore Roose-
velt in a short but forceful dis
course. T. !: = =
The Highschool Glee Club sang
several patriotic songs. Miss Eliza
beth Hicks rendered a solo which
was very we'll received and the pu-
pills of the intermediate grades sang.
The speaker of the occasion was
DR.. F. B. Hicks, and all who have
heard the doctor before know that
his address was we'll worth listening
to. He dwelt at length upon the his
tory of the departed statesman,
scholar, historian and explorer. ITO
follow Theodore Roosevelt's life'' he
said, lis a succession of steps from
peak to peak; to describe his accom-
pishments is a review of superla-
tives. He had more knowledge about
more things than any man, amazing
all with whom he came in contact by
the breadth of his knowledge. He
was intensely human in the freedom
of his unselfishness and his name is
synonymous with courage and activ-
ity. He was as imaginative as a poet,
as appealing as a child, loving to
fight and fight close, but: with the
deepest personal affections and the
broadest love for all men. Quick to
think and quick to act"
In closing DR.: Hicks spoke as fol-.
lows:
"When the war. broke out his spirit
seemed set on fire by the significance
of that great event, and on the back
ground Of his splendid physical and
mental development, his dauntless
courage, rich experience and grand
manhood he gave himself pnresersaed-
y and with ali tl his DYNAMIC
the tasks of that war. Like the:
voice of one crying in the wilderness
his voice was heard saying prepare
He taught, he warned. BY our
American traditions, ideals and his
tory, in the name of justice, human
ity, and duty, he begged Americans
to look our new conditions in the
face and throwing aside hesitation
and vascilating policy, to assume
with boldness the part which con-
science required. For over two years
his was almost the only potent voice
raised to rouse from sloth, and it
was due to him more than to any
other influence that America awoke
in time, rose in her dignity and
strength, struck the blow which
turned the tide of battle and saved
herself from eternal disgrace and
the world from tyrants power.
"When the fighting ended and
the new problems of reconstruction
arose America turned to him for
wisdom and instruction. Never
was he more beloved, never more
useful than in those last months as
by precept and example he taught
Americanism. In his last public
statement he voiced that sentiment
which for generations to come will
be held aloft like an inscription on
the banner of citizenship. ANY man
who says he is an American but
something else also, isn't. an Ameri-
can at all. We have room for but
one fag-the American flag. We
have room for but one soul loyalty
and that is loyalty to the American
people,
Scarcely had the echo of these
words died away when he was called
to enter on the long, long trail over
which there is no return. As loving
hands consigned his body to the
earth it was without attending pornp
or pageantry. There ponp could find
no place. From the country church
to the little churchyard moves the
slow procession of sorrowing friends.
The casket descends from sight.
There is the sound Of falling clods
and a solemn voice saying, Dust
to dust, ashes to ashes But lives
like these came not from dust and
unto dust shall not return. Such
lives are immortal Today q nation
brings its love, and loyalty, and sor'
row, like wreaths Of flowers to lay
upon his grave, and in future years,
when all the clouds Of prejudice