Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-09
MOST POWERFUL MAN DURING SEVEN YEAR.
 SAYS PARIS JOURNAL
"i Have No Message to Send to France. ] Have Given Her the Best Had" Roosevelt at Lauzannc.

! Paris, Jan. 7.-"The sudden and pre- mature death of Roosevelt will be felt in France as a genuine National loss,' declares the Petit Journal. The phrase seems to sum up the senti- ments of all the morning newspapers on the death of Col. Roosevelt. i During seven years" says the Journal, Roosevelt was the most DOW erful man in the world. In that short period. he found the means to revoyu. llohlze national opinion. 10 provide the United States with fleet, to se.- tie the Russo-Japanese conflict. and to create great international power which today undertakes to create a society for the future.
 l The Gaulois, the Royalis1 Organ. says: This Paladin of the heroic ages was at the same time, the most i far sighted of modern statesmen. He formed the American sword which has been victorious and he showed his country the way when it was still groping.'
 Humanity, Justice and law" says the Figaro, were not for him mere respectable entities but familiar real ities to be accepted always and unhesi- tatingly"
 Stephan Lauzanne, Tn the Matin, quotes Col. Roosevelts farewell words to him when he recently left the Uni ted States, as follows:
 , "l have no message to send to France. l have given her the best had. If over there you speak of me. tell them simply that l have but one regret, that Twas not able to give myself
 1 The Temps "The man who has dis | appeared so prematurely was not on,y onea2f the greatest figures of his time, but the incarnation of one of the greatest stages in Americas manage ment of public affairs. both internal and external + + + As a historian he undoubtedly remains the first American statesman who directed his country in two directions, apparently divergent, but really parallel-inter- for reform and world policy" The Journal Des Debates concludes it's sketch of Roosevelt as follows:
 "No man raised the morale of the American soul to a greater height by insisting more on the necessity of sac rifice but sacrifice intended not to be vain sacrifice, for the great ends which humanity holds before us as it's ideals. It is in this way, that the tgreat fighter on entering into eternal Irepose, will have deserved lasting Iglory and the supreme gratitude, not only of his own country, but of the whole world"
 New York, Jan S.-While the whole nation was mourning the passing of former President Roosevelt, this city. in which he was born and to whose citizens he was perhaps most person. ally familiar, paid tribute today to his memory as his body was being laid to rest. bSts
 Old Trinity's chimes began the fun eral toll and as the sound was waited upon the air the bell in the cupola of New York's historic City Hall merg- ed it's mounrful cadence with that of Trinity and hundreds of other churches in the upper and lower reaches of Manhattan-a last token of affection for all that was mortal of great American.
 Precisely at 1859 p. m. for one min ute virtually every phase of industry in Greater New York stopped, includ- ing the wires of the Associated Press. In the morning 800,O00 public school children held exercises in which the life of Colonel Roosevelt and his idels of Americanism were the subject of essays and and addresses. In the afternoon all the schools were closed.
 Street traffic was virtually supend- ed when 12,OO0 New York policement } at the moment of burial doffed their caps in memory of the man who, a quarter of century bfeore, had brought the police department to marvellous efficiency.
 The New York Stock Exchange, cof- fee, produce, cotton and other com mercial bodies were closed.
 Kermit Not Told at Once.