Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-11-01
REMEMBERiN G ROOSEVELT

AS an appropriate method Of fixing attention on the
movement for tho commennoratson Of Theodore Roosevelt
win remember. which viii carry his fasne forward through
|dowment Of an Institution for the incubation Of that pa
can flag was carried across the STATE Of New York BY re-
lays and planted over Reosevelt's grave a4 .Sasmore Hill.
Inspired BY this impressive pilgrimage the New York
Times. often politically opposed to Roosevelt but honor
ing his spIendtdl msnhesd. pays this superb tribute -.
Roosevelt Week brings an opportunity which comes
but seldom in the lie Of any nation. A great hfstozIc
figure is passing from the world Of contemporary fad.
the world Of the morning paper. and into the world Of
memory and Of history. Such q little time ago men lovec
and praised . fellew citizen, or disagreed with him; It
was always as man to man. The intensely personal feel
ing shut off the larger vision. Even when some rank
ed him next to Washington and Lincoln. the Judgment
which tpurported to be historic was mainly partisan. Now
we know, or ara beginning to know. the great patriot
and leader of men in his true and permanent proportions.
I'VE uSe the flag as symbol Of the nations tribute
to all our heroic dead: but We are using it today with \
difference. Others have been shrouded in it and laid
relays Of swtft-foeted, c~lean-limbed youngsters, who car
ried it across the great, state he loved. and then from
post to post In the city Of his nativity. OF what other
American has youth and swift strength and the mounting
JOY of life seemed 30 fit an expression? At the stations
where the flag lay over night it was guarded by boys who
were often chosen because they were not born Of our
people but had made themselves Americans. Among our
great men no one has expressed 90 vigorously our hospi-
tahty to all who love freedom and the solemn obligations
of those who accept 1t. At each station a new star was
sewed upon the flag by 4 group Of girls and young wom-
en-. In ono of our schools. Of the five who seved each
an angle of the star, four were descended from veterans
Of the Revelation. the Civil war. the Spanish war, and the
Great war. and the fifth was the daughter Of q natural
lied Hungarian. That would have meant much to Roose-
welt. for he was the first great American to express FOR
US the transcendent dignity Of all womanhood. Others
OF our leaders have been referenced devoutly. mourned in
the deep heart Of the nation. The memory Of this man
lives in the spirit Of manly youth and vigor, Of feminine
beauty and steadfastness In the final stage Of the flag,
which win bring it to the crave at saxmore, it will soar
Dol. .e
TN his lifetime fortunes huffets and rewards came
to him In inverse order. There were decades when, in his
public appearances. the heavens never once failed to
m,ile on his robust and joyous face. He had only to will
seemed that nothing he touched could prosper. The
greatest crisis which the world has ever endured came in
ha prime, and he had no active part in. 1T, though the
moral effect Of his influence on. the issue may some day
DO reckoned Is his greatest accomplishment. To realize
what that meant one would have to be as ambitious as he
was-as eager for the larger life, as fnll of the flame Of
that meant enc who would have to be as ambitious as he
was-as eager for the larger life, as full Of the flame Of
patriotism. But long before, with the bullet Of an intend
ed assassi1sin bis flesh, he had expressed the thought that
now sustained him. A mans happiness is only ITO spend
and to be spents' To his last pulse>his great strength was
spent for his country. That is the thought which men
viii remembes, which ~ilt carry his fame forward through
the ages" y so. -. >