The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-04-05
COL. ROOSEVELT Is
READY FOR CALL TO
PUBLIC SERVICE
Announces He Will Serve
Public as Public
May Direct
is NOW 80 YEARS OLD
In Accord with Policies and Doctrines
of His Father and Undiluted
Nationalism
rs NOW 81 YEARS OLD

Lieutenant Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt said yesterday that he in
tends to enter politics.
Colonel Roosevelt smiled in man.
ner reminiscent of his father when
he was asked to what particular pub
lie Office he aspired. "That depends
upon what the public wants me to
do" he replied. "You know we are
assuming that when man enters
public life it is because the public
wants him to do So"
Colonel Roosevelt said that the Of
flee of President of the Board of
,, Aldermen, for which there will be
an election this autumn and for which
he has been suggested as the republi-
can candidate, did not appeal to
him particularly. He also recalled
that he had requested a Seattle or
ganization not to continue to men,
tion him for the Vice Presidency, for
which he will be ineligible in 1920 be-
cause he will be below the constitu-
tional age limit of 35.
81 don't know what l will do" he
said in reply to questions regarding
what programme he intended to ad-
vocate, and whether it would include
compulsory universal military train
ing.
"That may not be an issue year
from now," he continued. 81 am, of
course, in full accord with the poll
cies and doctrines advocated by my
father. There undoubtedly will be
shifts, and until the future shapes it
self in that regard l cannot tell what
will happen. l believe strongly in
the principle of universal military SER
vice and in undiluted nationalism."
Colonel Roosevelt was in his office
at the Training Camp Association,
No. 10 West Forty-fourth street,
when interviewed. He has been
working to perfect the organization
of the European War Veterans AS
sociation since his return from Eu-
rope. Politicians have suspected a
shrewd political move in the forma-
tion of this association, but Colonel
Roosevelt said that this was not so.
"The fundamental principle under
lying the society is that it shall be
representative and strictly non-parti-
san," he said. at will represent the
enlisted men who formed the great
body of the army and navy, and will
include all who saw military OF naval
service, regardless of whether their
duty called them overseas or kept
them home. All will have an equal
voice, whether they were generals or
privates."
Colonel Roosevelt will be thirty-two
years old on September 13 next, six
years older than was his father. when
the latter ran for Mayor of New
York. He made an excellent record
in France, and many republican lead
ers consider him distinct party as
set, which the party may be able to
realize on in the future.
Friends of Colonel Roosevelt be-
lieve that he would like to make his
start in public life as a member of
some legislative body, the Assembly,
State Senate OF Congress. Colonel
Roosevelt said that he would like to
serve his own State, the one in which
he and his father were born.
Republicans in sympathy with the
young mans ambition saw but linn
tied opportunity for him in the Leg
islature under present conditions, and
said that his youth would probably
prevent him from aspiring to the re-
publican nomination for governor
next year. In Congress, it was said,
he would not only find a wider OPP
portunity, but his name would make !
his actions of nationwide interest, |
and would give him immediate recog-
milton in the party councils seldom
accorded new representative.