The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-28
H0OVER,PARKER
ANDROOT EXTOL
FIRST AMERICAN
Roosevelt Hailed as Savior
of Nation by Work Pre-
ceding Crisis.
HEDGES LAUDS HIS SPIRIT
Rocky Mountain Club Cheers
dwelling of "Three I'M
mortal Presidents"

rare sort of testimonial meeting
vas the dinner given by the Rocky
Mountain Club at the Waldorf Astoria
last night on the sixty-irst anniver-
ssrv of the birth of Theodore Roose-
,slt. with Herbert Hoover as guest OF
tonor. Men who had never followed
roosevelt politically. men who had fol-
,oved him part way but turned into
another path, men who knew him for
their leader to the eud-all were one in
s,testing his patriotism and paying
homage to his memory.
There were Alton b. Parker. whom
the Colonel defeated for the Presi-
dency in 1904; Elihu Root, the Roose-
vslt Secretary of State and chairman
Of the Republican national convention
Of 1912, saying last night in the course
Of a memorable tribute that "in intui-
ton Theodore Roosevelt surpassed all
the men of his time; Jules Jusserand,
the French Ambassador, survivor OF
the famous Tennis Cabinet; John
HAYS Hammond. mining engineer and
president OF the Rocky Mountain
Club; these and other speakers. and
finally Herbert Hoover one of the
Younger generation" but one who
knew and held the Colonel in affection.
ss the Colonel held him.
The last OF the trio OF immortal
Presidents" was President Hammond's
phrase as he gave the signal for the
unyeiling over the heads of those at
the table on the uaIs OF Inree paintings.
The first was a portrait of Washington,
the second a portrait of Lincoln and the
third, between the other two, a copy OF
the familiar photograph showing Presi-
dent Roosevelt on his horse taking a
jump In a cross-country dash.
Diners in Patriotic Outburst.
Before the diners were seated the
"Star Spangled Banner" was played by
the band Of the nth Coast Defence
Command. A thousand voices cheered
the dramatic unveiling of the pictures
u the three Presidents.
MI. hoover Sdlu lnOSt VI Us VIM
1--we lived. who have to deal with flames
- evolution during the last ten months,
Nhc have had 10 witnesses the causes
rhch have led to this cataclysm-we
tppreciste probably more than any
'thers that it was due to Theodore
Roosevelt that this country is not to-day
IN flames"
The speaker continued
The insistence OF a square deal in
tLZenship a score of years ago among
I people stepped in cynical materialism
bllt the foundations upon which our
tafety lies al this moment. To Theodore
Roosevelt is due that awakening OF
public conscience which has enabled us
10 preserve our institutions to this mo-
hent; and IL We can maintain that
Nachword there can be no question Of
tleir survival.
The years ahead of us will be the
post solemn IN our history. The heart
D the world has been stirred by social
POLITICAL and economic wrong and in
Equality Our institutions are yet again
10 be put 70 a full test OF their righteous
less They have survived all tests for
80 years, and II in these next few
Forths We can preserve the spirit OF
.hSodore Foose velt they Will yet survive.
We are In one OF those times OF
Iytiera- Of extremis, both in politics
md In economies. We are oppressed
NTH phrase makers. who would solve our
.ational policies with phrases-Bolshe-
'lsm, Socialism, trades unonism, inter
bauonalism, capitalism and a hundred
ehers. Either the Government or gospel
ey lsns or phrases is the negation OF
''aiRht thinking, and to-day men are
sndtrtaking great solutions on reckless
MUIphpG' nd hNF nj axrtn wit
ne fate Of people.
We have seen in the last few days
l' failure Of an attempt to solve one
y tho greatest problems in the front
ne world, the problem of Industrial
t'1 Perhaps that failure really lies be-
aus We have not paid regard to those
1ths that Theodore Roosevelt thun-
te'e1 IN the ears OF our people over the
hs' twenty years
We have summoned a few men in
z aspect that social diseases can be
tItc by negotiation on the assumption
ast we can stimulate class consciousness
country where there should be no
Passes, and then find solution to its
n'o"ard results by creating some sort
I AuHmatic machinery for an armistice
Fi"oen battles
we have got to go deeper II we are
I, 10 De dominated by the imported
"'eefatng social theories OF Europe
must diagnose the roots aDd the
uses OF this infection. We must i'm
" constructive social hygiene OF
,u OWL and IL need be we must Inn
'se a surgical operations That social
haj we now need lies deep in the
@a't @ OF the American people: It is the
va! ideal OF Theodore Roosevelt II is
NHnpe ideal OF equality Of oppor-
s'IS' is The same old theme which
hSu"n was founded TO perfect and
saNt theme that received regen,
'uoA 8 '0e hands OF our friend. Per
non 'as not come TO the world IN
'rn 4'' years. and the development OF
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