The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1919-02-12
IMPRESSIVE MEMORIAL
SERVICES FOR ROOSEVELT
Able Speakers Address Large Gath
ering That Met To Honor the
Great American

ea1Ay SfthfA6 WIN tfit iEdny OtC-
tions of the country in paying tri-
butte to the memory of Theodore
Roosevelt when several hundred
gathered in the High School auditor
ium to participate in the exercises
prepared under the direction of the
Defense Council and the pastors of
the churches.
Judge T. c. Hart as chairman of
the Defense Council designated Rev.
J. A. Waehob during the week to en-
list the active cooperation OF the
churches in paying suitable honor to
the memory of this foremost Ameri-
can citizen, and the entire program
of the evening was in every respect
worthy of the spirit that prompted
the meeting.
Under the direction of W. X. Davis
number of well trained voices con-
stituted a choir which rendered ex-
cellent music during the evening.
OF the numbers rendered, Coward
Christian Soldiers a favorite hymn
of Roosevelt, in which the audience
joined was most impressively sung
Rev j. A. Wachob formally open
ed the exercises of the evening stat
ing the purpose OF the gathering to
be TO do honor TO great American
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chairman of the evening. In his
opening remarks Mr.. Haight paid q
most feeling tribute TO the great
leader whom he said was without
doubt the most discussed president
who ever occupied the chair in
Washington and was beyond ques-
ton one of the great men of the
century, absolutely fearless of criti-
eism and OF daring courage when
emergency demanded.
Rev. Wallace read the scripture
lesson selecting the thirty-third
psalm and was followed by Rev c.
H. Berry who delivered the invoca-
ton.
A solo by Mr. Roe accompanied by
Miss Neya Coe as cellist and Miss
Evelyn steinbrook as violinist was
one of the impressive numbers of the
evening.
Judge T. c. Hart was then intro
duced and his tribute to the former
president was an outline OF his
strenuous life and from it the speak
er drew a lesson In patriotism and
sincere love of country which he de-
clared to be the dominating impulses
of him in whose honor the entire ma
tion was acting in unison today.
Judge Hart in presenting Samuel
Platt as the orator of the evning ex-
tended to him the thanks of the au-
dience for his acceptance of a last
hour invitation to join with them in
memorial service to one with whom
he had been officially associated
Mr.. Plat who had been U. S.
District Attorney under the Roose-
welt administration and who had a
personal acquaintance with the late
president reviewed the life of Roose-
welt from the time of his graduation
from Harvard through his exciting
career in the New York Assembly
and his various important Offices un-
til his elevation TO the highest gift
in the nation.
The speaker said that even in the
midst of the mightiest of national
problems the human side of Theo-
dore Roosevelt was never for NOM
ent dimmed that his battle for phys
ical health fought on the ranges Of
the far west brought to him a deep
er knowledge of human nature than
was possessed by almost any man in
public life and doubtless was tie in
spiration for many of the laws for
the betterment of the masses enact
ed under his seven years term as
head of the nation.
The intensity of Roosevelt's Amer
icanism the speaker said made him
impatient with moderate methods
and was the cause of his motives of
ten times being misconstrued but in
the light of his disinterested services
during the past two years and the
contribution of his four sons to the
war, one of whom paid the Great
Price, and whose death 1t is believed
hastened that of this devoted Ameri-
can, the honest sentiment of the ma
tion today gives him his rightful
place as one by whose life our coun-
try is enriched.
The exercises we're concluded with
the singing of America by the choir
and audience and the benediction by
Paw 4 A Wachob