Arizona republican., 1919-02-10
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Impressive Services In Capitol Symbolic Hundreds of Memorial Meetings Throughout United States Americas Greatest American Nations Leaders Hear Address of Senator Lodge In House

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-In solemn services within the house chamber to- day, the nations leaders and represen- tatives of foreign governments paid tribute to the memory of Theodore Roosevelt. Members of congress, su- preme court justices. members of the cabinet army and navy officers, and diplomats of many nations heard Sen ator Lodge of Massachusetts praise Roosevelt as a statesman and as a man.
 Crowded galleries and the throng of men and women who could not gain admission testified to the personal feel ing for the man whose death shocked the world. It was this to which Sen ator Lodge, a close personal friend of the man he eulogiZed, referred when he spoke these words in the stiffness of the house chamber:
 "A tower is fallen, a star is set, Alas! Alas, for Colin
 "1he words of lamentation from the old Moorish ballad which in boyhood we used to recite. must, I think. have risen to many lips when the world was told that Theodore Roosevelt was dead. But whatever the phrase, the thought was instant and everywhere.
 
 the crowds about the bulletin boards, from the man in the street and the man on the railroads, from the farmer in the fields, the women in the shops, in the factories, and in the homes. The pulpit found in his life a text for ser mons. The judge on the bench. the child at school alike paused for a mo- ment conscious of loss. The cry of sorrow came from men and women of all conditions high and low, rich and poor, from the learned and the ignorant. from the multitude who had loved and followed him, and from those who had opposed and resisted him. The news papers pushed aside the absorbing re- ports of the events of these fAteful days and gave pages to the man who had died.
 Flashed beneath the ocean and through the air went the announce ment of Theodore Roosevelt's death. and back came a world wide response from courts and cabinets, from press and people, in other and far-distant lands. Through it all ran a golden thread of personal feeling which gleams so rarely in the comber forn.alism of l public grief. It would seem that here was a man, private citizen, conspicu- ous by no office, with no glitter of power about him, TO ability to reward or punish, gone from earthly life. who must have been unusual. even among the leaders of men. and who thus de- mands our serious consideration" Services Simple
 Senator Lodge was the only speaker and the services were simple. Prayers by the senate and house chaplains and anthems and patriotic hymns by the ! Ma rfrn hr.., "a
 itual nature of the services.
 Simultaneously with the Capitol services, memorial exercises for the for mer president were held in various cities over the country and in Ameri- can aSmy camps at home and overseas.
 Virtually all members of the senate and house attended the joint session. Nive- President Marshall and Speaker Clark presided jointly, while seated before them were Chief Justice White and the associated justices of the su preme court in their sombre robes. members of the cabinet, representa- tiVes of the diplomatic corps. General March, chief of staff. and other army and navy officers in full uniform.
 Former President Taft occupied a prominent seat on the center aisle and was warmly applauded as he was es- NpA Atu lhlO lflt CnalnDeT.
 Senator Lodges address was inter rupted occasionally by applause, and at times by quiet laughter. as he related anecdotes of Colonel Roosevelt's life Marked applause greeted his statement that of all the nations of the earth. Germany alone did not mourn the for mer presidents death. because she knew his voice had rallied Americans to the battle for freedom.
 We cannot approach Theodore Roosevelt along the beaten paths of eulogy or satisfy ourselves with the empty ciVllltIes of commonplace fun eral tributes" said Senator Lodge. flor he did not make his life journey over main travelled roads nor was he ever commonplace. Cold and pompous for malities would be unsuited to him, who was devoid of affectation, who was never self conscious, and to whom DOS turing to draw the public gaze seemed not only repellant, but vulgar. In his spirit of devotion to truths simplic- ity, l shall try to speak of him today.
 Referring to Roosevelts inheritance of comparative wealth. Senator Lodge said: He lacked the spur of necessity to prick the sides of his intent.
 Theodore Roosevelt put behind him I ure, to lettered ease, to an amateurs career in one of the fine arts, perhaps to a money making business.
 How he refused to tread the pleas ant paths that opened to him on al sides and took the instant way which led over the rough road of toll ana action, his life discloses.
 MT. Lodge outlined the life of the man who came to play such a big par in the nations life. With delicate health and near-sightedness in child hood, he became by sheer hard worl an athlete and a rifle shot. This wa. typical, said Mir. Lodge. He spoke o how Roosevelt persisted in the un. usual; how he made himself a nationa , figure in one year at the age of 2. while serving in the New York stat, , legislature; how he fought and woI for civil service reform when civi service was scoffed at by influentia } leaders and of how he applied himsel strenuously to the task of expellin. favoritism and politics from the Nev } York police force, through which e purely local office became nationa l in his hands, and his picture appeared in the shops of European cities" As assistant secretary of the navy when he ordered Dewey to prepare fo
 Manila bay before war came, as col onel of the Rough Riders regimen at San Juan, as governor of New . dent, MT. Roosevelts career wa! l traced. After reviewing the Roose . welt administrations, touching upol