Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-06-11

the Russo-Jnpaness War. Shrewdfy
choosing the right moment to step
In. he appealed to h two beiltger-
ents with @ common sense and a SIM
pie directness that q friend would
use in bringing together two quarrel
ing neighbors. Afterward he steered
the Peace Conference at Portsmouth
against its Will steadily toward a
peace of reconciliation, an impatient
Russian declaring that. his steel
wrist" hammered out a treaty that
neither of the Powers wanted at h a
time and that the terrible Amer
Iican President-II Strenuoso-was
icapable of locking the cOnferees Into
a room and starving them into sub
mission"
Instead Of starting a war, the big
stick" stopped the only great war that
broke u in the period of its sway.
Not a cloud appeared even momen
/, tariiy on our own horizon in the
seven years n a half of Roosevelt's
Administration. And the special tro-
ply OF his Presidency was not a
military medal but the Noble prize,
which was awarded to him in 1906
as the worlds foremost peacemaker.
The one suspicion of a stain on the
big stick" was Incurred In o
velt's dealings with Columbia over a
right of way for an Esthmian canal
through the STATE of Panama. A
dictator of Colombia. after agreeing
to ccde us the canal strip for s1O,-
600, 900, broke his agreement in a
desire to get more. Roosevelt was
not to be stopped in constructing the
canal any more than a Union Pacific
locomotive was stopped by the rope
which the Indians drew across the
track. After he had drafted a mes
sage TO Congress. proposing the TAX
ing of the necessary land regardless
OF the Government Of Bogota, the
State of Panama. which was anxious
to have the canal constructed and
was eager to gather in the $4,000
600 for itself, seeded from Colombia
under the protection of American
warships n the n was
dug.
While the R~oosevelt's wore its ten
ants. the White House was TN ex-
ample and the center of the simple
family life of America not
a ~second-rate palace" the President
said, but the home of a self-respect-
ing American citizen" A few months
after graduating at Harvard, Roose-
Welt married Miss Alice Hathaway
Lee of Boston, whom he had met in
his college days. This bride of his
youth passed from life as her daugh-
ter--Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth
entered 1t. On the same day i'll
the same house his mother died, and
it was from the shadow of this double
bereavement that he turned to a new
life in the Wild West.
Nearly three years afterward he
sailed from New York, directly fol-
lowing an unsuccessful campaign for
Mayor to marry a friend and neigh
Dor of his childhood, Miss Edith Ker-
NIT Carow. Wo was sojourning in
Europe. The wedding took place in
London, n IN the register of st.
Georges, Hanover Square, curious
visitors may read the marriage lines"
of Theodore Roosevelt, ranchman."
AS the wife of the President, Mrs.
Roosevelt vas called upon to act as
hostess to q larger number and variety
of guests than any other mistress of
the White House and so generously
is she endowed with tact that she is
among the few in la trying position
to have escaped criticism. When she
took up her residence there with her
family of six children, she found her.
self cooped up In a five-room fiat"
most of the place being given over
TO Offices. In her term the old man
sion was transformed into a comfort
able home. and the remodeled White
House. altered without any sacrifice
of its character, t~estiles to the good
ems and good taste of both Mrs.
Roosevelt and the President.