New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-23
Harding Says
Roosevelt Made
Nation Better
Rays Tribute in Letter To Be
Read to School Children
~
at Birthday Memorial
for the Former President
Praises Untiring Activity
Original Manuscripts and
!" Letters of Colonel Are
" Received by Association

Harry Fl. Schlacht, president of the
DOWNTOWN Chamber of Commerce.
Yesterday made public letter he has
received from President Harding to be
Tead TO the school children of the East
side on October 81, when the birthday
q the late Theodore Roosevelt is
alemorialized. President Harding
wrote:
ss-"Perhaps his greatest work, apart
rom his appealing Americanism, and
yet vital part of it, was his crusade
Tor new order of things and new
conscience in the Republic. We can
appraise Mr.. Roosevelt now in the aft
elsnath of fuller understanding, and
even those who most violently opposed
i'm must confess his great part in
The awakening. He did four years of
srousing and uprooting. His farseeing
gision detected dangerous drift He
cried out for governmental assertion
n authority, lest government itself
~Aould be governed. In his zest he was
.iae radical. as all crusaders are, but
when he saw the business conscience
OF America awakened, he gladly wei
coined constructive supercedure. He
was really less the radical than he Oft
times appeared, and sometimes spoke
radically against his own Judgment.
de incurred violent enmities, but none
ever called him an unfair opponent.
'4ie struck. as he spoke, from the
shoulder and he .praeticed as he
preached. In his virile American man
hood he was the inspiring and surpass-
Ing example. In the fl Illness of mental
and physical vigor he was the great
patrotlc sentinel, pacing the parapet
2l the Republic, alert to danger and
every menace and in love with duty
and service and Away unafraid.
Made Republic Bigger and Better
1t is little tc say that the Republic
s bigger and better and nightly adj
,Tanced by his part in the glorious
Republic, more American for his call
10 patriotism and more secure for his
warning Of perils. 1t is more to saw
ne inspired those who follow to nobler
manhood and higher ideals. 1t did not
seem quite in harmony with his un-
tirlng activity and embarrassed soul,
'raat Its flame should fail in the quiet
OF slumber, but it was peace valiantly
won, and the flame he lighted burned
sfresh and will light the way of
'oeople whom he loved and loved him
rs great American"
1.-The Roosevelt Memorial Assoc;a-
zen yesterday announced that in re-
ponse to its appeal a number of in
~eresting Roosevelt documents and
relics have been received recently.
Historical Documents Received
asThese include the ledger which he
cent while rapchipor ~ II
IT North Dakota from 1883 to fss6
aonated by j.. A. Ferris, storekeeper
N Medora at the time the late Colonel
Had his ranch across the river. There
also is the original draft Of the letter
written when Governor of New York
20 Mayor R: A. Van Wyck, declaring
s would take summary action unless
Devery to his subordinates instructinp
them to disregard the chief of the
ntate Election Bureau was revoked
MIS- letter was given by Mrs, William
!. Young, widow Of the Colonel's sec
re5ary the time the letter was written.
Inc original manuscript of his ar
sAcle, Murder ON the High Seas"
MneD two days after the sinking of
me Lusitania, was presented by Henrv
D.. Whlgan, editor of "The Metropoli,
IAN" The diary Of Roosevelt's IRA
.ttian trip was given by Miss Mar
guute,rte A. Solomon, one Of the Colo
-HeIs secretaries in "The Outlook"
OF considerable interest Is the conv
OF his first published work, "The Sam,
Iaer Birds of the Adirondacks," writ
zen when a student at Harvard in
collaboration with classmate. n u
Frnot. The copy is four-page folder
aoout the various birds extant at the
llme in the Adirondacks, and is the
Gift of Benjamin E. Adams. WAC