The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-16

ot 1909. and shortly after Robert
BacOn died Macon knew more about
the side of the coal operators than
any one else. 4 little later George
w. Perkins passed out, leaving %
thousand memories % Roosevelt
md the whole progressive nght for
ever untold.
\ Idying Memorial.
Gradually several Of us notably
Col William Boycc Thompson
president Of the association, began
20 shape the vision OF a great duty
and "a magnificent opportunity. n
we were to 'perpctrHto RoosCvelt's
ideals the first thing for us to DO
was to gather and salt down the
facts OF Hoscvelts life. and 10 do D.
at once while the men and women
Who had the facts were alive TO tell
them,
a year ago, on the rccommonda-
ticn OF a group Of men iuCmdius
Elihu Root. Colonel Thompson, Os-
car $. strauss, clifford pinChot. Gov.
Harry j. Allen and Mark sullivan.
the bureau OF Roosevelt research
and information was founded. ON
the general principle that tho best
way Of perpctrating Roscvcits ideals
was TO collect and disseminate on an
organized plan. which 70 will take
perhaps another generation TO full
fill, the fullest possible knowledge of
the man. To propagandze was
wholly ncedlcss--sl simply to tell the
story and 20 give people n chance
90 get at all the facts-that was The
mission and the goal
Tho bureau OF Roosevelt research
and information was started I'm Jan.
uary Of this year with Mr. Haga
dorm ns director, and with one ste
nographcr Today besides the oi4
rector there H. an assistant director
| three stenographcrs and a librarian.
| with two or three other special
workers. In Philadelphia an OK
Cowpuncher who knew Roosevelt
In Dakota, has been working for
/ the bureau and In Chicago the man
/ who was editor OF ,he Bad lnnds
| Cow Roy when Roosevelt had HE
ranches on the Little Missouri, has
| been helping the association to val
uable material. George y. Spinney
formerly managing editor OF the
I New York Times, who was th'
, Times Albany correspondent in the
! wears Roosevelt was in the New
| York assembly. ls collecting mate
| rial for the association concerning
| that period OF the coloncls career
In the past year the bureau has had
n fellow IN Roosevelt research at
Harvard. digging out the facts ~
RosevoIt's Undergraduate days and
has also had assistants doing re
search work In libraries and news
paper offices In St Paul and in
bismarck, IN Mandan and In Dick
lnsun, y, -.
Take Years to Complete.
ITO get all tho material relatlnc
10 such a multifarious career as tha'
Of Theodore Roosevelt" said Mr..
Hagedorn, "will OF course. he pro
digious Job and win probably take
a good many years. | want TO cm-
phasize here strongly that It Is not
only tho details OF ROoscvclts ltc
that we are after. one cannot un-
dcrstand the background agains.
which that life was lived. one can
not. for instance. get the significance
OF Roosevelt's ranching period unless
one knows all about that peculiar
strip Of country, thirty miles wid
and two hundred miles long, known
as the Bad Lands. one has to kno@
the Marquis de Mores and M
dreams, and know Jake Maunder'
and his deviltries in order 10 ge'
any real idea of what Roosevelt me
and ovcrcame in bringing law anc
order to that wild region. 1t Is the
same with other periods or hts O."
recr, The recital merely Of Roos"'
volts various achievements in the
assembly tells only n part Of th'
story. One cannot know Roose-
welt in the legislature unless on
knows more than n little OF the
dincy politics of New York state IN
I'm the early SOS. Just as one can
not understand Roosevelt as Cover
nor unless one understands the Pa,
machine and how II worked, how II
was oiled and why IL had to be taken
into very careful account
Mr.. Hagedorn has for the last
vear been concentrating his atten.
lion on the ranchlng episode in Mr.
Rooseyclts lie. Last summer ht
spent another month IN the north,
west. chiefly In the Bad Lands OF
Dakota visiting the scenes or th'
adventures a the colonel has so vivid
Iv described in his "Autobiography
ana in his Hunting Trips or q
Ranchman."
contains more than five hundred
hooks. magaZinc articles and
narnhlcts by Theodore Roosevelt
Including seventv-threo first edl
, lions. and more than three thousand
books. articles and pamphle''
about him.
WattrrSOn's Contribution.
? The bureau has already made m
: irnrre ense collection Of photographs
ctchlngs and cnPravinns OF Colone
! Roosevelt, and likewise collection
or newspaper clippings numbering
between twenty thousand and thlrt,
thousand. or the clippings the mos
interesting single item r. paokag'
o. anti Roosevelt editorials from th'
Louisville Couricr-Journal, written
hv Henry Wattorson.
"Au this material" Mr., Hagcdorn
Dointod ont, "is being carefully MED
and catalogucd to make II easlly &C
ccgsible 10 historical writers. Wha'
we have now Il the nucleus ~ the
collection we are seeking TO Fathei
together. The central object OF the
l association Is 20 create great u
brary concerning Theodore loos"-
welt and his time 20 which scholar
will come from all over tho wor'h
for authentic information about the
man and tho period he dominated
7 might add that as Colonel wat
terson's gift indicates, II Is not only
] u. mi at