Arizona republican., 1921-10-26
Memorabilia

We stated the other day in connection with the observance tomorrow of the birthday of Colonel Roosevelt which will be carried all the ton under the auspices of the Womens Roosevelt Memorial association that the time would come when it's work would have been finished We also stated at that time that there would be nothing to do by Washington Lincoln Memorial association
 The Roosevelt Memorial association and the Wo mems Roosevelt Memorial association different sbodies with the general purpose in view-to keep before the nation the deeds and teachings of the great president latter is also moving to se cure the house where he born as a treasure house for mementoes of him. and to establish school for the dissemination of Americanism to which he S devoted.
 We should have been rather explicit to the work of associations and should have stated that the finished work of this association and the Roosevelt Memorial association would be remark able achievement and unprecedented in the collected material concerning Colonel Roosevelt at time when there is such wealth of it
 This is brought forcib1y p a letter by Presi- dent Harding to MT. Herman Hagedorn, director of the bureau of research of the Roosevelt Memorial association. in which he
 It is. as far as know, the first widely organized endeavor that has been made in this country to bring the records and mementoes of great life to- tion of posterity. Such endeavor is a public service As nation we have tendency to give
  our future depends what have learned from our past Your work is therefore. peculiarly inn rortant.
 Theodore Roosevelt has already been accepted by the majority of his fellow citizens the third in Americas great triumvirate. We would give much today if a group of Washington's friends group of Lncolns associates had, immediately after the death their set about collecting mementoes and memorabilia your organization is collecting them. We know those two great lives only too frag- rnentarly. Thanks to the work your association is doing posterty will know Roosevelt completely than it will know of his predecessors.
 Much that we of Washington is apocryphaL The reliability Sparks, his first biographer, has been questioned. Of the intimate life the Father of his Country know most from his diary edited by Losing, covering small portion of his life. We have his Farewell Address, and only few other papers. Even the accuracy of the full length portraits of washinson has been doubted.
 We are more familiar with the life of Lincoln so closely interwoven with the war between the states. i've have the great work of Nicolay and Hay com- pleted twenty years after the tragedy at Fords theater. The authors familiar with Lincoln, the president, to the preceding period they had depend largely upon hearsay except to the higher points in his public his debates with Douglas. his in the house of representatives and the events leading to his nomination for the presidency. We have his messages. his speeches, his immortal "Gettysburg Address" and many of his state utteranees But of his intimate life puzzled to separate the fact from the tanefuL
 The life of Colonel Roosevelt is of the present. with us only yesterday. There is an abund- ance of memorabilia. of his sayings which have not been put into a permanent record. of his as a private citizen and of many of his deeds presi dent which have not been officially recorded.
 Colonel Roosevelt has left more his writings of a permanent nature that would anyhow survive. his voluminous works in great number of fields. And they would convey to future generations much of the man, for few writers have so lived in their works Colonel Roosevelt
 But there is surprising of uncollected de- whose value will the years, and which would be forever lost but for the work of these associations.