Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-24
COOLIDGE PRAISES
LIFE OF ROOSEVELT
AT NY. MEMORIAL

New York, Jan. 23-Declaring that
great men are the ambassadors Of
providence sent to reveal to their fell
low men their unknown Selves" Cal
win Coolidge. vice president-elect, de-
livered an address eulog1stic to the
life of Theodore Roosevelt, tonight
before the Women's Roosevelt Memo
rial Association.
There is something about these
better than anything they do or say
he asserted. "If measured at all. they
are to be measured in the responsive
action of what others do or say. They
come and go, in part a mystery, in
part the simplest of all experience,
the compelling influence of the truth.
They leave no successor. The heri-
tage of greatness descends to the
people"
The speaker declared it was not in
the time Of military peril, but of ci-
| vii peril, that Theodore Roosevelt per-
formed his most valuable services for
! America.
THE greatest peril to our institu-
tions," he said. docs not lie in a di-
rect assault upon them. nor will it
come from those who with evil intent
strive for their destruction. Disaster
will come from those who probably
with. good intentions seek the private
control Of public action. 1t is an old
story known to all, but in the exer-
cises of that eternal vigilance which
they tell US is the price of liberty it
requires constant FEDERATION, and no
estimate of the services and charac-
ter, of Theodore Roosevelt can be
made without the retelling Of it,"
Abiding to the derision some men
cast at Roosevelt that he had dscov-
cred the "Ten Commandments" Mr..
Coolidge said:
| What they said derisively let us
state seriously. He had discovered
the Ten Commandments and he ap-
piled their doctrine with great vigor
III places that had assumed they had
the power to discard the Ten Com
mandments."
! Roosevelt's last great service, he de-
clared, was rousing the nation to the
meaning and menace of the war 10
America
"He appealed from the things that
seemed to be to the soul Of the things
that are. He reused the national con-
science into righteous action. He
spoke to the soul of his country and
he saw her response. He saw her
rise triumphant abmve every sordid
motive, resurgent tothe everlasting
realities. He saw his fellow country
men make their sacrifice and he made
his. He knew their suffering, but he
knew their courage. fle saw their fl
nal victory. He. saw the beginning of
the return of those never conquered
banners as they came streaking home
In that triumphant sound of drum
home, under the brighter banners OF
truth and righteousness, which, in
him. never suffered defeat"
At the conclusion of his address the
vice president elect was presented
with the gold medal of the National
Institute of Social Sciences. THE
! presentation came as surprise. not
only to his hearers but to Mr. Cool
idge himself. The council of the in
/! stitute voted the award two days ago
in recognition of his public service
The gold medal Is the highest
award granted by the institute, and
has been given In recent years only
to two other distinguished Ameri-
cans, President Wilson and former
President Taft.
! The presentation was made by DR.
Henry Fairfield Osborne.
Governor Miller of New York made
an address in which he eulogized
former President Roosevelt and en-
dorsed the plan to erect a memorial