The New York herald., 1922-01-07
Simple Ceremony at Gene
terry Followed by Visit to
Mrs. Roosevelt.
LUNCH AT SYCAMORE HILL
ColoneFs Favorite Poem and
Progressive Ultimatum at
Chicago Read Again.

women were waiting for Long Island
train to be made up in the Pennsyl-
vania Station yesterday morning. A
gray haired. travel stained stranger
approached them
Us this the delegation that's going
10 Oyster Bay?" he asked.
1T is," said Lawrence Abbott.
II wonder if you would mind nv
going along with you. Col. Roosevelt
meant good deal to me. I have read
all his books and everything that's
been written about him, pretty much
heard him speak, and once we shook
hands. When I heard that his old
friends were going to visit his grave
to-day I felt that I just had to come
along. / got UP at half past two this
morning to do 1t, and walked five miles
tc get train"
The stranger who by thus introducing
himself was stranger no longer proved
to be Eugene Beltz Of Packertown. Car
bon county. Pa, a car inspector for the
Lehigh Valley Railroad. Mr.. Abbott
told him that certainly he could go
along. 1t was an incident that the Colo
rel himself would have delighted in
Thus the second annual pilgrimage to
the Roosevelt grave. to be repeated each
year on the anniversary of the former
Presidents death, was started.
Band of Pilgrims Grows.
That is the official name Of 1.-THE
Roosevelt Pilgrimage. and DR.. Lyman
Abbott Is it's chairman. A year ago it
was started with nine members. Now
the number has grown to nearly 100.
All were close friends OF Col. Roosevelt.
Among those who climbed the trail to
the grave near Oyster Bay yesterday
and later visited Sycamore Hill and
we're received by Mrs. Roosevelt were
members of the Tennis Cabinet" pio-
neers of the Progressive partv of 1912.
RouEh Riders, writer's of the West and
of the East editors who printed the
Colonel's copy. men and women who raj
lied around the leader In many good
fight, and were held by him IA the bond
Of loyalty and affection.
When they came to the grave on the
hilltop among the cedars they found the
grass still q vivid green in January. DIR.
Abbott led the way. Standing beside
the enclosure he spoke of the purpose Of
the pilgrima aye--perpetuation OF the
hOOSeVelI luealS-dnu dSheu JdItleS Tb
Garfield. who was President Roosevelt's
Secretary Of the Interior. to read parts
OF the address delivered by the Presi-
cent before the Nobel Prize Committee.
at Christiana, Norway, In 1910, when he
received the Peace Prize.
The application of the address to the
present time was noted by yesterdays
listeners. President Roosevelt spoke for
effective arbitration treaties among all
Co. .wxlA H. <xl b.
Court of Arbitral Justice at The Hague,
for the Limitation OF armament. In
view of the present proceedings I'm
Washington, these sentences seemed es-
pecially prophetic:
"Somethng should be done as soon
a. possible TO check the growth of arma-
ments especially naval armaments. by
international agreement No one Power
could or should act by itself for 1t is
eminentiy undesirable. from the stand
point OF the peace of Righteousness, that
a Power which really does believe In
peace should place itself at the mercy
OF some rival which may at bottom have
no such belief and no intention Of act
ing on IL.
"But, granted sincerity OF purpose. the
great Powers of the world should find
no insurmountable difficulty in reaching
an agreement which would put an end
70 tne pTcsent CoStiy anu bIOWhib cA-
travagance OF expenditure on naval
armaments. An agreement merely to
limit the size OF ships would have been
very useful few years ago and would
rtill be OF use. but the agreement should
20 much further"
would Keep Peace by Force.
President Roosevelt also said. in the
Lest paragraph read by Mr.. Garfield
that ut would be master stroke II
those great Powers honestly bent on
peace would form league of peace, not
only 10 keep the peace among them. but
TO prevent. by force IL necessary, its
being broken by others.
Each nation" no said. must keep
well prepared 60 defend itself until the
establishment OF some form of interna-
national police power. competent and
willing to prevent violence as between
nations
"As things are now, such power to
command peace throughout the world
could best be assured by some combina-
tion between those great nations which |
sincerely desire peace and have no
thought themselves of committing ag-
Eressions. The combination might at
first be only TO secure peace within |
certain definite limits and certain defi- I,
mite conditions but the ruler or states |
man who should bring about such n
combination would have earned his \
place in history for all time and his
title TO the gratitude OF all mankind"
Mrs. Thomas Robins of Philadelphia /