The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-10-28
|DR. STICKNEY
PAYS TRIBUTE
TO ROOSEVELT
Pioneer North Dakota Physi.
clan Knew Him as q Ranch.
er on Frontier

Grand Forks, N. D., Oct. 2s.-LP9-
Radio fans who listened in on the
North Dakota University broadcast
ing station last night heard DR.. v.
II. S.ickneM Of Dickinson, pioneer
North Dakota physician, pay . touch.
ing tribute to Theodore Roosevelt
whom he knew when the former
president was rancher on the
frontier.
Describing the manner in which
Roosevelt developed himself from !
physically weak and timid boy to 1
hon OF courage and q leader Of
public thought unequaled in his or
any succeeding generation, DR.. Stick
ney averred that Roosevelt might
we'll be an inspiration to every Amer
lean citizen.
Despite the fact that Roosevelt
rose to heights Of prominence un.
touched by his fellow citizens, he
was always intensely human and
never lost the common touch, DR..
Stickney said. Newspapers pub.
lishcd not only the important but
the trivial things he said. Report.
ers doggcd his footsteps and came ra-
men lay in wait for him. The pub
lie was eager for every word that
Tell from his lips.
All this stuff he liked, he was
so human. and we love this trait in!
him.
In the early years Of his man.
hood Roosevelt lived in what is now
the state of North Dakota as
ranchman. I think he had just pass
ed his twenty-fifth year when he first
set foo: on the soil of the old terri
tory
An Outstanding Figure
he was one Of the outstanding
figures in the early history Of the
western part Of the state.
All Of US feel honored in the fact
that part Of his life was spent among
US that for time he was one Of US.
The string times--the rugged
env'ronmens--the personal associa-
tions--the opportunities for develop
ment in needed directions, were found
within the limits of our state and
were given him in abundance. This
debt ne recognized. and never missed
an opportunity to express his ap-
probation of what lite out here ..l
the frontier had done for him.
AT Fargo in 1910 in his Labor
Day address he sai0 this: MY friends,
! never can sufficiently express the
obligation | am under to your state,
for il was here that | lived for
number Of years in a ranch house
IN the cattle country, and l regard
nv experience during those years,
when lived and worked with my
own fellow ranchmen on what was
then the frontier, as the most i'm.
portant educational asset Of all my
life
This he could we'll say, for it !
was out here that life in the open
gave him his chance to fight back
from frailty to perfect health. Il
was out here that the stressin9 times
Of frontier life and the companion
ship Of strong, brave men gave him
his chance to test his courage, clari- i
~ his vision. gave him the rangers
eye for distance and proportion,
trained him in those keen perceptions
that later on enabled him to Judge
men by the real qualities Of man.
hood. gave him the fine perception
that enabled him in after life to see
issues standing out clear and untram.
meaed and to meet them with prompt,
mistaken self-reliance.
Training Was Valuable
ut is doubtful if without the
training and experience gained in
this austere environment he could
have reached the place he holds in
the records Of nations history.
"This much the state gave the
Great Examplar Of Americanism; and
he in turn has given US, BY preceps
and example, she heritage of a life