Evening star., 1946-07-01
RooseveIt's Example
To World ExtoI|ed in
Congress Memorial
By Corter Brooke Jones

The counsel and example of the
late President Roosevelt were ex-
tolled today as Congress, joined by
President Truman, turned aside for
an hour from the economic crisis
and other besetting problems to pay
tribute to the man who occupied the
White House for IL turbulent years.
In the memorial address at a
solemn joint session in the House
chamber, John G. Winant, United
States representative on the United
Nations Economic and Social Coun-
cial and former Ambassador to
England, said of Mr. Roosevelt: He
dared to act 1t is not always that
those who have the courage to see
have the courage to act on what
they see. Franklin Roosevelt acted
In two great crises, one within, the
other without, his acts changed his
tory"
Mr.. Winant added: He believed.
There was no American of his time
who believed more deeply in Amer
lea than he and no believer in de-
mocracy who had a firmer faith in
man."
Dared to Hope.
Further summing up his concep-
ton of the late Presidents creed.
Mr. Winant said: Most important
of all perhaps for us who have out
lived him, he dared to hope. There
was never a time In the dark years
of the depression or the black years
of the war when he lost hope. And
as the end of the war drew near and
the end of his life with it. his hope
grew greater, grew beyond the war,
beyond the victory, to peace. He
dared to hope for peace, to believe
in peace and to act for peace"
Joining in the tribute were the
cabinet. justices of the Supreme
Court and members of the diplo-
matte corps MI Winant spoke
above a bank of lilies and ferns
the only decoration in the hushed
chamber.
Mrs. Roosevelt sat on an aisle seat
in the second row. Beside her was
Josephus Daniels, the veteran North
Carolina editor who was Woodrow
Wilson's Secretary of the Navy
Next on the row sat the late Presi-
dents son, Elliott Roosevelt; his wife
and two children. Next to them
we're two members of Mr.. Roose-
velt's cabinet, Henry Morgenthau
former Secretary of the Treasury
and Mrs. Frances Perkins, who was
Secretary of Labor
President Truman sat immediate
ly in front of and to the left of the
speakers stand. Across the aisle
from him was the new Chief Justice
Fred M Vinson and beyond him the
other Justices of the Supreme Court
Five Senators Stay Away.
Senators Brooks of Illinois,
Hawkes. of New Jersey, Robertson
of wyoming, Moore of Oklahoma,
and Stanfill of Kentucky, all Repub-
icans, remained in the Senate
chamber as other members filed out
to attend the services.
The Marine Band Orchestra. con-
cealed in the speakers lobby, played
q, memorial program for half an
hour before the ceremony began,
and members of the House filed in
gradually When all were seated,
the Representative stood as men,
bers of the Senate arrived in body
The doorkeeper then announced
other distinguished guests as they
arrived, the chiefs of staff of the
armed services, other high officials
of the government and ambassadors
and ministers from many foreign
countries
Opening the program, Speaker
Rayburp said Congress and through
it the whole country wanted to pay
tribute to "a man who was loved and
honored not only in this country
but by the whole world"
Claimed New World
In his invocation, the Rev. James
Shera Montgomery, chaplain of the
House, spoke of the man who
strobe through the years and
claimed a new world
Mr.. Winant said: The final esti-
mate of Franklin Roosevelt S
achievements will not be made by
us or in this room It will be made
elsewhere and later and by men
who will judge all of us, not him