Roosevelt High School - Bwana Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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QQ BUJZJNH while the presldent of the Unlted States and h1s esteemed guest the xllus trlous naturalist discussed wlth a great deal of asperlty whether that chxppy sparrow had saxd twee twee or twee twee twee Theodore Roosevelt was a model of perseverence and patlence That thls IS a well known fact ns shown by an extract from a Phlladelphla paper An arncle appeared slgned by that 1n1m1table humorlst the brxlllant phxloso pher Peter Dunne alxas Mr Dooley whlch ran llke thxs Tlddy Rosenfeldt came to the Conventlon ln h1s Rough Rider suit and h1s sombrero hat and h1s khakx clothes trymg to look as mconsplchous as posslble and as soon as he got there Platt Ell on h1s chlst and Odell sat on h1s stummlck and they trled to crush hlm and squeeze the llfe out of hlm And they thmk they have done xt and perhaps they have but Hennessey they neednt be quite so sure for Txddy Rosenfeldt wlll get somewhere no matter what happens even though the path l1es through the cxmltery just an mstance of Roosevelts unselfish patrxotlc attltude and h1s breadth of soul IS the following letter ln reply to Mr Hoyt who had sug gested the erectlon of a monument to Quentln Roosevelt the war hero My Dear Mr Hoyt That IS a very n1ce letter of yours but I do not thmk It would be advlsable for us to try to put up a monument to Quentln Of course 1nd1v1dually our loss IS xrreparable but to the country he IS slmply one among many gallant boys who gave thelr lxves for the great cause Wlth very hearty thanks Fanthfully yours The above are gllmpses mto the prlvate l1fe the character and the very heart of the lllustrlous Theodore Roosevelt Let us see now what others have sald of hlm It was after the first whlspermgs of war that 1n response to Guy Emerson Thomas A Edison wrote of Colonel Roosevelt as follows My dear Sxr Answermg your questlon as to my vlews of Colonel Roosevelt for our next president I would say that I belleve he IS absolutely the only man to be consldered at th1s crucxal moment He has more real statesmanshlp a better grasp of the most zmportant needs of h1s country and greater executlve ablhty to handle the blg mternatxonal problems that will arxse at the close of this war than all the other proposed candidates put together Hrs energy capablhty and vast experience tn large affa1rs of state and natxon for many years together w1th h1s great patriotism and h1s mtense Amerxcamsm and h1s great knowledge ln all the lmes of human endeavor make hmm decxdedly the most strlkmg figure m Amerxcan lxfe The youth twenty three years of age as an assemblyman at Albany had come to h1s natlve cnty to make hxs malden address on that theme so near h1s heart Amerlcamsm and the man whose life work replete wlth patrxotlsm was drawmg to a close sent the same fervent message ln h1s last appeal to bxs fellow countrymen All h1s life long he had been for those fellow countrymen what Senator Warren G Hardlng named hlm ln his trlbute to the great chxef the patrlotlc sentmel pacmg the parapet of the Republic alert to danger and every menace 1n love wlth duty and servlce and always Unaffald MARY BELLE JAMIESON I L I , - 1 1 ' as 11 sc 11 1 1 1 1 ' ' - . ,K ,, . . . . 1 1 ' 1 - U . . . . . . 1 1 1 1 1 , . 1 1 1 1 , . . . 1 . . . H . , . . . . 1 1 . , - U , lc , . . . , 1 1 1 1 - 11 , . 1 1 ' 1 , . . N . l . . . 1 1 1 ' 1 , 1 9 1 1 . . . . . . . ,, 1 - 1 1 . H f - ,Q - . 1 Y 1 , 1 4 . , . H . . . ' . 1 y 1 1 ' 11 I 1' Tl'

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EWHHH INTIMATE VIEW OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT V OST presldents have made a declded 1mpress1on on the hearts of the Tai, people one definlte outstandmg characterxstlc has become assoc1 ated wlth each When we thlnk of Washmgton ,ve thlnk of h1s d1g n1ty when Lmcoln IS mentloned we see a kmdly man Uaunt of figure and frlendly to all but when Theodore Roosevelt IS spoken of we lmmedlately thmk of the broadness of h1s character the many sxded aspects of the man We see hlm as the great chlef beloved of all we see hlm as the jovial com panlon and humor1st and we see hlm as the brllllant statesman and patr1ot1c c1t1zen The followmg IS an extractlon from the b1ography wrrtten by hxs sxster wmch 1llLl'StI'3t6S the ch1ld1sh lnnocence of the Colonel s pranks One luncheon durmg the tlme that my brother was governor stands out clearly 1n my mind 0W1I1g to an amuslng 1nc1dent connected wlth lt My d1n1ng room at 422 Mad1son Avenue was small and fourteen people were the actual l1m1t that lt could hold One day he hav1ng told me that he was brmglng ten people to lunch and reallzmg his hospitable mcllnatxons I had the table set for the l1m1t of fourteen We were already thlrteen when the door bell rang and looklrg out of the wmdow he turned to me with a troubled expresslon and Sald I thlnk I see two people comlng up the front and sa1d Theodore I have not places for fifteen you sa1d there would be only ten I am dellghted to have fourteen but you w1ll have to tell one of those people that he w1ll have to go somewhere else for lunch He went out lnto the hall and ln a moment returned wlth one of h1s beloved Rough Rlders and an axr of trxumph cn hrs face I whlspered Were there really two and who was the other and what has happened to h1m9 He whlspered back like a chrld who has had a successful result 1n s0me game Yes there were two the other was the president of the Umverslty of I told them they had to toss up and the Rough Rlder won' th1s w1th a chuckle of dehght' Another mcxdent of the prxvate hfe of the xllustrmous presldent IS related by hls mece who upon recelvlnv an 1nv1tat1on for a v1s1t at the Whlte House realized the wonderful opportunltles of llstenlng to the great men of the world at the Roosevelt mformal luncheons It was decxded that Cor1nne would be seated between the presldent and john Burroughs the great natu ral1st Dxsappolnted to find that the conversatxon would not center on poh tlcs Cormne prepared to hear some marvelous ormthologlcal tales Imaglne her amazement when she heard the followmg conversatlon as Mr Roosevelt leaned across to Mr Burroughs john thls mornlng I heard a chlppy spar row and he sang twee twee r1ght1n my ear Mr Presxdent you must be mistaken It was not a chxppy sparrow lf It sang twee twee The note of the chxppy sparrow IS twee twee twee From that moment the great cont1nental affaxrs the mternatlcnal crlses of all kmds were utterly forgotten II cu FUI ,W - . . . . .- J- , ' . 3 . . . , . v b Q . . . . . . y - . D 1 i . I ' . q . . . V . . . , 1 H . . . . A . . y . 9 9 - v . A . , . . . , . . 1 3 steps, and that will make fifteenf I suddenly decided to be unusually firm, l 1 K , I l ' 9 ' 1 . , . ! 3 ' . . . , 1 7 9 . , . . , x ' W ' 7, . . y v . . D . . . . . . y , . . , . H . . . . . , ' K 3 ' ' YI K6 ' J 7 7 ' ' 5 , . . . i , ' ' L 7 1, 1 1 ' y . . S cz'

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