Roosevelt High School - Sagamore Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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is ' Eitififillli saeamo eyiaiiq el THE MAN IN THE VVHITE HOUSE OOSICVELT: All I ask is a square deal for every man. fAs a Civil Service Commissioner he had Written: It is now made a reproach to us that under our examinations honest and capable colored men are given an even chance with honest and capable White men. I esteem this reproach a high compliment to the Commission, for it is an admission that the Commission has rigidly done its duty as required by law without regard to politics or religion and Without regard to color. As President, he but continued his square dealing, in a higher office. His fondest recollection of White House days was a banquet given to his Western friendsj , THE DEFENDER OF RIGHT mmmix: OOSICVELT: I have done all I could to bring on the war because it is a just war, and the sooner We meet it the better. Now that it has come, I have no business to ask others to do the lighting and stay at home myself. CVVhether or not We believe in war, we believe not in the boss's HGo,'l but in the leader's i'Come.H Roosevelt addressed more audiences than any other man of his time, and made a deeper impression by his spoken word. He, who spoke out of his heart and straight from the shoulder, made a man-to-man appeal to the rugged de- scendants of our forefathersj .. -lziieeff . IQZQ W2 -L 1:1 f-fffff?'. glxtci. ii 5, , if :Lai-ids! Page Eleven

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I 5 O Eiriiici-ree saeaeaozafbiaii ia I THE OUTDOOR MAN l THE MAN OOSEVELT: Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill, but children are better than books. There are many kinds of success in life worth having. It is exceed- ingly interesting and attractive to be a successful business man, or railway man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer or doctor, or a writer, or a President, or a ranch- man, or the colonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions. But for unflagging interest and enjoyment, a house- hold of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their impor- tance by comparison. OOSEVELT: But though there is much work and hardship, rough fare and monotony, and exposure connected with the round-up, yet there are few men who do not look forward to it and back to it with pleasure. CA biography says that Roosevelt was a wonderful example mind and body, and biography in detail great heed to this His body was equal to any burden or strain which his mind might have to en- dure, therefore, it is no idle fancy that suggests a perpetual competition between the two. He never allowed his body, how- of the partnership of anyone who writes his will do Well to pay intricate interlocking. ever, to get control.J AT HOME Page Ten

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e saaamoieseliiliegm THE ARBITRATOR OOSEVELT: I believe that we are now, at the outset of the twentieth century, face to face with great world problemsg that we cannot help playing the part of a great world powerg that all we can decide is whether we will play it well or ill. C'lSerVice to his fellow-men: that is the keynote of Roosevelt's life, as faith in the Republic and love of country are its burning fire. l ROOSEVIELTZ Back of the laws, back of the administration, back of the system of government lies the man. CWhC1'CVC1' he was, in whatever role, Roosevelt neither molested nor allowed any one to be molested, nor tolerated unnecessary disturbances. In the coal strike during his Presidency, he set a new precedent by per- suading miner and operator to settle their differences by arbitration. This timely act prevented a coal famine. It was, likewise, largely through his influence that the Russo-Japanese war was terminatedj ROOSEVELT: VVhatever I do, old friend, I believe it will be because after painful groping I see my duty in some given path. QAn old college professor predicted many years ago that his students might rate our people's fitness for self-government by the headway Roose- velt made with his ideals and ambitionsj ROOSEVELT: The true end of every great and free people should be self-respecting peace. fRoosevelt had his faults, he was not always right. VVhether right or wrong, however, we feel that he did what he felt was rightg for as he said, The millennium is not here, it is some thousand years off yetflj M.. - ---'- -- E AAe.:gf'3Tf ' j:1f ' ,c-5, j Page Tirfln'