Roosevelt High School - Sagamore Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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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'

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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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la -me Eaaaieae saaaooaeiaaeit I THE PILOT AND THE PROPHET OOSIQVIELT: Of all the work that is done, or that can be done for our country, the greatest is that of educating the body, the mind, and above all the character. Each of us, then, who has an education, school or college, has obtained something from the community at large for which he or she has not paid, and no self-respecting man or woman is content to rest permanently under such an obligation. From all our citizens we have a right to expect good citizenshipg but most of all from those who have received most, most of all from those who have had the training of body, of mind, of soul, which comes from association in and with a great university. FINIS N. B. The play opened with plenty of action, grew greater and greater, and ended 'mid cheers. Fellow-actors forgot lines, he secretly prompted them. Some falsely confused thingsg he quickly forgave him. The honor he willed his troupe, the censure he shouldered. The play was a huge success, hailed by the critics, but, for years it had vainly sought every producer. It has been given and re-given in theaters the world over. Each year Hnds the crowds growing larger and larger. No royalties, save two, must be paid to produce it. They are an un- erring sense of the right direction and an unquenchable ,determination to follow that direction. It is one of the greatest dramas of all timesg but, above even that stands its influence in establishing a new school of acting, which will revolutionize stage art. iltfliv Zj tV F-is-if ? I fy' '4'r 1,gk ,',,Lf mx ' .... Pug!! TlIiI'll'l'7l