South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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42 Wctlfcthw CIR-'fgcair THE AMERICANISM OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT r HE passing of Theodore Roosevelt has focused the nation's attention on his Americanism. Long after men cease to think of him as president or writer or explorer, they will continue to think of him as an ardent apostle of pure patriotism. For it, many have hailed him the greatest American of this age. Grief, ill-health, and political disappointment could not vanquish his ardent love of country, that was always first. Colonel Roosevelt preached the gospel of one hundred per cent Americanism. He it was, more than anyone else, who condemned the hyphenated Americansg who put the pacifist to routg who pointed out the radical defects in our war-machine. And he put the fighting spirit into the rank and file of the American people. More- over his criticism was always constructive. In this time of social unrest when bolshevism and anarchy are a menace, we shall do well to listen to his solemn warning. ln his last public utterance we find these memorable words: There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have loom for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against civilization and liberty, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile. This was the last testament of Colonel Roosevelt to his countrymen. It should be the slogan of the reconstruction period. And we who are being graduated into the world in the year in which he left it, should be guided by it. So shall we help to save our country from intrigue and disruption. May the spirit of Theodore Roosevelt dwell with us in the years to come. GERHARD SONNESYN. fiffffffjf figgfflzx 5 -:X I TV f 13

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