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WASHINGTON, MONDAY
Today
The Yung Lin Bit.
Riuiu, hxbu Marritfes.
"Jut Waited Id Shoot.
'Tleue Bey Cir Ships.
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By ARTHUR BRISBANE.
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The British war office an
nounces that trouble in the array
ha* been "satisfactorily settled."
Troops brought back to England
had refused to return to France
when ordered.
A "Representatives of the men
Maferred with a commanding
general." Something new in the
British army.
The London Standard talks of
w??rio?ts rumors of discontent in
the fleet
Not pleasant reading in this
country for those who believe thai
"everything Is for the best, in the
beat poesibie of worida," while the
profiteer goose hangs high.
May Mr. Wilson soon finish his
important world work, settle the
problems of the nations, bestow
ing democracy on them forever,
and return to this country, bring
ing with him the army, navy, and
allowing democracy over there to
settle its own affairs hereafter.
This cum try also may have
problems, and should finish as
quickly as possible pulling ehost
out of the Are for others.
Russian soviets will "pick hos
, bands for girls."
In Petrograd unmarried women
between eighteen snd forty-five
will be provided with husbands, by
the dty^the children brought up
Br the government.
Interesting and not entirely
. as*. -.1 \... i;
Read a bopk of travel written Uy
an Englishman, Thomas Gage,
some two handed years ago.
Spain, controlling South Amer
ica, digging gold and silver, want
ad plenty of Indiana to pay tribute,
plenty of slaves to work the mines.
Thomas Gage wrote: "To increase
the aoaber of those that pay trib
ute, all Indiana fifteen years old
must marry. {? fact, the rule' is
thai male ladiaos should marry at
and Indian girls at thir*
Gage says that be had aeen chll
thus married ol, and that R
"a shameful thing."
Petrograd compels marriage be
cause R wants plenty ol free citl
sen* from the people to oppose
tyranny and enjoy the newt Me*
dotn.
Spain compelled the marriage 91
Indian children fourteen ana thir
teen years old that she might have
plenty of slaves to pay tribute and ,
work in the minee. ?
The Rossisa Idea Is not pleasing
to the highly Teflned. but it la an
Improvement en the Spanish idea.
Charles Schwarts went jto the
hcepttal with a hand badly man*
glad. His three year-old lion had
bitten
"1 am mneh surprised." said
Trainer Schwartz. "The animal
waa born in captivity, and never
bit before."
That is, probably, what the Czar
said. All his people were born in
captivity, but they bit when the
time came. Be careful, Czars and
lion tamers?and some others.
President Wilson, in spite of sll
honors showered on him, gold
plate, the rides and appearances
on balconies with Kings and
Queens, does not overlook poverty
and hunger around him. He
cables to the American Congress
an urgent request to appropriate
oTie hundred millions "to feed the
Ltarving in Europe."
It is a beautiful thought for the
new year. Since we can afford it,
it should be done, but somebody
ought to appropriate a few mil
lions, say five or ten, to supply
with pure milk, at a fair price,
children that are starved by the
high cost in many of the great
dues in THIS country.
A halt cwsm in the scheme to
have the United States buy out
"tlie. shipping trust" at the high
war price?now that boats are less
valuable
And yet "only one hundred and
lift* millions were involved."
What has happened? Hasitt
this country a few extrar hundred
millions to oblige Wall Street gen
tlemen that wish to unload?
These ships include some of the
most venerable rat traps on the
ocean. If the United States Gov
ernment does not buy them from
patriots that ran them through the
war at a profit of a hundred per
cent a year nobody wf!l buy them.
Surely the United States will not
eease to be "an unlimited easy
mark" merely because the war is
over- Is thore no dollar-a-year
patriot left to say that the country
NEEDS those ships?now that the
owners no longer want them?
Mr. Karkmicz, wounded in war
and discharged from the army, is
arrested for shooting a man un
known to him. His explanation
is:
"Oh, I just wanted to shoot
somebody "
At beast a certain brutality is
developed by war. The gentle
man's remark is recommended to
statesmen, governors, and others
that are encouraging prize fight
ing. remov..! of restraint on bnj
talitv, in order "to keep the mar
tial spirit dive."
Don't worry about keeping bru
tality alive. It is simple and easy.
DIES PAINLESSLY WHILE
WITH HIM?HAD
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ROOSEVELT AS
HI THE HIE HOUSE
I
. Bill Price, of The Times staff, was White'House reporter
during Roosevelt's terms as President and in almost daily asso
ciation and conversation with him. The story below is the result
of intimate personal knowledge and recites many incident* never
before published. ?
By BILL PRICE.
Roosevelt *a physical vitalities were the mps* wonder
ful of any President of the United States. He absolutely
bubbled over with vigor and strenuosity. He continuously
kept in better trim than the averagfe prise-fighter.
His political and public life was, aecqgflingly, in har
mony with this physical prowess. He fesd to be doing
something all the tiaae. Tfo jnfft frnaldfrrit ntilVphyni
icoDy or mentally.
Home Life Littl# Known.
With Ul public life the people of
this country and of the world are
fully acquainted. With his home
life?the personal, human aide of the
man?the knowledge ie not bo thor
ough.
I spent seven and a half years with
him at the Whit* House, bMng on
newspaper duty there $very day i
throughout his office hours. 1 trav-1
eled in many parts of the country i
with him. To me he Wu the personi
fication of volcanic energy, even to
the similarity that nobody ever knew
when or where he would "break out."
He walked the "legs., off" some of
his admirers in long and wearisome
walks. He put others oat of business
by long horseback rides. 'He boxed
with dexterity with Mike Donovan or
anybody else; wrestled with Muldoon
and famous Japanese wrestlers; play
ed many of his friends into physical
submission in tennis; hunted bear in
Louisiana and Mississippr swamps;
wolves in Oklahoma: mountain lions
in Colorado, and turkeys in Virginia,
Below wild turkeys he stopped.
Red Blooded Life.
In his home life in the White House
he was red blooded and l)uman, and
his boys followed his example. When
I tell you that be would get down |
on his "all fours" and play leap frog
with his sons, then growing up, or
engage them in robust pillow lights,
whooping with pleasure and excite
ment Just as if he were on a ranch,
you will understand something of the
man. > 1
To these youngsters he was father,
ccpnpanion. and corrector. He would
engage in play with them but he did
not hesitate one minute to "strap" or
"box" any of them guilty of doing
what he did not think to be right.
Quentin Hoosevelt, who was killed
la France, had trouble with his school
teacher in Washington. She did not
think he had acted fairly, and she'
pluckily got word of his conduct to
president Roosevelt. /
"Where is Quentin?" asked the
President of one of the servants.
"He is in bed yet, sir."
Going to breakfast and completing
his meal the Colonel again asked
where Quentin was.
"He isn't dressed yet, sir."
The Colonel smiled to himself. He
suspected Quentin had "smeiled a
mouse."
"Please bring him h?re dressed or
undressed," was the order, and Quen
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tin came. ww, and wu conquered.
He received a real fatherly drubbing.
Queotin was once sent to school at
Alexandria, and didn't like. IV He
played hookey for a day or Avo. He
never did It again after "the otd man"
learned of it. They had a leakm in
a private room of the White House.
Caek Boxed tke Beys.
Annie O'Roorke had been the cook
of the Roosevelt family for years,
and came to Washington wlrh them. '
She was boss of the- kitchen. The
Roseveit children were always prowl
ing around the kitchen and getting
into devilment. Annie wouldn't stand
for to much of it, and she physically
put them ou< of the room or grave
them a "boxing" If she felt they de
served it. The President and his wife
n.ever reproved her. Annl? went back
to Oyster Bay with the family, of!
which she felt she was a part.
Archie Roosevelt, who is in a New
York hospital suffering from a partly f
paralyzed arm, caused by a shell in
France, owned a Shetland pony when
he lived in the White House. He was
very fond of the animal, which had
been presented by a friend of his
rather. Archie became sick and was
in bed about ten days. He begged to
see the pony. The other boys Just
simply got the pony and took it up to j
Archie's bedroom in the elevator,
that same elevator that had hauled "j
the most eminent people of this land 1
and others from the basement to the
flrst?floor during great social func
tions.
Employes Aghast.
The employes stood around horri
fied at this invasion, but nobody ob
jected.
Henry Fflster was the florist at the
White House when the Roosevelts en
tered there. The big glass conserva
tory then was attached to the west
side of the building, where the west
terrace is located. The Roosevelt
boys bothered him often with their
pranks, upset some of his finest flow
ers, and kept him in hot water. He
finally complained to Mr. Roosevelt,
telling him that the boys climbed all
over the framework of the interior.
"Throw t brickbats at 'em," Roose
velt seriously told Pflster. "I'm not
joking," he declared. 'Treat 'em
rough."
He would not under any circum
stances pamper his own children or
tavor them when they were in the
wrong.
Was Badly Hurt.
Roosevelt suffered serious Injury
when President that for many months
prevented his outdoor or indoor phys
ical activities. He was making a trip
through New England in September,
1902. and was at PltUfleld, Mass.
While his carriage was passing a
street car track a swift running street
car dashed Into it, throwing him out
and Injuring the bone of one leg.
William Craig, the Secret Service man
who sat on the front seat of the ve
hicle, was killed. An operation had
to be performed months afterward on
Roosevelt's leg to give him relief.
The only time he was ever "laid up"
Ir the White House was due to this.
The leg did not seem to bother him
in the last six years of his Adminis
tration.
He started out on a long walk one
flay with four friends. "Jimmy" Sloan,
the Secret Service detective who went
everywhere with Roosevelt, was hav
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The Most Famous Picture of
Theodore Roosevelt
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Specially Posed and Taken in Rock Creek Park
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Pulmonary Embolism Is
Cause of Death
OYSTER ?AY, Jan. 6.?The following
given out by Dr. G. W. Fallerr of Oyster Bay, the
physician who last saw the Colonel:
'4 Colonel Roosevelt retired at 12 o'clock last sight
feelkig mnch bettor. At 4:15 o'clock this
simply ceased to breathe. Deatfc was
by a pulmonary embolism.M
Dr. William Gerry
follow*: "It fa the
thai T?ling on until it
cutting off the circulation."
OYSTER BAY, N. Y., Jan, 6.
Roosevelt is dead.
The end came while he lay asleep at his
world-famous home, Sagamore Hill. Only
vaelt was present.
"Good night/' he said to Dr. G. W.
his physician, shortly before midnight, aa the
doctor left. He was laughing and cheerful.
At midnight he retired. Mrs. Roosevelt sat
with him for a while, then as he fell asftaq|
went to her own room. At 4:15 a. m., the
became alarmed and called the nurse.
There was nothing the nurse could
The only persons in the house at
Hill at the time of Roosevelt's death
Roosevelt and the servants.
After calling for Dr. Faller the nurse
in Mrs. Roosevelt. She took the shock brvaaly.
PHYSICIAN TOO LATE.
Dr. Faller arrived a few minutes later. Roowvdl lay
as if still sleeping.
He had not moved in die bed sinU his wife had Ml
the room shortly after midnight.
Early last night Roosevelt dictated a number of
Despite his recent return from the hospital* where he
confined for weeks by an attack of sciatica, with
complications, he had much of his old vigor.
His death came at a time when he was said to he
preparing a statement announcing that he would not bs a
candidate for the Presidency in 1920.
The nurse was at Sagamore Hill becam
was suffering from an attack of inflammatory
which was very severe in his right hand. The
developed last Wednesday.
Miss Josephine Stryker, his secretary, was one ?l
first to arrive here. She had been notified of the ?
this morning by Mrs. Roosevelt.
FRIENDS ARRIVE AT HOME.
Many of the .relatives and friends are already
at Sagamore Hill.
Oyster Bay residents were deeply affected
news of Roosevelt's death became known. The