Show Ii 1 t Other P Pi Points i ts of Vi View w i it IV IS DEATH AS IX IN LIFE No 0 wonder If It tho the body of or one ore of the citizens of any ny other great body could be returned to earth with tho the which marked Theodore Theodoro funeral And wo we wonder If Ir It Il Isn't a good bood omen for America that I It t could bo be done here A village village- church decorated only with tho the laurel which had hall hung since last fast Christmas tho regular for tho the dead doad a a. sylvan cemetery with roads too deep and narrow for or Automobiles an oak coffin cortin an opening openIng- in tho the earth these earth these were ore tho the simple settings s. s No to lying In state state no costly mausoleum no richly robed church dignitaries no martial music no elaborate rites That It should bo be so O was tho the wish of or tho the distinguished dead drad It was the last evidence evidence- of or his lifelong of or ostentation L It was also Mrs Roosevelt's h wish But nut what u i ia li s more mor significant was tile the country a s attitude toward these simple obsequies They ran athwart arL no onos ono's conceptIon conception con con- of ot propriety No Ko ono one felt ell that thal the tho great American was cas M being denied any honors The Tho people deemed Indeed like Uke tho the colonel to go 10 straight to tho the heart of or the matter No pomp or 01 pageantry In r relinquishing his clay to the tho dust whence It sprang could havo have made ma-do his memory a alcher heritage to thorn they 10 seamed 1 to feel Of Ot Quentin ho had quoted tho the lino I ct tho the tree trae Ho where It falls an and tho the people approved od For Tor himself he had chosen tho Gods God's Aero Acre within ric shot of or his fits home and to bo ho borne by hy a few friends s Again his countrymen approved vell and to say What fitter rittel place e to rest What more In keeping with the e example and the tho preachments of or hl his hia life life Ure Rocky Mountain News owa ta lra 1 fa s to |