Show ROOSEVELT AT NI PANAMA IJ That visit of President Roosevelt to the Isthmus of Panama Is one of or the Impressive Incidents ent In an administration Lion tion which ha has In many other wa ways s 's proved l Itself impressive The place once was vas called the tho Isthmus of oC Darl Darien n and its very location location loca loca- tion and physical characteristics make It loom loon largo large in the thought of the world ivorid Joaquin Miller Iiller makes mAke it the culmination of our Sierra Nevada mountain ran range a anti and I IS I'S S says rs Like fragments of nn m uncompleted world Prom bleak Alaska bound In snow and md spra spray To where tin tin- peaks Haks of Darien Darlen lie llo curled In clouds the broken lands Janus loom hold bold and anti gray h And tho the completion of that canal canalIn In large laige measure makes the completIng completing ing of or tho the world These fragments neither halt hall that big completion nor nordo nordo do du the they lend Ind themselves to the work of construction But Dut the work goes on un A lI little le ribbon of oC less q than fiet fifty miles divides the mighty might oceans From the beginning of oC navigation the world has sailed around miles of land Or l' l left the sea a for fOl the trip Cr from m Atlantic to Pacific Other peo peoples peoples' pen pen- ples' ples for a n hundred years have tried to JIJI tho h waters tr p t of two to o jf KI u t Seas easi n and tI have hae taIled This nation which has hns failed In nothing from the vel very vers beginning of oC its splendid existence existence exist exist- ence ence has taken up the work has hns addressed Itself to the tho task In a manner manner man man- ner ncr which insures success No one In all the thc globe doubts the United States will build that canal And Anti people people peo peo- pIe of or America are vcr very iery sure It will be done dorle Great as is the task it must mURt yield to the mind-directed mind force of man visit of President Roosevelt to the he region will bo ho a big step toward he the perfection of oC the plan which will vili enrich the earth The President has determined that the work shall shaH in hl hi his administration go forward to such a aslage stage as will make successful com comple- comple ion certain Whoever hoever follows him will carr carry out his plans He will come comeback comeback comeback back from this visit with a definite Idea as to direction The work will speed visibly as a result of ot his better acquaintance with the actual conditions conditions condi condi- on the isthmus Few Presidents would have cared to take the trouble and peril of or such a a. quest But Dut this man wants to know of or his own knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge ge and then will direct by the light of that Information May the vo voyage be a pleasant pheasant one Ma May he find the solution of ot all lems May he have a safe sate return And may the thc great work on which he has set his mind go forward trIumphantly triumphantly tri tn- trI trI- to that completion for which the world worM has waited till Roosevelt loose Roose velt could come |