Show HOW ROOSEVELT ROOSEVEL T HAS WON One of oC the most Interesting studies of contemporaneous men Is that article ar tide on Theodore Roosevelt printed inthe in inthe the April number of the tIle American Magazine The Thc writer does not wholly approve the Roosevelt action or the tho Roosevelt work He confines himself to a a. study of ho how hm the President has 6 managed to achieve e results result J which all know ba have been achieved And the fOllow following ng paragraphs directed at a 3 special lal phase of his life Hee may mar be taken as is fairl fairly illustrative of the whole At t Harvard Hanard he ho was a boxer a wrestler and a runner flinner but he ne never cr t. t took ok an any championships he be has shot big game but has never been a first first- class shot He lIe says himself in one of his bIs- Western books I 11 myself am not and never will be bemore more more- than more than an ordinary or-dinar shot for m my eyes ces are bad had and my hand not over stead steady yet I have killed every 1 kind of game to be found on the plains partly be because ause I have hunted very ery perseveringly perseverIngly persever- persever and partly because by practice I have I-have learned to shoot about as well wen at a 3 wild animal as at a target Now that is Roosevelt in in his own words worda An et he ordinary shot yet basl has bas l m er dve of game game b by ance and practice In other words words' he lie has succeeded b by his extraordinary capacity for energizing ener ener- for for g-for for using ever every ounce of every capacity be he possesses by strenuous self discipline control and develop ment meat It is the strenuous life Ilfe he glorifies for it has made him bim what he ho is That seems to be a a. sagacious es es- es- es The man is not a super super- natural He gets results by natural ni means ans And it is not easy A stronger strong strong- er bo boy would logically ha have e stood a ah h hotter better ter chance to be a stronger man But INt there have been no stronger stronger stronger-lu in inthe the sense of ability for achievement There are men with a better natural ca capacity t for shooting yet none has made a better belter record in that line than has be Other men have ha been better eq equipped 1 with that urbane quality so helpful to the politician From the beginning it has bas been one on Q f Mr Roosevelt's handicaps that ho was dl- dl reci recto positive e apparently Intolerant That repels usually And yet no man aU alive e has won so big a following of warm and powerful personal personal personal per per- friends No other othel man would be bo Indorsed b by so man many American citizens No man could come so near getting desired legislation and legislation and that n against all the opposition that could ho summoned summoned-as summoned summoned-as as can Mr Roosevelt Roose But Dut the tho Is He doesn't find things He makes them Ho lie is not carried to the skies on flowery beds of t ease as the old song has It He lIe j just it g gets up and nd climbs And he gets ib there e. e It is th the most effective character the most instructive C career our OUI people h have ye ever eyer known 5 No wonder the people lo love lovo o him Hol He lIe l has made male good use use probably probably the best p use possible of t the tho powers which the Creator gave save him |