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Show I THE NEW ROOSEVELT. H t To err is human; and Colonel Roosevelt, from behind H , Jiis teeth to the sole of his feet has more of the stuff Old H - Adam fashioned of than the average man. A personality HL so intensely human is naturally much given to error, but M "(there is a divinity that stirs within the meanest of us, B : and this we should remember when judging of others. M A. glimpse of this divinity has been afforded of late to m -folks with an eye on Teddy. Everybody expected to see M Teddy sulk when deprived of the opportunity of going M to France with a division he had raised when many of M "his enemies were asleep. Great of course was his chagrin, fl iind great, too, his anger at the imputation that his motive M -was cliiefly political; but we saw the sun set on his anger, B saw revealed the godlike soul that knows the glory of B i. restraint. "Hath any wronged thee?" asks the philoso- B -pher. "Bo bravely revenged. Slight it, and the work is B iegun." They who have conceived that Roosevelt was 1 -wronged have seen him slight the deed and win the most M glorious victory of his career. Sulk at Oyster Bay? B not Teddy. Himself out of the running, his three grown B sons he has contributed to his country's cause and with B all the power of his lungs and pen he is reclaiming noxi- BB -ous invertebrates of the Pacifist persuasion, many of BB -whom were schooled in -their philosophy by apostles at Bfl "Washington, D. C. His division scattered, Colonel Roose- Bfl -velt is serving his country as an inspiration, offsetting the Bfl deadly influence of academic idealists, by warming the B people for action. Town Talk. |