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Show BY AIMING HIGH. Tho keynote to Theodore Koose-velt's Koose-velt's greatness is found In this declaration dec-laration made by him to "Outdoor America:" You ask me to 6peak about vigor or body. I believe in it for its own sake. I believe In it still inoro as an aid to vigor of mind, and above all, to vigor of character. Iiut I do not believe in it at all if it is made an end instead of a means, and especially if play is permitted to become the serious ser-ious business of life. High prollciency in Bport is not necessary in order to get good out ol it; altho, of course, it is In every way bad to show a slipshod lndlfrercnce to high prollciency, an unwillingness or Inability to put one's whole heart into a struggle. , Personally, as you know, I "am not really good at any gamos. Perhaps In my time 1 camo rearer to being fairly good as a walk er. rider, and rifleshot than in any other way; but 1 was never more than an average good man even In these three respects. Whatever Theodore Roosevelt has undertaken, he has placed his heart and soul In the effort. 'He has aimed at proficiency, even though he attained attain-ed only a small degree of prollciency. His love of home and his boys and his considerate regard for the boyish desires are made evident in the rol-lowiug: rol-lowiug: 1 In the summer I often take the smal lor boys for what they call a night picnic on the Sound; we row off eight or ten miles, camp out, and row back in the morning. Each of us has a light blanket to sleep in, and tho boys are-sumelently are-sumelently deluded to believe that tho chicken or beefsteak I rry in bacon fat on these expeditions has a flavor Impossible elsewhere to be obtained. Now these expeditions represent just about the kind of thing I do. Instead of rowing, it may be riding, or chopping, chop-ping, or walking, or playing tennis, or shooting at a target. Hut It is always al-ways a pastime which any healthy middle-aged man fond of outdoors life, but not an athlete, can Indulge In if ho chooses. A man of such keen enjoyment in the company of his boys and who so carefully plans their pleasures, must be at heart, a good man. Roosevelt distinguishes between the success which comes to a genius and that which is gained by perseverance. He says: It has always seemed to mo that In life there are two ways of achieving success, or, for the- matter of that, ot j achieving what is commonly called greatness. One is to do that which ' can only bo done by the men of execp-! execp-! tlonal and extraordinary abilities. Ot course this means that only this one man can do it, and it is a very rare kind of success or of greattiess. The other is to do that which many men could do, but which, as a matter of fact, none of them actually does. This is the ordinary kind of success or kind of greatness. Nobody but one of the world's rare geniuses could have written the Gettysburg speech, or the second inaugural, or met as Lincoln met the awlul crises of the Civil War. Hut most of us can do the ordinary things, which, however, most of us do not do. My own successes suc-cesses have come within this second category. Any fairly hardy and healthy man can do what I have done In hunting hunt-ing and ranching if he only really wishes to, and will take tho pains and trouble, and at the same time use common sense. This is modesty on the part of Roosevelt for many rank him as a genius in achievement of greatness. Although it must be conceded that his prominence was attained not so much by anv brilliancy of mind as by his wonderful capacity for work and his well denned course of conduct of right doing, Roosevelt, ir not a genius, i3 certainly cer-tainly one of the most remarkable plodders the world has ever kuowu. |