ROOSEVELT'S TRIBUTE.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 January 1919, Page 6

ROOSEVELT'S TRIBUTE.

TO THOSE DEAD IN "THE GREAT ADVENTURE." In a remarkable editorial, entitled "The Great Adventure," which appeared ill the Metropolitan Magazine for October last, the late Colonel Theodore Roosevelt paid a high tribute to the patriotic parents of the nation's soldiery His touching reference to "a gallant boy who at the front had fought in high air, and, like an eagle, fighting, had died," is a paternal tribute, undoubtedly, to his youngest son, Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt, recently killed in an air-fight on the Western front. Colonel Roosevelt, speaking as a parent whose sons have paid the price of freedom in death and wounds, utters the proud defiance of death which is the spirit of America's torch-bearers. "Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die," he writes, "and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure. Never yet was worthy adventure worthily carried through by the man who put liis personal safety first. Never yet was a country worth living in unless its sons and daughters were of that stern stuff which bade them die for it at need. In America to-day all our people are summoned to service and sacrifice Pride is the portion only of those who know bitter sorrow or the foreboding of bitter sorrow But all of us who give service and stand ready for sacrifice are the torch-bearers."