December 29th, 1917. My dear Mr. Anderson: That's might nice. I am amused at your letter and am much pleased. Faithfully yours, Mr. H. L. Anderson, Jacksonville, Fla.991 December 29th, 1917. My dear Mr. Culbertson: That's mighty nice of you. I appreciate to the full your unfailing courtesy. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and many Happy New Years, Faithfully yours, Hon. Wm. S. Culbertson, U.S. Tarif Commission, Washington, D.C. 8833December 29th, 1917. Dear Mr. Bril: I am sorry, but under the terms of my contract it is not possible for me to comply with your request. Sincerely yours, Mr. I. L. Bril, The Jewish Forum, Temple Court, 5 Beckman St., City. 42168December 29th, 1917. My dear Mr. Graff: I thank you. I am deeply touched by your letter. Wishing you many happy New Years, Faithfully yours, Mr. F. M. Graff, First National Bank Bldg. Blairsville, Pa. 69December 29th, 1917. Dear Mr. Green: Mr. Roosevelt can only suggest that you refer to his book, "The Foes of our Own Household" and suggest that you write to Mr. Sincerely yours, Mr. Henry Green, 25 Broad Street, New York. [2?]170December 29th, 1917. Dear Corporal Hart: Colonel Roosevelt is sorry, but there is nothing he can offer you. His needs in that direction are supplied. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Corporal Charles Hart, Co. F, 312th Infantry, Camp Dix, N. J. 71December 29th, 1917. Dear Mr. Hart: Are you going to be in the east during the next fortnight? I would particularly like to see you in relation to the farmers and the Republican party. Faithfully yours, Mr. A. T. Hart, Louisville, Ky. 72December 29th, 1917. My dear Mr. Pierce: I thoroughly understand your work, and I wish I could do as you suggest but it just is not possible. With regret, Faithfully yours, Mr. Daniel T. Pierce, American International Shipbuilding Corp. 140 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 173December 29th, 1917. My dear Mr. Probasco: That's a mighty nice letter of yours. I appreciate it to the full. Sincerely yours, Mr. H. R. Probasco, Cincinnati, Ohio. 174December 29th, 1917. My dear Mr. Strong: I am sorry, but it is not possible for me to be of assistance to you in that matter. I can only suggest that you communicate with the War Department or get in touch with them through your Senator and Congressman. Sincerely yours, Mr. Walter W. Strong, 116 S. Michigan Blvd. Chicago, Ill. 75December 29th, 1917. My dear Mr. Yaskevich: I thank you for your very courteous letter, but my dear sir, it is a physical impossibility for me to attempt anything additional at this time. You have no conception of the demands e upon me. I am simply driven to death with work. Faithfully yours, Mr. Adam H. Yaskevich, 851 Fullerton Avenue Chicago, Ill. 6December 31st, 1917. My dear Mr. Adams: I very genuinely appreciate your Christmas Greetings. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Mr. Porter Hartwell Adams, U. S. 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My dear Mr. Griffith: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. M. D. Griffith, Ex. Secy. Chamber of Commerce, Beaver Falls, Pa. 42186December 31st, 1917. My dear Mr. Gunst: I very genuinely appreciate your Christmas greetings. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Mr. Moses A. Gunst, San Francisco, Cal. 42187December 31, 1917. My dear Mr. Hansen: I very genuinely appreciate the card and your thoughtfulness. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Mr. George H. Hansen, 405 So. 40th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 42188December 31, 1917. My dear Mr. Hawley: I very genuinely appreciate your Christmas greetings. 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[*West, James E. see also Boy Scouts of America*] 42232December 31st, 1917. My dear Mr. Williams: I wish I could help you, but my dear sir, I do not know anyone who would care to purchase the lot. Sincerely yours, Mr. John J. A. Williams, 919 St. Andrew St., New Orleans, La. 233December 31st, 1917. My dear Mr. and Mrs. Wise Wood: I very genuinely appreciate your Christmas greetings. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Wise Wood, Aero Club of America, New York. 34December 31st, 1917. My dear Mr. Young: I very genuinely appreciate your Christmas greetings. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, [??] William Goodall Young, Boy Scouts of America, 200 Fifth Avenue, City. 42235[*[1917 Dec?]*] My dear Mr Landis: I haven't any idea whether I will be allowed to raise that division but I am sending your letter to the Division Headquarters for proper file in case I am able to use Mr Fraser. Sincerely yours, [Mr] [*Hon*] Frederick Landis, Logansport, Indiana. 36[*[1917?]*] [*Sent to Kirkwood yesterday [?]*] [*Kirkwood*] 1. The statement that rifles would be ready as soon as the equipment is true, perhaps, because the equipment, we are informed, will not be ready until next Spring. 2. Instead of adapting the British caliber and having their resources available in case of temporary closure of our route across the Atlantic, they committed the fundamental error of adopting a separate and distinct caliber. We were making in the neighborhood of 9000 rifles a day (to be exact 8900) of the Lee-Enfield type for the British Government, all using the same ammunition. We should have today 1,200,000 rifles if we had developed this type of gun and all the national army divisions would have been able to go over in December for their final training in France. 3. The standard period of training in the British Army now is from fourteen to sixteen weeks. 4. I have telegraphed to ask about the different types of rifles to one of the firms making them. General Crozier's statement on this and other points is entirely misleading. It seems inconceivable England would deliberately establish plants here to manufacture three different types of rifles, all using the same ammunition, when the desirability of standardization must have been apparent to her long since. 5. The statement that it took England two and a half years to develop an army is true. At the end of that time she had some four million men, equipped and trained, and even if it took her forty years this is no reason why we should duplicate her performance in the light of her embarrassment and difficulties. This argument is the argument of a fool and indicates we are to repeat all of England's mistakes. 6. The same shortage as to rifles exists in the matter of equipment, revolvers and is even greater in field artillery, and, although some of us have been urging the mounting of our seacoast guns for years on movable carriages, our big guns were sent to France to be mounted by the French. 7. The National Army Divisions can be whipped into effective shape as quickly as the Militia if they had the arms, and I think even quicker for the following reason: The original Militia regiments of about eight hundred strong had an average of only sixty percent of their men who had had a year's training. You know what Militia training means, - five days in camp and scattered work throughout the year. Altogether it is not equivalent to ten days of intensive training in camp. I mean this literally. To those small regiments, of which only from two to three hundred men had any substantial training were added about three thousand untrained men to bring them up to modern requirements and much had to be unlearned. But, be that as it may, the great 42237-2- outstanding fact is that we have lost from six to eight months incident to this change in rifles. 8. The reason for the delay in the manufacture of British rifles here was because we hadn't the expert workmen to do the work. This was all embodied in a confidential report made to the Secretary of War about the first part of May of this year. The output only became satisfactory when British experts and British workmen were sent over here. I was informed on the 18th day of March this year by the Commandant of the Springfield Arsenal that the output of rifles there had been below a hundred per day for considerable periods and that at that time the output was only in the neighborhood of 200, and this fourteen days before the declaration of war. 9. With reference to ammunition: General Crozier says it is comparatively easy to change ammunition manufacture and this is undoubtedly the case. Consequently, there is still another reason for such ammunition plants as we had to make the English caliber in view of our established capacity for making that rifle. 10. The assumption that only about two-thirds to three-fourths of the men carry the rifle is entirely in error. Practically all men [in the infantry] carry rifles except some of the grenade throwers who do nothing else but this. Modern battle conditions are such that the shooting is at short ranges and a rifle of extreme range and very high velocity is not needed. 11. The statement that there are enough Krags to train our troops is absolutely untrue. We have just received here (they came yesterday) 5500 Krags, which will give us about one gun for every seven or eight men using the rifle. You can imagine about how much enthusiasm this will induce in the way of training and about how much can be done in the way of target practice with such an arrangement as this. 12. The statement about the wastage of rifles being much less than was expected is not true. 13. The statement that no Enfields from this country were used in France I cannot refute, as I have no definite information on this subject. I know, however, that our work was very defective and perhaps the rifles were as defective as our ammunition. 14. With reference to the Springfields: There are barely enough of these to arm the Regular troops, which are about eighty percent recruits, and the Militia and leave about one-third to one-fourth the reserve we should have. It was all right to use them for the first force. They would have been replaced by the Enfield had we gone on with its manufacture. The parts of the Enfield are not interchangeable with the Springfield, but they do use the same ammunition 42238-3- 15. The cold facts are that we are without arms when we could have had at least 1,200,000 Lee-Enfields, which would have served for target practice and the training of our troops and for use in France until we could provide others more carefully made. Of course, this is an admission that our workmanship here is so defective that it could not be depended upon. 16. Crozier's talk is dust thrown in the air to blind the eyes of those looking on. The main thing to remember is that we have introduced a new caliber at the front. We have delayed the entry of our country into the war in force by at least six months. We have drawn hundreds of thousands of drafted men from their farms and business to camps where there are neither arms or equipment sufficient to train they properly. In other words, not only have we delayed our getting into the war at least a half year, but we have imposed a great and unnecessary financial burden upon the country in calling men long before there are any arms for them and we have also interfered with the industrial and economic efficienty of the country by just so much. Remember we were making in this very year and only a few days before war was declared less than one-third of the output of the Springfields we could have made in our own arsenals. This points directly to the indifference, incapacity and incompetency of the directing forces of the Ordnance Department. Not only should they have been working to the maximum at this time but nearly a year before a law had been passed authorizing the construction of now jiga, dies, etc. 17. With reference to available Springfields: The figures I gave you the other day probably erred on the side of conservatism. We now have something over 370,000 men in the National Guard and something over 335,000 in the Regular Army, so that the estimate of the number of rifles in the hands of troops was probably less by 75,000 than it should be and the reserves are decreased just so much. I think the editorial you sent me is absolutely sound and safe. 18. With reference to ships. I believe here is another mis-statement. If England is sending no troops from Canada, their shipping must be available, and there is no doubt that the great passenger steamers of England and France can be made available. We also have the captured German fleet. The Vaterland alone is able to take 12,000 men on one voyage and the entire German fleet of ships could take easily 50,000 men. 19. The schedule for the movement of troops is not founded on ships and the gentleman who gave this information to your representative must have known it. It was founded upon the capacity or, rather, the incapacity of the Ordnance Department to supply equipment and arms and nothing else. 42239-4- 20. We are facing one of the most gigantic and brutal errors ever made in preparing a nation for war,- one which is going to cost us enormously. General Pershing's dispatches indicate the desirability of having thorough rifle training here and thorough training in artillery and, yet, we are here in camp without a piece of field artillery and one rifle to every eight men. If you want further evidence of incompetency which could justify any action, in view of its far-reaching consequences, take the matter of machine guns. We gave a contract to the Colt Company to make the Vickers-Maxim (some thousands of them) although they had not at the time this contract was given delivered a single gun on a contract for 125 made in November, 1915 and we are today absolutely without machine guns except a limited number of the Bennie-Mercier, a worthless gun, and a few Lewis which England was good enough to sell to us. With competent management in the Ordnance Department, I believe we could have had today between six and seven hundred thousand men in France, well equipped and ready,- in fact, I would have been willing to stake my head on it. As to artillery, we are told we will have four light pieces sometime in the indefinite future to train three regiments of field artillery, nothing being said about the equipment for our heavy artillery. 21. What is the use of claiming this condition is the result of a study on the part of the General Staff and that we are proceeding on a well thought out plan. To make a statement of this sort is to delude the public and to become a party to something which I believe in any other country save our own would be dealt with in a violent manner. 42240COPY [*[1917]*] Campaign of Education on America's part in the war. Hon. William G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. Secretary: I desire to call your attention, earnestly, to the importance of the immediate organization, under the auspices and direction of the government itself, of a campaign of education of the American people upon the objects and purposes of the war against Germany, and of what this nation has at stake in this war. You can have no idea, unless you are circulating through the country, of the damage that is being done and of the persistent undermining of the administrative and the national conscience which is being accomplished by the pro-German propagandists, the Pacifists, the radical Socialists, the I. W. W. Anarchists, the "conscientious objectors", and, lastly, the hypocrites, cowards and traitors, generally, in our citizenship. Their work is persistent, their back-biting ceaseless, and their propaganda is being conducted by every known means, with an effort [4?]2241COPY W. G. McA. --#2. to create dissension, distrust and disloyalty. They are taking advantage of the present enforcement of the selective conscription law and of the general prejudice, particularly of the women, to the drafting of their husbands, brothers and sons. They are insinuating that we are waging a war for the benefit of European nations; that our nation has no real interest in this war; that it is a political war; that the people are opposed to war; that peace could easily be negotiated if our government would make the effort. They are inciting national prejudice. In fact, there is no means which the traitors, aided by the foolish and unthinking, are not employing to retard the progress of our preparations and to embarrass the administration in its efforts to effectively prosecute this war, upon which the future existence of this nation and of democracy in general absolutely depends. I believe I am correct in saying that not enough is being done to counteract this active, dangerous propaganda, and that it is making headway. Of course our loyal and influential citizens and writers are working hard, in a private capacity. Our press, in the main, is loyal and the magazines and reviews are doing effective work. The National Security League, of whose executive committee I am a member, has undertaken to launch a campaign of education and has secured several thousands of dollars for the purpose, but [4224?]2COPY W. G. McA. --#3. I am sure that all this is not sufficient. You are probably aware that the allied governments have, from the beginning, conducted an educational bureau. It is in the hands of the ablest publicists and writers in France and England. They have sent their orators and speakers abroad everywhere, not only in this country, but in South American countries, and they are publishing and circulating millions and millions of ably written pamphlets. I have a large collection, which I have filed, of these pamphlets, both in English and in French, covering every phase of the war, its progress, its objective and purpose, the necessity of its prosecution in defense of civilization, the reasons why peace can not now be safely negotiated. No sooner is a new question raised than it is met. The administration should in some manner organize a similar bureau. [A] Private enterprise is not sufficient. Such a bureau under the chairmanship, for instance, of a man like George Harvey, with a board composed of such men as William G. McAdoo, John Sharp Williams, William H. Taft, Ex-President Elliot of Harvard, President Hadley of Yale, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and others whom you might select, so as to make said bureau wholly non-partisan, or bi-partisan rather, which would undertake to organize and [42?]243COPY W. G. McA. --#4. direct a campaign of education that would immediately and without doubt not only command the Associated Press, but the press and magazines of the country generally, and, in addition, send out speakers and circulate pamphlets written by our best known and most influential men, would soon arrest and overcome the influence of the dangerous pro-German propaganda now gaining headway daily. President Wilson should, like Premier Lloyd George, make periodical declarations. His utterances are the only ones that are published in full in every paper in the United States. They should be made a part of the records of Congress and be franked through the post, by the millions, to citizens. Speeches from other prominent men should be treated in the same way, including your own and those of Ex-presidents Taft and Roosevelt. I assure you that I am not speaking idly and I hope that this communication will convince you of the necessity of immediate action on this line. A little inquiry throughout the country will convince you that great damage is being done by the pro-German propagandists and that there is serious danger of the faith of the people being undermined by the effort to create a sentiment against this war, which will force an inopportune and premature peace, with a loss of all that have been gained and with seeds sown [4224?]4COPY W. G. McA. --#5. of a future war that will be more terrible than the present, and in which America may be destroyed. I am writing you because you can easily organize such a campaign. It is only necessary for you to call together a few prominent men, have a committee appointed and set it going. I would include among the directors of this bureau the loyal editors of our greatest dailies, such as Bennett of the Washington Post, the editors of the New York Times and Sun, of the Chicago Tribune of the Louisville Courier Journal, etc., etc. It is only necessary to call attention to the exemptions being claimed by the conscripts in their efforts to evade service, which amount in every community to about ninety per cent of those summoned for service, to convince you of the importance of prompt action. Hoping that you will pardon this communication, as being inspired with deep anxiety and patriotic motives, I remain, Sincerely your obedient servant, DJH:ILB David J Hill [422?]45[*[1917?]*] GOVERNOR TASKER L. ODDIE, CARSON CITY, NEVADA. PERSONAL AND PRIATE, I AM NOT ACQUAINTED WITH CONDITIONS IN NEVADA BUT AM VERY FOND OF FLANIGAN AND BELIEVE IF YOU COULD APPOINT HIM SENATOR IT WOULD BE AN ADMIRABLE THING. THEODORE ROOSEVELT PAID 42246[*[1917?]*] MEMORANDUM FOR COLONEL ROOSEVELT: Dear Colonel Roosevelt: This is to remind you that Mr. & Mrs. Menken with Cornel Garner (ex-Congressman) will call at Sagamore Hill, Sunday afternoon, 5:30. Sincerely, 47[*[1917?]*] William Sloane, Esq., Chairman, Army & Navy Committee, Young Men's Christian Association, 575 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Dear Mr. Sloane: I congratulate your Committee upon having so promptly erected the score or more Y. M. C. A. building for our soldiers along the Mexican border, and as an American citizen, interested in his fellow citizens, I heartily thank your body. Only a man acquainted with the life of soldiers in the field can fully appreciate the need for these big airy wooden recreating halls, with writing facilities, games and the like. From much experience in the past I know how much the fifty secretaries in charge of these buildings will be able to do for our men in that desert country. Their presence will aid the officers to preserve the morale of the camps. I have had first hand knowledge of the kind of work that your Committee is doing both in the Army and the Navy and I heartily believe in it. What the Y. M. C. A. has been doing recently in Europe has been really remarkable; and now our citizens should aid them to do work of the same type for our own troops. I was interested to hear that five services, including the mass of the Catholic Church, were held in one of your buildings at San Antonio last Sunday. I am glad to know that the chaplains are making use of your buildings. You have begun a fine piece of work. I earnestly hope that the patriotic citizens of the country will give you sufficient financial aid to enable you to continue it as long as our troops remain near the Rio Grande. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, (SIGNED) Theodore Roosevelt. 42248[*[1917]*] My dear Mr. Walker: That's a particularly nice letter of yours and I must and you this line of personal thanks and acknowledgement. Sincerely yours, Mr. Wm. B. Walker: 35-37 West 31st St., New York City. 42249[*[1917?]*] The two great needs of the moment are to insist upon thoroughigoing and absolute Americanism throughout this land, and to speed up the war; and secondarily to these needs come the needs of beginning even now to make ready, to prepare for the tasks that are to come after the war, the task of preparing so that never again shall war find us helpless, and the task of preparing for the social and industrial problem which this earthshaking conflict of giants will leave in its ruinous wake. To insist upon through going 100 per cent Americanism among all our peoples is merely another way of saying that we insist upon being a nation proud of our national past and confident of our future as the greatest of the nations of mankind; for if we permit our people to be split into a score of different nationalities, each speaking a different language and each paying its [paying its] real soul homage to some national ideal over seas, we shall not be a nation at all but merely a polyglot boarding house; and nobody feels much loyalty to a polyglot boarding house or is proud to belong to it. Moreover there is no such thing as a divided loyalty. Any kind of alloy in the loyalty makes the loyalty completely valueless. At this time the man of German origin who says he is loyal to "Germanism", to "deutschtum", although not to "Germany", to "deutschland" is disloyal to America. Germanism is imcompatable with Americanism. The slightest loyalty to Germany is disloyalty to the United States. We can tolerate no half way attitude, no fifty-fifty loyalty. The man must be an American and nothing else or he is not an American at all. 42250- 2 - If a man is loyal to any other flag, whether a foreign flag or the red flag of therchy or the black flag of Germanized socialism he is disloyal to the American flag; and we must have but one language, the language of the Declaration of Independence and of Washington's farewell address, and of Lincoln's Gettysburg speech; the English language. We are not Internationalists. We are American nationalists, We intend to do justice to all other nations,. But in the last four years the professed internationalists like the professed pacifists have played the game of the brutal German autocracy, the game of the militaristic and capitalistic tyranny which now absolutely rules the Germany of the Hohenzollerns. Professional internationalism stands towards patriotism exactly as free love stands towards a [?and] honorable and duty performing family life. And American pacifism has been the tool and ally of German militarism, and has represented, and always will represent, deep disloyalty to our beloved country. Having said this, with all the emphasis at my command, I wish with no less emphasis to say that the equally important other side of Americanism is the imperative duty of treating all men who show that they are in very truth Americans as on an entire equality of right and privilege, with no more regard to their birth place, or the birth place of their parents than to their creed. In this crisis, when once our people grew fully awake, the Americans of German blood have in the immense majority of cases shown themselves as absolutely and aggressively and singleminded Americans as the citizens of any other stock or as the citizens who like most of us are of mixed stock. The German Government and the German Newspapers have reluctantly recognized this and they are more bitter against the Americans of German blood than against any other Americans. The German papers have 251- 3 - contained bitter denunciations of them; and recently in the captured report of a German Inspector General which spoke of the American prisoners, the General especially dwelt on the fact that the soldiers of foreign parentage, felt and behaved precisely like the soldiers of native parentage, and that this applied especially to the soldiers of German parentage. Among the facts of especial gallantry chronicled of our men at the front a full proportion are to be credited to men whose names show that they are in whole or in part of German blood. We Americans all stand shoulder to shoulder in war and in peace; and woe to the man who would try to divide us. No man can serve two masters. No man can serve both the United States and Germany. If he is loyal to one side he must be hostile to the other. If he is a loyal American he must be against Germany and all her works. For the moment the Pacifists and Internationalists and pro-Germans dare not be noisy. But let our people beware of them as soon as the peace negotiations begin and from that time onward. They have worked together in the past and they will work together in the future; the pro-Germans furnishing the most powerful and most sinister element of the combination while the Pacifists and the Internationalists and prance in the foreground and furnish the rhetoric. Let our people remember that for the two and a half years before we entered the war the pacifists clamorously insisted that if we kept unprepared we would avoid war. Well, we tried the experiment. We kept completely unprepared. Even after we broke off diplomatic relations with Germany we refused to make the slightest preparation. And nevertheless we went to war. Pacifism and unpreparedness never keep a nation out of war. They invite war; and they ensure that war shall be costly and long drawn out and bloody if it comes. If when the great war broke out four years ago, 252- 4 - or even if when the Lusitania was sunk three years and a quarter ago, we had begun with all our energy to prepare, we would very possibly never have had to go to war at all, and if forced to go to war we would have conquered peace ninety days after our entry into the conflict. Let us remember this when the peace comes. Don't trust the pacifists; they are the enemies of righteousness. Don't trust the Internationalists; they are the enemies of nationalism and Americanism. Both of these goupes appeal to all weaklings, illusionists, materialists, lukewarm Americans, and faddists of all the types that vitiate nationalism. Their leaders are plausible make-believe humanitarians, who crave a notoriety that flatters their own egotism, who often mislead admirable and well meaning but short sighted persons, who care for their own worthless carcasses too mich to get any where near the front when fighting comes, but who in times of inert and slothful thinking, when war seems a remote possibility, can gain reputation by plans which imply not the smallest self-sacrifice or service among those who advocate them, and which therefore appeal to all exponents of intellectual vagary, sentimental instability and eccentricity, and that sham altruism which seeks the cheap glory of words that betray deeds. All these elements combined may, when the people as a whole are not fully awake, betray this country into a course of folly for which when the hour of stern trial comes our bravest men will pay with blood and our bravest women with tears. For these illusionists who do not pay with their own bodies for the dreadful errors into which they have lead a nation. They strut their time of triumph in the hours of ease; and when the hours of trial come they scatter instantly and let the nationalists, the old fashioned patriots, the men and women who believe in the [terrible] fighting virtues, accept the burden and carry the load, meet the dangers and make the sacrifices, and give themselves to and for the country. Nations are made, defended, and preserved, not 42253- 5 - by the illusionists, but by the men and women who practice the homely virtues in time of peace, and who in time of righteous war are ready to die, or to send those they love best to die, for a shinning ideal. When peace comes let us accept any reasonable proposal, whether calling for a league of nations or for any other machinery, which we can in good faith act upon, and which does really offer some chance of lessening the chance of future wars and diminishing their area. But let us never forget that any promise that such a league or other peice of machinery will definitely do away with war is either sheer nonsense or rank hypocrisy. When the test comes any strong and brutal nation will treat such an agreement as a scrap of paper, precisely as Germany treated the Hague Conventions and the treaties guaranteeing the neutrality of Belgium, unless well-behave nations possess both the will and the power to enforce the observance of the agreement. Therefore let us treat any peace treaties and agreements never as substitutes for but merely as supplementary to the duty of preparing our own strength for our own defence. And let us make this duty the duty of all the people, as it should be in a democracy, where universal suffrage should rest on universal service. Let us rest our strength on any which shall consist not of a special caste, but of [its] the people themselves; on any produced by the universal obligatory training of all our young men sometime between the ages of nineteen and twenty-one. This is for the future. Our immediate and inescapable duty is to win the war. We must speed up the war to the limit. We must try to finish it a the earliest possible moment, but be resolved to finish it no matter how long it takes. We must insist on the peace of complete and overwhelming victory. We must remember that a huge army put in the field at one time will accomplish what the same number of men put into 42254- 6 - the field in driblets can never accomplish. We have a much larger population, and much greater natural resources than Germany or than France and England combined. Therefore, by next spring we should have thousands of our own field guns, and scores of thousands of our own airplanes at the front, and an enormous ship tonnage in which to ferry across the ocean so many troops that by April we may have four million trained fighting men at the front, not counting non-combatants and reserves. The age limits for the draft should be greatly increased and the exemptions greatly diminished. All of this of course should have been don six months ago---- indeed a year ago. But it is not too late now. It is the eleventh hour but it is not yet the twelfth. We must quit making this a "leisurely war". Our gallant fighting men at the front have shown the most splendid military qualities, and have won for themselves and for this nation the highest honor. Therefore we who stay at home must back them up by deeds not merely by applause. They are entitled to such backing; and such backing means great quantities of ships, guns and airplanes, and million of trained men. It is a good thing, and admirable thing, to back up the Red Cross, and the Y. M. C. A. and all kindred bodies; to pay taxes cheerfully and buy liberty bonds and thrift stamps; to save food and grow food, and to work with all our might with head and hand at useful industry. All these things will help the fighting men to win the war. But it is the fighting men at the front who will win the war! Therefore back up the fighting men; and the only way to back them up is to do the things, of which I have spoken above. So much for the vital, immediate, the imperative, needs. They are the needs that must at all hazards be met forthwith. But there are other paramount needs which we must also consider. This terribel war, with all its dreadful and lamentable 42255- 7 - accompaniments, may nevertheless do a lasting good to this nation; for it may scourge us out of the wallow of materialism, made only worse by a mawkish or vicious sham sentimentality, into which we were tending to sink. The finest, the bravest, the best of our young men have sprung eagerly forward to face death for the sake of a high ideal; and thereby they have brought home to us the great truth that life commits of more than easy going pleasure, and more than hard, conscienceless, brutal striving after purely material [means] success; that while we must rightly care for the body and the things of the body yet that such care leads nowhere unless we also have thought for our own souls and for the souls of our brothers. When these gallant souls, on the golden crest of life, gladly face death for the sake of an ideal, shall not we who stay behind, who have not been found worthy of the Grand Adventure, shall not we in our turn try to shape our lives so as to make in this country the ideal which in our hearts we acknowledge, and the actual work-a-day business of our world, come a little nearer together, correspond in practice a little more closely? Let us resolve to make this country a better place to live in/ for these men, and for the women who sent these men to battle, and for the children who are to come after them. When peace comes, and even before peace comes, let us weigh and ponder the mighty spiritual forces called into being by this war and turn them to the social and industrial betterment of this nation. Abraham Lincoln with his usual homely common sense and unerring instinct for the truth bade our people remember that the dollar has its place, an essential place, but that the man stood above the dollar. Of late years we have worshipped the dollar overmuch, and have been smugly content with sleek service to Mammon, heedless of the omnious fact that over devotion to dollars is almost equally damaging to those who have too many and to those who have too few; for when success is treated as tested not by the 42256- 8 - the achievement of a self respecting, hardworking, happy family life, and the performance of duty to oneself and to other with pleasure as a proper accompaniment of the duty, but merely by the mass of dollars amassed, the result is that the successful greedy ones develope a mean arrogance, and the unsuccessful greedy ones mean envy; and envy and arrogance are equally unlovely sides of the same evil shield. Now, the best blood in this country, from all the homes of this country, is being spilt by our sons and brothers for principle and for justice and for humanity and for love of country, because our sons and brothers have placed love of a great cause above the dollar. Let us see that the position is not reversed for a long time to come. The other day I read the statement that there were a hundred thousand under nourished children in New York City. If we had a like number of undernourished soldiers what a cry would go up! Yet these children are the citizens of the future, and the industrial arm is of just as much importance as the military. We must realize this, and act on our realization, or some day our Republic will rock to its foundation. In achieving this purpose we must be equally on our guard against the American Romanoffs, the reactionaries of industry and politics, and against the American Bolshevists who appeal to the basest passions of envy and class hatred, and who strive for disorder and anarchy. The history of Russia during the last eighteen months teaches our country exactly what to avoid. And one of the lessons it teaches is that the most sordid corruptionist may do no more harm to the nation than the conscienceless demagogue or the fanatical and impracticable visionary. We must take the rule of justice and fairplay as our guide in dealing alike with capital and with labor, with the business man and the working man. Our theory should be co-operation among individuals, and control by the Government with the purpose of helping the business 42257- 9 - succeed, but of seeing that the success implies service to the public and a fair division of profits among all concerned. During war time there should be no profiteering, no unusual and abnormal profits; but there must be legitimate profits or the business can not go on, and unless it goes on the public can not be served nor the wage earners receive their wages. The workingman likewise should have their right of collective action, including collective bargaining, ensured; and in [o?] very real sense they should be made partners in the business, with a share in the profits and at least along certain lines a share in the control; and provision should be made for their honorable security in old age, and for their insurance against disease, accident and involuntary unemployment. There must be the fullest recognition, in honor and in material reward, of the skilful, conscientious, intelligent hardworking man-- I mean a recognition which he will accept as such, not merely a recognition which outsiders think sufficient. But there must be no limiting of production, no limiting of output, and no deadening insistence on reducing the efficiency of the skilful and hardworking to the plane of the shiftless or inefficient. The foundation of our permanent civilization rests on the farmer; and by farmer I mean not the man who owns land which others till but the man who himself tills or helps till the ground part of which at least he himself owns. A cardinal feature of our national policy should be the ensuring of his rights to this man; and this not only for his sake but for the sake of all of us. Normally he must be the owner of the ground he and his sons and his hired men till; and the hired man must have [?] shaped so that if he is hardworking, thrifty and energetic he shall have the means and the opportunity himself to purchase farming land on which to dwell and to bring up his family. We ought now to formulate, and we ought long to have formulated an American 42258- 10 - agricultural policy; and the National Agricultural Department should be completely reorganized and its activities made (in?) productive in science, especially in view of the large sum of money [*?*] now allotted it. Normally, in farming regions, where the land is a agricultural land, tenancy should be recognized as a transitional and tempory phase, and normally the working farmer should himself be the landowner. In different sections of the country there are different needs, and, therefore, different methods of meeting the needs will be necessary; nor do I now intend to define them; for the remedies may be cummulative, and may in some sections include progressive taxation of land holdings in excess of a quarter section at most a half section, the rights of tenants to compensation for all improvements or indeed on certain property right to the land itself, and real, not nominal, provision by the government for loaning money to those who need it in order to buy themselves a freehold. There must be improved methods of farm financing with emphasis on the getting and spending more money on the farms that are worth while. The high roads must be developed. Drastic action should be taken to stop the purchase of agriculturial land for speculative purchasers; where necessary, this should go to the length of giving full title to the occupant for use only, and limiting his power of alienating the land. Systems of marketing must be developed, so as to do away with the hold-up methods that in so many places still obtain; the producer must get more consumers, pay less than at present. We ought to do these and the many other things necessary now, when it is possible to do them without causing too great distress to those in possession of long undisputed priviledges which by time have grown to possess much of the character of rights. Nine tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. In this country tenant farming and the individual [incentive] ownership of extensive tracts of agricultural land are growing at the 42259-11- expense of the homestead holding. Let us take whatever steps, conservative, if possible, radical if necessity, which are needed to remedy the situation; for if left unremedied the result may be something unpleasantly near revolution a half century hence; and in such case the wrongs will be [remedied only by action which causes other wrongs] to innocent people and work deep demoralization to those benefited; whereas at present by the [exercise] increase of forethought and resolution we may escape both kinds of evil. There are certain things the state can do and must do for the farmer. But most things the farmer can do for himself by association with his fellow farmers, and such independence [if] unnecessary state action is [healthy] in itself and is consonant with the rugged self reliance characteristic of that mos typical of American citizen the American who dwells in the open country and tills the soil with his own hands. There must be co-operation on a large scale among farmers, in marketing their products so as to get them as nearly as possible direct to the consumer, and in purchasing at least all of their needed goods that can be standardized, and gradually in other ways also. Whatever can be done by such co-operation rather then by the state should be done; but where such co-operation proves inadequate to achieve the end, whether in shipping, storing, or marketing, the state must itself assume the task. Any such co-operation association should deal with the work that peculiarly affects farmers. Therefore it should most emphatically not be turned into a political party; and a political party which goes into politics as such is just as much a political party even although it chooses to call itself by some name with non-partisan in it. Any party which represents purely a class of our citizens inevitably works mischief. It is just as bad to have public servants who represent nobody but farmers as to have public servants who do not represent farmers. Our public servants are in honour bound to represent all of us, and not merely 42260-12- a few of us; and unless they represent all of us, and work sincerely and wisely for the permanent benefit of all of us, then they do not really and permanently represent any of us. Individually some of us are farmers others workingmen, others business people, other doctors or lawyers or clergymen; but in addition we are all of us Americans first and foremost; and [in government] our common interest as decent citizens comes ahead of the separate interest of any of us. It is wise and it may be necessary that we should individually belong to any one of various unions or associations or leagues or corporations; but there is one union to which all of us belong and to which our first allegiance is always due, and that union is the United States. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 42261January 2, 1918. My dear Mr. Bagley: If I could be of the least assistance I would do as you request at once. But I am absolutely powerless in such case. All I can do is to urge that you get in touch with some good Senator or Congressman that you know and though him insist upon the proper authorities taking up the experiment. Faithfully yours, Mr. W. R. Bagley, Prince George Hote, New York.2927 January 2, 1918. Dear Mr. Culbertson: I thank you for both those articles. I was especially interested in what you say about the Sherman Law. Incidentally what you set forth applies just as much to our domestic as to our foreign trade. In great haste, Faithfully yours, Hon. W. S. Culbertson, U. S. Tariff Commission, Washington, D.C. 8706January 2nd, 1918. Dear Mr. Corrick: I haven't heard from Howell. Would you and Howell care to come east within the next two weeks or month, so I could talk with you especially about the farmer? Faithfully yours, Mr. F. P. Corrick, Lincoln, Nebr. [?] 262January 2, 1918. My dear Davis: That's a really interesting letter of yours. I have only to send this word of acknowledgement. Faithfully yours, Mr. Gherardi Davis, 15 William Street New York City. 62[*4*]January 2nd, 1918. My dear Captain Dolge: I am really touched by your sending me the photograph. You are the kind of American, my dear Captain, who to my mind embodies precisely what we like to regard as the typical American spirit. Sometime I wish to make the acquaintance of your entire family and have you all out to Sagamore Hill. With hearty good wishes, Faithfully yours, Captain Fritz Dolge, 924 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. 63January 2, 1918. My dear Bishop Gailor: Is the enclosed all right? Faithfully yours, Bishop Thos. F. Gailor, University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. 65January 2nd, 1918. My dear Mr. Garner: Although you tell me not to answer, I shall do so and I shall send your letter and the enclosure to the National Republican Committee from Connecticut, Mr. John T. King. I entirely agree with you. Faithfully yours, Mr. George Garner, 307 Riggs, Bldg., Washington, D.C. 64January 2, 1918. My dear Mr. Green: That's mighty nice. I much appreciate the volume. Wishing you many happy New Years. Faithfully yours, Mr. James A. Green, Cincinnati, Ohio. 65506[*[1919?]*0 January 2,, 1919. My dear Miss Grimell: That's mighty nice. I much appreciate the volume. Wishing you many happy New Years. Faithfully yours, Miss Elizabeth Grimell, Pasadena, Calif. 55507January 2, 1918. My dear [Colonel] General Harbord: The enclosed letter explains itself. There has been no finer citizen of this country than Bishop Gailor and his metal has rung true at every point during the last three years. His son is one of those fine young fellows who combine high idealism with practical efficiency. His fitness is shown by the fact that he is now a Lieutenant in an English Siege Battery. Naturally he wishes to get under his own flag and it seems to me he could be peculiarly valuable because of his experience. Is there any way in which it is possible to arrange for his transfer on his merits to our forces under General Pershing? With very high regard, Faithfully yours, [Col.] Brig. Gen'l. James G. Harbord, Chief of Staff, American Expeditionary Forces, France. 266January 2nd, 1918. My dear Mr. Hayes: In our interview you stated that you know that the American Defense Society would evade or refuse my request that the Boston Chamber of Commerce at once investigate its financial status. Mr. Hurd promptly and gladly acceded to the request, and now you decline to make the investigation. Accordingly I have written Mr. Hurd asking that the District Attorney be at once requested to undertake the investigation. The Society has at stated intervals had a full investigation of its accounts by a responsible accounting firm. Now as to your other points. The American Defense Society does a totally different work from the National Security League. Each is doing admirable work; it is an error to say that they are "doing practically the same work." I am a member of both, and I know. There are sound arguments both for and against tying up the volunteer vigilance work "directly and closely with the Federal government". On the whole I think that the arguments against have most weight. Such work as that of Mr. Cleveland Moffett against the soap box anarchist and pro-German agitator was undertaken precisely because the Government was not acting the the matter. [*Through the Police Dept. here I have some knowledge of the limitations of the National Government work along this line!*] [?]7-2- Mr. Hurd is going to change the Advisory Board into Honorary Vice Presidents. I did advise and keep in touch with the larger measures of policy and action; such as the action against Senator La Follette, the proceeding about the German Insurance Companies, the meeting in which Mr. Beck took up the anti-German propaganda [of] and Mr. Hearst, and Mr. Hornaday's campaign against the treasonable position of certain socialist public school teachers. But I did not keep in touch with certain other activities where my name appeared without any knowledge on my part; and therefore I deem it best that hereafter I shall merely be an Honorary Vice President. As you suggested I saw Mr. Hurd alone. But I was rather amused at, for instance, your saying it was "unnecessary to point out the reasons" why Mr. Quimby should not be present. Mr. Quimby, a Harvard man, is Secretary of the Union League Club, and is of the highest social and business standing. Perhaps I can make clear to a Boston man the statue of Messrs. Hurd, Appleton and Quimby by saying that it is in essentials like that of Major Henry L. Higgenson; to assail them or their work on account of dissatisfaction with something they have done or left done is justifiable to the exact degree that it is justifiable to assail Major Higgenson's work with the Boston symphony on account of dissatisfaction with his attitude towards [?]268-3- Mr. Muck and the singing of the Star Spangled Banner. I wish to state most emphatically, of my own knowledge, that the American Defense Society has done an invaluable work for patriotism, for Americanism and for pushing this war through to a victorious conclusion. It is now assailed and it has always been assailed with peculiar bitterness by the pro-Germans and the agents of Germany. I entirely agree with the statement of Mr. Hurd to the effect that in doing such an immense amount of work, necessarily without previous organization, it was inevitable that some should be poorly done; and in addition there has been some avoidable carelessness, notably in the case of the relations of the Society [of] to Dingley, and also in connect with the use made of the names of the members of the Advisory Committee. There have also of course been, especially at the outset, some honest errors of judgement; and doubtless some of the many persons from time to time employed have proved unfit for the purpose. I welcome any criticism, and where such criticism is from a responsible source I will at once investigate the matter, exactly as I have done in this case, and as I did in two or three preceding cases; and Mr. Hurd and his associates have always shown, as they are now showing, an eager desire to correct any abuse and remedy any error. I will eagerly 59-4- co-operate to prevent any such error or abuses in the management of the Society. To destroy or injure the Society however would benefit but one set of people- the allies, tools and agents of Germany in this country. Very truly yours, Mr. L. B. Hayes, Boston Chamber of Commerce, Boston, Mass. 270January 2nd, 1918. Dear Mr. Hayman: That's a mighty nice New Years greeting. I thank you for it and I appreciate it to the full. Good luck always! Faithfully yours, Mr. Frank C. Hayman, Houstonia, Mo. 71January 2nd, 1918. My dear Judge Hotchkiss: I cannot sufficiently thank you for your more than kind and cordial letter. Believe me I appreciate it to the full. I value your [opinion] good will, my dear Judge, to a very high degree, as you know. Wishing you a most happy New Year, Faithfully yours, Mr. Wm. H Hotchkiss, 55 Liberty Street, New York. 72January 2, 1918. Dear Mr. King: I am sending the enclosed from Mr. Garner at the request of Colonel Roosevelt. Will you please let me have them for my files after you have read them? Sincerely yours, Secretary, Mr. John T. King, Bridgeport, Conn. 273January 2nd, 1918. My dear Mr. Lichter: That's one of the very nicest letters I have received. I thank you for it with all my heart and thank you for the flag. Your fellow American, Mr. Julius T. Lichter, Chicago, Ill. 274[*Lyman8] January 2nd, 1918. Dear George: Many thanks for those clippings. I have taken the matter up already with the Boston Chamber of Commerce. The American Defense Society has done capital work, but I don't think it has been handled in quite as businesslike a manner as it should have been. I am going into the matter now. Faithfully yours, Mr. George H. Lyman, Committee on Public Safety, State House, Boston, Mass. 275January 2, 1918. My dear Captain Metcalf: That is one of the very nicest letters I have received at all. I thank you with all my heart. Wishing you every success during the coming year, Faithfully yours, Capt. Buehler Metcalf, 59th Depot Brigade, 34th Div. Camp Cody, 2276January 2nd, 1918. My dear Mrs. Miller: I am extremely sorry, but unfortunately I am helpless in matters of that kind. I earnestly suggest that you get California friends to intercede with your Congressman, and I am sure your old Congressman would do anything he could for you in a matter of that kind. I think you at least ought to ask him. Sincerely yours, Mrs. S. West Miller, 1026 N. New Hampshire Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. 5523[*Moore*] January 2, 1918. Dear Alex: I hesitate about using that at the moment for I am not sufficiently sure of my ground but I am going to bring it in later and I think it a capital suggestion. Good Luck ever! Faithfully your, Mr. Alexander P. Moore, Pittsburgh Leader, Pittsburgh, Pa. P. S. Do you notice in today's papers the statement that in zero weather our troops while manouvering in France suffered terribly because their shoes had gone to pieces? And this the richest nation on earth! 277January 2, 1918. My dear Mr. Patch: I congratulate you most warmly upon the recommendations for your two brothers at the same time my son was recommended. I thank you very heartily for all that you say and I am glad that you are producing such a play as you describe. But my dear sir, I do not know whether it will be possible for me to go to the theatre even to see your play. You have no conception of the multitude of such requests I receive. With hearty good wishes, Faithfully yours, Mr. W. Moore Patch, The Blackstone, Michigan Blvd., Chicago, Ill. 278TELEGRAM January 2, 1918. Mr. C. M. Spangler, Manager, Chicago Assn. of Commerce, Chicago, Ill. Greatly regret it is not possible to accept your kind invitation. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. COLLECT. 79TELEGRAM January 2, 1918. Dr. Edward A. Steiner, Grennelle College, Grennelle, Iowa. From all I know of you and your writing I am sure you are entirely loyal. Am writing. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. COLLECT. 80January 2nd, 1917, My dear Dr. Steiner: As I telegraphed you, I am sure you are entirely loyal. But [now], my dear Dr. Steiner, did you not a couple years ago in a book you wrote, make an assault upon me for what I said about hyphens? And did you not recently in an address to a New York audience speak for internationalism as against nationalism? The last statement rests only on hearsay, but I think I saw the [former statement in a book by you] criticism of my attitude about 50-50 patriotism. This does not mean in the least that you are disloyal, but I do think my dear Doctor, that you entirely fail to appreciate the position I was taking and the need of that position. I am standing [?] as strongly as I know how for the loyal Americans of German or Austrian birth or parentage. May I ask that you look at the article I have written on the subject in the Metropolitan Magazine that will appear about the time you will receive this letter? Sincerely yours, Dr. Edward A. Steiner, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa. 281[*Tucker*] January 2, 1918. Dear Sam: That's a mighty nice letter of yours and a capital letter of Straus' which I have destroyed, as by your memorandum. He must be a fine fellow. There is any amount I could say to you but I do not think it well to say it in a letter. With love to Anne, Faithfully yours, Mr. Samuel A. Tucker, Pinehurst, N.C. 282[*Wadsworth*] January 3, 1918. Dear Austin: It does not seem to me that it would be advisable to make Amos Pinchot a martyr. Better leave him alone as the skunk he is. This is my off hand judgement and subject to revision. As far the other matter, don't accept the headlines but read what I have written! With love to the lady and the man-child, Ever yours, Mr. W. A. Wadsworth, Livingston Co. Defense Committee, Geneseo, N.Y. 283January 2nd, 1918. My dear Mr. Walker: You are really [x] kind. [They] Those were two delicious wild ducks. Not only did we thoroughly enjoy them we enjoyed even more your thought of us. Believe me as I appreciate it to the full. Faithfully yours, Mr. John C. Walker, Walker-Hughes Market Co., Washington, D.C. 2284 January 2, 1918. My dear Mr. Weisert: I am very sorry I cannot give you the information you desire. The gentleman in question was one of the hundreds of men attached in subordinate positions to my Administration. I was not brought in personal contact with him. With regret that I cannot help you, & good wishes Faithfully yours, Mr. J. C. Weisert, 6708 Sheridan Road, Chicago, Ill. 285[*White*] January 8, 1918. Dear W. A. That's a mighty nice gift but I am a little bit puzzled by the inscription. Did Vernon Kellogg know that you were sending it to me? It is a capital book. I wish very much I could see you and him together. With Christmas greetings to you and dear Mrs. White, Faithfully yours, Mr. W. A. White, Emporia, Kans. 86January 2nd, 1918. My dear Mr. Wilcox: I earnestly hope that the Republican Party as such will do everything possible to get all its representatives in Congress to vote in favor of the Constitutional amendment, giving Women suffrage. This is no longer an academic question. The addition of New York to the suffrage column I think entitles us to say that as a matter both of justice and of common sense the motion should no longer delay to give women suffrage. Will you also let me urge as strongly as possible that there be an immediate addition to the Republican National Committee of one woman member from every suffrage state? I do hope this action can be taken With great regard, Faithfully yours, Mr. William R. Willcox, 165 Broadway, City. 287January 2nd, 1918. My dear Mr. Wilcox: I earnestly hope that the Republican Party as such will do everything possible to get all its representatives in Congress to vote in favor of the Constitutional amendment, giving women suffrage. This is no longer an academic question. The addition of New York to the suffrage column I think entitles me to say that as a matter both of justice and of common sense the national should no longer delay to give women suffrage. Will you also let me urge as a strongly as possible that there be an immediate addition to the Republican National Committee of one woman member from every suffrage state? I do hope this action can be taken. With great regard, Faithfully yours, Mr. William R. Wilcox 165 Broadway, City [?]8January 2, 1918. Dear General Young: No letter that I received at this time gave me quite as much pleasure as yours. I wish to thank you for what you say and I wish to express my pride in the fact that you have four sons-in-law and five grandsons in the aray. I am proud of my record but yours beats it. With heartiest good wishes, Faithfully yours, Lt. General, S.B.M. Young, Soldiers Home, Washington, D.C. 289January 3, 1918. Dear Mr. Abbott: At Colonel Roosevelt's request I am enclosing herewith corrected gally of review on "The Origin and Evolution of Life". Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Lawrence Abbott, 381 Fourth Avenue, City. January 3, 1918. My dear Mr. Adams: That's mighty nice of you. I never even saw or heard of that newspaper clipping. I should suppose that the writer is simply a pro-German who wants to keep this country insufficient. With thanks, Faithfully yours, Mr. Richard C. Adams, Victoria Hotel, Kansas City, Mo.January 3rd, 1918. Gentlemen: I am enclosing for your attention, a letter from Charles B. Lash of Sabetha, Kansas. I am also enclosing a clipping from a Journal with a coupon filled out in the name of C. B. Benden, to which is attached a $1. bill. Will you kindly acknowledge this to Mr. Benden? Sincerely yours, American Defense Society, 44 East 33rd Street, New York. January 3, 1918. My dear Mr. Atkin: I am happy to say that I have deserved the ill will of all the men who have sought to betray this country to Germany. Editorials such as those of which you speak do not cause me the smallest concern. Faithfully yours, Mr. Edgar M. Atkin, 93 Liberty Street, New York. 955 January 3rd, 1918. My dear Mr. Barber: That's fine. I congratulate you and your sons, and wish them every success. I have very little time, but if your son calls on me it will be a pleasure to see him. Faithfully yours, Mr. P. J. Barber Bureau of Employment Erie, Pa.3664 January 3, 1918.. Dear Barbour: I look forward to the receipt of that check list of Reptiles. I congratulate you on going to Cuba, both for the sake of your real work and for the sake of the side show. It is only about the latter that I can write you. I believe that you are entirely right as regards the theory in question, having in view the extreme positions its upholders have assumed. Like the protective coloration theory; it is I suppose [proper] correct within reasonable limits; but it is pushed to an utterly fantastic point. I very much look forward to seeing your finished studies of the [??me]. When you come back can't you stop with me for a night? Faithfully yours, Mr. Thomas Barbour, Hotel Inglaterra Havana, Cuba.3652 January 3, 1918. My dear Mr. Barrow: That's very interesting. I thank you. I wish you could make the matter public yourself. I will see whether I can use it. Faithfully yours, Mr. George Barrow, Skaneateles, N.Y.3037 January 3rd, 1918. My dear Dr. Beattie: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Rev. Robert B. Beattie, First Presbyterian Church, East Grange, N.J.3054 January 3, 1918. Dear Behr: I shall read [xxxx] the paper with the utmost interest. Of course I regard such a rule as that which has barred you from the Aviation service as simply infamous. I will drop the matter, as you [say] request; but later, without bringing you in, I intend to take it up. Faithfully yours, Mr. Karl H. Behr, 61 Broadway, City.2971 January 3, 1918. Dear Father Belford: That's mighty considerate of you. When spring comes and the warm weather I will make that speech for you, I don't care what else has to be abandoned. I am awfully pleased that you like what I have written in the Star. Is the enclosed all right for Dennis Buckley? Faithfully yours, Rev. John L. Belford, 30 Madison Street, Brooklyn, N.Y.3267 January 3rd, 1918. My dear Mr. Benden: The coupon that you sent in, to which was attached a $1. bill, has been forwarded to the American Defense Society. Sincerely yours, Mr. C. B. Benden, Lewiston, -Mich.2285 [*Jno. Biddle*] January 3, 1918. My dear General Biddle: In view of our old acquaintance I am going to write you frankly and confidentially and if you don't feel I have the right to, why my dear General you need not answer the letter and I won't have my feelings hurt in the least. I write you because I happen to know that you are one of the officers who thoroughly appreciate the need of training our men in modern war. I have been in several camps; I have spoken to a number of the young regular officers and to the best of the young reserve officers as to the needs. My information is that in most camps the shortage of clothing and the like has been pretty well met, and the need for rifle practice is being met. The condition as regards the artillery is very discouraging for most of the men have done a large part of what it is possible to do with log wood cannon. But I suppose nothing can be done about this, because we haven't the cannon. In the same way the lack of trench mortars and of machine guns or auto rifles I suppose cannot at present be met - although I saw at Chillicothe that General Glenn had had5512 -2- his men themselves manufacture some trench mortars and I saw them practice. But my information is that nothing like the proper use is being made of the French and English officers over here who could teach modern war. In one camp for example the proportion of officers who are schooled in rifle practice to officers who are schooled in bombing is 72 to 1; [and] the proportion is not nearly as bad in bayonet work. [But o] Of course nothing is being done about [the] training with auto rifles. A large part of the trouble is due to the attitude of many of the regular officers (most but not all being elderly officers) who seem to feel it an insult if they are required to try to learn anything from the French or British officers. This is of course all nonsense. If I had been allowed my division I would have had every officer in it devoting all possible time to profiting at every point from an intensive training under such French and English officers, as for example those at the Harvard and Yale Schools, and I would hav[e] realized that I had most to learn myself! In three weeks I am coming to Washington. Would you be willing to have me put before you the situation in this respect, so that if you saw fit you could do whatever was possible that you deemed advisable to speed up the work5513 -3- of teaching our men modern warfare? I would in confidence give you the names of a number of men from whom you could get further information. Hoping my dear General, that you will not regard me as intrusive, I am Very faithfully yours, Major-General John Biddle, War Department, Washington, D.C.5514 January 3, 1918. My dear Mr. Bigler: If I get the chance I will do as you desire; but my dear sir, I cannot in my editorials touch on one in fifty of the things I would like to cover. I thank you for your courtesy to me and I appreciate the admirable work you are doing. Faithfully yours, Mr. F. R. Bigler, 910 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Mo.2292 [*Bishop*] January 3, 1918. Dear Joe: That's most interesting. I thank you and appreciate [it] the matter very deeply. I have already used it. Faithfully yours, Mr. Joseph B. Bishop, 162 West 54th Street, New York City.5671 January 3, 1918. My dear Captain Bourke: Many happy New Years for you and all your family. Faithfully yours, Capital Edward J. Bourke, New York Police Dept., New York City.2881 January 3, 1918. [*Bourne*] My dear Senator: I don't think it possible that I can accept your invitation to dine out. I did not know that you expected me to dine with you. I am very such afraid tha[y]t my engagements have been made. Will you take the matter up with Wick Longworth and then write me the result? Faithfully yours, Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr., Real Estate Trust Bldg., Washington, D.C.1889 [*Mrs Henry Bridgman*] January 3, 1918. My dear Mr. Bridgman: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mrs. Henry Bridgman, Norfolk, Conn.5813 January 3rd, 1918. My dear Mr. Brown: I am sorry but I cannot possibly comply with your request. You have no conception of the multitude of demands made upon me. Sincerely yours, Mr. Will E. Brown, 18 Albion Street, Malden, Mass.January 3rd, 1918. My dear Mr. Bruner: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. Wm. L. Bruner Lincoln Protective Club, Louisville, Ky. 2543 January 3rd, 1918. My dear Mr. Bugbee: I am so very sorry, but it just is not possible for me at this time to undertake another engagement. I wish I could come. By the way, what are your relations with General Spencer? I am rather under obligation that my New Jersey speech should be for him. Would you be willing to get into communication with General Spencer so that I might speak at New Jersey some time in the spring? I do not believe I can speak twice in New Jersey and of course I want to do whatever you and Governor Edge desire. Sincerely yours, Mr. Newton A. Bugbee, Republican State Chairman, Trenton, N.J.5091 January 3, 1918. My dear Mrs. Bulmer: I wrote immediately to Congressman Butler and enclose herewith copy of the letter. I only hope it will do some good. Faithfully yours, Mrs. Anita Poor Bulmer, 1614 - 21st Street, Washington, D.C.3123 [*Burnstad*] January 3, 1918. My dear young Friend: That's a cracker-jack photograph and that's an A-1 family. I wish I could see you and all your family. Good luck to the soldier! Faithfully yours, Master Theodore Burnstad Yo Ranch, Burnstad, N. Dak.1223 January 3rd, 1918. My dear Congressman Butler: I see it announced that Commander Rose Bulmer has been passed by the Selective Board, meaning a drop of forty members. This is not merely a matter of genuine astonishment to me but of concern and I cannot help feeling that some error must have occurred. Not only do I know of his record from reputation, but I happen to know of it personally. For four years he was under me, two of them as aide at the White House and two as Commander of the "Sylph". I regarded him as an exceptionally active, energetic and capable officer; a man of really fine naval type. Is it proper for me to ask you if you can find out the reason for the action, in view of his record? Trusting I am not bothering you, Faithfully yours, Hon. Thomas B. Butler, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.4836 January 3, 1918. My dear Mr. Caswell: It is very kind of you to write me. I don't believe I know Lockwood at all. May I ask confidentially what you think of Mr. Will Hays? I took a great liking to him. If you judgment agrees with mine I wonder whether you would be willing to [????? to] him in the matter? I am sending back the enclosures. Faithfully yours, Mr. J. W. Caswell, Huntington, Ind. 6665[*Chamberlain*] January 3rd, 1918. My dear Mr. President: I shall be very glad to see you; but I cannot possibly make a speech! I am really sorry. Sincerely yours, Mr. Wm. I. Chamberlain, Pres. Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.J. sent to 25 E. 22nd St. N.Y. CityJanuary 3, 1918. My dear Mrs. Chanler: That's mighty nice of you. Of course I did not suppose [these referred to a circular] that a circular used now would contain [issued] names authorized for use as long ago as March last. With very hearty appreciation and good wishes, Faithfully yours, Mrs. Beatrice Chanler 141 East 19th Street, New York. 6596[*Craven & Berry*] January 3, 1918. Gentleman: I thank you and am very much obliged for the diary. Wishing you many happy New Years, Faithfully yours, Craven and Berry, 400 U. B. Bldg., Dayton, Ohio 8552 January 3, 1918. My dear Cutcheon: That is simply fine. I am as pleased as Punch! I do wish I could have been of a little service to you and I am bound to say that I envy you not a little. With warm regards to Mrs. Cutcheon and heartfelt good wishes, Faithfully yours, Mr. F. W. M. Cutcheon, 147 East 36th Street, New York. 8650January 3, 1918. Dear Bridges: Will you read the enclosed plaint? Inasmuch as Scribners published the book in question, and inasmuch as I am not on the best of terms with the Post Office Department, would you be willing to take up the matter and see if the ban on the book cannot be lifted? Faithfully yours, Mr. Robert Bridges, Scribners, 48th Street & 5th Ave., New York. [*Javier Lara 2025 Bway New York*] [?]290January 3rd, 1918. My dear Mr. Call: That's such a very nice telegram of yours that pressed for time though I am I must send you this line of thanks and acknowledgment. Faithfully yours, Mr. George C. Call, Sioux City, Iowa. [?]2291January 3rd, 1918. My dear Mr. Coburn: That's such a very nice letter of yours that pressed for time though I am, I must send you this line of thanks and acknowledgment. Faithfully yours, Mr. J. W. Coburn, 13 Westport Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. 2292January 3rd, 1918. My dear Mr. Cox: That's mighty nice; [xxx] I am very glad to have seen that report. Good luck always! Faithfully yours, Mr. Rutherford H. Cox, Business Men's Club Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 293January 3, 1918. My dear Mr. De Golier: That's such a very nice letter of yours that pressed for time though I am, I must send you this line of thanks and acknowledgment. Faithfully yours, Mr. Spencer M. De Golier, 1217 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 2294January 3, 1918. My dear M. De Sillac: I greatly appreciate your New Years wishes. It is not necessary for me to say how cordially I reciprocate them for you and your country. It was a very real pleasure to see you here. I wish I were on your side in the army with my four sons. Faithfully yours, Mr. M. J. De Sillac, 9, rue du Commandant Marchand, Paris, France. 2295January 3, 1918. Dear Mr. Doran: Colonel Roosevelt would like ten additional copies of "Foes of Our Own Household" sent to me at Oyster Bay. Will you be good enough to send these to him at an early date? Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. George H. Doran, 38 West 32nd Street, New York. [*2296*]January 3rd, 1918. My dear Mr. Drake: I thank you for your very courteous letter, and I thank you for the enclosure. Sincerely yours, Mr. Herbert A. Drake, Blake Bldg., Camden, N.J. 2297January 3, 1918. My dear Mrs. Drew: Mrs. Roosevelt and I were very much amused and not a little touched with your letter and the account of the conversation with your small son. Give him my best wishes and especially give his father my best wishes. Some time in the summer, as you are opposite us, why don't you and his father bring him over to my house where I would show him some of my trophies? Faithfully yours, Mrs. George A. Drew, Greenwich, Conn. 2298January 3, 1918. My dear Lieutenant Fairall: I am sorry but it is a physical impossibility for me to comply with your request. You have no conception of the multitude of demands made upon me and it just is not possible to comply with them. With regret, Sincerely yours, Lt. L. R. Fairall, The Camp Dodger, Camp Dodge, Iowa. 2299January 3, 1918. My dear President Finley: That's awfully good of you. My dear sir, you are the kind of American whose life has been an inspiration to all of us. With all good wishes, I am Faiathfully yours, Mr. John H. Finley Commissioner of Education, Albany, N.Y. 2300January 3, 1918. My dear Mrs. Fitton: Both Mrs. Roosevelt and I are profoundly touched and pleased by the gift you have sent me, and we greatly appreciate the signature of the Governor in addition to yours. I makes us very proud. If I ever get to Indianapolis or if you get to New York will you be sure to let me see you? Faithfully yours, Mrs. Frank C. Fitton, 946 N. Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Ind. 2301[*Flinn*] January 3, 1918. My dear Senator: I am greatly concerned to learn about your sickness. I am very glad you are going to Florida. Give my regards to Judge Wasson. If I can help in the fight against the German-American Alliance you can count on me to the limit. Faithfully yours, Hon. William Flinn, Pittsburgh, Pa. 2302January 3, 1918. Dear Mr. Folsom: I at once sent your letter and cancelled check to Mr. Hurd, for investigation, with request that the cancelled check be returned to you after Mr. Hurd has used it. Faithfully yours, Mr. Frederick C. Folsom, 322 Summer Street, Boston, Mass. 2303 January 3, 1918. Dear Mr. Fox: With reference to your letter to Colonel Roosevelt under date of December 28th, he will be glad to see you at the Harvard Club, January 10th at 4 P.M. Sincerely yours, Secretary Mr. Hugh F. Fox, U. S. Brewers Assn., 50 Union Square, City. 2304January 3rd, 1918. My dear Mr. Frost: That's a mighty nice letter of yours. You do not know how I enjoyed the meeting; and I am so pleased that you were satisfied with it. Faithfully yours, Mr. Henry G. Frost, 701 Gwynne Bldg., Cincinnati, Ohio. 42305January 3rd, 1918. My dear Mr. Garnsey: That's such a very nice letter of yours that pressed for time though I am, I must send you this line of thanks and acknowledgment. Faithfully yours, Mr. John H. Garnsey, Hotel Belmont, New York. [*send to Joliet Natl Bk Bldg. Joliet, Ill*] 2306January 3, 1918. My dear Mrs. Gerou: That's such a very nice letter of yours that pressed for time though I am, I must send you this line of thanks and acknowledgment. Faithfully yours, Mrs. P. H. Gerou, Washingtonville, N.Y. 42307January 3, 1918. My dear Mr. Goble: That's mighty nice of you. The pineapples have come. We look forward to eating them. I wish I could go out on one of your shark hunts some time. Faithfully yours, Mr. Frank A. Goble, Eva Plantation, Oahu, T. H. 2308January 3rd, 1918. My dear Mr. Gordon: Do not talk the matter over with me, because I have nothing to do with the investigation, but I beg you to put all the information you have at the disposal of Senator Wadsworth. Sincerely yours, Mr. Samuel Gordon, 106 Lexington Avenue New York City. 2309January 3, 1918. My dear Major Griscom: I congratulate the American Asiatic Association on the capital educational work it is doing in publishing "Asia.” In both form and substance "Asia" is exactly what it should be. This country needs a strong public opinion, well informed on eastern affairs. We cannot afford to ignore our new obligations that will spring from this war. To get a permanent peace, of the kind worth having, it is necessary that we be informed concerning, and alertly interested in, the developmental policies, the ambitions and the national characters of the great peoples of the world, whose aims for the future must inevitably affect our welfare and be considered by us. The Orient is certain to be a centre of international contention. It is greatly to be desired that its status be firmly fixed and that we have a clear-cut policy in reference thereto, Every means should be adopted to bind up our relations, in close and permanent friendship, with both Japan and China. "Asia" appears an excellent medium through which to work for this end and I 42310-2- wish it all success. Faithfully yours, Major Lloyd C. Griscom, Pres., American Asiatic Assn., 627 Lexington Avenue, City. 2311January 3, 1918. My dear Mr. Haley: You can't imagine how much pleased I am with your letter. I very deeply appreciate it. Faithfully yours, Mr. Leon F. Haley, Teton County Mission Field, Chateau, Mont. 2312January 3, 1918. My dear Mr. Hanlon: That's fine. I thank you and appreciate your courtesy. Faithfully yours, Mr. Charles F. Hanlon, 501 Phelan Bldg., San Francisco, Calif. 2313January 3, 1918. My dear General Harbord: It was awfully good of you to send me the card. I congratulate you with all my heart on what you are doing. I would give anything if I had one of the brigades that you are now [looking over] superintending. With heartiest greetings, Faithfully yours, Brig. General James G. Harbord, Chief of Staff American Expeditionary Forces, France. 2314January 3, 1918, My dear Dr. Hickok: That's a mighty nice letter of yours and a first class sermon. I not only appreciated your allusions to me, but I thought you dealt with the Germans with exactly the mixture of decision and fairness that was necessary. Faithfully yours, Rev. Paul R. Hickok 2nd Presbyterian Church, Troy, Yew York. 2315January 3rd, 1918, Dear Mrs. Hicks: Colonel Roosevelt directs me to thank you for your courtesy in letting [him?] see your song. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mrs. A. E. Hicks, 42 Fair Street, Newport, R. I. 316January 3, 1918, Dear Mr. Houston: Three cheers! I am as pleased as Punch! I can't tell you how much I appreciate what you have been doing and how glad I was to be of the least assistance to you, Faithfully yours, Mr. Herbert S. Houston, Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, N. Y. 2317January 3, 1918. My dear Mr. Howell: Will you kindly show this letter to Commander Newberry? While you did not serve under me personally I remember well that I distinctly gained the impression that you were doing good work in the Navy Department, and I was much pleased with the way your brother acted as Secretary to me. I think if you will show Commander Newberry this letter and the copy of the letter he himself wrote you, that he will at once take a personal interest to see whether your desires cannot be met. Faithfully yours, Mr. Clarence S. Howell, 550 West 174th Street, New York. 2318January 3, 1918 Dear Mr. Hurd: I am enclosing herewith for your attention letter from Mr. Frederick C. Folsom of Boston together with Colonel Roosevelt's reply. Will you kindly take this matter up with Mr. Folsom and return his cancelled check after you have finished with it. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Richard M. Hurd, . American De[g]fense Society, 44 East 23rd Street, City. 2319[*Hurd*] Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, N. Y. January 3rd, 1918. Mr. Richard Hurd, President, American Defense Society, 303 Fifth Avenue, New York City. My dear Mr. Hurd: At the suggestion of District Attorney Swann, Assistant District Attorney Edwin P. Kilroe came down [to] to see me to talk about the American Defense Society. I explained to him very fully my knowledge of the society and all that I knew about both its activities and the matters complained of. I told him of my interview with Mr. Hays as representing the Boston Chamber of Commerce and of the complaints made to me concerning appeals for funds to which the names of the members of the Advisory Committee were attached. I told him as nearly in full as I could remember it our conversation of yesterday and your suggestion that hereafter the Advisory Committee as at present constituted should be abolished and the members of it made Honorary Vice Presidents instead. I explained to Mr. Kilroe that in my judgment this was not only better but the only proper course because, while I had been consulted and had given advice on a half a dozen different important matters, such as the action about Senator La Follette, the action about the German Insurance Companies, rhe action about the pro- German teachers taken in connection with Mr. Hornaday, and the action about the pro-German "soap box" orators taken in connection with Mr. Cleveland Moffitt, [and] yet that I had not been consulted and could not be consulted, and therefore could not advise, concerning the details of the activities of the society - for instance, the Dingley matter in Boston. I detailed to him as nearly as I could what you had told me about the Dingley matter. I told Mr. Kilroe that the American Defense Society filled a place entirely distinct from that filled by the National Security League and explained with all possible emphasis that in my judgment the society had done an invaluable work for Americanism and patriotism and that it would be a very real misfortune to have anything done that would cause distrust of it in the public mind. I explained to him what I found was entirely unnecessary - the very high standing of you, Mr. Appleton and Mr, Quimby - Mr. Kilroe being as well acquainted with this fact as I was. I told him that Mr. Hays had expressed doubts about the way the society got its money and the use made 2320- 2 - of the money and that I had told him that I would ask you to submit your accounts and books to any representative of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and that you had at once said that you would do so; but that when I notified Mr. Graves of this fact he did not on behalf of the Boston Chamber of Commerce take advantage of the opportunity. I told Mr. Kilroe that your books were at certain stated intervals inspected by a firm of professional accountants, of whom I had heard well, although at the moment I had and have forgotten their names. I told him also that I had absolute confidence in the good judgment of yourself, Mr. Appleton and Mr. Quimby, and in response to his inquiry as to whether you were "well balanced" I said that I was certain that you three gentlemen were, but that I thought that some of the things that had been done by subordinate officials of the society did not show as good a balance on their part. Mr. Kilroe told me that the matter he was especially interested in from the standpoint of the District Attorney's Office was the way of getting funds, the use made of the funds, and the representations made to the public in connection with the collection and distribution of the funds. I told Mr. Kilroe that unquestionably you would be delighted to have him or any other representative of the District Attorney's Office and any accountant they chose to indicate go into the accounts of the society, examine the books and satisfy themselves as to exactly how the money had been collected and expended and what representations has been made to the public in connection therewith. I suggested to Mr. Kilroe that he make this request of you. Mr. Kilroe said that if he did it, or went up to see you himself, the newspapers would be certain to blazen it out and that things might be said that would give a "black eye" to the society, which Mr. Kilroe was most anxious to avoid, as he simply wanted to find out exactly what the facts were. I then told Mr. Kilroe that I would write you at once and that I knew you would welcome the proposition which I would make and which in this letter I hereby make. Will you write, addressing your letter to Hon. Edwin P. Kilroe, District Attorney's Office, New York County, and he will call to meet you wherever you indicate and will then arrange for having an accountant go over the accounts as above indicated. I wish to state that Mr. Kilroe showed a most self-evident desire to be considerate in every way, to aid 321-3- rather than hamper the patriotic work of the society, and merely to find out the facts that would be necessary for the District Attorney's Office in order to decide how to handle the complaints made to them. It was the greatest pleasure seeing you yesterday. Now, whenever you and Mr. Appleton and Mr. Quimby can make the arrangement I will be delighted to come in and meet at lunch or in any other way the officers and chief stand-bys of the society. Be sure to have Mr. Hornaday and James Beck. With great regard, I am, Faithfully yours, TR. jwl 2322January 3rd, 1918. My dear Mr. Hutchison: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. D. C. Hutchison, Secy., 174 Hawthorne Avenue, Yonkers, N. Y. 2323January 3rd, 1918, My dear Mr. Kamada: I am very sorry but under the terms of my contract it is not possible for me to give interviews, Sincerely yours, Mr. Keishiro Kamada, The Osaka Asahi, World Bldg., Park Row, City. [23?]24January 3, 1918. Dear Mr. King: Colonel Roosevelt asked me to send the enclosed letter to you for your information. Sincerely yours, Mr. John T. King Bridgeport, Conn. [*Broadbend [?]*] 5[*Lara*] January 3 , 1918, My dear Sir: I sympathize warmly with you. I am very much afraid however that I have no influence with the Post Office Department. I have accordingly asked one of the editors of Scribners, who is a Democrat and a friend of President Wilson, to see whether he cannot get your request granted. Faithfully yours, Mr. Javier Lara, 2025 Broadway, New York. 26January 3rd, 1918, Dear Mr. Lash: Your letter to Colonel Roosevelt under date of December 19th, has been referred to the American Defense Society for reply. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Charlies B. Lash, Sabetha, Kans. 7[*Lawrence*] January 3, 1918. My dear Sir Walter: I hesitate to ask you to come out to Oyster Bay when the weather is so uncertain. If on Saturday, February 2nd, you can come out to lunch it will be a great pleasure to see you. If this is not possible, I shall endeavor to see you when I get to New York, With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Sir Walter Lawrence, c/o G. Butler, British Pictorial Service, 511 Fifth Avenue, City. 328[*Lee*] January 3, 1918. Dear Fits: It was fine to get your Christmas card. May the Yew Year bring all happiness to you and yours, Faithfully yours, Lt. Col. Fitshugh Lee, Camp Lee, Va. 42329January 3, 1918. Dear Mr. Lenroot: That's a most interesting letter of yours. I am afraid it is absolutely impossible for me to get to Milwaukee before February 12th. Now, I will make [it] the issue war and anti-war straight; but I don't think it would be possible for me to fail in my speech also to speak for universal training. I will say however that this is a secondary matter and that the one issue on which every election in this country should be fought, if there is the slightest doubt about it, is loyalty against disloyalty - the war and anti-war issue. I look forward to seeing you in Washington. Faithfully yours, Hon. I. L. Lenroot, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 330January 3rd, 1918. Dear Mr. Loeb: Colonel Roosevelt asked me to let you know that he will leave for Washington by the night train of January 21st. He is returning by night train January 26th. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. William Leob, Jr., 120 Broadway, City. 31 January 3, 1918. Dear Mrs. Malloy: It has been brought to Colonel Roosevelt's attention that you sell autographed photographs. The photographs that Colonel Roosevelt autographed for you heretofore he supposed were for you personally for gifts. Under the circumstances, it will not be possible for him to autograph any additional photographs for you. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mrs. Anna Malloy, 154 W. Jackson Blvd. Ill. League for Justice, Chicago, Ill. 332 [*McConvey*] January 3, 1918 Dear Margaret: That's a nice letter of yours. I am very glad you bought those Liberty Bonds. With hearty good wishes, and New Years greetings. Faithfully yours, Miss Margaret McConvey, 1125 - 10th Street N.W. Washington, D.C. Richard and Edie are the dearest small persons you can imagine; I love to hold and cuddle Edie.January 3, 1918. My dear Mr. McDaniel: That's such a very nice letter of yours that pressed for time though I am, I must send you this lone of thanks and acknowledgment. Faithfully yours, Mr. Thomas E. McDaniel Bokoshe, Okla. [?]4January 3, 1918. My dear Mr. McGuire: Good for you! I am delighted at what you did. With heartiest good wishes and congratulations, Faithfully yours, Mr. J. E? McGuire, 70th Co., U.S. Marine Barracks, Paris Island, S.C. 5[*McIlhenny*] January 3, 1918. My dear John: That's mighty nice of you. I am very much pleased with the letter. May all good fortune attend you and yours. Faithfully yours, Mr. John A. McIlhenny, U.S.Civil Service Commission, Washington, D.C.January 3, 1918. Dear Mr. McIntyre: I am very sorry to have to advise you that I do not believe there is a chance in the immediate future for Colonel Roosevelt to be with you. He thinks particularly at this time it is much better for him to make the few speeches he is able to under a very general plan so in that way various organizations, societies and clubs who have been urging him to speak in their community, may all be included at the one time. Even a meeting of that kind in Buffalo would necessarily have to be at some time in the future. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. E. M. McIntyre, Pres. Lawyers Club, Buffalo, N.Y.January 3rd, 1918. My dear Mr. Millais: I thank you for your very interesting letter and I return the copies of my letters to Selous. I have gone over them and struck out a few lines, which I thought were susceptible of misunderstanding or which might hurt feelings. I am more sorry than I can say that I have been unable to find Selous' letters to me. I am sure they exist somewhere; but, in the last twenty years I have [had] received literally hundreds of thousands of letters and it is very hard for me, as I am leading a busy life without all the facilities that I would like, to take care of even my most interesting letter. I am really sorry and I will let you know at once if I do come across them. You can't imagine how pleased I am that you are undertaking this work. You will do it in fine shape. I think you know that my four sons and one son-in-law are abroad now. Three of them have been in [the] actual fighting . Faithfully yours, Mr. John G. Millais, Compton's Brow Horsham, Sussex, England. 8January 3, 1918. My dear Sir: The mass of mail and telegrams is so great that it is utterly impossible for Colonel Roosevelt to answer them as quickly as he would like. Then of course in winter it is difficult for visitors to get out to Oyster Bay and Colonel Roosevelt is only at intervals in his office in New York. If you are coming to New York Colonel Roosevelt will be very glad indeed to see you. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. L. B. Musgrove, Jasper Trust Co., Jasper, Ala 39January 3, 1918. My dear Mr. Nagle: I want to see you some time in New York. I would be glad to send you a photograph if I had one, but the demands for photographs became so heavy that long ago I had to give up trying to keep them. With hearty thanks, Faithfully yours, Mr. John W. Nagle, Duluth New Tribune, Duluth, Minn. January 3, 1918. My dear Commander Newberry: You know that I swear by good policemen. This will be presented [by] you by Officer Dennis Buckley of the Force, a man of unusual ability and fine record. He wants to get into the Naval Investigating Bureau. I earnestly hope his wish can be gratified. Faithfully yours, Commander Truman H. Newberry, 380 Broadway, City. —January 3rd, 1918. My dear Mr. Nottingham: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. William Nottingham, University of the State of New York, 541 Onondaga Co.Sav. Bank Bldg., Syracuse, N. Y. 342January 3rd, 1918. My dear Mr. O'Conner: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have became so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. John O'Conner, Genl. Chairman, 205 South State Street, Chicago, Ill. 42343January 3rd, 1918. My dear Mr. Palmer: You are one of our most faithful friends. Mrs. Roosevelt and I are touched by your constant remembrance. May the New Year be happy for you. Faithfully yours, Mr. Aulick Palmer, Washington, D. C. 344January 3rd, 1918. My dear Mr. Peterson: That's very good of you. I thank you and appreciate your courtesy. Faithfully yours, Mr. E. T. Peterson, Wichita Beacon, Wichita, Kans. 2345January 3rd, 1918. My dear Mr. Ralston: I am very pleased if I was able to be of the least assistance. Sincerely yours, Mr. W. C. Ralston Broad Exchange Bldg., New York; 346January 3, 1918. Dear Mr. Ravage: I am greatly interested in your Century article. I would like to see you some time in New York if it is convenient to you. Faithfully yours, Mr. M. E. Ravage c/o The Century co. 353 Fourth Ave., City. 347January 3, 1918. Dear Mr. Richberg: What in the world would I do without your helpful assistance? It goes without saying that Mrs. Malloy will have no more autographs. Colonel Roosevelt gladly autographs photographs when he knows where they are going, and any that you care to send in will have careful and quick attention. By the way, Colonel Roosevelt will leave here the 8th or 9th of February for a western trip. The plans are only tentative, but as his first stop will be St. Louis, then Des Moines, Milwaukee, Madison and Detroit, he will probably be going through Chicago. If he is obliged to wait over between trains, I shall let you know. Wish you many happy New Years, believe me, Sincerely Yours, Mr. Donald R. Richberg, Harris Trust Bldg., Chicago, Ill. [* He will arrive [C?]. 2/13/18 10:30 P.M. via Ca & K. W. Leave next am 905 via M. C.*] [?]48January 3rd, 1918. My dear Mr. Robertson: I shall not be in town before January 10th, but I shall be very glad to see you on that day at the Harvard Club at 4:30 P.M. Faithfully yours, Mr. John Robertson, National Service Commission, 156 Fifth Avenue, City. 9January 3, 1918. My dear Mrs. Robins: My files are not kept in this office so that I am at a little disadvantage. I am under the impression that you are expecting Colonel Roosevelt to lunch with you on January 9th. That is the noon of the day he will speak at Miss Peirce's School. Will you be good enough to let me know whether or not I am correct in this matter? Very truly yours, Secretary. Mrs. Thomas Robins, 1719 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pa. [?]50[*Scarborough*] January 3rd, 1918. My dear Mr. President: That's one of the very nicest letters I have received, I thank you and greatly appreciate your courtesy, Wishing you many happy Yew Years, believe me Faithfully yours, Pres. W. S. Scarborough, Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio. [?]51January 3, 1918. My dear Mr. Schwab: Colonel Roosevelt would be very glad if you could lunch with him at the Langdon Hotel, Fifth Avenue and 56th Street, January 10th at 1:30 P.M. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Charles M. Schwab, 111 Broadway, New York. 352January 3rd, 1918. Gentlemen: The enclosed was received in Colonel Roosevelt’s mail. I send it to you for attention. Sincerely yours, Secretary Secret Service Commission, Custom House, New York City. 2353January 3, 1918. My dear Mr. Shuster: That's entirely satisfactory, excepting that I would like you yourself to keep an eye on the production and see that it is in the form you approve. Faithfully yours, Mr. W. Morgan Shuster, The Century Co., 353 Fourth Avenue, City. 42354January 3, 1918. My dear Mr. Spooner: Unless the weather forbids I will be there for the noon meeting, but in winter you must always be prepared for delayed trains. Sincerely yours, Mr. Willet M. Spooner, Pabst Bldg. Milwaukee, Wis. 55January 3rd, 1918. My dear Captain Stead: I very genuinely appreciate your Christmas greetings. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Captain Frank Stead, Canadian Expeditionary Force, France. 2356January 3, 1918. Dear Mr. Stokes: That's very good of you. I thank you and appreciate your courtesy. Faithfully yours, Mr. W. E. D. Stokes 262 West 72nd Street, City. 2357January 3, 1918, My dear Mr. Stout: I am awfully pleased with that editorial you sent me and also with your previous editorial of December 26th. I do wish I could see you and talk over many things. Your letter just received was very pleasant reading! By the way, the “young Major" in my New Year's piece was my son Ted; General Duncan sent me the clipping, and told me that Ted was the Major in question. Faithfully yours, Mr. Ralph Stout, Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Mo. 358January 3, 1918. My dear Mr. Sully: I greatly wish I could be of assistance to you but I have made it an invariable rule, under no circumstances to write anything about anyone unless I knew them personally and could speak from personal knowledge, Why don't you yourself write? I think that is the way to go about it. Faithfully yours, Mr. Wilberforce Sully, 375 Park Avenue, City. 2359January 3rd, 1918. My dear Mr. Taylor: That's such a very nice letter of yours that pressed for time though I am, I must send you this line of thanks and acknowledgment. Faithfully yours, Mr. I. M. Taylor, Jr., 31 Stone Avenue, Ossining, N. Y. 360January 3, 1918. My dear Mr. and Mrs. Tucker: That's mighty nice, and I very much appreciate the volume. Wishing you many happy New Years, Faithfully yours, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Tucker, Columbus Jct., Iowa. 55638[*Vesniky*] January 3, 1918. My dear Sir: Are you to be in New York on the 10th, 11th, or 12th of this month? It would be a real pleasure to see you. I hope to be in Washington from the 2lst to the 28th. Looking forward to meeting you, Faithfully yours, Mr. Mil R. Vesniky Serbian War Mission to the U.S. Shoreham Hotel Washington, D. C. 2361January 3, 1918. Dear Mrs. Villar; Colonel Roosevelt directs me to thank you for your courtesy in letting him see you song. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mrs. Victor A. Villar, 550 W. 184th Street, New York. 2362[*Warner*] January 3rd, 1918. My dear Sir: I thank you for your very courteous invitation. It is not possible for me to make any additional engagements to those I have already made. Unfortunately I am not able to accept one in fifty of the invitations I receive. Thank you for your courtesy, I am Very sincerely yours, Mr. Mason Warner, c/o W.L. Maclaskey, 520 - 139 W. Clark Street Chicago, Ill. 363January 3rd, 1918. Dear Mr. West: I enclose for your information a schedule covering Colonel Roosevelt's western trip. He thinks that this is a fairly safe program. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Henry L. West, National Security League, 31 Pine Street, City. 2364January 3, 1918. My dear Mr. White: That's very kind of you. I look reading the poems with genuine pleasure forward to receiving the book. With New Years greetings and all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Mr. James T. White, Natl.Cyclopedia of American Biography, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York. January 3rd, 1918. My dear Dr. Woelfkin: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy, that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am Faithfully yours, Rev. Cornelius Woelfkin, 5th Avenue Ae Baptist Church, New York. 2366[*Bunn*] January 4th, 1918. Dear Paul: Many happy New Years to you, Paul. It has been decided that I shall speak in St. Louis on February 9th. Faithfully yours, Mr. Paul V. Bunn, St. Louis Chamber of Commerce, St. Louis, Mo. 4986 January 4, 1918, My dear Mr. and Mrs. Deming: I very genuinely appreciate your Christmas greetings. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin W. Deming, 2821 - 13th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 2367January 4, 1918. Mr. dear Mr. and Mrs. Mitchel: I very genuinely appreciate your New Year greetings. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Mr. and Mrs. John Purroy Mitchel, New York City. 368January 4th, 1918. My dear Mr. Moffert: In response to your request of the 3rd, I am enclosing herewith copy of Colonel Roosevelt's speech. He is not in town today and I shall not get back from Oyster Bay until very late tomorrow night - probably too late to send you any communication. But it is my impression that Colonel Roosevelt expects to leave Philadelphia at about 10 o'clock in the evening for New York. He will leave New York at 10 or 11 o'clock in the morning of that day and will be met by Mr. Thomas Robins. He will lunch with Mr. and Mrs. Robins and spend the afternoon with them. I shall pass your letter to Colonel Roosevelt tomorrow for his information. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. L. D. Moffert, Director, Peirce School, Pine Street, West of Broad, Philadelphia, Pa. 42369January 4, 1918. My dear Mr. Relf: I very genuinely appreciate your Christmas greetings. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Mr. Cammack D. Relf, Woodward Bldg., Washington, D.C. 42370[*Police Dept.*] January 5, 1918. Gentlemen: I very genuinely appreciate your New Years greetings. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Department of Police, Bridgeport, Conn. 2371January 5, 1918. My dear Dr. Nesbit; I very genuinely appreciate your [?] greetings. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Dr. Edwin Lightner Nesbit, Greensburg, Pa. 2372