ROOSEVELT 



ROOSEVELT 



Rookwood pottery was fired. The present in- 

 stitution is the successful outgrowth of those 

 days of doubt and many obstacles. Most of 

 the clays used are found in the Ohio Valley, 

 notably at Buena Vista and Hanging Rock, 

 Ohio, and in T< aid Virginia. These 



clays, when combined with artificial tints, pro- 

 duce the beautiful sea-iireen ton.- that char- 

 acterize most of the Rookwood pottery of re- 

 cent manufacture. 



The products arc divided into three cla 

 cameo ware, tho dull-finished ware which is ap- 

 parently unpluzod. and the richly-glazed ware. 



With the exception of the primitive potter's 

 wheel, practically no machinery is employed, 

 since every effort is expended to produce origi- 

 nal designs which cannot be duplicated by ma- 

 chinery. From the mixing of the clay to the 

 withdrawal of the completed piece from the 

 kiln, the ware passes through the hands of 

 about twenty-five operators. Almost all the 

 employees of the institution are Americans. 

 Mrs. Storer's original plans have been faithfully 

 followed, and Rookwood pottery has won a dis- 

 tinctive place in the ceramic arts of the twen- 

 tieth century. See POTTERY. R.D.M. 



Ehe Roos^elt^Horne 



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RY OF THEODORE 



^OOSEVELT, ro'zehvelt, THEODORE 

 (1858-1919), the twenty-sixth President of the 

 United States, a unique figure in his generation, 

 without doubt the most versatile man who has 

 ever influenced American public life. An eager 

 for knowledge of all kinds, Roosevelt 

 won distinction in many fields. Not merely 

 must he be called a statesman, but he was 

 always a reformer, and he was also a naturalist, 

 a man of letters, a hunter and a sportsman. He 

 stood in American thought as the representa- 

 tive of many of the great advances which his 

 rion has made, and to an extraordinary 

 degree his personality impressed itself on tho 

 American people. He was an advocate of a 

 busy life, the "strenuous life," it has been 

 called. "Speak softly and carry a big stick" is 

 a motto which will always be associated with 

 him, just as conservation and opposition to 

 race suicide and to nature faking will be. 



As a man of letters he took high rank for 

 the excellence both of style and content. As a 

 statesman he is too close to the men who want 

 to judge him to receive fair treatment. First 



of all, he knew how to handle men he was a 

 very clever politician. But he was also a states- 

 man, for he had vision, and the courage to 

 make the visions real. John Morley, the Eng- 

 lish writer and statesman, returning to England 

 after a visit to America, said that he saw two 

 tremendous forces of nature while he was gone : 

 "One was Niagara Falls, and the other the 

 President of the United States, and I am not 

 sure which is the more wonderful." 



Roosevelt was essentially a man who did things, 

 a man to whom the term dynamic was justly 

 applied. Take him all in all, he was without 

 doubt the most interesting political figure of his 

 1 ime. in the world. 



Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York 

 City on October 27, 1858. He was descended, on 

 his father's side, from a sturdy family of Dutch 

 burghers, one of whom emigrated from Hol- 

 land to New Amsterdam about 1650. For a 

 century the Roosevelts (originally Van Rosen- 

 velt) contracted no marriages outside their own 

 nationality, and not until after the Revolution- 

 ary War did they begin to use English names 



