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invited all the nations of the world to meet at The Hague to confer on the 

 natural resources of the entire globe. Although this last project lapsed 

 when Roosevelt left the presidency, the effects of his efforts were far-reach- 

 ing. Some day this conference will come and it will be guided by the spirit 

 of Roosevelt. This greatest of conservationists, this man of the Square 

 Deal, has recorded in his own writing that from the beginning to the con- 

 summation of his conservation work, his inspiration and guide was the man 

 imbued with the conservation idea, Gifford Pinchot. His magnanimity 

 makes his enduring fame more brilliant. 



It is fitting that the people of the country Roosevelt loved so well and 

 did so much for should name their great forest of giant trees after him. It 

 is indeed fitting that the people of Cook County should name its forest 

 preserve after him, as has been suggested, and that in it should be erected a 

 monument visualizing the man and his deeds. As time rolls on and on and 

 the store of natural resources becomes less and less, conservation will 

 become more and more vital to the human race. In depicting his works let 

 us not forget that historians of all the future will record that Theodore 

 Roosevelt, American, inspired and inaugurated on a vast scale a world 

 movement for staying waste and for saving those things of earth, of sea 

 and of sky upon which depend absolutely the permanence, well-being and 

 happiness of man. 



Roy M. Langdon. 



Roosevelt Memorial Fountain 



A Call to the Nature-Lovers of America 



The great spirit of Theodore Roosevelt, an inspiration 

 to naturalists, bird-lovers, conservationists and sports- 

 men, today rests upon the nation like a mighty benedic- 

 tion. Men of the open loved him and the faces about his 

 campfire, whether black or yellow, white or copper, bent 

 their gaze upon him with that respect and affection which 

 men of towering nobility have ever inspired. 



He was a scientific collector of birds in his youth and 

 in manhood sought the fiercest animals of the jungle and 

 brought his trophies to museums where the public might 

 look upon them and learn. As President he established 

 the principle of government bird-reservations, and created 

 thirty-eight of these national wild-life sanctuaries. He 

 awoke the nation to the need of saving its forests and 

 other natural resources. 



He taught and practiced clean, straight sportsmanship 

 with a power that has caused thousands of men afield to 

 walk in straighter paths. 



He discussed questions understandingly with our great- 

 est technical naturalists and at the same time was presi- 

 dent of the Long Island Bird Club that feeds the wild 

 birds in winter and teaches little children to love them. 



The man or woman who is wedded to the open knows 

 these facts and many others. It is because of this knowl- 

 edge and of a desire to give some tangible expression 

 of esteem in which his memory is held that the plan has 

 been formed to erect at some appropriate spot a memorial 

 that speaks of the wild bird-life in which he was so 

 deeply interested. 



