THE MUSEOLOGIST 



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\()\\\\\\v 2 .Jaiiuarv, 1921 Xumber 1 



The sayings of Theodore Roosevelt are frequenth' quoted, 

 and many of them have become well established in the Amei'i- 

 can household, but one of his utterances, which seems just 

 now especially worth recalling, has lain quiet for a long- time. 

 It is his definition of the kind of man who should hold public 

 oflfice : 



''The man who counts is the man who is decent, and who 

 makes himself felt as a force for decency, for cleanliness, for 

 civic righteousness. 



"First he must be honest. 



"In the next place he must have courage; the timid man 

 counts but little in the rough business of trying to do well 

 the world's work. 



"In addition, he must have common sense. If he does 

 not have it, no matter what other qualities he may have, he 

 will find himself at the mercy of those who, without possessing 

 his desire to do right, know only too well how to make the 

 wrong effective." 



Those of us who have lately exercised the greatest of oui- 

 rights as American freemen — the right of suffrage — are 

 responsible for the election of a new Administration, both 

 Federal and State. It is to be hoped that the men whom we 

 have chosen to represent us will display in fail- measure the 



