The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 13, 1903, Page 2

Pleasing Words Spoken at Stanford. Prominent Men in the Uni- versity. el o njoyable Trip Northward to City. at the roducing a friend R many the FOR GRAND ARMY. spok ws n these build- does mot turn out A the right kind pore than dissp- CLCSE FRIEND OF JORDAN. e word personaily. Pres en kind enough to allude to nd Jordan is too modest as long been not only & friend whom 1 have turned for advice d since 1 became President lad tc the chance of to him, and 1 sk you to strive nip, toward product- ise the president of the le. Of course, in any me of learning, even production of scholar- of citizenship. That is ng that institution There is a great pro- of students Who can- in after life, to lead a but no university can at the pro- ing a certain scholars. Not the barren ship, men an_ absolutely new only in the like that alrcady nment. Being new, to ook for a substar part of your people mean the self-cons which ut 1 mean that those among you whose s toward scholarship as a career, if those » mind the fact that such scholarship oductive, and should therefore aim the world some addition to the orid’s stock of what is useful or beautiful, if you work simply and naturally, taking antage of your surroundings as you find al achlevement long new lines. 1 ous striving after s only 100 apt to breed eccen- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1903, CHIEF EXECUTIVE WALKING ABOUT THE PRETTY GROUNDS AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY. OUTSIDE AS PRESID FipreA ENTERED. ___ g ) | 1 | | | + \ + mark will be llectual achieve- IES OF LOCATION. ed in its 1 appropr with American- situated by a which est to fresh, st tward where the Occi the Orient, a race whose membe vigorous, Witk the boundle silities of the future, brought to the very doors in a senst that cannot be possible for the members of the race situated further east—surely there will be some great outcome in the way not merely of physical ¢ mornl and intelicetual work worth dot ould think but fll of you if you developed along the lines of the prig, and 1 what I have read about California is true, 1t the present proper des hletic sport con- tinues to develop, you are saved from that dan- ger. (Applause.) T do not want you to turn out prige. I do not want you to turn out the self-oonscious. 1 believe with all my heart in play. I want you to play hard without en- croaching on your work. I do nevertheless think you ought to have at least the consclous- ness of the eerious side of what all this means, and of the necessity of effort thrust upon you, 0 that you may justify by your deeds in thé future your trafning and the extraordinary ad- vantages under which that training has been obtained. America, the republic of the United States, is of course in a peculiar sense typical of the present age. We represent the fullest develcp- ment of the democratic epirit joined to the ex- traordinary and higl complex industrial growth of the last half century. It behooves us to justify by our acts the claims made for that poiltical and economic progress. We wiil never justify the existence of the republic by merely talking about what the republic has done each Fourth of July. our homage is lip loyaity merely, the great deeds of those who went before us, the great deeds of the times of Washington ‘and of the times of Lincoln, the great deeds of the men who won the revo- lution and founded the nation, and of the men who preserved it, who made it a Unfon and a free republic—thése great deeds will simply rise to shame us. We can honor our fathers and our fathers' fathers only by ourselves striy- ing to rise level to thelr standard. There are plenty of tendencies for evil in what we see around us. Thank heaven, there are an even greater number of tendencles for good, and one of the things, Mr. Jordan, which it seems to me gives this nation cause for hope is the na- tional standard of ambition which makes it possible to recognize with admiration and re- gard such work as the founding of a university of this character. COMMENDS FOUNDERS. It speaks well for our nation that men and women should desire during their lives to de- vote the fortunes which they are able to ac. quire or to inherit because of our system of Eovernment, because of our -aocial system, 10 objects 50 entirely worthy and so entirely ad- mirable as the foundation of a great seat of s here, pos: learning such as this. (Applause.) All that we outsiders can do is to pay our tribute of respect to the d nd to the living who e done much good, and at least to make It evident that we appreciate to the full what has been do: 1 have spoken of scholarship back to the question of citizenship, the tion affecting not merely the sc s you, not merely se Who are lead lives devoted to science, to duetivity in_literature. And’ ju one word—\When you take up science liternture, remember that one fir: work is better than one thous bits of work (applause); that as on, the man or the-woman who T to make a masterpiece with the pen, tha brush. the pencil, in any way, that that man, that woman, has rendered a service to the coun- try such as not all ‘his or her compeers who merely do fairly good second rate work can ever accomplish. But only a limited num- ber of you, only a limited number of us, can ever become scholars or work successfully along the lines I have spoken of, but we can all be good citizens. We can ail lead a life of action, a life of endeavor, a life that fs to be jud primarily by the effort, somewhat by ‘the result, along the lines of helping the growth of what is right and decent and gen- erous and lofty In our several communities in the state, in the nation And you men and women, you have had the advant of college ~training, are not to be excused If you fail to do not as well as, but if you fail to do more than the average man outside Who has not had your advantages. (Applause.) Every now and then I meet (at least I meet him in the East, and 1 dare say he is to be found here), the man who, having gone through coilege_feels that scmehow that confers upon him a special dis- tinction which relieves him from the necessity of showing himself as g0od as hia_fellows. (Applause.) 1 see you recognize the type. Trat man is not only a cu to the com- munity, and incidentally to himself, but he is a curse to the cause of academic education, the college and university training, becauss by his insistence he serves as an_excuse for those who would like to denounce such educa- tion. Your education. your training, will not confer on you one privilege in the way of ex- cusing you from effort or from work. All it can do, and what it should do, is to make you a little better fitted for such effort, for such work; and I do not care whether that is in business, politics In no matter what branch of endeavor, all it can do is by the training you have received. by the advantages you have recefved, to fit you to do a little better than the average man that you meet. It Is incumbent upon you to show that the train- ing has had that effect. It ought to enable you to do a little better for yourselves, and if you haye in you souls capable of a thrill of gen- crous emotion, souls capable of unAerstand- ing what you owe to your training, to your alma mater, to the past and the présent that have gvien You all that you have—if you have such souls, ‘it ought to make you doubly bent upon disinterested work for the state and the nation. (Applause.) Such work can be done along many different lines. 1 want to go ques among eafter to me say rt and oliis Moot I want to-day here in California to make a special appeal to all of you and to California as a whole for work along a certaln line—the line of preserving your great natural advant- ages allke from the standpoint of use and from the standpoint of beauty. If the stu- dents of this institution have not by the mere fact of their surroundings learned to appre- clate beauty, then the fault is In you and not in the surroundings. Here in California i have some of the great wonders of the world. You have a singularly beautiful landscape, sin. gularly beautiful and singularly majestic scene and it should certainly be your aim 10 try to preserve for those who are to come after you that beauty; to try to keep un- marred that majesty. 'Closely entwined with keeping unmarred the beauty of your scenery, of your great natural _attractions, is the question of making use of, not for the moment merely, but for future time, of your great na ural products. Yesterday I saw for the fi time & grove of your great trees, a grove which it has taken the ages several thousands of years to build up; and 1 feel most emphati- cally that we should not turn a tree which was old when the first Egyptlan conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates, which it has taken so many ousands of years to build up, and which can be put to better use, into shingles. .Applause.) That, you may say, I8 not looking at the matter from the practical standpoint. There is noth- ing more practical in the end than the preser- vation of beauty, than the preservation of any- thing that appeals to the higher emotions in mankind. But, furthermore, 1 appeal to you from the standpoint of use. A few big trees of unusual size and beauty should be pre- served for their own sake, but the forests as a whole should be used for business purposes, only they should be used in a way that wili preserve them as permanent sources of na- tional wealth. In many parts of California the whole fu- ture welfare of the State depends upon the way in which you are able to use your water supply; and the preservation of the forests and the preservation of the use of the water are inseparably connected. PLEA FOR THE HOMEMAKER. 1 believe we are past the stage of national existence when we could look on complacently at the individual who skinned the land and was perfectly content for the sake of three years' profit for himself to leave’ a desert for the children of those who were to inherit the soll. 1 think we have passed that stage. We should handle, and I think we now do handle, all problems such as those of forestry and of the preservation and use of our waters from the standpoint of the permanent Interests of the home maker In any region—the man who comes in not to take what he can out of the sofl and leave, having exploited the country, but who comes to dwell therein, to bring up his children and to leave them their heritage’ in the country, not merely unimpalired, but if possible even improved. That is the sensible view of civic obligation, and the poliey of the State and of the nation should be shaped in that direction. It should. be shaped in the in- terest of the home maker, the actual resident, the man who is not only to be benefited him- self, but whose children and children's chil- dren are to be benefited by what he has done. California has for years, I am happy to = taken a more sensible, a more intelligent in- terest in forest preservation than any other State. 1t early appointed a forest commission; later on some of the functiins of that com- mission were replaced by the Sierra Club, & club which has done much on the Pacific Coast to perpetuate the spirit of the expiorer the pioneer. Then, I am happy to say, & great business interest shov. n_inteiligent and far-sighted spirit which is of happy ury, for the redwood manufacturers o Francisco were first among lumbermen sociations to give assistance to the c practical forestry. The study of the red- wood, which tha actfon of this assoctation made possible, was the pioneer study in the co-operative work which is now being carried on between lumbermen all over the United States and the Federal Bureau of F A All of this kind of work Is pecullarly the kind of work in which we have a right to expect not merely hearty co-operation from, but lead- ership in, college men trained in the universi- ties of this Pacific Coast State. (Applause.) For the forests of the State stand alone in the world. There are none others like them uny- wehre. There are no other trees anywhere like the glant Sequotas; nowhere else is there a more beautiful forest than that which clothes the western slope of the Slerra. CALAVERAS GROVE NOT SAFE. Very early your forests attracted lumbermen from other States, and by the course of tim- ber land investments spme of the best of the big tree groves were thréatened with destruction. I am sorry to say destruction came upon some of them, but T am happy to say that the women of California rose |to the emergency through the California Club, and later the Sempervirens Club took vigorous action, but the Calaveras grove is not yet safe, and there should be no rest until that safety is secured, by the action of private individuals, by the action of the State or by the action of the na- tion. The interest of California in forest pro- tection was shown even more effectively by the purchase of the Big Basin Redwood Park, a superb forest property, the possession of ‘which should be a source of just pride to all citizens jealous of California’s good name. I appeal to you, as 1 say, to protect these mighty trees, thege wonderful monuments of beauty. I appeal to you to protect them for the sake of their beauty, but I also make the appeal just as strongly on economic grounds, for 1 am well aware that in dealing with such questions a far-sighted economic policy muet bé that to which alone in the long run one can safely appeal. The interests of California in forests depend directly, of course, upon the handling of her wood and water supplies and the supply of material from the lumber woods and the production of agricultural products on irrigated farms. The great valleys which stretch through the State between the Sierra Nevada and the Coast Ranges must owe their future development, as they owe their present Roosevelt Gives Mortgage to Fire. Ceremony Held @t Y. MoC. A Building. Members Listen to a Strong Address. MMEDIATELY after the review on Ness avenue President Ro tened to Young Me Assoclatio part in the belated h a ian take tory ucture, had tion exercises were in clattering h the rumbling wh heard in Mason filled with husiasm, thousands, the we street, held in check greete e advent of the executive at this place more renewed the had marked the pas through Market and or more earlfer. In his honor cation tl side of the Young M clation building American flags. over the ma tributed in ence room of the a clat main hall of the assoc from the ceiling of th up »erles of hall we varying sizes and stage hung a very large Ar 8o the decoration scheme to tensely patriotic char: phasized by the playing Spangled Banner” by ti orchestra, led by C. E ident Roosevelt entered th building with Mayor Schmitz, Young, Rolla V. Watt, Young Men's Christian the members of the Y. M. « committee ROOSEVELT ENTERS. This committee consisted of Dr. Hart- land Law, C. W. Pike, C. 8. Wright, C. B. Perkins, John F. Merrill, the Rev. W. M. White, Mrs. John F. Merrill, Edward Coleman, the Rev. Willlam Rader, the Rev. F. M. Larkin, Mrs. George W. Gibbs, Robert Bruce, J. Truman, Wil- llam H. Crocker, Mrs. B. C. Wright, Mrs. W. H. Crocker, H. J. McCoy and Rolla V. Watt. First, President Roosevelt went through the Y. M. C. A. office to the gym- nasium, where several hundreds of young men and women, who exemp the “stren- uous life”” by the systematic practice of Young Men's Christian Association gym- nastics and who proved to have good lung power and enthusiasm, were w. g for a chance to see the nation's chief. Then the Presidential party passed into the hall by the rear way, first being seen by the large audience when they emerged from an anteroom to the stage. Exery one in the audience room knew that the President was near. The cries and cheers in the street had given notice of this significant fact, so hundreds of soberly dressed Christian men and wom- en were on nervous tension which now manifested itself in cheers. The entire audience stood and waved flags. From main floor and in the long galleries rose the din of uproarious cheering, al- most drowning out the music of “The Star Spangled Banner,” upon which the orchestra, with commendable vigor, was working. “Three cheers for our President,” shouted one enthusiast in the gallery. The cheers were given lustily. “Three cheers for our next President,” then rejoined a young Christian on the floor of the hall, and more cheers came from theglungs and hearts of President Roosevelt's California fellow-countrymen. 'And he'll be the next President!” shouted another of the throng. FLAGS ARE WAVED. All the time the hundreds of flags car- ried by those In the house, an easy ma- jority of whom were women, were vigor- ously waved. While the strains of the national anthem «ontimued to sound the President and his party stood in the cen- ter of the stage. The President was smil- ing and pleased. The audience was en- thusiastic and overjoyed. President Rolla V. Watt of the Y. M. C. A., when the din of orchestra and of applause was stilled, made a neat little speech preliminary to the introduction of President Roosevelt. The introduction was unnecessary except as a matter of form. for every one In the house recog- nized the national chief executive and had, in fact, already shouted to the edge of hoarseness in his honor. But now, in the hush President Rolla V. Watt was heard to say in substance that President Roosevelt was the embodiment of those aims for which the Young Men's Chris- tion Association stands. ‘“He's all right!" shouted a muscular Christian in the front of the house as President Roosevelt, at the suggestion of Secretary H. J. McCoy, now proceeded to perform the crowning ceremony or the proceedings. This was the incineration of the notes for more than $115000 which had been evidence of the indebtedness of the assaciation on account of the eree- tion of the association building. Such in- debtedness now being paid, thé notes were to be destroyved. ‘Who couid perform the act of incinera- tion more notably than the President of the United States? Who could more dis- tinguish the proceedings by such partici- pation in exercises denoting that the bullding was indeed ready to be dedicated to the glory of God and the promotion of robust Christianity? The full signifi- cance of the event was instantly per- little a progress when the rt a by police, nation’s Thous: and entire f were de Festoone entr; the hall offi red, whit re and blue; wi of t r the Ags nation back preside Continued on Page 4, Column 2. 7, Column 3.