1. Give a full report of Roosevelt's life and
activities--political, literary, personal. Try to
describe the kind of man you think he was.

2. Find in this section of your Reader expressions
similar to lines 10-13, page 355.

3. What qualities does Roosevelt say we must
display if our country is to survive? Why does he
speak of our form of government as an experiment?

THE MEANING OF AMERICANISM

BY CHARLES EVANS HUGHES

Charles Evans Hughes (1862- ) has had a conspicuous
political career. He has been successively governor
of New York for two terms, a justice of the Supreme
Court; Republican nominee for the Presidency; and
Secretary of State.

At the time of the delivery of this speech Europe
was in the throes of the World War. America was
soon to join forces with the Allies against
Germany. This extract from Mr. Hughes's speech
should be read with the spirit of portending war in
mind. But the four-square interpretation of
Americanism that is herein set forth holds to-day
with as much force as in 1916. Read the selection
especially to get the notion of an ideal America
and the ideal citizen.

We want something more than thrills in our patriotism--we
want thought; we want intelligence--a
new birth of the sentiment of unity in the nation.

My dream of America is America represented in public
office by its best men working entirely for the good of the 5
Republic and according to the laws and ordinances established
by the people for the government of their conduct,
and not for personal or political desires and ambitions;
America working her institutions as they were intended to
be worked, with men whose sole object shall be to secure 10
the end for which the offices were designed.

And if one will throw his personal fortunes to the winds,
if he will perform in each place, high or low, the manifest
obligations of that place, we will soon have those victories
of democracy which will make the Fourth of July in its 15
coming years a far finer and nobler day than it has ever
been in the fortunate years of the past.

When we are thinking of the ideals of democracy, we
are thinking of the schools, and we deplore every condition
in which