QUENTIN ROOSEVELT

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 16, 18 July 1918, Page 7

QUENTIN ROOSEVELT

KILLED IN FRANCE.

(AtSTIIALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLB ASSOCIATION.) (Received July 18, 8.30 a.m.) PARIS, 17th July. Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt was killed in the fighting in France.

"Quentin, the youngest son of Theodore Roosevelt, ex-Presiclent of U.S.A., 19 years.old, ' was," says. Lawrence P. Abbott in Munsey's Magazine for December, 1917, "just completing his sophomore year at Harvard, when this country declared war on Germany. He telegraphed his mother that he wa6 leaving college to come to New York to enlist. He came on from Boston and enlisted as a private in the Signal Corps, was later transferred to the aviation service at Mineola, and proved so efficient that he was selected as one of the first twelve American aviators to go to the front in France. He has what is known as "air sense"—for the aviator, like the poet, -is born, not made, and the work of th© aviation schools is to train and cultivate the born flier. During a recent visit at Sagamore Hill I asked Qnentin's father and mother if they did. not feel it a special hardship in his case that at so early an age he should have to give up his education and many of his associations at Harvard, which he could never renew, even if the war leaves him unscathed. They both, replied that they *ero particularly glad that on his own initiative he had taken exactly the course which has put him in one of the most exacting and dangerous branches of the service. 'I would not have stopped him if I could,' added Mr. Roosevelt, 'and I could not have stopped him if 1, would. Moreover, the more American 'boys of from 19 to 21 join the Army the better it is for the country. To take them out of our civil life entails the smallest economic loss upon the ■country, and because of their elasticity and great powers of recuperation they are its greatest military asset.' "