To Porto Rico, Roosevelt

To Porto Rico, Roosevelt

. . . Whatever

The place

That the wild

Beasts race

The Roosevelts, too,

Will play.

So parodied a rhymster four years ago when A. A. Milne's When We Were Very Young was new and Theodore Roosevelt Jr., having failed to become Governor of New York, had set off for the wild Pamir region of Asia to hunt Marco Polo's lost sheep (Ovis poli) for Chicago's Field Museum. Last week Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was again playing, in an Indo-Chinese place where the wild beasts race, when he succeeded at last in becoming a Governor --of Porto Rico--by appointment of President Hoover.

Out of the wilderness Kermit Roosevelt arrived at Shanghai and announced--lest there be some doubt about it--that his brother would surely accept.

Pleased at the appointment of her 41-year-old brother was Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of the Speaker of the House, who was generally credited with bringing it to pass.

Porto Ricans, elated at getting a President's son to govern them, waited anxiously for him to get through hunting and help them obtain the full measure of cash (six millions) voted them by Congress but not yet paid out, as relief after last autumn's hurricane.