"Distant Cousin"

Today, a fortnightly published at Sydney, Australia, last March carried an article entitled "Roosevelt II of U. S. A.?" Excerpts: "Franklin D. Roosevelt . . . has become America's most prominent figure. Statesmanship is in his blood. Theodore ['Teddy'] Roosevelt was his uncle. . . . On social questions he inclines to the left. . . . The most likely Republican nominee for Vice-President is Nicholas Roosevelt, who, as Governor of Costa Rica in the Caribbean, has been bringing the blessings of American civilisation to that negroid dependency of the U. S. A. Nicholas is Teddy's son."* Last May the Sao Paulo, Brazil, Diario National, reporting Franklin Roosevelt's progress towards the nomination, ran an old-fashioned linecut of the late great T. R. Such ignorance in far lands is not surprising but, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt's managers well appreciate, such ignorance is not confined to far lands. Last fortnight one Chester Burger, 11, of Brooklyn, N. Y. wrote to Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow of the 26th President of the U. S., requesting her autograph, praising "your cousin," the Democratic presidential nominee. Replied the Widow Roosevelt: "Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a distant [fifth] cousin of my husband. I am a Republican and voting for Herbert Hoover." Last week Widow Roosevelt at her summer home in Brooklyn, Conn, revealed that some 300 U. S. persons had written to congratulate her on her husband's presidential renomination. "I'm growing weary of it," she sighed.

*NichoIas Roosevelt is a second cousin of Theodore Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., then Governor of Puerto Rico, was faintly "mentioned" for the vice-presidential nomination.

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