DETROIT, May 23, 1927 (UP) -- The pioneer spirit of the late President Theodore Roosevelt laid the groundwork for Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh's daring dash across the Atlantic, his mother, Mrs. Evangeline L. Lindbergh believes.
"One of the most treasured messages yesterday," Mrs. Lindbergh told the United Press, "came from young Teddy. It brought to my mind the memory of the original Teddy and I felt like crying with joy.
"What a thrill it would have been to Charlie to have been able to receive praise from Theodore Sr.! There was his man's man!"
Mrs. Lindbergh explained that she and her husband first moved to Washington in 1907. Charlie was only five years old. They remained in Washington until 1917 and the boy was not long in catching what she called the "Roosevelt spirit."
Almost as soon as Charlie was able to venture out alone, he began "expeditions" in the woods of Minnesota on his father's farm during summers. With only a dog for a companion, the boy explored for miles around.
He built a boat and sailed back and forth along his "river."
The future aviator's favorite game when young, his mother said, was playing soldier, garbed as a "rough rider."
"I am not sure that he would like this to be known now, though," she interposed.
As soon as Lindbergh had grown old enough to ride, he was in the saddle. By the time he was 12 he had begun 'broncho-bustin' much to his mother's worry.
"My husband had the greatest admiration for Roosevelt," Mrs. Lindbergh said. "Teddy was his model.
"Naturally, Charlie took to the same idol, only in a more revered way."
Lindbergh's first treasured trophy was a pistol won at the R.O.T.C. when he competed with the crack shots of the University of Wisconsin. It was about the only big interest he had in the university life and that about completed his war dreams, for then he began to feel the "call of the air."
Mrs. Lindbergh declared this morning, as she reported to the Cass Technical High School and took charge of her chemistry class that she had enjoyed her best night's rest since Friday.
The little lines that showed in her face Saturday and Sunday were all replaced with smiles.
"Five weeks isn't long," she said referring to the time for school's letting out, "when you're as busy as I will be. But I guess it is a little longer when you're waiting for a Charlie to come home."
Lindbergh called his mother by telephone immediately after rising yesterday, but the connection was not good and she could not hear him.
The telephone operator relayed his message of assurance, Mrs. Lindbergh said.
