Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1918 — NEED KNOCKOUT SAYS ROOSEVELT [ARTICLE]

NEED KNOCKOUT SAYS ROOSEVELT

Detroit, May 30. —“America does rU>t want to win this war on points; we want a knockout.” In these world Col. Theodore Roosevelt, making a Memorial! Day address here tonight in behalf of the navy, summarized his conception of this country’s war aims. “If we don’t carry it through now,” he declared, “we will be forced to fight it out here later and without allies.” . Col. Roosevelt’s address culminated a strenuous day in which he reviewed two parades'and partcipated in exercises to the memory of Detroit’s army and navy dead. Col. Roosevelt repeated his previous declaration that there must be only one language, “and that the language of the declaration of independence.”