The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-05-30
COLONEL TARGET
I. FOR OPEN BLADE
DURING PARADE
Missile Strikes Car and For.
mer President Escapes
Uninlured.
DANGER OF MORE WARS
SOUNDED IN ADDRESS
Speech Pleads for Universal
Service 10 Guard Country
From Attack.

KANSAS CITY. May 3O-An open
knife was thrown a. Colonel Roosevelt
here Tuesday afternoon A his motor
csr turned into Twenty-third street dur
Ing Memorial day parade. The knife
struck the rear Of the automobile and
Vas found hter In the street
The knife came from somewhere IN
the crowd and plain lothes men were
unable to nnt VITO hurled the missile.
No AIRES, Is Made.
Colonel Roosevelt was standing. bow
INK In his motor car when the Incl
dent occurred 4 - Shell member of
the American Legion. was walking ny
the sidc of tho car. part Of the es-
uor Suddenly shell heard something
strike the machine Ne glanced downward
and saw an open pocketknite AT his feet.
shell picked up the knife and handed
II 10 a policeman. The officer looked into
the crowd. hut II was - dense he mads
no effort to make an arrest
Thrown By rau Man.
= think the knife was thrown by Q
tall man wearing brown suit ana
straw hsi. whom | saw In the crowd
when turned around said Shell
| Colonel Roosevelt was not told ~ the
incident
Give, Message 20 Americans
Colonel Roosevelt Wss m" principal
speaker ~ the Memorial day celebration
here His address "a Message to An
Americans" was delivered before civil
war veterans
Those who assert that there ls no
danger ~ the United states being at
,scked are either ignorant or forsetful
~ the examples which show how inter-
national conflicts arise" Mr. Roosevelt
said
Mus, Resent Apore,slons
IT is nkeN." tho colonel aih. ~ W,
90. not strong enough to maintain our
rights Including the Mouto" doctrine.
that N" limited states viii be- subject :,
slgrcssiurs which II viii b" obliged 20
recent. NJ else abandon ~ national great
moss"
We urged universal service on ths
ouih NJ the nation Colonel Roosevelt
warned against false prophets profess
.ou,l pa inr,F. who DO not serve hlgh
ideals
"I.c, W. rni hs mislcd again" he said.
t'f.ffug in the predictions nf two years
hgo that "th'f. never would be another
war
uero sre some NJ Roosevolts bes,
paragraphs
= make 40 appeal 10 tho memory ~
the roppcrhcsd pacinst' who put peace
hove duty. who put love ~ ease and
! love ~ morry.grt'rg before devotion
20 country. and whose convictions wet.
toe weak to STIR 'o action their tepid
souls"
pu 1s. ee'or, Country,
~ it mo-, righteous 20 fail 90 tight IN
r,htf ~ ssuilrd righteousness such
l course prnhnhl, means sheer roVatdice.
srd certainly means moral surrender"
I'm actual practice 'hr professional
r7rinr ls merely the tool of the sensual
upt,fipusi who h,s mo- ideals. whose
.iriyrIed soul is wholly absorbed In an.
tnmrhIlra. and the movies Hnd money
wsknr aud ir the policies ~ the cash
register and the siu,k ticker and tho
. Hf, uf hted ease
~ rrhrr n Europe should como 10.
morrow ii ought NOT. iu the fmsllest
l'rf"r tn affect our pnlir, NJ prepared
|ftsa'
Deaths Que 70 surlrs lrseuon.
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nation. 'n our fpiluf" in prepare. and
Uuf failure lr instant insis,euce ON our
own righia ana COM those rights ~ others
which Ns had guaranteed tn protect A."