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Show EMPHASIZES WORK OF U- S. TROOPS s the guest of honor of tlic Khvanis club vesterday al the regular weekly mec tin's aid luncheon at the Newhouse hotel. Colonel Edmund S. Wrisht. emphasized empha-sized the importance of the part which the American army Is takins in the war. lie said that the day had come when the prreatest nunther of men of affaira mav expect to realize the.ir fondest hope in becoming a part of the pireat army tK'htins for liberty and humanity. All the "fire" in the country, he said, had iiot been sent to the front in the men under 31 years of age. but that the men of older years will be enabled to show their ahiiity in bringing about a new order of things. Prank Evans of the law firm of Evans. Folland & Kvans, now identified with the Walter Reid hospital at Washington, responded to Colonel Wright, declaring that the officers and soldiers of the American Amer-ican armv are setting the standard of manhood "of the future, and that the whole nation will benefit by the transformation trans-formation which will come over the world after the war. |