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Show WAR YEAR OF 1917 Tomorrow will be January 1, 1918. At midnight, the bells and whistles will bid farewell to 1917 America's war year. Let us hope 1917 is tho last of the years in which this country will be called on to declare war. America has no regrets for having become' a part of the great struggle for human rights, but is deeply sorrowful sor-rowful over the horrors which have been afflicted by a nation seeking to master tho world. Our histories from now on will record re-cord our declaration of war in 1917 ns the most far-reaching act of this republic .since the time of Washington. Washing-ton. Those who havo been witnesses lo the events of the year have participated participat-ed in the greatest history-making' epoch of the ages. None of humanity's great upheavals of the past compare with the conflict now going on which gives promise of continuing through j 1918 and well into 1919, and may go on for years. no |