and the
world was saved for the people. The struggle upward by the common
people for over a thousand years was not after all to be in vain.
Liberty and democracy were now assured to all; the danger of slavery
and autocracy was over. It was not strange that a whole world seemed
to have gone wild with joy.

[1] George H. Godbeer in Fitchburg, Mass., _Daily Sentinel_.

IN MEMORIAM

[THE FIGHTING YEARS, 1914-1918]

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow--
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.

Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.

Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.

Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.

Ring out old shapes and foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.

TENNYSON.

THE UNITED STATES AT WAR--IN FRANCE

_Adapted with a few omissions and changes in language from the report of
General Pershing made November 20, 1918, to the Secretary of War._

Upon receiving my orders, I selected a small staff and proceeded to
Europe in order to become familiar with conditions at the earliest
possible moment.

The warmth of our reception in England and France was only equalled by
the readiness of the leaders of the Allied armies to assist us in every
way. We met and considered the best ways of working together.

The French and British armies could not be increased in strength and they
had been unable to drive the enemy from his systems of trenches in
Belgium and France. It was therefore necessary to plan for an American
force large enough to turn the scale in favor of the Allies. The problem
before us was one of the very greatest difficulty. The first s