The Newark journal., 1919-06-05

will be literally next door to Paris and i'll direct touch with nil of Europe all the time.
 This will mean two three days saved by tray eers going from New York to Paris-to say noth- ing of the comfort of those who will escape the rough channel trip from England to France, when the sturdlest sailors frequently suffer from sea sickness
 There are many ifs" about the whole business, but one ifs exists that has attracted lot of at- tention from the public and that is. If the tunnel Is built 1t will cost no more than one days cost of war-and at most the cost of two days of war. One or two hundred million dollars expended on any worthy enterprise these days Is considered triling sum by even the man in the street
 The announcement of the project causes no sur prise on this side of the Atlantic America is rather disposed to wonder that the tunnel was not built long ago
 The truth is that when Bleriot flew from French soil to English soil just before the war, John Bull opened his eyes wide and they have not closed since. His mastery isolation of centuries was gone in twinkling. Much has happened since then. The air is darkened every day with air navies passing to and from London to Paris. Bri- tannia rules the waves under the new league all right, but the waves not all and no one knows this better than the lady with the trident, who is giving much of her time to the new medium of communication But the point is that the con- quest Of the air has given the tight little island view of things.
 The distance between Dover and Caais--a bit of choppy sea most of the time on the surface-ts 10 be overcome by tunnel The government leader in the British house of commons has SD announced IL will be joint governmental undertaking to be started as part of reconstruction. matter of hundred millions to two nations, innocently be- Iieyed to be bankrupt from the war, is barrier.
 Tunnel construction is the steel rod in the ment of peace covenants. Both nations fast becoming bilinguaI, The tunnel will help along the "entente eordale9 after the
 As q sense of protection for both nations, the channel tunnel will be of avail. It is man- tained that if the bore had been in existence five years ago things would have been different and four-year agony would not have fallen upon the two nations.
 Fifty years ago when the tunnel project was declared to be perfectly feasible from an engineer ing point military men opposed it. It is very anus ing reading the debates of those far-of days Eng land they said could never afford to take chances with tunnel; the island would be no longer an island some dark night the enemy would seize the two ends of the bore, and To and behold, England would be invaded, Strategsts condemned the pIan much to the discontinue of business.
 Before the war broke when the new discovery in aviation changed the perspective tunnel recon struction being urged. Now as war measure and France and Britain still taking precau- tions in case the millennium is false aafm-the tunnel is approved by army men, Commercially there never any question about It. France has sought it consistently for almost a century, France has vision
 International tunnel construction is to be the order of the day. The nations are to be joined closer together The straits of Gibraltar are to be fmneled if plans carry, and very likely East and Nest--the Occident and the Orient-will be joined by tunnel under the Bosporus. And it is well within the bounds that this continent may be linked with another continent by Boring strait tunnel first propounded by early governor of Colorado.