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roofs Of Breuilles, it was sometimes COM
forting to think Of that dugout's proximity.
Shells of various dimensions, ranging from
the II to the 150, passing in the majestic
curve of their trajectory, used to drop in
those woods with lively detonations. Some
times you would think that the German re-
membered the snug little building, with is
boardwalks and rustic.steps. and, remember
ing, resented our Intrusion. If you cared
for exercise, brisk walk up one of the
twisting little byways would bring you to
the northern edge of the trees to pleasing.
rolling bit of ground, ending at the hill,
from which you could see Breuilles in artis-
tlc panorama. You could often get to the
top of the hill without much difficulty, pro-
vlded you were careful not to let your head
appear above the crest. Sometimes a straw
shell or so would splash. up brown earth
from the greensward, but aside from the
noise of the artillery it was a quiet place.
When you stop to look back on it, those
were the good old times''-the evening by
the stove in the neatly walled dining room,
with cup of black coffee and piece of
camoufaged salt beef; the lively rush for
the gas masks when the motor horns rent
the welkln; the uncertain Journeys through
.underbrush the, late afternoons, when the
leaves were yellow. in the slant autumnal
sunshine, and you ploughed knee deep in
mud to a pencil point the colonel had marked
on the map. Strangely enough, the stark
horror and the dread is gone-from most
of it. When you look hack on them, those
interminable. night marches, when you
hoped that each turn in the road would lead
q n Ia 70 tub torsoT Itr1o
termined you SHOULD spend the day in con-
cealment, even those had a certain pict-
uresqueness. 3 Being a simple life, it
took surprisingly little to please you. 1t
may even be this simplicity that makes the
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past peculiarly appealing among the
plications that we plunged into so gladly
when stopped off the Hoboken
pier In the midst of puzzling whether
to buy a pink tie a green one, a soft
collar or stiff one, gray coat some
thing in blue serge, there comes subcon-
scious thought that perhaps it isn't worth
while after all. Is it possible that we gently
begrudge ourselves the time when we had
only one suit of clothes and didn't care par
ticularly whether we had mud on it or
not? Can it be that the irregular cadence of
artillery is refreshing to think of after a
serenade of automobiles, hand organs and
concrete mixers? Perhaps not; but just the
same, once called it "hell of a war;"
and now we think of it with affection or
something close to it. A strange contradict
tion it is-just as hard to reconcile as somc
selections from the speeches our su-
periors made before and after. After all,
they tell you, it was wonderful expert
ence.
Yet hark to the 90. J. r." who has gone
so far as to express himself in forceful
phrase in third of q column Of "The New
Republic" Regarding that stuff about the
experience: "a trivial expression" he OK
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No Danger i'm
Lack of AR

However, there can be no question apeSs
the use of the tunnel for vehlcular traH'
after it is completed. Lack of ventiiasi0s
is the only objection which could be raised.
The Blackwall tunnel, between Tilhury sna
Gravesend in London, was opened IN iss'
to vehicular and pedestrian traffic and pss
been in use ever since. It's total length =
6,2o0 feet, of which 1900 feet is under sas
Thames. 1t has not been necessary 70 -.
sort to artificial ventilation. The natu,s'
ventilation through tho tunnel and w
shafts has been ample TO keep the -
sufficiently pure"
The distance between the veasilsuus
shafts on the proposed tunnel is about o'svs
feet.
Notwithstanding the difficulties, Ah
Schaeffer believes that the use of the tuH,
nel Is perfectly feasible and that there ness
be no hesitation about undertaking its coz
struction from that point of view. In e0a.
cluding, however, he recommends that Ne1.
plans, specifications and estimates for sv's
n tunnel be approved by n COMMITTEES IS IS
competent engineers before coatrass 81
awarded for construction.
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had at least the advantage of demonstrat-f
ing how many super1uous conveniences are
wrapped around the Standard. Even our
miitaristic critic admits it was q univer-
sity, or rather a college.
Only few, think, learned to look COM
placently at death. The cheapness of life
added a certain value to living which
wrought life into a higher standard Not
many who stepped out of the smoke barrage
returned home Abysmal Brutes. Nor was
this phenomenon entirely due to the nom
combatant organizations which labored to
bolster up morale. In the curriculum of
the war itself were varied courses in re-
spect, sympathy and consideration for
others. Ask the soldier himself if there
weren't.
Yes, we, the cogs in the autocratic military
machine, have grumbled at our lot, since
grumbling is always enjoyable occupa
ton. We have cursed the unfairness of it;
we have gossiped about the regulations; we
have complained of our food, our officers,
our quarters, our military justice. SYM
pathetic publications have flung open their
columns to the river of plants, and the
river still flows on. Naturally enough some
one who hasn't been over (and possibly
wouldn't have wanted to very much, any
way) drops the paper with comforted sigh.
"Well," he says, 81 guess those soldiers
have had enough of it. Catch them fighting
in another war!"
And here is the funny part of the whole
business. Suppose there was another wsr
tomorrow. Suppose they wanted that dis
banded army again, the army which is re-
joicing in its freedom of action and its
freedom of speech, the army that is thank
ing its lucky stars that all that is finished.
Would they join up again, knowing the life
as they do, the dull routine, the reduction
to branlessness, the immnence Of death,
the fetid squalor? Mind you, their eyes
have been opened; they know, or ought to
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Well, suppose you do ask him. I don't
think he would give the answer that 80. J.
f." expects, unless he is bewildered by that
Higher Standard'
"That guy was never over" he would say
and let it go at that Say what you want
about it, the soldier feels that the war is
peculiarly his own. He is apt to resent
criticism from an outsider as might be ex-
petted from one who has been "a brainless
cog' for SO long. Narrow -mindedly, per-
haps, he believes that he knows more about
1T than the ones who never spent night in
the trenches. His point of view is regretta-
bly, biassed.
he did learn little over on the other
side, in spite of the absence of books or
time to read them. He learned that at
times other things more important than
personality. There was forttude out there
in that squaor; he learned it with the mud
as his book instead of tract on social
duty. He learned it WE'LL he learned it
quickly. He profited also by frequent ex-
amples of generosity and sacrifice that the
occasion manufactured more readily than it
was fabricated in the regions of the Higher
Standard The Life of Savage, the exist
ence on the marge of the Slough Of Despond,
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vehicles, would provide ample capacity fore
number of years.
Should additional tunnels be required, il
would be advantageous to locate them ss
different points This would provide direct
routes between certain points and cause less
vehlcuiar congestion at the approaches than
II the entrances and exits were all located
at the same point. In fact, greater distrbu-
ton of traffic would be made with smaller
tunnels. If each tunnel were used ex'
clusively for one-way traffic they could be
located at different streets, so that there
would be no interference between traiDo
moving IN opposite directions and the corr
centration of traffic would be less.
THE structural uncertainties of the new
features cast an equal uncertainty upon the
cost. Three tunnels, providing capaciy
Tor six lines of traffic. constructed by the
ordinary shield method and lined with CAST
iron segments, would probably cost 30 per
cent more than the estimated cost of the
proposed tunnel.
Should the proposed method not be sue.
cessful it would require the beginning Of
the work all over again, with the loss OF
time and money expended on the plan pro-
posed.
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different key, and behind his back asked
each other how it was that a man with
Arthur Hamln's salary had so often to
borrow the price of Il luncheon
AS for the notes he signcdit is common
knowledge how quickly they make the time
pass by.
In word, iamlin had lived lifetime
Of petty worriment. Yet somehow he con-
trived to maintain certain show of dig
nifty. Somehow he had met his obligations,
though they might be ever so far behind
hand. And through it all he had kept his
family reasonably happy. Yet a night of
untroubled sleep was quito unknown to
him. The point is, he had learned to live
without happiness. He had, precisely
this, made friends with his Worries
Now he sat at the window on this first
night of spring and thought of it. The
bills were paid now. Two years before.
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On such an evening in spring, Hamlin
sat, and sat there long. lie thought Of
his wedding day, of the brisk sort he had
married, Of the prospects Of successful
authorship which had frightened those
days for them both. OF many things he
thought; Of tho charming objects they had
bought for the housc-and at such ghastly
prices! There it had started. Both Of them
had enlightened tastes, neither had pos
scssed shred of restraint. Lovely enough
it had been for q year or two. .hcn began
the worry. Always a little faster than he
could pay they had purchased always on
the strength of stories to be sold, of
novels to be writtcn-which had so steadily
refused to be written in his busy lite.
His days had gone into work at the Office.
The evenings when he had planned to
writewell, Lucy was always so fond of
bridge and the theatre.
With the arrival Of the two girls, peace
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Lucy had divorced him. One daughter had
married well; the other had married even
better. By the card, Hamlin should have
been happy, with the house no burden any
longer, but only capital place for the en-
tertainment of his friends. Not a thing
should have rutllcd Hamlin as he sat there
nothing but such grcfs and stretches Of
loneliness as fall to us all
For long time, till we'll into the morn
ing, Hamin sat at the window, rewriting
the story of his life. Very quietly and
very long he sat, and smoked cndlessly.
Then he did thing which served all his
friends for n nne-day wonder. He sud-
denly rose and passed out of the room and
into the bathroom. There he reached into
the medicine chest and swallowed some
thing.
1t is true that his worries were go e.
But he was utterly lost without them
B. K
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The Difficulties
Involved

Amos Schaeffer consulting engineer of
the Borough of Manhattan, has submitted a
comprehensive report to the Reconstruction
Commission, in which he points out the
technical difficulties of the sub Hudson ye-
hicular tunnel as planned. He suggests
instead a number of tunnels of much smaller
dimensions, which, he states, would be ade
quate to handle the traffic and which would
not present the almost overwhelming prob
lens of the proposed plan.
The experimental features of the pro.
posed project are the unusually large di-
ameter OF the tunnel; new method of
hnlng 1t, which is untried, and the uncer
talnty OF estimating to any accurate degree
the cost or the time it would take to com
plete the undertaking. Ventilation is an
other objection raised to the plan as it now
stands.
Ihe new features are largely cxperi-
mental and involve considerably more risk
than the accepted methods" SAWS Mr..
ochaeHer. On the other hand, if nothing
new were undertaken no progress would he
made. The departure from the usual meth
ods OF subaqueous tunnolling, however. is
quite radical.
1T is perfectly feasible to construct tun-
nels across the Hudson River Of a size suf-
nc'ehtiy largo for two lines of vehicles, say
aoous 20 feet IN diameter, and to estimate
LARRY accurately the time and money re-
au'reo' The two-dcck tunnel proposed has
capacity considerably larger than il re-
aulfea Tor traffic in tho near future, 40 that
s"o tunnels' with space for four lines Of
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"2. After it is constructed, is it usabe?
"3. Are the estimates of cost anywhere
near correct; in other words, will the state
find that it has entered upon programme
of much more expense than it has in sight
at the present time 90
The five engineers to whom these ques-
tions have been submitted are Amos
Schaeffer, consulting engineer of the Bor-
ough of Manhattan; H. d. Parsons, engineer
of the New York City subways; George w.
Fuller, George F. Kuntz and Paul g. Brown.
Although these engineers all believe We
hicular tunnel would be an important public
work, yet it is felt that there are certain
disadvantages in the way the work has been
planned.
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Worry

had ceased in the household Hamlin
JOY there was, of course, in plenty. That
was for Lucy, for Peggy and Anne as they
grew. 1t might not have been altogether
bad, but for the bills, the duns, the visits
Of collectors to his desk, so that they
became jest among his mates at the
Office.
Such matters he kept from the three
merry girls at homo - this everlasting
puzzle, which sometimes became positive
ly entertaining of how to stave Off a suit
or where to raise the money for some un-
common demand, as when Lucy needed the
new fur coat. His ncighbors used to envy
Hamlin. There his wife, always so
handsomely dressed, and his sprightly and
popular daughters, in proof of his doing
so well. People entertain a prodgious re-
spect for man who is doing we'll.
At the office his associates marveIcd in
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which 1,4oo feet is directly under the
river. The Rotherhithe has the largest
cross-section Of any subaqueous tube of
this type in the world and took four years
to construct 1t was driven with shield
S0 feet in diameter through clay mixed with
shells, pebbles and loan. a much flrmer
material than that which would be encoun-
tered in the proposed Hudson tunnel The
top of the main tunnel excavation in the
middle of the. river was only seven feet
from the bed Of the Thames. The maxi
mnm progress in ono day was l2.5 feet. The
air compressora were together capable Of
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Broadway, surrounded byea dazzling
radiance of electrical 'pyrotecirnics.
They had not been back long enough
to escape the blatant contrast New York
street made with the darkened ways of
Franco. 1t. did not seem safe rational
all this light. Not very long ago both of
them had been in a certain accurately
mapped piece of country. where the lighting
of a ssingle candle : harbnger of de-
struction. They still remembered itr-that.
place was not easy to forget-and the pict-
ure, coupled with the crowds on the bright
thoroughfare, made them i'll at ease until
theymet.
They knew they had been thinking of the
same thing; they knew it SO surely that it
was. not worth the effort to frame their
thoughts in words. Instead they asked the
question that. comes SO readily to any one
who took the trip to Europe:
when did you get back?"
Neither cared particularly, though they
both registered every appearance of interest,
But ip the asking they had crossed the ocean
again-and not in the direction of the
Statue of Liberty. 1t was an introduction
to land where you reduced lights to
minimum, where the cellar was the logical
place to sleep, where anything might happen
in the brief span of single evening Hhey
had left that existence behind with protesta-
tions of relief, and yet one of them was
saying: - -
"say, Bill remiads you of the good old
times, doesn't ?" ,H t~ias
''You said it," the other replied; sit a-
ways will when we meet like this" f. .rs-'
And they both were right. The glamour Of
the past, trite as the phrase Is, has some-
thing to do with it. 1t evohes all sorts of
charms you had never associated with your
engagement in Europe. 1t even gives that
joke about the quiet in the front line
trenches a shade of truth. For instance,
northeast of the quaint little town of Sept
sarges, situate few kilometres west of the
Meusr River, just before it meanders down
to the reaches before Verdun, is a wood,
like" the town, the worse for. wear from a
number Of years intermittent shelling.9 In.
spite of this, however, the Boche soldiers
did well with that wood. Once upon a time,
not SO very long ago it was far enough
back in the territory of Bochcland not to
be inolested much, except by the heavier
and more expensive artillery. Therefore, the
fserrea, command, availing itself Of this
feSloA OIL comparative quiet, erected num-
Der Of rustic buildings, surrounding some Of
them ,sith little gardens and fences antf
,gatewaysa za'here was a motion picture che
~ sE40sFa the woods, barracks, stables, and,
S 5sls of all, an officers club This was To-
- eats ORA rise of ground beneath cump
r Of T. IS 1t had three rooms decorated, in
acceptance gith the Teutonic idea of a home.
Ih sre ~aro stoves, books and pictures and
even CHI RS The most desirable feature
I was Co rfaodious dugout close enough to
the ha k Dor so that you could reach it in
the pro feroial three bounds When we ar
rived in the wood and the Boche consider
ately retired over the hill and into the val
ley thar sheltered the white wallis and red
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
By Hilda D.. Jackson
"HE HUDSON avehicular Tunnel
project recommended by the New
York State Bridge and Tunnel

n
project recommended by the New
YORK State Bridge and Tunnel
Commission has been taken UP by
the New York State Reconstruction Com
mission to determine whether or not the
plans are practicable.
IN the opinion of the. advisory council of.
engineers of the Reconstruction Commits
S'on' vehicuiar tunnel between New Jersey
ana ne" YORK would be public work of
great Importance, and in the interests oe.
the communities to be served should be car
rieo to completion as soon as possible.
Between three and four thousand letters
from leading merchants and manufacturers
covering not only New York, BROOKLYN, and
Long Island City, but all of the State of
Sew iork' have been sent to the Albany
<esasiature urging construction of such
tunnel as modern method of handling
ana retaining increased export trade. It
nay also been pointed out that the project
"n' give employment in very short time
20 several thousand returning saoldiers.
Among the advantages which the tprne,
would afford, according to T. Albeus Adam.
a'saDs1 OF inc New Jersey Ipters tate
Drtnge and Tunnel Commission, would be
the quick and certain transportation oy
merchandise, foodstuffs and coal from the
mainland direct to final destination in Man.
haitian. The Bronx and Long Island. nm
h1ndcred by fogs, Ice or weatncr eond;tio,.
IA the item Of coal alone" Mr. Adams
says, "the entire cost of the tunnel could
nave been betrayed out of any one of
dozen days losses in January, 1918, due I'd
the inability to move the coal baroea
across the river, not to mention the sufYar.
ing resulting from the coal famine. New
Jersey has already enacted Legislation, pro-
yiding for the collection of an annual tax
to pay her share of the construction. and
has appointed commission with power. to
prcceed. II now remains for New York
70 sna<t similsr legislation and for. Con-
gress to pass an enabling act"
Tho proposed plans Of the New York State
Bridge and Tunnel Commission contemplate
tunnel much larger in dimensions than
has hitherto been constructed undsr lar
conditions There is no experience upon
which 70 base either an opinion Of the prac~
f'cability Of the CLANS or an accurate esti.
snss1 u their cost II has basn Judged that
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supplying 100000 cubic feet of air an
hour.
In Paris the tunnels were built under two
arms of the Seine for the Metropolitan
halfway by means of compressed air cais-
sons sunk beneath the riverbed.
because tho methods planned for the pro-
posed vehicular sub Hudson tunnel arc so
new and untred tho New York State Re-
construction Commission has put the fol-
lowing three questions to tho five leading
engineers OF the state:
i. Is the type Of tunnel proposed pos
siblc Of construction2
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
FTER all, there are two seasons
to the year. One Of them opens
= on the evening when a man

~ 0F III" WITH VfdII UVIUIV
the hearth, with a table at his elbow bearing
a seasoned pipe and a fragrant mixture, an
equally seasoned book, siphon, bowl
of cracked ice dccanter with a trust
worthy content, and he lights his first
autumn fire.
The other season opens some months
after this, when, with chair now drawn
beside the window, Il man opens the sash
and lets in the first scents and airs of
spring. book then is superAuous. At
such Il moment every man is his own poet.
More often he is his own biographer. The
budding leaves, the omnpresent tokens Of
fresh beginning of things, arc apt to
send the mind back over its own begin
nings.
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tho latter, and it would be fair to assume
that the results would be the same"
One OF the tunnels to which General
Goethals refers is tho Rothcrhtho tunnel
under the Thames, in London, which has
length Of 4,se3 feet hctwcen portals, of
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hiding Feasible Plan for the Traffic Tunnel to Jer>

the tunnel would pay for itself in twenty
years, would prevent coal famines, and facil-
itate freight traffic In general. 1t would run
from Canal Street. Manhattan, to Twelfth
Street, Jersey City.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
Feeling Among the Boys in the
Ranks Crystallizing ON the Ques-
ton of Permanent Organization
By John P Marquand, Ex-Lieutenant, u. S. F. A.

)" HEY met beneath an arc light, on
. Broadway, surrounded bya dazzling
radiance of electrical pyrotecirnics.
Thavy nod knn~ h A. I<... IL,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-21
BETTER THAN CAL0MEL
Thousands Have Discovered DR..
Edwards Olive Tablets are
aHarmless Substitute.

DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets-the substi.
tute for calomel - are a mild but sure
laxative, and their effect on the liver is
almost instantaneous. They are the result
Of DR.. Edwards determination not to treat
liver and bowel complaints with calomel.
Ills efforts to Danish it brought out these
little olive-colored tablets.
These pleasant little tablets do the good
that calomel does, but have no bad after
effects. They don't injure the teeth like
strong liquids or calomel. They take hold
Of the trouble and quickly correct it. Why
cure the liver at the expense of the teeth?
Calomel sometimes plays havoc with the
gums. So do strong liquids. 1t is best not
to take calomel, but to let DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets take its place.
Most headaches, "dullness" and that
lazy feeling come from constipation and
q disordered liver. Take DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets when you feel "loggy" and
heavy" Note how they "clear" clouded
brain and how they "perk up" the spirits
NC and Csc box. All druggists.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-21
No Information Regarding
Richmond's League Chances

Although the opening date of the
Northern Central baseball season is
creeping closer, no word has been OBJ.
tanned concerning Richmond's chances
for having semi-pro team in the
league, Elmer Eggemeyer, president
of the Exhibition company, announced
Monday.
Eggemeyer said that he was expect.
ing word from Charles Carr relative
to Richmond's chances for a perma-
nent club in the Central Indiana asso.
citation which starts next Sunday.
Twelve cities planned to get under
way, but at least one weak city is
expected to drop out before the sea-
son continues many Sundays and it
was thought that a line on the league
eould be obtained before the opening