The evening world. Newspaper, July 11, 1918, Page 14

THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1918 20 Minutes by Tunnel From Dover to Calais A Dream to Come True? Project Over a Century Old, Held Back by Fear cnd Delay, of a Tube Between England and France, Revived and Sponsored by Resolution Passed Last Friday by the International Parliamentary \\\ \ AY LN ay What the English Channel Tube Would Mean WX \\ \ ) THURSDAY, JULY 11, | Women and Clothes fe 1918 in War Times By Mrs. Vernon Castle. IT WOULD SHORTEN CROSSING TIME BY TWO-THIRDS, MAKE PASSAGE SAFE AND PLEASANT, AND PROVE A BIG MILITARY ASSET. yfNo Mone y/ SEASICK NESS 3 | CHIFFON FOR DANCE FROCKS. HAVE been asked to tell you so: those I designed for my exhibiti clinging material. It follows the lines of your form very closely. mething about dance frocks, and fm speaking of costumes suitable for dancing, I naturally think first of on work. Nothing is prettier than @ Any- thing that sticks out and stands away from you is not graceful and will not help to make your steps appear graceful. To get this clinging effect and style, and also room to dance freely, there is no material like chiffon, Whatever the bodice of my dress may be made of, invariably my skirt Conference—Tube Would Increase Passenger Traffic From 100,000 Annually to 3,000,000, and | Be Safe From Hostile Attack. 667 TRAM ticket to Peking, please.” London railway agents will not classify the seeker after such transportation as a “bally bouncer,” not if the predictions of Sir Arthur Fell, Chairman of the House of Commons Channel Tunnel /\ Committee, come true; not if the support of the International Parlia- “wantary Conference given at the July London meeting means anything. After ‘116 years of fear and delay, not only a tunnel under the English Channel between England and Franco is possible, but an extension of the failroad line from London to CaJcutta, to Cape Town and Peking is deemed within reason, The French engineer Mathieu first proposed the tunnel to Napoleon L. | fm 1802. Fear of invasion on the part of England through the underground and undersea subway finally killed it. In later years, especially since the war, when it was realized what an aid such a connecting link between | France and England would mean, sentiment has changed. A resolution in favor of building the tunnel, introduced before the International Parlia- | @entary Conference July 5 this year, received strong support of the French | and Italian delegates—so strong, In fact, that it was passed unanimously. The sponsors estimate that the pas- $$$ wenger traffic from France alone would | years ago. Those against it even be 3,000,000 annually instead of the|noted that hundreds of young Eng- 100,000 by channel steamer before the | !ishmen would find it too easy to go war. Passenger and freight trafic be- | to Paris, and they saw “a ruination of tween Great Britain and the Continent | English home life” as the result. was figured at @ profit of $5,600,000, or| The history of the tunnel 7 per cent. on the tunnel company’s|reads like fiction. capital of $80,000,000. Mathiou to Napoleon I. ‘The saving of time and the always well unpleasant steamer trip over the Tough channel are two big features Mentioned also by those in favor of the tunnel. The distance between Do- ver and Calais ts twenty-six miles, and im peace times channel boats could make it in one hour. The trip by tun- nel would not consume more than twenty minutes, engineers believe. At the conference it was estimated | proved by Napoleon ILL. that the tunnel should be completed) ‘The French Government approached five years after begun. It would be/the British Government officially in worked, ventilated and pumped by |1872, and two years later Britain form- electricity supplied from a power) ally accepted the scheme in its gen- Station in Kent, probably ten miles | eral principles. Bills were passed In faland. The War Office, it was sug-| both the Frenoh and British Parlla- gested, should have authority over It-| ments in 1875 and a protocol drawn up To meet any late protests that the) sy 1 tunnel would be a menace should} ne concession lapsed tn 1880 be- France decide to invade England, it| cause there was delay in forming the was suggested that a dip in the level! pritish company. he Southeastern of the rails could form a water lock | Ratiway, convinced there waa a de- and in case of necessity the tunnel) mand for the tunnel, independently might be flooded for a mile, from) started operations, and sank @ sha floor to roof. This would be under the contro! of the Dover Castle com-| 1, 1969 q pres campaign, marked mandants, by Its violence, started against the Since depth bombs and mines were) ruone in England. Petitions, stgned @eciared to present an element of by hundreds of prominent inglish. @anger—in fact, could destroy such a men, were presented to the Govern fennel if built noar the surface of the | ent, demanding the scheme be aban- @oean bed—it is also suggested that doned. The argument was the coun- the tunne! should be protected by 4| try would be rendered defenseless govering of the channel toa minimum | phy Government, heeding the pro- thickness of 100 feet. The water depth | tests, ordered work stopped. @bove the tunnel would not be less! phe proposal was again withdrawn than 180 feet at any vulnerable point. | 4 year later when a select committ ‘This tunnel, it has been shown, would | of Hoth Houses of Parliament faile! never be in danger of attack from/to agree on the scheme, Between Proposed by received. Thome de Gramond dedicated his life to it in 1833 and be- gan his study of the channel geology with nothing more serious than chalk or greensand to dig through. He sub- mitted his first plan to Napoleon IIT in 1856, and in 1867 the first detailed project was drawn up by an Anglo- French promotion company and ap- between Dover and Folkestone, scheme | in 1802, it was| He found that engineers would meet} | | | the air, so far as present development of aerial science would indicate. Von Moltke, speaking in Germany when the project was proposed be- fore, summarized what that nation thought of it when he said: “A tunnel under the English Chan- net, connecting England with Francs, ‘will not be of any use for the invasion ef England, but it will play the very 1883 and 1890 eleven unsuccessful bills and motions were introduced in th House of Commons, | Renewed opposition followed when the Liberal Party reintroduced the project in 1906, It was withdrawn the next year, In 1913 agitation was renewed for the tunnel, The press | and Parliament discussed it. Em- | phasis was placed upon its military value in case of @ war with Ger-! many. The project was again Intro- Jduced tn 1918 and now seems in a fair way of suc ding devil with Germany in ¢ase of war.” The truth in his wonis is real) new. Yet the fear of invasion ts w prevented the building of the tunn Platinum, Once Considered Werihion, Five Times as Valuable as Gold TORINS of the rich yields of gold to the placer miners of half a century ago lose their thrill when compared to the rewards of| ounces in 1916, indicating that the de. their present day successors, WhO} posits are becoming exhausted. Amer Wash the sands and gravels of the riv~ jog the British Empire produce ere of Colombia for platinum. The latter is an absolute necessity in many implements of warfare, and so keen is the demand that the price of refined platinum in the United States ig now five times that of the yellow metal, At Colombian markets, from Which ropublic steadily increasing quantities are being obtained, $100 an @unce is paid for the crude metal When discovered in 1737 in Colom- bia, platinum had no value because Mt was decreed a perquisite of the monarchs of Spain, to which country Colombia then belonged. As the na- tive finder received no reward, it was Jittle sought; indeed, it was often thrown away. The washing was then done near the miners’ buts, any of which bave since been torn @own in order that the priceless “metal might be recovered. The earli- est price paid for platinum was two Peres 2 pound, in 1788; this quantity | 9 per cent, of the world's supply | The Russian yield, however, fell from | | 800,000 troy ounces in 1911 | to 78,600 and little. The South Americ timated to h an republic is es din 1917 about 00 Ounces of platinum, valued at 100,000, but the industry is almost entirely in the hands of native work- ers, and their methods are primitive ulpped with pick, shovel, buckets and a few shallow pans, they have to fill the pans with dirt and gravel from some likely spot, and wash the contents in streams. Seldom are disappointed; a ve mir they entirely nugget, valued at $1,600, has been found. Two days’ work out of seven provides for all their needs, leaving the rest of the week to be spent in glorious ease. Foreigners are not welcome, When one approaches a native at work, the contents of the pan is tossed away with the exclamation, “Nada, nada!” (nothing), The discarded residue may have been rich in platinum, but the nearest | | ‘Would nowdetch $1,200, it can be recovered later; the stran- ger must not learn where the precious metal is to be found, SAFE FROM DESTRUCTION 26 MILES FROM / DOVER TO CALAIS fs ““ BY BOAT Pend 1 HOUR RIDE. 20 MINUTES RIDE "ACROSS CHANNEL 8Y TUNNEL mm °/ CAN BE FLOODED AT BOTH ENDS FOR SELF PROTECTION “XUNNEL CAN BE USED FOR TROOP TRANSPORTATION War-Made Maps and Map-Made Wars Over in Europe They Have the First Kind, but Over Here the Conflicts Engen- dered by the Automobile Road Maps Are Persistent and Perpetual—If You Don’t Believe It, Go Over on Wrong Island and Try to Make the Trip From Gazzump to Broken Arch and See Where You'll Land, for While the Germans Put Everything in the Submarine Except the Heart, the Fish Who Cro- cheted the Auto Tour Map Put In Everything Except the Directions—Try It and See. BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER. 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). & your glim over the skirmish maps of Europe, don't overlook the battle maps of America. The bird who cooked up the submarine And the fish who crocheted the auto tour maps tossed in everything but directions, put in everything but a heart If a flivver tour map dsn’t a war map, we'll sell you our last year’s straw hat for eight dollars, Following one of ‘em is like trying to find a piece of hay in a needlestack. Over in Europe the wars start the maps, but over here the maps start the here is more essence of difficulty packed into a road map than there are wrinkles in a hired full-dress suit If you want to tour from Gazzump to the wars famous Broken Arch on The And the second is to buy a road Why go to the Dardanelles to fight when you can buy a road map Outside of the inside of the inhabitants’ 8 at Broken Arch, Wrong Island, Which {9 the reason why they call the place Broken Arch, Wrong Island, you have your choice of two ways of travelling. first way to get there Is to get there, map. and have a war of your own? shoes, there are no broken are A scrambled arch is a claim to exemption, which is another reason why they labelled the plied it, just fine yourself four bits for a war road map. The price is as rea- The Gazzunp-Broken Arch Turnpike looks like the portrait of a dish of warmed-over spaghetti, It squirms in and out like a hooked eel, A camel's skyline isnt any more corrugated than the Gazzump-Broken Arch Boulevard, You can open 4 bottle with any part of i Two yards of that pike would make @ ne scrubbing board, Farmers haven't travelled over that road since the first hick drove 8 load of oggs from Broken Arch to Gazzump and found that the rough going had scrambled ‘em, Leaving Gazzump by the war road map, you follow the pike as it tries to zigzag out of the danger zone, The speed . spot what they lal If you are at Gazzump and want to escape, sonable as anything else in Gazzump. limit through New Hopeless is a week a mile, and the constable won't take tobacco coupons. He goes fifty-fifty with the Judge, and you sup- ply both fifties. Nobody goes through New Hopeless without New Hope- less going through them. Leaving New Hopeless, if possible, the road takes two turns to the right and six for the worse. Between Zapp and Dummburg the road widens out to a cowpath built in 1822, The cow is still there. An old brewery about four stumbles north of Dummburg is one of the most hysterical spots in the State. Passing this brewery is an epoch in your career, as lots of men have tried to catch up to breweries but very few over pass them. The speed limit through the brewery is twelve glasses an hour, There are seven dangerous corkscrew turns near the fourth vat from the corner, At Trubbleville is a magnificent monu- iment erected to a millionaire umbrella manufacturer who disinherited Nis freckled faced daughter because she married a sun worshipper from Hindustan, This doesn't mean anything in your life, but it will help to take your mind off the road. The Trubbleville service station inn {s one of the best in Trubbleville and has a service flag with sixteen stars in {t for poor service. At Torpid the road branches out like a package of Mongolian shooting crackers. Seven roads meet at Torpid, which makes you realize that the umbrella manufacturer bad enough trouble without having a sun worshipper in the family. You can take any one of the seven roads, as there is a constable on every one, You can follow the route in your war map, but the best way fs to pick your road by the eeney, meeney, miney, mo system. If eeney wins, take the eeney boulevard. If meeney bobs up, take the meeney pike. Lay off the miney road, as it is closed for repairs. The mo highway Is a bad road, The engincer who built it owned a car with a crooked steer- ing gear, which could do nothing but detour. But he didn't like de- tours, and in order to avoid one detour he had to build another detour. The mo highway is just one detour after another with one in between, After travelling three hours along the mo road, it might be a good idea to go back to Torpid and see if you can find the road map where you threw it away. The children might get hold of it. ° 4 | will be chiffon, ‘There ig one particular style of skirt that I have used almost entirety, which measures eighteen or twenty yards around the bottom, but as you | use it on the bias, ft Is gored up to |almost nothing at the waist. As a |rule there are three thicknesses, the | Underskirts being not quite so full os the outside ona The bottom is gen- |eratiy cut unevenly, though not too Jaggedly, and not slashed up far jenough to expose one's legs too free- ly. It is just cut off in a sort of uneven roll, It will hang prettily and not give a definite line an to fust j where the skirt ends, ‘These skirts | need not be remarkably short and are |much more graceful if they hang |About shoe-top length. The bodice is quite a «imple affatr, cut V-neck back and front, with long, flowing, bell-shaped sleeves that hang |to the wrist. A little satin sash of a contrasting color brought round to | tle in Just a loose knot, a little to one side toward the front, with flowing ends, finishes off this very simple | costume, which, though widely copied, | is most becoming and pretty, and |by far the most graceful thing to | dance in. One could vary the bodice | |by using silver cloth or satin or | sequins. | I had a Diack chiffon dancing frock made up this way with the bod- }ice made entirely of black sequins, | which added just a little life to the | duiness of the chiffon, and with an | orango velvet rose tucked in the knot of my girdle and orange heels to my lippers, it made a very smart little costume, with just ugh color, I never felt really comfortable and appy dancing in any but th dress, and J had it in alt known color. The first one, a gray-blue, I wore with @ very pale nile green sash, and 4 Little silver cloth, tinted blue, used for the bodice, All other styles of | dress I found difficult to dance in be- cause if there was @ wide hem and bands of ribbon around tho skirt I was generally catching my heels in them, and if there was net trimming of any kind, most impossible to keep or tr lace or it was from te pring at ¢ anything ng it hopelessly step, The weight like embroidery or sequing around bottom of a skirt makes it very dim- cult to handle, because in ery ot beads, How We Pick a jt wraps around your legs and theres fore does not follow gracefully your different movements, As well as materials, there are cole orings to be considered, and it 1s ale Ways safest to stick to pale pastel col- ors such rather pop= ular this spring. One must always re- member that your costume in general appearance will be more effective and attractive if it doesn't clash with your surroundings. In giving exhibitton dancing, at least, it is very important to the background and general setting in which you ap- pear. It keep your movements frc rky and forced, and in dancing it is so important to lend ting, indescribable atmos- yur steps rather than have pronounced or easily remem- 3 have become harmonize with will n appeal phere to y them bered It is quite th you me with clothes, If few soft shadings, Il be less tiresome and red and the n have your dresses w remem nber of your costur harder’ to than if they startling in color certain conspicuous and nd general outline. ti uch pret- of the figure a barrel-like effect and nciple is so pro= yles of the past two ure ut m, line nan to give thoue nouncel years, whirling | (Cosyright, 1918, by the Beli @yndieate, Ine.) Vous Man Ray Promotion T advertising business Is many, well with By Howard W. Dickinson. Vice President George Batten Company, Inc. kinds of poople so that sided and an ideal advertising| he will understand the requirements man would have to be a master) of their busi The young man of all trades. He would have to be| who has sold goods behind a counter an expert copy writer. He would! or on the road has the best possible need a thorough knowledge of com-| foundation, because a good advertis- our line of business must be. try to place our employe in the po-| sitions for which they are best fitted | When a young man first comes into jour employ, he rarely begins doing the work he is expected. For if he has had a fairly wide experience in) merchandising and advertising, it ts t ssary for him to learn the rudi- | monts of thd business, Later fittir him into the right place is a matter) of adjustment. Needless to say, certain element of character are essential for success, | | whatever @ young man’s vocation | | may be. Sticking untiringly at work and keeping a level head will undoubtedly help 4 le man to pro motion, How when employing a young man we are primarily influ enced by our judgment of what kind of a person he will be to live with. Our com y is organized in that good results depend chief! on how we all live together here, An employee is judged mainly by his capabjlity of making his work dove- tail with the work of other employ For the success we achieve w our} cients is due principally to the syr pathy and harmony which exists among the members of our ongani- zation, The employes whom we pitk for promotion must possess adaptability. He Tmust bave the faculty of mixing way such al mercial art, He would have to be aling man must be a good salesman | salesman, a psychologist, a financier | and an econo-nist, He would have to understand every line of business and | he would have to know how to meet | and deal with all kinds of pe However, such men extremely rare and an organizatio of strong specialists is what a great house in So we and understand the point of view of wholesaler, retailer and consumer, Good advertising is largely the pres= entation of an acceptable message te the purchasing public. Also a young man whom we eon- sider worthy of promotion must have @ sense of responsibility, Our eliems trust us with large sums of money and we must sacredly guard their in- terests. Should we fail to keep faith with any of our clients or fall to be both wise and progressive in our ad- vice 1 execution, our clients would lose their confidence in us, and such confidence js the basis of our busine: To be overcautious may be almost as bad as to be extravagant. Broad vision is @ very important asset, But as vision comes with experience we do not expect to find it fully dev oped in a very young man, But what we do expect him to have is brains, Because perseverance alone will not help a young man to promo- tion in the advertising business, For as he advances he comes in contact with the big men In very many lnes he can meet mental plane he effective business with of activity, m nnot and unle: an equal do on We want young men who have the brains to ssful in ad- vertising, which means men equally capab becoming the heads of large and important business houses in other lines We employ many specialists, glcili Writers, skilled art idea men, on skilled in sales promotion, skilled ace countants, statisticians,’ investigas fort, and men capable of handling important details accurately amd rapidly, ke “4 become suc