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PEACE EXPECTED TO INCREASE
DEMAND FOR 'CONSTRUCTION
Lansing, Nov. 14.-Indications are
that an enormous amount of con-
struction work will be undertaken now
that -the war is ended and that there
will be an unprecedented demand for
materials of all sorts, particularly
building and construction equipment
and supplies.
For some time construction work of
nearly every sort has been curtailed
by federal order, because of material
and labor shortage. Men of the skill-
ed trades have been in demand for
army and navy work. War regula-
tions have not covered alterations or
extensions to buildings already con-
structed if not amounting to more
than $2,500 in cost.
All big construction work, e:
ing for war purposes has been
up, however, and now builders a
pate that when the regulation
modified, they will have more
enough to do.
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AMERICANS LIVE ON COMFORT-
ABLY IN UNIQUE UNDER-
GROUND SHELTER
With the American troops in
France, Noy. 14.-An amazing under-
ground shelter or dugout equipped
with many luxuries is the home of the
staff of one American army corps
which took a prominent part in the
St. Mihiel fight. It is little less than
an underground city club, with offic-
es, sleeping quarters, baths, restaur-
ants, kitchens, electric lights, tele-
phone and bell boys-in the persons of
orderlies and messengers and many
other appurtenances, of hotel life.
From the outside the place was so
inconspicuous, standing about two
hundred yards from the road, that
ninety-nine out of a hundred motor-
its would have driven by without
seeing it at all. The one hundredth
would have seen merely a slight ele-
vation in the muddy plain with two
or three dark holes in the ground that
might have been old shell craters or
anything else.
In.reality the mud and grass cov-
ering wasnothing but anconcealment
of a thirty foot ceiling of reinfoced
concrete, the black holes well cam-
ouflaged entrances leading down a
sloping runway to the brilliance of
the electrically lighted interior. So
stoutly was the whole constructed
that an enemy shell of big calibre
would scarcely do more than chip off
a piece of the top, and no aviator's
bomb could ever, even hitting direct-
ly, do much damage.
Inside, parallel with the road and
traversing the length of the dugout,
was a wide corridor, the "main street"
of the institution, in which the com-
manding general rubbed shoulders
with the orderlies and messengers as
they went from office to office. Off
this main street led minor streets run-
ning to the rear and being used, for
economy of space, as sleeping rooms
for the enlisted men at night. Arti-
Alial ventilation provided for the con-
stant purification of the whole dug-
out.
Off the small streets, and off the big
one too, were the offices, constructed
likewise for -economy of space. Each
.was about 10 feet wide and quite deep,
with a narrow table running the
length of the rooms at which sat the
Officers and their assistants, working,
answering telephone calls every mom-
ent or so, giving instructions and
receiving reports.
No sound could penetrate the great
concrete roof, and the great bombard-
ment that opend the St. Mihiel fight
could not be heard during the entire
engagement.
METHODIST YOUNG PEOPLE
PLAN YEAR'S SOCIAL PROGRAM
Plans are being made by the yo
people of the Methodist church to
hold social gatherings every week-
end. An old fashioned social with a
program of stunts, games, music, and
eats will be held this evening, while
a more modern affair with movies is
scheduled for tomorrow night.
Booth Tarkington's story "Seven-
",een," with Jack Pickford as the star,
will be the feature of Saturday even-
ing's entertainment. Pipe organ mu-
sic has been secured for both occa-
sions, and Prof. Theodore Harrison.
has promised to lead all present in
a community sing.
CAPTAIN PUTT RECOUNTS WAR
EXPERIENCES TO RESERVES
In his address yesterday to the en-
gineers' reserve in regard to officers'.
trainng camps Capt. Jas. W. Putt of
the coast artillery told many of his
experiences on the western front. He
described in detail how the Ameri-
cans were able to locate the gun fir-
ing on Paris, only to be driven back
afterwards by the big Hun loffen-
sive.
ANNA CASE, LYRIC SOPRANO, WHO
opens pre-festival concert series,
Saturday night in Hill auditorium.
ANNA CASE IS ALL-
AMERICAN SINGER
Anna Case, the Mertopolitan opera
star who is classed among the world's
lyric sopranos, will give the opening
concert of the pre-festival Choral Un-
ion series at 8 o'clock Saturday eve-f
ning in Hill auditorium.
Miss Case was born in New. Jersey,
and she received her entire training
for the concert stage and opera on
this side of the Atlantic. She is the
only girl who ever won the title of
prima donna soprano of the Metropol-
itan opera without training abroad.
Only through consistent hard work
and struggling has she been able to
attain her present high rank in the
face of competition with the greatest
of foreign artists..
She will be assisted at the piano
by Mr. Gilbert Spross, an eminent
composer-accompanist.
H1OiIE-BAKED PIES GET RECORD
,FOR SPEEDY DISAPPEARANCE
Results from the pie sale Tuesday
afternoon last, given by the advisory
board of the Y. W. C. A. in front of
Newberry hall, have added a consider-
able sum to the empty treasury of
that organization. The sale com-
menced at 3:30 o'clock. By 4:30
o'clock over fifty pies had been sold
and appreciative S. A. T. C.'s were all
lined up for more.
As a result of the success of this
initial experiment, the board is con-
templating another salebfor the im-
mediate future.
American Army Totals 3,764,677 Nen
Washington, Nov. 14.-The Ameri-
can army had reached a total strength
of 3,764,677 men when hostilities ceas-
ed according to official figures at the
war department.
Of that number 2,200,000 had been
sent to France, Italy, or Rusfia. The
remainder were under arms in camps
in this country.
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to BELIEVE IN, the WORT
IDEALS in life and business are very busin
potent things. We are at war for i
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CAN ANY MAN DOUBT the force the w
of those ideals, or fail to see what home
they have done for America since econo
she entered the war-in welding M
our people together; in giving life right
a loftier meaning and purpose; in the tei
wiping out class distinctions, race ness."
and religious differences; in teach- In
ng us all to live up to the best tions,
that is in us? age of
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there will be a new era after the ' TH
war. We should all be preparing for th
for it now. its bel
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world, the Government should tion a
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