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Show meu at Cambrai and we dare say all those who participated in that glorious S affair are just spoiling for another I chance to drop their shovels, pick up j their rifles and go after the invaders like the marines went after them in the Chateau-Thierrv sector. i DOUBLE DUTY. The railroad men, from section hands up to the top-notchers, are cutting some figure in tho war and when they return from tho battlo front in France thoy will be justly entitled to a sharo in tho glory. It is worthy of remark that, while wo have hundreds of thousands thou-sands of men whose solo occupation is fighting the Huns and millions of war workers behind the lines and hero at home, the organizations knowu as railroad rail-road engineers are expected to do both if occasion requires. So far they have made an enviable record. Wo nolo that five new regiments and nineteen battalions bat-talions of thc.M.! engineers aro being organized or-ganized and when they arrive in Franco tho United States will have n foreo of f,0,0h' men over there engaged in railroad rail-road construction and opcratinn. This is rjtiite a respectable little nnny in point of numbers anil if those who lire shortly lo cross the ocean lire ns good fighting men as their eomrnilos already at, the front, Ih. i Huns will lie mire of a wai'ttt rer.'plinn when thoy interfere with railroad operations being performed per-formed by the American engineers. 'J'liey proved to bo first rliiss 1'iL'hl int.' |