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inferm me that the Packard Motor
Company could have built and shipped
not less than 3.000 Rolls-Royce mo
tors by this time, in place of which
they have not yet begun to produce
l.iberty motors ing appreciable quan
tity, and with those few delivered
#till In the experimental stage. There
seens no reason to doubt that the
Wright-Martin Aireraft Corporation
could have turned out an equai num
ber of the unquestionably excellent
Hispana-Suiza motors by this time,
But it avails nothing to repine over
unbuilt aviation motors. The point to
act on .is this: There is no reason
why the United States should not now
speed up the wholesale production of
nll of the types of motors and air
planes needed for f{tself and for its
allies, If the Liberty motor is fit for
certain purposes, the obvious thing
to do Is to quit experimenting and
produce it. In the meantime, produc- |
tlon ghould be encouraged and oxp-\:‘
dited by all poseible means of the]
Hispana-Suliza, the Rolls-Royce am;‘
any other of the foreign type of dem
onstrated success,
A Delayed Recognition.
The Aircraft Production Board
made a delayed recognition of the
wisdom of this poilcy by entering into
a number of small contracts for the
Hispana-Suiza motors lin the latter
part of 1917. The experts attached to
the signal corps, however, could not
yesist the temptaticn to tinker witn
this model-—a model which had proved
its worth in tens of thousand of
flights. There are no means of know
ing tc what extent this interference
has retarded production, but relias
ble information is that the Wright-
Martin Aircraft Corporation is now
delivering daily a considerable num
ber of 150 h. p. motors, and that it is
in a position to huild in quantity more
powerful motors, !
There scems to be no reason why
the Rolls-Royee should n# be built
in this country. It has been :nnply‘
demonstrated that the Liberty Motor
thus far has proved more difficult to
build than ether the Rolls-Royce or |
the Hispana-Suiza. We¢ need several
types of proved aviation motors in |
large quantities at the earllest possi
ble moment.
The Mercedes Type.
The Germans use the Mercedes
type of motor. It was available for
our copying and use long before WOi
entered the war. The German experta
perfected the designs and the upr-s‘
were standardized for manufactura
in a large number of their plnnts‘
fabout two yeara before the war, pro
duction being well under way in 1912,
We can copy and standardize lhe‘
manufacture of the Mercedes motors
even yet if anything is to be gained
thereby.
The semi-official statement that the
United States Government has con
tracted for 6,000 Rolls-Royce motors
in England may be questioned. It is
said the Rolls-Royce plant there has
a capacity of only about 50 of these
motors a week, and they accomplisn
this only through American plants
furnishing them with many of the
finished parts,
Many of the leading production au
thorities of the nation are in accord
in pointing to the vital error largely
responsible for the failure to meet in
‘any reasonable degree the sanguine
predictions made when our aviation
brogram was announced. One of them
‘thus explains the problem:
“It is one thing to perfect the de
slgn of a machine. It is entirely a
different task to build that machine
in quantity and do this with spaad
and economy. To perfect the design
requires the peculiar genius of the
enginee * or the inventor; to build
this mashine in quantity requires the
radically different genius of the pro
duoction expert. I have never known
%hm two traits to be combined in
one man. Henry Ford is not a great
®aglneer or .nventor, but he is one of
the world's greatest manufaoturers.
The American aviation program has
been menaced with disaster because
we made the mistake of committing
to engineers and designing experts
‘the task of attempting to put into
metal their possibly excellent mental
creations Had this task been as
signed to a single engineer with a
single and simple design in his mind,
his chance of success in the fleld of
mechanical production would huve
besn so slight that only a human
prodigy could have attained it. With
a board of engineers in charge of
moducllon. success was an absolute
tmpoesibility. If we propose t) pro
duce aviation motors we must assign
the task to a man skilled in mechan
fcal production and let him select ms
aids, if he requires them. There is
Do other way.”
. The truth of this has heen demon
fiarfled s 0 absolutely in the past year
at its lesson can no longer be ig
nored. Engineers and experts were
assigned to the divided command of
Lproduvtion task which they had to
rn as they went along.
The criticism made that the
merican aviation program was not
griglnally planned and conducted to
#ccord with the exigencies of moil
ern warfare, and that, therefore, too
much was expected of the Liberty
motor even had it lived up to most of
the claims made for it. The fact is
that 1.0 single type of motor can pos
&bly serve as the driving power for
*the various types of planes.
The repeated failures of the Liberty
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motor to do the work expected lave
been caused in many instances bhe
causs those in charge of the experi
monts have ignored the warnings of
foreign experts that a motor and its
aircraft must synchronize to a close
and unvarying degree.
The Unitsd States took no part in
the quest for aircraft perfection—or
80 slight a part as to count for noth-
Ing of value. That was the fault of
Congress, which now has set aside
$640,000,000 for aviation purposes, and
those placed in charge of it seem to
have calmly ignored much of that
which was learned abroad in the
years when we scorned to take advan
tage of the pioneer inventions and
experiments of American citizens.
Training at a Standstill.
It was planned that the Liberty
motor would include an adaptability
to advance training. The failure to
produce the Liberty mgptor in quan
tity, combined with thfl failure to or
der the large producfion of foreign
motors known to be fitted for this
class of service, hgs brought our
training activities to a practical
standstill,
It fortunately happens that the
Hispana-Sulza motor is speclally fit
ted for just this duty and a large and
first-class plant is turning them out
in gratifying quantities. Thus, re
gardless of the Liberty motor, we
are ncw, or soon will be, in a posi
tion to complete the training of our
aviators, and the credit is wholly due
to the enterprise of American manu
facturers acting on their own initia
tive,
There is no reason to doubt that
the Liberty motor has reached a
stage of design and possible produc
tion, which, under sane and co-opera
ative Governmental supervision, will
permit the private concerns operating
under contracts to deliver from now
on a steadily increasing output of
these motoss.
The Ford Motor Company, the
Packard Motor Company, the Lincoln
Motor Company, the Nordyke and
Marmon Motor Company and several
ogther great plants are restrained
from guantity production only by the
official lack of system. There is am
ple ju_l'fication for the belief that
under .ae direction of a capable ofli
clal aviation production director the
building of acceptable Liberty motors
would soon amount to 1,000 a week.
This large production of Liberty
motors can be supplemented within
a comparatively short time by the
building of a very considerable out
put of the Hispana-Suiza, doubtless
the Rolls-Royce and probably other
foreign types. The false theory that
aircraft success for the United States
depends on a single type of motor,
and that type yet in the experimental
stage, has happily been shattered and
is now abandoned. '
The signs are unmistakable that
the period of tinkering and muddling
with our aircraft program is at an
end. The day is at hand when the
mechanic and the engine lathe will
supplant the draughtsman and when
the alert production expert will no
longer be held back by the swivel
chair theorist., The way to get avia
ticn motors is to build them, not draw
them.,
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the only way to gat this mixture was
to make it at home, which is mussy
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Nowadays we simply ask at any|
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‘mproved by the addition of other
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HEARKST S SUNDAY AMERIUAN — A Newsga,Eer lor PGOEG wno TN — SUNDAY, arniu 21, ll9ls.
Loses 6 Sons, Husband
And Kin in the War
Now Canadian \\;n;;—%;iglz]fill Her Promise
That She Will Kiss American Flag.
SEATTLE, WASH., April 20—/
From what golemn depths in woman's
nature rises that resolute patriotism
that transcends even mother love?
What is it that sustains her when
her sons are brought back upon their
ghields; that defies all gorrow, so that
the nation may be preserved and men
kept free? |
Mrs. FEmma Wilkins, 48 in years,
but age-old in grief, has it in supreme
measure, |
She has lost six sons, a husband, a
brother and four other relatives in
war.
A sacred mission brought Mrs. Wil
kins here from her Canadian home—
the fulfillment of a promise made to
one of her dead sons. And she has
remained to be an linspiration to
American womanhood soon to know
the personal griefs of war.
Three Oldest Sons Enlist.
“My three oldest sons” she sald,
“had been in English territorial regi
ments, as boy recruits. They crossed
from Montreal with the second Can
adian contingent. I saw them at the
pier there the last time on earth.
“Willlam and George, the two old
est, were killed at Mons, and their
stepbrothers with them. The third
son, Edward, my brother and broth
er-in-law, Lieutenant King, fell at the
battle of Ypres,
“The instant my three younger
sons®, Arthur, Albert and Fdward,
heard of the death of their brothers
they came to me, standing very
straight, and the oldest said:
“*Mother, it is time we were going.
Will you come along and help us
through?’
“I packed up for the journey, and
we sailed for England, our old home.
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There the boys said farewell, and T
was left alone, |
Sister Broken by Grief. |
“Going to visit relatives 1 found
my sister branded a raving lunatic
by the war. It was her husband,
Lieutenant King, who had fallen
with my older boys.
“While I was in Kent I was struck
by a flying fragment during a Zep
pelin raid and so severely wounded
that an operation was necessary.
“Then I hastened to Devonport,
’whlch was filled with the wives,
mothers and sweethearts of British
men at sea, and there I waited vain
ly for some word of my three remain
ing boys.
“Words are not vivid emough to
picture the terror I witnessed here at
the news of the battle of Jutland
reached Devonport. Streets around
the admiralty office were jammed
with weeping, shouting women clam
oring for news of their loved ones
throughout the night.
“Children, lost and erying, stum
bled about the streets, with no one
but the tired police paying any at
tention to the tots.
Three Killed in Jutland Battle.
“And when the news came in that
15,000 British sailors had been lost, I
saw at least twenty women go mad.
“My three boys were killed in that
action—my three youngest, my merry
sailor lads.
“lI went to France to see the place
where they sleep. Oh, that vast fleld
of the dead in France, where the
brave lads lie in immortal glory! A
field of sadness, yes. But a fleld, too,
of splendor and hope undying. The
price they paid that peace and joy
and freedom shall not be trampled
under the brutish boot!
“I have given my all to my country.
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My husband fell at Modder River in
the South African war when our
youngest son was but & year old.
“And now I have come to America
to fulfil a sacred rite!”
She paused a moment to compose
herself. i
“Thers was a girl who had come
into the Nfe of one of my sons,” she
explained. “My oldest sailor lad lov
ed her—poor little Lady Anne,’ a girl
from the United States who had lost
her life on the Lusitanta. It was her
death, as well as that of his broth
ers, that had hastened him away to
the colors.,
“His last words to me were:
“Mother, ilf T don’t come back, and
the United States comes in to help
us, please go down into the States
and kiss the Stars and Stripes for
me.’
“T have folfilled my lad's wish, and
a sweet peace has come upon me.
“Now 1 shall go home, I had al-
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most said—back to the little farm
that the rest of my lonely years may
‘be spent in the place provided for me
by my immortal boys.”
As long as there are mothers like
white-haired, blue-eyed, rosy-cheeked
valiant Mrs. Wilkins, with sons to
give, freedom will not perish from the
earth,
(By Intermational News Service.)
CHICAGO, Aprfl, 20.—When Mrs.
Clare Washburn was forced to crawl
into her house through an icebox door
it was too much for her and she flled
suit for divorce from George Wash
burn. Bhe alleges he locked her out
and the icebox door on the back door
was the only entrance open. Then he
tried to stuff a bath towel down her
throat, she says, and she quit.
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HIRED BOYS TO STEAL COAL.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL., April 20.—Mrs.
Mary Sheehan has been convicted here
as a modern Fagin. She was found
gufl!y in the County Court of having
ired boys of her neighborhood to steal
coal for her from the Wabash Railroad
yards. She is alleged to have given
candy and small change to the youths
for the theft.
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PORTLAND, OREG., April 20.—Ports
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The polishers have all joined Shoe
Shiners’ Union, Local 15,666, and havs
advanced the price of their “wares” to
15 cents for the common or garden va
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shine