El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-06-08

, drafted and kept on the job Just as
our soldiers are kept on the Job in the
army. He says ir is no worse 20 drift
q man TO make q pistol than TO draft
him 90 shoot it, In one case he loses
only his sweat while in the other ne
is liable 20 lose his blood and his
life. Moreover. the man in the NUM-
tious factory is paid from SIS TO $40
a day. while the man in the trenches
gets barely 81 and keep.
The work OF making an automatic pistol
is enormous compared with the size OF
the weapon The pistol Is so small that
you could put it up YOUR sleeve or drop
Dc into your coat pocket Nevertheless i-
has So different parts. ranging ia size
which requires q forging Weighing over
four pounds Many OF the Parts have TO
pass through n half dozen processes or
more. and I'm all over 100 different hands
are engaged, IN one capaclry or another
on each individual pistol
To takes 125 men 20 make the receiver,
90 % make the slide and 80 10 make the
barrel Something Ike eI5 are required
the men and women who handle each part
% the weapon until 90 is completed and
packed away ready TO be shipped 60 Tho
boys On the trenches the number is. as
In this work every one has one part 90
do. and the processes are so s-anllrliz led
that one man ofen does the same thing
. over and over again throughout the day
saw one boy who spends the whole day
drilling holes IN the barrels, and near
him girl putting peg after peg into q
hole from morning until evening
Many Minute Parts.
Much o. the work IS less fixed. and
much requires JUDGMENT. care and con-
siderable skin EvcrythinE has 90 be
look over the pieces and measure lne5n
with cages 20 see that they are exactly
right some of the parts are so si--
that they are counted by Weighing them
en- H"H HH7 "a
Every part has 90 Rave i-7 own special
machines 90 make 90. and more shan SEQ
Of the most expert t9oiullzers or me
{ country are kept busy turning OUT oupal-
cate and extra parts for the pistol making
unchileE These machines Llvs 20 be de-
signed. ana each part OF the pistol is be-
room I looked 10 the sketches for one
little part a piece Of steel about h-it
the size OF a postage stamp and as thick
as the nail OF my thumb The drawings
for thlt part covered as many sheets as
the architectural plans for a ten-story
apartment huildinr. and they were t1r
more intricate The part itself figures
less than the fraction OF cent IN the
cost % the gun. but thousands OF dollars
have been spent 20 set ready 90 make Dc IN
the special machines and tools which VIII
turn &C. ut by the thousands
Subject to Many Tests
Tho metal of which the guns are made
ls an subject 90 physical and chemical
analyses The steel. which comes in lna
OF NNA-A AHA e-AA-a --'- ---a".
parts. has been carefully made and
pounded ont in the rouEh at the h-gs
steel plants in the country After 70
reaches the pistol works &c goes again into
the fcrr es. and enormous steam hammers
work the Ghers over and over INTO
homogeneous and unh-calzahIe mass me
steel o. heated and hammered again ana
again. forging weighing over two POUNDS
being often reduced by this TnealiuE ana
cutting and polishing into seven ounces
by the time 10 is ready 90 GO into the
weapon. All the finishing. h1rlnE ana
riniuE OF the forEinEE iz done tT machines
and special tools made Tor che purpose
There are forciu-s for The various parts
scattered here and there throughout me
big room I have described. Each pile is
where it D. needed for part OF The wors,
and where Dc can hc most conveniently
handled. In one place sou may zee the