New-York tribune., 1918-06-23

NM AsAlNeToN, June 22-A'r castles les
wv have turned into aircraft and
fond dreams have become toll
and torture for many men whom the war
has surprised as much as Western twister
surprises a calf when it translates it from
one pasture to another.
Now, there is Colonel Deeds who, accord
ing to Gutzon Borglum, was kind Of
vampire to General Squier. A lot Of people
think that Colonel Deeds is very danger
Gus character. You see, his great-grand-
father used, perhaps, to spell it Dietz
Ergo that "strong Teutonic personality"
that the dreamy Gutzon inferred.
When the war came along the colonel had
a good reputation, good appetite and a
secure place in the esteem of his fellow
townsmen of Dayton. He had sold his wor
ries to some trouble-seeking New Workers.
for several millions, and stray cipher or
two on check didn't bother him before or
after the point. He mad arrived in full,
local honors were his, and as the "Delco"
president he not unknown to fame
east Of the Hudson. AS only some two
decades had elapsed since the then tow
headed boy was seen moving his trunk on
a wheelbarrow through Dayton's streets in
hasty fight from a boarding house where
the rates had gone up q dollar a week to
one where they were still stationary he
was considered rather rapidly produced
self-made man.
Deeds the Investigated
Having nothing to do, as big doers reckon
doing, and lots to do it with, the war game
appealed to Deeds. He thought he would
like to get into the thick of things. He
did. For some months now Colonel Deeds
has been investigated by day and worked
by night. Investigators of aircraft have
been numerous that wag at one factory
suggested that Colonel Deeds provide sepa-
rate entrances for Investigators and give
them number series all to themselves, like
the carpenters, tool makers, etc.
The Dayton aircrafters are q good crowd.
They look on Dayton as kind Of aircraft
classic. Here the Wrights attained altitude
and fame, and government aviation engi-
neering headquarters are here. Orville
Wright is still here and is director and
consulting engineer Of the Dayton Wright
Company. After he disposed Of his rights
to the Wright-Martin Company he seemed
to be sort of eliminated from the aircraft
world. Messrs. Deeds, Kettering and H. E.
Talbot Gather and sony thought that was
all wrong and got together and "chipped in"
for an aeronautical laboratory forN Orville,
He was puttering away in this laboratory
and enjoying himself like boy at circus
on pass when war came and tho Signal
Corps wanted to know why the laboratory
could not be turned into q factory. So the
Dayton-Wright factory came to pass
Messrs. Wright, Kettering, Talbot, Gaddis
and others were conscripted before thev
knew it.
1t was forced or begged on them. The
Dayton men gave up new plant they had
been building for their Domestic Engineer
ing Company and dug into the war game.
First they built training planes and now
they are turning out De Havilands at
the rate of fifteen day, and gaining all
the time II the war should end tomorrow
they would have to put big book value on
their experience even to show one of those
profit statements that can't be liquidated.
Six Husky Brothers
Another group Of aircrafters YOU would
like to meet are the Fisher Brothers. of
the Fisher Body Company, Detroit. There
are six Of these husky brothers, and they
are of the finest type of Teutonic contri-
button to America. There are millions like
them. The good Americans Of German de-
scent are, perhaps, not so vocal as the
mongrel bunch that thought the United
States was an international boarding house
instead OF nation, but want to testify
that in my industrial wanderines have
found them on the job in many a respon-
sible place.
Well, the Fisher boys had inherited .
little vehicle business from their father
In ten or fifteen years they had expanded
1t to twenty great plants and had bscoms
the greatest manufacturers Of automob,l.
bodies in the world They had made a bio
financial cleanup. Ahead of them they saw
vistas of globe trotting. yachting, solfng.
relaxation. fads and hobbies. They had
worked desperately hard and denied than
se!ves-now the reward.
Bang comes the war and their drsam
blows up. The Signal Corps insists that
they must make airplanes. The brothers
know that nobody can drive the oreaniza-
tion like themselves to high pressure pro-
duction. So of come the coats and back to
the strenuous life again. They have con.