El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-06-29

CpRTNGFIELD. Mass, June 2s--fhe
- great war Of today consists Of
killing man by machinery This let
ter has TO do with some Of the dead
LEST machines used on the battle
deld.
T. IS a war OF mechanics This let
ter has to do with training the eE-
nerts who show the mechanics how
to handle the machines
it is a war Of inventions for the
spreading OF death and destruction.
This letter has to do with the great
est OF such Inventions and the man
who created it, a man who ranks TO
modern -uunery as Edison does TO
electricity and Bell TO the telephone
The letter is about the machine
-uu and especially the new brown
iuEs and the man who invented Llaill-
70 tells also about the new scnlQ-
which Uncle sam has created TO train
teachers 90 show our soldiers how TO
use che guns In fighting the Germans
shan take Up first the story OF
the new machine sun inventor Ills
name YOU VIII not lind in any enCy-
clopedia- Stiu he has been the IN
Tentor Of nearly all OF the Wincnes-
ter rifles from that OF 1873 TO that
cf 1906.
He is the man who perfected the
stevens u gage repeating shotgun
auto leading rife he is the orlglna-
tor Of the Colt automatic gun which
Is used in many OF the armies, and
the designer Of the Colt automatic
pistol of which over a million are IN
the hands Of our soldiers
BroFFuiuE. the Gun Inventor,
More than all he IS the inventor Of
the new machine guns which we are
now ma king in quantities Tor our men
i'm the field, and OF the alrpla1e ll-l5,
and destruction at the rate OF ltyu
shots 90 the minute
The name Of the inventor IS John
III Browning. Re comes from me
desert highlands OF Utah. and his
home is at Ogden, only gunshot or
so from salt Lake City He has been
making guns OF one kind or another
In his laboratory there since he took
out his first patent in 1880
That was for the " Winchester single
shot rifle, and he made 600 OF those
rifles fin his little shop there rom
foreinEs shipped in from the east A
little later the patent was bought py
the Winchester company, and since
then the Winchester rifle mas been
known all over the world
later on 1lr. Browning invented
other Winchesters, ReuinEtons and
Colts. He created the Remlng ton
auto loading shotgun, and he was dec
GRATED fin 1914 BIZ the king OF Belgium
when the number Of automatic Dis
tolls made at the factory OF Llege mad
reached % I. 100000
/ have already written Of the
Browning automatic pistol II is
among the greatest assets we have
browning, the Patriot.
understand that John II Brown
fnE is now in Connecticut, where ne
spends a great deal Of time az the
various factories. supervising his In
Tentions Re Is not easy 70 lnee-
and his mcdestT Is EEch thai ne ls
not interviewed. he has been de-
scribed as a square 5aWed American
Yankee who minds his own business
and cares for but little outside his
Thers IS one thing sure, and that
Is that he Is q patriot and not prom
teering upon the United states gov
eminent BIS inventions are so much
used that his normal royalties OF
those used By the army ana nav!
would be more than $1,000, 900 week
He has given all OF them to the gov
eminent for the term Of the war, 1ol
only a little more than one half Of
that sum
100000. OF as much as he might have
collected I'm the space OF ten days
But upon that came an income tax @
so per cent OF 100000, making hi
actual receipts from this million
week possibility a total o. only $500,
900 for the whole term o. the war
am told this in Springfield by mel
who should know
A BIT Of Gun History.
The idea OF a gun 10 shoot by ma
chinery is not new. There IS dou
bic barrel bronze gun in the Bostol
navy yard which was captured d
Korea IN 1870, and e has q Chinese in
scriptiou upon it showing that Il wa
made IN 1907 IT weighs "a pounds. o.
one pound less than the light Brown
INK It is double harreled- and 10 wa
SO made that three shots IN success
sion could be fired from each bar
rel
Long before our revolutionary va
attemDts ar machine guns were mad
fn England. and in 1852, while y
were still fighting the Indians Wit
old fIutlocEs. PepTE wrote IN Do
diary that there had Just been eLhib
tied in London a gun that, without re
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