The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-08-10

fatherland, as many other Germans
have already served in this country?
AS Mr.. Hughes says:
"'There has been laxity at the
Ford plant with respect to those of
German sympathies with the inter-
ests of the government
The advertisement went on at
much length along these lines, en-
phasizing various paragraphs with
heavy type. Then it said:
1T is now plain to every voter in
Michigan that Henry Ford is no more
wary of Hun agents than he was
when he followed Rosika Schwim-
mer to Europe on the peace ship
three years ago. He is as innocent
as ever.
eff Carl Emde wishes to make
plans and photographs of the Ford
plant or the liberty motor for use
by the nemies of the United States,
Henry Ford is willing to give him a
chance to do it, just as he fell for
Madame Schwimmer's pro-German
peace plans.
Henry Ford loves Huns too much
to be trusted with seat in the SEN
ate of the United States and help
make peace with them. Commander
Newberry knows them for what they
are and is helping to fight them at
every stage of the game.
There can be but one choice for
wide-awake Americans in this elec-
ton"
Taken by Surprise.
The Ford campaign managers were
taken completely by surprise. The
liberty motor work, the particular de-
partment attacked, was the best
piece of work that Henry Ford had
accomplished, and the Republican
letter was a staggering blow. The
only hope Of off-setting the damage
done lay in an immediate reply
through the Monday paners so that
as many as possible of the voters, es-
pecially in the rural districts, could
be reached before they went to the
polls Tuesday morning. Mr.. Pipp,
who had resigned as editor in chief
Of the Detroit News and who had
been government inspector in seven
Detroit factories eng" ged in war
work, was in charge # all the Ford
campaign statements given to the
press.
He began work at once on an
answer to the Hughes statement. 1t
was a difficult undertaking; for,
while he knew just what the Ford
plant had accomplished in the max
ing of war materials, it was hard to
decide how much could be revealed
at that time. Mr.. Pipp knew what
Emde had DONE. he knew that liber-
ty motors could not have been COM
pleted in such numbers without his
aid. A few words about these ia
nous motors will make this clear. Up
to that time the approved method
was to machine the cylinders out of
solid forgings, a method that con-
sumed a vast amount of time and re-
quired a tremendous amount OF
equipment and labor. To eliminate
delay the Ford company decided to
use steel tubing cut to length, one
end of the tube heated and formed
to a cone shape, leaving a small op-
ening at the end of the cone. A Sec
ong operation fattened the cone so
as to weld the hole shut, making
seamless joint. Unfortunately this
method was found impractical; the
hole was closed, but seams and
cracks appeared where the edges
came together.
Found Seamless wall.
1t was essential to produce a seam
less wall in the cylinder and four
men, Emde, Findiater, Hartner and
Martin, set to work to find method
of doing it. This they did by plac-
ing the point of the cone to one side,
so that when the defect was located
on the spot where two-inch hole
had to be drilled for the valve seat.
Production was started under this
method, but another delay was ex-
perienced because of the slow meth
cd of cutting the tubes. Emde set
to work again and designed and built
a shear to be used instead of steel
saw. The result was that 1000 CYL
inders day we're produced. In 9TH
er plants the valve housings, intake
and exhaust were acetylene welded
to the top of the cylinder. Emde,
with a companion, Riemenschneider,
worked out a method Of butt welding