Show I Editorials Editorials' by the People Many editorials a are e received by this depart department ent s so that It ft Is obviously impossible to print all of them lm immediately In cases there must be a certain amount of unavoidable many dis dis dis- to religious able delay In no case is this column opened Alland All communications must bear the authors author's name and address If you do not desire your name published indi cate this and it will be held confidential J PLANS FOR HUGE GUNS Editor Telegram The rhe Bethlehem Steel comp company any has lias well under way the building of plant and equipment nt for the manufacture of or sixteen-inch sixteen guns glens forthe for forthe the United States navy r and the army coast defenses ef The total outlay will b be in the fife neighborhood of 5 before the task of actually making the great guns begins The Zile b company V will have numerous new newt problems to so solve lye in in this as these have never been built before in this thus work as 85 guns as large as count country y The rhe ingots from which the gun gun tubes or jackets will I be rolled and machined will weigh close to tons tOllS each cacho Tho manufacture o of these ingots says the Iron Age requires facilities To ro take care of the especially l large al rge m mol molds olds s and handling a physical properties of the steel an annealing an and heat treating department equipped with annealing and heat treating furnaces feet to ninety feet in length and varying in nl 5 size ize from twenty four eight feet in width Idt is about to be installed The building housing this equipment is approximately feet abutting a building feet wide by 40 feet in In length housing the fl furnaces proper The Tho assembling of these huge guns represents an art unusual proposition requiring a crane of tons capacity to lift the combined weight of a gun gUll The fuel gas for the furnaces is brought from the Lehigh Coke company's plant through a two inch main which has just been completed The main is feet in length For machining and rifling e the guns tins a machine shop r feet will wall hee he be required to 10 turn out ont two of the guns a month An idea of the size of the machines required can cart be he had from the statement that the boring machines for tubes an and loners liners will be feet in length byc by approximately c twelve f feet et in per wi width th The rhe he new departments will cover about five acres of ground with withA a system covering about two acres or 01 more These rhese new divisions of the works will give pm employment I to about men lUen i A READER I |