The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-09-12
Giant Begins to- Stir
(The New York Timesl

| CThe New York Times)
 There has been complaint, and of it very specific complaint such that of Senator Byrd concerning deficiencies in our defense production. :, Unquestionaby there points at which it has Jagged due to a variety of causes among which insufficient concentration of planning authority, de- lays in material delivery, component bottlenecks and labor stoppages A very large measure of the delay of which there has been complaint s however due to the inevitable period of make ready" which cannot be avoided when fresh industries to be started existing industries transformed for work on an unprecedented scale to which they are not accustomed.
 In Detroit and other cities of the motor-car em- pire the newly created giant of mass production applied to materials of defense begins to wake His has been the sleep ideness but rather period in which new forces, drawn from the seasoned ima- gnation from the proved skills Of industry have been gathered and assorted and coordinated in way to astonish the beholder.f Strength has been drawn from every corner of the land. Where were farms and waste commons last harvest time are now mammoth buildings, enormous to seem almost unreal. Within them, in orderly arrangement, new tools created for fabrication and old tools adapt ed to new and more grim uses are cutting and form ing and machining weapons heretofore fashioned by the slow method of fit and file Today these weap- ons beginning to roll from assembly lines in an ever-increasing volume
 This month the Chrysler Corporation lifted a
  share-of the industrial giants function It revealed M-3 tanks, weighing more than 30 tons growing be- fore astoniShed eyes on three assembly lines after the same fashion that little passenger sedan from bare frame to chassis rolling under its own power. It showed military vehicles and trucks ing off more familiar assembly lines by the thousand to perform thanks to the application of multi wheel drive, feats of cross-country performance which would have spelled disaster to any vehicle in the last World War. It showed assembly of the Bofors antiaircraft gun in which the application of mass precision methods allows intricate parts to go to- gether in seconds rather than hours of older prac tices And it revealed the sort of quantity pro- duction thinking which before long will be shuckng out and center sections for the Martin B-26 bombers with their II 500 parts true quantity basis.
 And this is but part of one industry's con- trbution to the production of the materials for de- fense. Similar things happening at the aircraft engine plant of the Ford Motor Company at Dear born. Early this month General Motors will reveal some of it's manifold defense activities ranging from tiny control mechanisms to guns propelers and en- zines for craft of the air and the sea; miscellany calling for some S90000o000 in contracts Packard, Stakeholder, Hudson Wlys and the whole roll of the automobile industry, each its part, makes progress toward the same goal The industrial giant has been drawing deeply the unparalleled techn- cal skills of America. Now he has begun to move. Barring unforeseen check, his will be an out pouring of power the like of which the world here tofore has not dreamed