The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-10-28
. New York
Listening Posi-
u. S. Preparation for
War Has Ne Counterpart
Engineers Doing Things
No Man Has Dreamed OF
Germans Feel Theirs Is
Nov One Hopeless Task

NEW foRk - Tne United
States IL en the threshold of way
ing war Of Q sire never before
imagined by the mind Of man. The
magnitude % our installations
overseas has no parallel In history
That knowledge Is evident all over
the Old World. II has caused q
wave Of Encouragement 10 enguif
the German people. who are APP
palled AZ what they have tackled
and At the inability OF their lead
ers 10 meet the situation.
These observations are no, the
superlatives Of 4 patriotic pep
talk; rather they are descriptions
given by one OF the outstanding
figures Of New York business who
has International contacts and
who recently returned home after
= 1900 mile airplane trip through
Allied and neutral Europe. a. well
as parts OF Asia and Africa where
the American Army Is Just begin
ming to hit It's stride.
Our engineers are doing things
that would have been thought be-
yond the bounds Of reason a few
years ago. Forests are leveled
and deserts are transformed into
assembly eenters. New technIques
for doing the impossible have been
adopted and the degree OF coordi-
nation is so amazing that II defies
adequate compliment.
The people abroad now realize
the difference between Europe's
scale of preparation and ours.
We have changed the struggle
from a series of small wars into
what next spring will be complete
war. That fact Is penetrating all
minds. Where now so planes en-
gage in battle. within ak months
1000 or more viii take part. Al
ready whenever concentrations oc-
cur we have the upper hand. Here
after we shall have so many bases
with full equipment and reserves
that we can choose any theater in
the globe and throw into II the
maximum number of aircraft.
Avenues OF information as are
available only TO topmost officials
were opened for the New York
observer. He learned from unim-
peachable sources that the feeling
on the part OF Germany Is one OF
hopelessness at a heartbreaklng
Hill that must be climbed. This
does not mean that the Reich Is
about to break up; she must first
be smashed before she will coll
lapse and that time il still unfore-
seeable. But human beings are
human beings, and the Nazis real
lie that they have had their day
and II Is obvious to them and to all
Europe that we have just started.
Those who understand the Teu-
tons are convinced that the sight
of the overwhelming volume OF
planes with which we shall dark
en- the sky viii unnerve them.
They will be asking. What In Il
possible to DO against this incred-
ible foe from overseas which has
only begun to show his strength ?"
Their agents have reported TO Ber-
lin the story Of our growing might
on every front and the uncanny
ability Of our technicians to sur
pass all speed records in putting
together such aerial behemoths as
Flying Fortresses with their
countless parts and throwing them
into action.
The Nazis themselves still eat
but they realize that the next ak
months viii be as bitter a period
as they have ever experienced.
Typhus and diseases endemic 10
war have increased tremendously.
But worst Of all is the universal
spirit Of disheartenment which the
Axis cannot hide from other ma
tons. To the marrow of their
bones they know that in the
spring we shall swamp them.