The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-05-09
. New York
Listening Post
Pipe of Peace Missing
When Business Concerned
Public Wants 10 CrseL
Down on Special Interests
Nays Cracks Regarding
Jspsn Prove Bed Mis.sLe
BY ALBERT n. LEMAN

NEW YoRk-The great white
father may be earnestly trying
10 pass around the pipe Of peace
10 business but last week Heap
Big Chief Biddle certainly ram
med pepper into the bowl. The
Philadelphia sachem grunted
with delight when Thurman W.
Arnold at congressional pow
vows went on the warpath
against the tepees of the trusts
but when the same brave wanted
TO do a similar job on pale face
union racketeers. the bull OF the
wigwam Of justice threw q
blanket over his warrior. Scalp
ing one class while sparins an
other does not look like a square
deal TO many people on the New
York frontier.
The muzzled assistant at
torney-general could have told
the hearing of cases in which
Washington tesmsters threat
ened to cut off deliveries from
stores selling larger loaves Of
bread unless they raised their
prices 40 per cent. Because no
corrective legislation IL on the
hooks, courts have ruled that
labor In Chicago can prevent
consumers from having ready
mixed concrete, which restraint
increases the cost Of construc-
ton.
Reports throughout the coun-
try seem To indicate that the
public is determined to crack
down on any group-whether in
overalls or diamond studded
shirts-if that clique victimizes
the rest Of us or takes advant-
age of the emergency to grab
unwarranted profits. But abuses
must be exposed IL remedial laws
are to be enacted. The ira
ditional symbol of justice was
goddess with binders over her
eyes. Now Biddle wants TO stick
adhesive tape over her mouth.
Before the Pearl Harbor sur
prise. the navy's old chestnut
WAS that 1t could lick the Japs
with one hand tied behind its
back. Now our sea lion has
become something Of a mouse
combining its offensive to few
hit-and-run sallies at incense
quential coral islets. Although
its ships are jammed with
youngsters itching to square ac-
counts with the Nips. the cauti-
Gus admirals hesitate 10 bring
the war close to the Japanese
homeland.
This sit-down strike strategy
Is vigorously denounced in
new book, Victory in the Pa
cific' by Alexander Kiralfy,
naval expert. who claims the
enemy's coast lines could be ap-
preached with impunity. On a
50-mile visibility basis a large
fraction of his air force would
he needed for flying watchmen.
Since such concentration is inn
possible while his planes are
scattered over the Far East and
Bay of Bengal, the author points
out. a daring blow could be
struck and U. s. forces landed
on sakhalin. the big island
north of the japanese chain.
Narowness of territory would
offset any advantage which
Tojo's superior manpower might
have. All the means which the
used in their conquest
Of the East Indies infiltration.
parachute and air-borne troops
land and sea creeping-could be
developed by US in a steady ad-
vance TO Karafuto. Hokkaido
and other stepping stones 70
Tokyo. Once based on the first
shores of this archipelago, we
should have the spresdout cities
as our targets and for every
Allied soldier slain, we could wipe
out a hundred Japs.