The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-12-19

Killers Big Threat
Not So Hot After All
BY ALBERT n. LEMAN
NEW YORK group Of
Americas most famous business
men is wrestling with the ques-
ton Of whether or not II Is wise
for industry to organize this COM
ing year as a national bloc TO
bring carefully directed force In
to the field Of labor and govern
ment relations. Already the Ma
tional Manufacturers Associa-
ton, the United States Chamber
Of Commerce and kindred insti-
tutions promote in general the
interests Of their class. But q
plan for a more highly special
lied unit Of shock troops" IL
being studied by select conf
dental committees
One school OF economic theo-
rists contends that management
suffers from its Lone Ranger tao
tics. Each company or branch
is so individualistic that II is at
great disadvantage when dealing
with unions which have the joint
support of all brotherhoods and
access TO pooled information. As
one New York executive puts it,
We are independent amateurs
matched against a band of pro-
fessionals." He suggests a COM
bined front within each trade
classification. That probably will
be the program.
Greater bravery was not dis
played in the pathetic Children's
Crusade Of the Midle Ages than
is shown daily by heroic little
tots in enslaved lands. When the
British entered Madagascar they
discovered that a band of fifty
boys and girls had been prepar-
ing the way for liberation. Some
of the group had been captured
by Vichyite police and marched
through the streets in handouts
but their example merely spurred
associates to greater activities.
Over the week end 1t looked as
IL some of the excellent work
done by men and women In Amer
lean munitions factories would be
lost because restless Persians
were rioting again and threaten
ing our supply routes of tanks
and guns to Russia. Earlier BAN
dts had butchered a British doc
tor. and frenzied mobs, egged on
by Nazi agents, were milling
through the streets of Teheran
yelling insults at isolated Allied
soldiers. But attachments with
fixed bayonets marched through
the capital while others took up
stations along the pipelines.
The inside story is that behind
this latest outburst is food
The past two harvests
have been flops and grain re-
serves are down to the bottom of
the bin. Uncle Sam has promised
to send wheat and cereals but
they have not yet arrived In
quantity. The country is fourth
IN petroleum output and contains
at Abadan one of the biggest re-
fineries in the world which for
years has enriched privileged
lranians and European stockhold-
srs. Despite its liquid treasure
The land is poor; in fact, so bar
rem that scarcely one-third of its
acreage can be cultivated.
Persians are among the most
persons on earth. They
cared to permit the Soviet to
iefend them from the Axis lest
he Reds should incite the Kurds
20 revolt. They resent the pres
nee Of well-fed United Nations
.echnicians.
The favorite sport Of their
origands Is sniping at English
'entries. Their picturesque ba-
.aars are hotbeds Of intrigue and
very shopkeeper is a sucker for
German propaganda spread by
fifth columnists and spies.
United States aeronautical ex-
'erts no longer gulp with amaze
nent at Goering's new strato-
Iphere bomber. Military intelli-
fence has revealed so many flaws
n the sky monster that the Allies
re not apprehensive so far as
s45 Is concerned. Earlier alarm
SITS visualized the giant soaring
Icross the Atlantic and dropping
on Broadway.
Filters started from reports
hat the super terror had made
Experimental flights over the
British Channel and that it was
iot only beyond reach Of anti
ireraft but also too high for in
ereeptors- Statistics since
altered by engineers bring out
hese hsndieaps:
In order to attain the forty-fivs
nouSand foot altitude an lrnourn