Show MACHINES COME FIRST IN preparedness MACHINES AND MEN not men and machines are the component parts of the army ot of today machines come first they are the first essential without machines guns tanks motorized transport planes men are helpless and defenseless fen seless I 1 man all the atlantic seacoast with men only and they could not prevent the landing ot of an dinv inv invading a ding force prepared with both machines an and d men I 1 we will not stop enemy airplane raids with pieces of stovepipe as antiaircraft anti aircraft guns our infantry will be worthless it if equipped with pieces of gas gai pipe instead of rifles our artillery cannot prevent the advance with logs mounted on wheels instead of modern cannon walls without modern guns behind them are not worth much as fortifications ficat ions to be effective the soldier of today needs accurate and complete knowledge of the mechanized equipment with which he is to fight corb more than to execute fours right br or furs fours left lie he must know how bow to aim a rifle he will not leam that I 1 with a piece of gas pipe he must know the mechanism and operation of an antiaircraft anti aircraft gun he will not learn that with a piece of stovepipe to assemble an army of a million or more men into whose hands we cannot place the modern 4 equipment that is needed in war warfare fart is putting the cart before the horse to put an army of a million men into camp and maintain it for a year will cost at leasta least a billion dollars why not put that billion dollars into equipment and when we have it then call that million or more men into camp to teach them how bow to use it our first job Is to provide the machines of war for our men to use |