False views--errors of fact--lead many to believe that mechanisms, machines, devices will make war impossible. We’ve felt that way before many wars. Far back in history people were sure that there’d be no more war when the blunderbuss took the place of the bow and arrow. We’ve found out for centuries that machines can’t do the trick. We’ve found out scientifically that man is the big factor. Weapons change but principles don’t. The only thing man runs from or ever has been known to run from, is another man. He just won’t be stampeded by engines, machines, mechanisms or missiles. He digs in. He protects himself. There’s not a thing man invents that man can’t find a reply to. Machines are for only one purpose--to help the man on the ground get forward. Battles in the air may help the man on the ground, but they wouldn’t settle anything. They couldn’t end the war. All this hysteria about the machine being the answer is unscientific, untrue and sensational. And bombing, gassing, strafing communities or cities not in the fight, or not with the army, is just as absurd. It would be the last thing a trained general would undertake. Nothing could be worse for his own side and his own success. Only the untrained general would indulge in such errors--and even he would soon learn his mistake. And as for wiping out whole cities by air bombing or by gas it’s mechanically impossible. Why, there’s not enough gas in the world to destroy New York City alone. And if there were it would take fifteen thousand airplanes, unhampered, to make any impression. And where would fifteen thousand airplanes come from at a hundred thousand dollars a throw? Don’t be fooled by these silly flights of fancy of unschooled, untaught, unscientific blunderers. Then there’s the cry of militarism against decent readiness. Militarism. Why there never has been such a thing in the United States--and least of all with the soldier, and there’s no reason to believe there ever will be. I defy anyone to show me a single instance of it in any group at any time in this country. If more people knew our true state, our true history, they’d see the rotten absurdity of shouting against it. But theorists, revolutionary socialists, peacebreakers are using this cunning false method of gulling our youth into striking against any little strength the United States might have.