In other words. cut the red tape. Americans are the greatest mechanical and industrial race in the world. There is no reason why we should not build a mechanized defense as far superior and as far advanced beyond anything the European and Asiatic nations may have as our automobiles are superior to the foreign products. There is no question about our ability to do this if restrictions and handicaps on the War and Navy Departments are removed. We could and should keep a generation ahead of the world on mechanical developments in the national defense if we scrapped the outmoded and cumbersome system of research. experiment. and development of weapons. which is due largely to the earmarking of funds.