ground tanks will gradually become obsolete in warfare as bows and arrows and spear fighting gradually passed by as relics of the old time savages.
 Just now, however, the nation supporting the strongest air forces will win the present wars just as I pointed out would happen at the beginning of the “World War” in 1914, (For substantiation of this statement see the New York Herald and also the New York World under date of August 7, 1914.)
 Because old fogyism predominated in the minds of their administrators, and they could not grasp such advanced ideas during the days gone by, the liberty loving people of many countries are now paying heavy penalties and bowing their heads in disgrace for such hindsightedness. They even snickered at my forecasts.
 Some countries, in the future, will also have to pay heavy penalties for the hindsightedness of their present leaders who cak only see as far as their own pocketbooks.
 Let us all hope that such disgrace may never fall upon the heads of the American people and that unselfish men and women of superior qualities and extraordinary vision may be chosen to govern them beforehand.
 A large part of my life was given to the development of aircraft. I pointed out repeatedly in my magazines “FLY” and “AIRCRAFT” from 1908 to 1912 that there would be war in the air just as soon as two first class nations started to fight each other. But even the aviators of those days scoffed at sucn an “absurd idea.” (See Aircraft Magazine for December, 1912—page 292—for good proof of this statement).
 In my magazine AIRCRAFT for April, 1913, I used a cover design showing a fleet of Airships and Aeroplanes under which I wrote—“HEY! THE GERMANS ARE COM­ING. The above picture shows how the German air fleet would appear passing over London. This picture also illustrates how the same German air fleet would appear over any of our American coast cities as shown in Alfred W. Lawson’s recent message to Con­gress, published in full in the Congressional Record, February 17th, 1913, pages 3354-3355.”
 Now, the same man with ability to forecast such happenings many years before they actually occurred—the same man who invented the AIRLINER and was the founder of AIRLINES—the same man who spent more than twenty years building the Aircraft Industry—this same man still retains that power of vision and ability to develop practical plans for the people’s future safety. The same man who could understand all of these possibilities before they arrived is also the man who is able to understand the ways an means to stop the Conquerors of Europe and Asia from using these man-made machines to conquer, enslave and mistreat the Amer­i­can people.
 And the same man stands uncompromisingly for the American form of Government and is willing to give the best that is in him for the benefit of the American people without pay or reward of any nature whatsoever.