COAST ARTILLERY, JOURNAL - Air Defense Artillery

558 THE COAST ARTILLERY JOURNAL
conduct of troop schools, with sufficient elasticity of program for expansion
along any lines permitted by local facilities. With such an
arrangement, general standardization of instruction would be possible
and the conduct of troop schools simplified. It would appear that
corps area, post, camp, and unit commanders err in not creating a
demand for the instructional matter of the correspondence courses.
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for war, because they cost so much, is but a symp.
tom of decadence. "How can we afford these ships
or these armies?" This is the whine of a small
householder and not the cry of a virile nation.
Neolithic man wept similar tears, no doubt, over
his arrow-heads. "How can I afford all these days
chipping this wretched flint, my body aches for
food and my brood is starving?" He did afford
these days, and had he not done so, his race would
have been exterminated. Nature cares nothing
for the sweat of man's brow or the leanness of his
purse; nations must, therefore, not only afford
to survive but must will to do so. If some war
commodity be beyond the national means or the
national powers of labor, nations must not cease
in their efforts or rely on second-rate weapons, but,
instead, they must either increase their powers of
labor or substitute for these costly weapons cheap.
er and more effective ones. The nations which can
accomplish this survive; those which cannot-
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