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...Introduced in Congress were measures for home defense on the basis of voluntary service; ready was Colonel Julius Ochs Adler's (New York Times) bill for compulsory training. Colonel Adler said calmly that if the bill became law and Hitler remained on the loose, "We'd be an armed camp for a great many years...
Initiators of the plan for universal training were the Times'?, Colonel Julius Ochs Adler and Manhattan Lawyer Grenville Clark, whose Military Training Camps Association set out to raise $250,000 to promote acceptance of a peacetime draft...
Last week genial Colonel Adler, who served overseas with the 77th Division in 1918, told a group of Princeton alumni and students about a bill which was being drawn up for Congressional action. Most interesting detail: not only young men would be drafted, but about 15% of the draftees would be men from 32 to 38, and 5%, men of 38 to 45 (on the proved theory that groups combining different ages and various levels of intelligence do the best soldiering...
...Bolger can, still dance with the best of them, and a girl named Virginia O'Brien is surprisingly funny singing torch songs in a monotone, with a completely dead pan. Larry Adler does much better with a harmonica than anyone could possibly expect. And there's a bum (Emmet Kelly) who sits wordlessly on a park bench, removes a ham sandwich from a paper bag, eats it, then lazily brushes his teeth. He provides the one inspired moment of an otherwise uninspired show...
Erudite Writer Mortimer J. Adler...