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...believes more firmly than M. T. C. A. that volunteers are not enough. The Association's emergency committee chairman, Manhattan Corporation Lawyer Grenville Clark, and its vice chairman, the New York Times's Colonel Julius Ochs Adler, went to Washington for hearings before the Senate Military Affairs Committee on M. T. C. A.'s legislative baby, the Burke-Wadsworth Selective Training and Service Bill (TIME, June 17). Main features: listing of available men from 18 to 65; from this list, men between 21 and 31 (ultimately 21 to 45) will be liable for selection...
While Colonel Adler was on the stand, one of the many hard issues conscription would raise suddenly popped out from California's Townsendite Democrat Sheridan Downey. How about $5 a month, asked Sheridan Downey, when the Army could not get the kind of men it wanted for $21? "We are going to face tremendous difficulties with fifth columnists," boomed Senator Downey, "and I know no better way than to conscript mechanics and pay no wages to service airplanes...
...have a boy myself," retorted Colonel Adler, champing his cigar, "and I want him to be trained somehow...
...must become skilled in the law and the prophets. Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary, which has a $2,000,000 endowment and which is headed by grave, bearded Dr. Louis Finkelstein, is the most famed in the U. S. Elected last May to succeed the late, great Cyrus Adler, Dr. Finkelstein is, like Dr. Arzt, a graduate of the Seminary...
...Young alumni of eastern colleges started a drive for compulsory military training. Under auspices of the Military Training Camps Association (the "Plattsburg Group" of World War I fame) and the leadership of the New York Times's Julius Ochs Adler, they scheduled college mass meetings. First to go on record was a group of 250 Princeton alumni, who unanimously favored compulsory training, urged that the U. S. establish a string of training camps. Few days later 500 Williams men followed suit. Similar meetings were scheduled at Amherst, Yale, Harvard...