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...Hour" forms a full evening's pleasure--but as to whether or no Sardou and Barrie walking arm-in-arm make for harmony is quite a different story. The first part of Miss George's present bill is frothy, laughable--an in retrospect rather silly. Its pleasure lies almost wholly in the delightful acting of the star and Mr. Lawford. The Barrie portion of the program is concentrated power and emotion of a sadly scarce variety. Here the material with which the actors work is of far finer filre, and, perhaps as a natural result of this, the quality...
...advocates of the proposed system of universal military training realize that not one of our foreign wars was undertaken in self-defence, and that our country has never been attacked, even when its navy was almost a minus quantity? Again, shall we disregard the testimony of such military experts as General Erasmus Weaver, who has assured the House Committee on Military Affairs that our coast defences are inferior to none in the world, or shall we lose eight of our system of mines, submarines and fortifications, which Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt declares make "a navy almost...
...much for the negative aspect of the question. Let us consider for a moment some of the almost inevitable consequences of the inauguration of a system of universal military training. In the first place, every student of international relations is well aware that the strengthening of a nation's military establishment incites either nations to do likewise; so that, not only are the resources of all the countries concerned taxed to the utmost, in the vain hope of successfully vying with one another in the up building of armaments, but the very act of increasing a country's military forces...
Again, every one who inquires impartially into the fundamental causes underlying modern wars is struck by the fact that in almost every case a nation declares hostilities, not in self-defence or to ward off invasion, but in the secret interest of powerful and unscrupulous commercial, manufacturing and financial combinations, who, for their own selfish purposes, play upon the public's sense of fear, patriotism or national pride. "National honor" and "manifest destiny" represent hackneyed--though, alas, still potent--catch-words employed in this connection. What assurance has the American people that a vast and efficient military establishment will...
...Almost 50 members of the University are entered in the Coast Artillery games which will usher in the Indoor Track season tomorrow evening at the South Armory...