Show pali tip C 3 ta hn e capable potential fighting men ASHINGTON HINGTON kS history teaches men tho the lesson that V nations rose to their greatness when physically fat crumpled when physically unfit experience in the draft in te d that 50 per cent of our young have bave physical defects what tin alag situation 60 50 per cent of a BS manhood defective I 1 but it also adso shown that most of these dei could be corrected by proper ieng acial reports from camp mcclel ala disclose that an experiment ag tile the summer ter with a company ot of civilian military training camp cats ats selected for their physical ness for military service turned bout out at alt the end of three weeks as able potential fighting men submitted by capt ie 0 report was IV y L edale anje twenty ninth infantry commanded the special training p pany any fit at the climp camp composed of who would otherwise have been ted eted for the summer work it amends that sli similar tillar companies be dazed next year and that adal I 1 men be thus saved to tho the elti catl zen aminy 1 in proof of 0 tho the success of tile tho experiment it added that not only was there a remarkable improvement pro in weight elle chest st expansion height mental alertness and en enthusiasm m among tho the boys of tile the special sp e ca a I 1 company but that in competition with four prize companies of tile the regular camp at tile conclusion of training the fortner former physical defectives won third honors tn in selecting men for tho special company groups of boys slight blight organic defects or alt indications of disease were segregated temporarily at the hospital in on one case SO 30 y youths oil suffering from hookworm were returned to tile tho company completely cured one hookworm patient gained 23 pounds in three weeks the 1110 gain of weight for tile the entire company of men during tile the camp period was shown by the records to be 12 pounds a man on the average could the young men irlen of the nation till all bo be put through the training of the military camps it Is 19 obvious that tile the percentage of defectives would be tremendously reduced |