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Show Large Men Are Flat- Footed and in Distress Denver. July 25 Tall, stout, ira-rosing ira-rosing and impressive policemen, living liv-ing uniformed monuments to tha majesty of the law, are to becomo only a memory bore, if the plans o the civil service commission are adopted and in their place will an. I -ear smaller, normal, but more wiry and active, men This revolution of police methods is the reault of "flat-foot." "flat-foot." it has been discovered that the bulkier officers develop a pedal Infirmity In-firmity through patrolling their beats which practically incapacitates them for regular service. Their weight, it is claimed. causes their feet to "break down," and they becomo fist-footed; every step causing agony. Local records, it is asserted, show that at present, twenty-fivs men, for this cause, are unable to be on duty I'jore than two days a week. The commission is planning to modify thd physical requirements so as to let In the lighter and more active men- |