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Show CURABLE DISORDERS NO BAR TO SERVICE Drug Addicts Will Be Accepted and Reclaimed, Re-claimed, Revised Army Draft Regulations Provide. Reclamation of men snf ferine from curable disorders even those addicted to the use of narcotic drugs nnd rendering them fit for military service, is made possible in the revised regulations for physical examination of draft registrants, copies of which were received at the governor's gov-ernor's office yesterday. Chronic alcoholism is the insurmountable insurmount-able bar designated in the rule, which pays that "the registrant who .shows the majority of the symptoms mentioned in rfference to chronic alcoholism in regulations regu-lations for the local board Vhall ho rejected." re-jected." To be guided by advice of local physicians, phy-sicians, rather than army surgeons. local lo-cal hoards are given considerable dis- i eretion in attaining the object of th regulations to secure with ease men fit for military service, or who can b made fit for such service. Tho admonition is j that the rules are not to be construed in an arbitrary manner. I Special classification is provided for I nipn suffering from curable disorders, and .i f ter induction the v are to be sent to cantonment base hospitals, reconstruc-! reconstruc-! tion ramps or civic general hospitals, ao- cording to the revised rules. ! Yesterday division No. 1 sent two men I to the engineering corps at Vancouver barracks. Division No. - Nont three men to the; pignal corps at Fort Lcnven worth, one to the engineering corps, at Vancouver Vancou-ver barracks and one to the infantry at Camp Lewis. |