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Show MILITARY TRAINING BEFOBfSUFp American Medical Association Associa-tion Urges Compulsion as Correct National Policy. CHICAGO, June 14. The sixty-ninth I annual convention of the American Medical Medi-cal association adjourned today, after the house of delegates unanimously adopted a resolution urging compulsory military training for all young men before they are permitted to vote. The text of the resolution was as follows: "Whereas, The partial inventory of our national health, made possible by the physical examinations under the selective I draft act, showed a -large percentage of our young men unfit for military service, and further, that as most of these disabilities disa-bilities are curable, the American Medical association is prompted to speak formally on this subject; and "Whereas, In view of the wonderful mental and physical benefits which have been manifested In the young manhood 1 of America through intensive military j training in the national army canton-1 canton-1 ments; and "Whereas. Knowing that this training 1 has done much to inculcate the knowledge and value of sanitation and personal hygiene in the individual; therefore, be it "Resolved, That the American Medical association, in annual convention assembled, assem-bled, urges the early adoption of a permanent per-manent national policy of universal mill- 1 tary training for all young men before the right of suffrage is granted them." New standards for the guidance of physicians in the physical examinations of draft registrants were presented to the medical aides from all states by Lieu- 1 tenant-Colonel J. S. Kasbey Smith, assistant as-sistant to Provost Marshal-General Crowder at Washington, and Hubert Work, medical adviser to the provost marshal. These standards are expected to make the work of medical aides to lo-ual lo-ual boards more uniform. |