Show many recruits rejected the call to has sounded throughout the united slates recruiting cr officers are calling for young men to enroll themselves in some branch of the nations forces we are thrilled by the devotion of the young men ho offering themselves to our count rys service yet are also sobered by ahe knowledge thit thousands of thee will bo rejected by the recruiting sur geona beluiso they arc physically unfit for military mili tiry service the experience of a year ago when the national guird was ordered to mobilize for service on thy mexican border will be repelled more than thirty per cent of the guardsman guardsmen Guards men last year were red by the examining physicians to be physically unfit for military service this condition i causing alarm to many people are ve becoming a nation of physical degenerates will our nation puffer tho fate of certain nations of the old world bioti passed inep oblivion of the of their people the experiences of certain modern nations may point out to the way of escape wh n england found it nece sary to raise a large army for her cam p urns in africa against the boers she discovered to her dismay that the recruits from the industrial districts of england were in great numbers for military service bad living and working coi editions and neglect of health safeguards had undermined the health and strength of her citizenship england learned her lesson and instituted vigorous measures for health protection and social reform the results can be seen today in the greatly mi proved of her soldiers the german government years ago realized the vital importance of th physical welfare of her people and put into force the most elaborate and effective system of health and social legislation the wonderful endurance endur ince exhibited by the german people during these three terrible years of war demonstrate the effectiveness and wisdom of that |