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Show DRAFT JOJjE FAIR METHODS OF 8ELECTINQ MEN FOR NATIONAL ARMY WILL BE ABOVE CRITICISM. NO CHANCE OF FAVORITISM Rules for Physical Examination ef Volunteer Recruits for Regular Army Will Be Modified for the Young Conscripts. By EDWARD B. CLARK. Washington. Wnshlngton knows that there 'Is anxiety throughout the country lest In tho drawings hero and there there may be some "trick of the trade" by which certain men may be drawn for the new array and certain other men not drown by means of some doft sletght-of-hand performance. Tho Inst Registration day reports have come Into Washington. There Is not enough concern left In the results of registration to shadow the rapidly looming Interest In the methods which will be adopted to -choose the service men by use of the rule of chance. Tho country can nt once glvo over nny apprehension thnt the drawings will not bo fair. A method will be adopted by which tho drawings will be lifted from out of ony shadow of suspicion as to the fairness of methods. There will be no possibility that anyone any-one can enter n legitimate objection to tho means which nro to be employed to give nil men equal chances In tho matter. Tho chanres seem to bo that for the new nrmy there will be some moillfl-cntlon moillfl-cntlon of tho rules which now nrc In force for the physical examination of volunteer recruits for tho regular nrmy. It Is not believed that young Americans for the new forces will bo compelled to measure p to the standards stand-ards sot for recruiting for the regulars. When It wns declnred n day or two ngo, seemingly by authority, thnt regular regu-lar nrmy standards would bo maintained main-tained for n physical examination, cronkers Instantly began to say, "This will not lenvo one really stalwart young American In the country." Why So Few Are Accepted. It Is pretty generally known thnt out of every five men who hrivonpplled In the pastat regular recruiting offices, only one man has been accepted. No ono hns seemed to realize the real reason for this condition of 'things. In certnln districts In the United Stntes fully CO per cent of the volunteers of tho regular nrmy have been ncceptod. In somo other districts only lt per cent of the willing ones have been-ticcepted. It Is a matter easily explained; ' In tho past, notably In the'fclty dls-tricts. dls-tricts. there have applied fo'the recruiting re-cruiting ofUccrs thousands of men of whom by fnr the greater percentage were seeking enlistment because they hud come to the conclusion thut they could do nothing In civil life1. Army officers. If they would tnlk, coutd tell tales of hundreds of down and outers, physical decreplts. who, tired with the struggle tn get n living, perhaps not by the labor route, have applied for permission per-mission to serve Undo Sam, with good money, good bed, good board, good clothing and good caro thrown In. It was tho down and outers nnd'the men who, not willing to consider themselves down and out, yet through adverse conditions con-ditions had become run down physical; ly, who applied In largest numbers to tho recruiting officers for regular service. serv-ice. It was the Inevitable thing, therefore, there-fore, thnt the recruiting ofllce records In the great cities should show only nbout ono enlistment for nbout four or five applicants, "in the country districts dis-tricts the percentage of acceptances was much higher, because nwny from the cities living conditions were better, nnd moreover many sturdy young Americans were willing to enlist to get n chance to seo llfo under new conditions. con-ditions. Probably Fifty Per Cent Fit TTnder the lnw governing th(T raising of the new national nrmy every young American between twenty-one and thlr-ty-ono wns compelled to register for sen-Ice. Tho percentage of health and strength In young America's ranks Is high. It Is the belief of mnny nrmy officers that nt least 50 per cent of tho men who registered Inst Tnesdny can meet the requirements of regular army physical standards. In nil probability they will not be compelled to meet them, however, because If they were, tho man who was n little underweight, but who could put on weight In week, would escape service, whllo the other man who happened tn bo Just about right would bo compelled to tako on service. Almost unquestionably the physical stnndnrds for examinations will bo changed to meet tho requirements of tho present case. They will not bo lowered sufficiently, however, to nllow nny man to get Into the service who cannot under proper care nnd training be made physically lit within n few weeks to stand nn examination ns rigid as the ono ordinarily In use In recruiting recruit-ing for the regular nrmy. The camps of the nrmy Just registered regis-tered will be mnilo ns healthful as human hu-man Ingenuity can devise. There will ho drill and hard work In plenty, hut there will also be recreation nnd a system H "leaves" by which tho recruits re-cruits In camp can got nwny for n day or two nt u tlmo occnslonuUy. f rom the "wells of mllltnry discipline." It Is renll7.0d by the army authorities .thnt nil work nnd no play makes an 'indifferent 'indif-ferent soldier. |