Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-01-04 | Page 4 | Napoleon Could Not Qualify

NAPOLEON COU COULD D NOT QUALIFY ZO Napoleon apoleon Bonaparte greatest soldIer of all time would be turn turned ed Cd down don because of physical uli- uli fitness uh-fitness fitness If it he attempted to enter the army today This statement statement comes from Dr Alfred French surgeon He explains that at thee the thc age o 17 when Napoleon became an 0 of officer fleer he was underweight and thereby ineligible for army lerv service ice lee according to today's stand stand- standards standards ard ards At 30 he 1 would t uld have been reo re- rejected re rejected because of being over overweight weight lila His heart stomach lungs lung's and muscles were all wrong too S But his head hend was as per pel cent and It was as this head hend utterly no in independent n dependent ot of body that made him the worlds world's greatest soldier It Il would be Int Interesting to con con- consider consider sider Ilder other mighty men o of his his- history history tory who would be ed barred from rom the various lines in they shone by rules of thumb o of one olle sort or another toda today Modern science does docs some lome very wise things of o course But the theold theold theold old method ot of letting water and men seek their own level without arbitrary restriction wasn't halt bad either