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Show Hi 'ARE AMERICANS INFERIOR? i One hundred per cent of the supposedly well people of the United HI States over 30 years of age have some physical defect or impairment and 70 Per cent of these impairments are of a more or less serious Mj nature. That is the substance of a letter received by the Standard j Jm the secretary of the National Association for the Study and H Prevention of Tuberculosis. HI t, ?h& nclus.ion is base on the careful studies recently made bv H the Lufe Extension Institute among two highly specialized groups of H people, the first group consisting of workers in the Ford Motor Com- Hj pany of .Detroit, and the second group consisting of employes of com- Hl meeTl houses banks and trust companies in New York. The records H of these examinations show that practically none of those examined ! "Jfj; and women, are normal in the strict setfse of the word. Another l Btriking fact m the examination is that only 10 per cent of those who H 2S2 lmrSf-ireV Ycr,e aWare -thore was anyfcl"& the matter with H ?n ?; t5 Qf f ' 1S snf?c11Gnt to mak ev man and woman M m the United States give careful consideration to the necessity for at H least one physical inventory of his entire body a year The' largest H group of more or less serious impairments discovered were those H $ong sugar, albumen or casts in the urine. More than 45 percent H of the above-mentioned groups showed defects of this nature In the H Bamei PS aW 2? per cent showed formal blood pressure, whue H f -f l7 2? Rer ce? fhowcd combined disturbances of circulation and H o-eySV rgaC hRTt disCase' lhikcncd arteries, lung trouble H leading to possible tuberculosis, nervous affections, digestive trouble' H lUd V?2eal d,-sease wer discovered, practicaUy all of which had H scaped the notice of the individuals examined. M A German, in discussing the European war with a Standard r H jeaentative, said the United States could not throw as i army in the Hi field to compare with the Kaiser's fighting forces, eTen if grven tee H y;eT mr10h 5 P.rcpare' and he based W contention o? the nhv H fiCal of c average American of military Le He safd" H there has been so much dissipation in this country, mparied Thy over-eating and neglect of physical development, the Americans have become a people inferior in military requirements to the trained soldiers sol-diers of his fatherland. This health report tends to confirm the German Ger-man Js statement If 70 per cent of our men, 30 years of age and over, aro seriously ailing, wo have a nation of weaklings. We" somewhat doubt tho accuracy of the report sent out by the National Association. |