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Show PHYSICAL CONDITION OF MEN IS DECLINING N B W YORK. Marcr 24 Prolonged unemployment has reduced the physical physi-cal efficiency of young New Yorkers I to the point where only one of five applicants for army enlistment la found acceptable, Colonel W. B. At-I At-I klnson, head of the New York recruiting recruit-ing service said today. During tho period of prosperity immediately im-mediately following the war, comparatively compara-tively few men were rejected, he said, "Now wo find we must reject approximately approx-imately four out of every' five." |