Show many undraped scarecrows Scare crows in military service APT harold W jones ot of the army C v 24 medical edical corps has made an hinves ti gation of the k physical charac V I 1 te a of f re c cruias r u i t s accepted pi C for or the army since the civil wat war as shown by the medical records and according to a these thesa records it ig lj seems that the standard of 0 remits recruits is dete noat ing T the it e measurements ot of recruits mere ex and it Is shown that the percentage percent age ot of strong men en listed Is by fir far the lowest at the present day only 33 per cent as against 67 57 per cent in the men considered weak at the present time are 43 per cent as against 19 per cent in 1875 attention Is called to the fact that the percentage ot of foreign born recruits has fallen from more than 60 per cent to about 9 per cent and it Is suggested that many of the recruits obtained clears ears ago mere ere hardy german and iilah emigrants of stocky build 7 aich may ma account for the great difference in the percentage of strong men in the army now many ilan recruits from the country dis tricks of louisiana alabama and ml mi sis sippi are found to be ill fed and un der weight and capt jones states that the tha unis un hersal ersal custom of 0 vi waiving alving several pounds under the minimum M eight gets man many an undraped scarecrow into the service capt cadt jones further says I 1 we must take the figures cautiously As I 1 hake haie said I 1 think thero there Is no doubt that we are getting a different type of 0 man in the service today from what we wa got years ago he may be just juat as good and he may have more brains but ho he does not seem to have as much brawn whether the present day recruit would last as well under the old conditions of hard frontier serN service with sanitary conditions tar far interior inferior to those of 0 the present time Is bard to say but I 1 think it doubtful it if lie he would the high percentage ol of strong men in 1876 to 1873 1879 may kiy be due to the tact fact that recruiting at least in this part of 0 the country was not deiy active then and the arm arms could its men accept accepting trig only the hard test iest and the best beat |