Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON consolidated features service na EW YORK there was a skinny aboy boy over on coney asand who in one day spent popping off ducks and clay pipes on the ing n gallery wad shot conveyor tn in gallery helps belts he net garand rifle so go to college and it if he had he probably would have been voted the least likely to succeed but with young people you cant be too sure what is monkey moniker business or what this boy as above really had his mind on his work when he was banging away in the shoo shooting ting gallery he got himself a work bench and brought through the garand rifle which has increased M i creased our army small arm firling firing power by twofold two fold and which has brought to the 53 year old john C garand special commendation from general macarthur mr garand is still a gunsmith at the springfield armory earning around a year he has had big commercial off offers ers for his gun but has refused them and has waited patiently for the army to make up its mind during the years of controversy and many rigorous tests lie he is an erect lean can featured mop haired man with alert bespectacled blue eyes which focus sharply at about the distance of a gun sight he seems rather absentminded absent minded about the medals he has won and the money he might have made and is puzzled that anyone should sug suggest gest that he be ever had any thought other than handing his gun to the government it was in 1923 that he be offered the first rough mode model of his gun guril the bureau of standards backed him grooved him into the springfield armory and it was in 1939 that the war department provided funds for the manufacture of the rifle he was born in montreal was a sweeper in a textile mill in a small connecticut town at the age of 12 and was working part time in in a machine shop when he found his laboratory in the coney island shooting galleries 0 ONE NE defect of a non authority authoritarian rian society is that people usually dont consult authorities before making up their minds we have heard many exour draft army pres of best under any alarm based flag dr winslow on something right out of the feedbox feed box about the supposed general physical unfitness of our new army its just a cream puff army if you listen to these croakers none of them took the trouble to telephone the man who knows dr CE C E A winslow of yale university erdity he has studied the physical fitness of our recruits after a lifetime as a specialist in such matters he says our draft army is probably the most physically and mentally competent c large body of young men ever gathered together under any flag bag dr winslows Win slows succinct finding is reported in the fitness for freedom issue of the survey graphic magazine since 1915 dr winslow has been lauder professor of public health at the new york museum of natural history as director of the division of public health education in the new york state department of public health and has been associated with the rockefeller foundation in public health research and education he has written a wide shelf of books on subjects in his field conducted P innumerable surveys survey S contributed tri buted to countless forums forum and conferences dr winslow was the founder ol of the american hygiene movement A 64 year old bostonian he schooled for his lifelong life long battle against physical unfitness at the massachusetts institute of lechno technology logy yale and new york university he has furthered wider parti cipa tion among ollege college C students in in health building sports and he has beail been 2 a pioneer in both positive h health th and preventive medicine |