Roosevelt Standard | 1916-10-25 | Page 8 | Ain't it the Truth

AINT IT THE TRUTH salt lake city oct 10 sixteen applicants for enlistment whose right legs were longer than their port side members were rejected at the local recruit ing station of the united states marine corps during the month of august according to seargent frank R busch the noncom non mon com officer in charge 1 I take no stock in the theory that it is an hereditary afflic affliction ic with a salt lake locale ale said disaia marine sergeant busch today but it is a peculiar fact that very many males of the city have starboard gambs longer than the left ones one explanation is that the male forbears of this younger generation lad had their legs pulled so hard and often by their wives during the spring bonnet season that the off spring has been marked with a a port