Science: Maedchen in Uniform?

Harvard's irrepressible Anthropologist Earnest A. Hooton was at it again. While Congressmen solemnly weighed the pros & cons of peacetime military training for all able-bodied young men (see U.S. AT WAR). the author of Why Men Behave like Apes and Vice Versa popped up with a fresh idea: why not conscript young women too? Argued Anthropologist Hooton:

"Rigorous physical conditioning of females, together with practice in the art of judo and in the use of firearms, might go far to restore to the family an equilibrium of parental control. . . .

"It would improve their physiques and general beauty by teaching...

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