The U.S. Government, alarmed by the draft's showingthat half the nation's young men are ill-toothed, nearsighted, addlepated or otherwise unfitlast week took steps to improve the physique of U.S. manhood. The start of the cure was announced by Franklin Roosevelt.
Of 900,000 already rejected for military service as physically or mentally substandard, 200,000 have been certified by draft-board physicians as mendable cases. On these 200,000 the first work will be done. They will be sent willy-nilly, said the President, to private doctors and dentists for treatment of eyes, teeth, hernias, venereal diseases, etc. As soon as they are fit, they...
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