War & the trend of national vitality . CO 1 THE WAR AND THE TREND OFNATIONAL VITALITY By E. E. RITTENHOUSE, Commissioner ? ?> Public Service and Conservation TP - 2 ^? The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States 4J The nation has been taking stock of the physical con-dition of its young men. It has been separating the weakfrom the strong for purposes of national defense. The result is amazing and disillusioning to those whohave held to the pleasing fiction that we are rapidly devel-oping an exceptionally vigorous and physically high-powered race. The official discard of weakli
War & the trend of national vitality . CO 1 THE WAR AND THE TREND OFNATIONAL VITALITY By E. E. RITTENHOUSE, Commissioner ? ?> Public Service and Conservation TP - 2 ^? The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States 4J The nation has been taking stock of the physical con-dition of its young men. It has been separating the weakfrom the strong for purposes of national defense. The result is amazing and disillusioning to those whohave held to the pleasing fiction that we are rapidly devel-oping an exceptionally vigorous and physically high-powered race. The official discard of weaklings by the army ex-1 aminers includes not only young men who are now actu-ally disabled, but also those who have incipient defectswhich affect efficiency, or which will do so under the stressof war service. The fact that we have such an enormous group ofphysically defective young men, chiefly victims of prevent-able, as well as curable afflictions, should be a matter ofdeep public concern, not merely because of our presentloss fro2874221upenn
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