230 THE KIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



to our nation than the means of acquiring 

 wealth, for such wealth is temporary. 



In a certain recruiting office in New York 

 City, 90% of those who applied were re- 

 jected ; in Kentucky, 65%. In the Navy Ee- 

 serve applications in Illinois, 76% were re- 

 jected. 



The recruiting officers of our Army and 

 of our Navy must reject men because they 

 are too small and lack chest expansion, be- 

 cause they have defective vision, hearing 

 and lung expansion, because, in short, — of 

 defective bodies. To sum it up, they are 

 physical weaklings. 



IF OUE AEMY AND NAVY COM- 

 PEL EXAMINATIONS OF MEN WHO 

 AEE TO BE FOOD FOE CANNONS 

 AND SUBMARINES, OUE GOVEEN- 

 MENT MUST PASS LAWS EEQUIE- 

 ING THE SAME KIND OF EXAMINA- 

 TIONS BEFOEE MAEEIAGE OF OUE 

 YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN, IF THEIE 

 OFFSPEING AEE TO BE OUE FU- 

 TUEE SOLDIEES AND SAILOES. 



If the United States Government will, to- 

 day, only accept for the Army and Navy 



