SOFT AND FLABBY

Evening Star, Issue 25225, 12 July 1944, Page 3

SOFT AND FLABBY

YOUTH OF AMERICA SERVICE EXAMINATION DISCLOSURES Press Association—By Telegraph—Copynghl NEW YOICK, July 10. Medical examinations tor selective* service disclosed a grave natioua). health condition and the need for corrective action both now and after the war, according to witnesses before the Senate Committee on War-time Health and Education. Colonel Leonard Rowntree, the selective service medical director, said one-third of the men called up proved mentally or physically defective. Ho added that the examiners expected to find rough, virile manhood, but found instead American youth soft and flabby. " We can no longer regard ourselves as a sturdy, healthy nation," he said. ''America is ailing." The selective service director, General M. L. Hershey, pointed out that older men and fathers were called up because so many of the younger men were deficient. He added "that the accelerated growth of mental disease presents the greatest potential danger. Other witnesses mentioned the prevalence of veneral diseases, tuberculosis, hernia, and dental defects.