Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-06-22
UNCLE SANS RIGID TEST.
High Physical Standard in the Army
and Navy.

| tNGW Ork SUM-
The man who is passed by a United
| States army or navy surgeon, whether
| he is an officer or enlisted man, is jus
titled in believing himself to be abso
lutely sound physically. 1t is main
tanned by men who ought to know that
never before was there got together, in
any country, 50 large body Of COM
petey sound men as that formed by
the regular ana volunteer forces of the
American army and navy at the pres
ent time.
| During the progress of the Civil War,
even in its first stages, when the army
| was choosing its men, the soldiers as
sembled under the flag did not, as a
whole, even approximate the physical
perfection exhibited by all the men
now serving the United States on land
and sea. Then the man who had thu
requisite number Of inches could get in
to either service. The Doctors examin
alton was cursoyy and superficial.
When mon began - be called for by
tens Of thousands the limitations as 10
stature Were Topped off ana the exam
ming surgeons simply sized up
the men with their clothes On to deter
mine If they possessed fair apparent
degree Of hardness. Later. when men
were summoned ~ scores Of thousands
anu t"e "f"Il'A@ process 1eSdh, III"
men were not examined III all, with the
result tha1 many tAou7r@hts 81 queer
ph>SI'a! SIe'.meas were packing mus
f.''9 =" " ~" thG oi'Se ~ w. WE F" H4l'
I many thousands more. incapable of en-
during the sulfrlings and hardships in
'i''i, ~ IN" service. were mustered
wy ?! "lSea7e ah' d'a'h urIofe Nh''
peace.
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