The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-07-13
Midgets Stand Better 4
Chance Than Giants of
Being Drafted Into War
Unless Exceptionally Well Propooned Big Fellows Will Be Re-
ected Men Below Feet Inches to Be Taken for First
Time-Eght Good Teeth Prime Requisite. -

] Washington, D. c., July 13.-Tn prep
aratiOn for the selective draft to mill.
tary service, which is expected to take
| place next week, Provost Marshal
General Crowder took these two steps
| today:
Announced the physical require.
ments Of the men who will be selected
for the national army and the rules
and regulations governing the accept
amining physicians reporting to the
exemption boards.
Issued the census estimates of the
present population of states, counties,
and cities. which will be used as a
basis in computing the quotas of draft
ed men to be furnished to the national
army.
Guard Against Slackers.
AS soon as the draft takes place
the men called will report to the ex-
emption boards and receive assign
ment of examination by the appointed
physicians. II a man is unfit physi-
cally for military service he will be
| exempted. If he is found fit the ques-
ton of his exemption will depend upon
the judgment of the exemption board
on other than physical grounds.
1t is the purpose of the government
to release men from service only for
actual disability. This also is appar-
ent in portion of the regulations
which declares that temporary effects
OF acute disease or of any injury are
not to be regarded as justifying a
finding that the person so affected is
physically deficient and not physically
qualified for military service.
Provide Weight Standards. 49,.
The rules prescribe that all men
presenting themselves for examina-
ton must be stripped
A standard height, weight and chest
measurement is first set forth for
guidance of the physicians These
figures range from height of feet
and l inch to 6 feet and 6 inches. The
standard weight for a man feet and
inch tall is given as 11S pounds,
his chest Debated at 81 inches, and
inflated at 33 inches. For a man 6
feet 6 inches tall, the standard weight
is 211- pounds, chest 1874, and expan-
sion inches.
Will Take Little Men.
Variations in weight and expansion
are permissible for qualification as
follows:
Height, 81 to Ga inches, variation
of pounds and inch in chest ex-
pansion; ga to s. inches tall, 1Ol
pounds and 2 inches: 6S to GO inches,
~ pounds and inches: 1910 inches.
Is pounds and 2 inches; 1913, 20I
pounds and 2 inches; 73 inches and
over, "a pounds variation in weight
and inches in expansion.
To be acceptable for military serv-
ice a man below feet and inches
in height, the rules direct, must be
"of good physique, well developed, and
muscular"
Giants Face Rejection.
"Unless exceptionally well propor-
toned the rules also say, men
above feet and 6 inches in height
should be rejected"
Causes given in the rules for rejec !
ton of men for military service in
clude the following:
Mental, lack of normal understand !
ing
Skin, chronic. contagious and para !
site diseases, when severe and eX- |
tensive; chronic ulcers, deep or eX- |
tensive
Head, abrupt depression in skull,
the consequence of old fracture. !
Need Straight Spines.
Spine, curvatures, carries, abscess,t