Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-28

Making over recruits for service IN
France and remedytng minor physical
defects which would otherwise pre-
vent them from enlisting is the novel
work a former Honoluian has origin
ated and in which he is now engaged
Capt. Charles E. Davis OF Albany.
New York, who spent last summer IN
Honolulu and who is known to large
number Of people here, Is chairman
Of a corrective" committee in the big
recruiting campaign which New York
held this month.
The surgeon spent some time hero
in 1898 as q member Of the medical
CORPS Of the New York volunteers at
the time troops we're passing through
on their way to the Philippines. His
work on the corrective committee in
the recent campaign won much praise.
Physicians OF Philadelphia have noN
taken up the work originated by him.
Albany surgeons, physicians, dem
lists, opticians and hospitals, during
the campaign of the Albany county
home defense committee for the 10Th
Infantry, have given expert services
valued at $1,000 in the treatment Of
recruits for minor defects" says the
Knickerbocker Press, so that they
might be accepted for enlistment and
aid in filling the Albany battalion to
war strength.
During the campaign so cases have
been treated and nearly every appli-
cant receiving treatment has been
accepted and enlisted. The value Of
A. on con
case.
stotesbury Praises Work
so valuable has the work of the
committee proved tEat Adjutant GeD'
eral Stotesbury has suggested the or
ganization of similar committees III
all counties of the state to aid In fit
ting recruits for enlistment. In q
letter calling for the organization OF
these committees the adjutant general
pointed out that, during the recent
campaign for naval enlistments lie
Albany, sixty-nine men were rejecte
because of physical defects and refel'
red to the committee for treatment
OF this number forty-five were accept
ed and enlisted after they had been
treated by various members Of the
committee and experts who had aided
| them.
"A great deal Of the corrective WORK
which has been done has been in treat
ing the teeth of recruits. The dentists
who aided. in this work not only offer
ed an hour of their services each day
but all contributed the materials
which were needed so that the mel
might be put in trim for the grim
work before them. Hospitals have
given free treatment to the men and
the hospital staffs have offered theiI
services free. Several cases have re
quired hospital treatment before they
could be enlisted Opticians have
even furnished glasses for recruits
whose eyes needed treatment.
The exceptional showing In Albany
caused Adjutant General Stotesbury
to declare that If this method can be
carried out during the war it will be
Of the greatest benefit to the state
and the nation
In his letter to the various home
defense committees Of the state AdjL'
tant General Stotesbury suggested
that under the corrective plan an op
portunity Is presented for aiding re
cruiting work in giving treatment to
candidates for enlistment, VINO are
found to have durable physical defects
which if they went without remedy
would bar them from enlistment TO:
military service
! Stotesbury's Letter
Military men believe said Adju
tant General Stotesbury in his letter
that If this system of corrective treat
ment is put into operation in every
county in the state it will be most use
full in recruiting work, as the percent
age of objections for minor physical
defects has been very high 1t viii