Weekly journal-miner., 1917-08-08
MUST BE PRETTY FAIR
 SORT 0F MAN ID GET
 BY DRAFT EXAMINATION
Doctors To Examine Registrants In Their First Birthday Suit ForAilments, Diseases, Deformities Or Anything That May Disqualify Them For Service.

1 Skin, chronic, contagious and para sitic diseases, when severe and exten- sive; chronic ulcers, deep or exten- sive.
 Head, abrupt depression in skull, the consequence of old fracture.
 Spine, curvatures, carries, abscess, lateral curvature is cause for rejec- ton when it exceeds one inch to either side.
 Ears, all forms of obitis media; pcrforation of tympanum.
 Eyes, acuity of vision below stand- ardized requirements, conjunctival af- lection, including trachoma and en- tropia, Strabismus and other affec tions affecting clear vision.
 Mouth, nose and faces, deformities interfering with mastication or speech, chronic alterations, Assures, or per forations of the hard palate; hyper trophy of the tonsils sufficient to in terfere with the respiration or phona- ton; loss of voice or manifest altera ton of it.
 Four Good Molars Required,
 Teeth, at least four serviccable mo- lars required on each side of jaw, two above and two below; good fitting bridge or plate where not more than one-half of the teeth arc involved is not disqualifying.
 Neck, pronounced goitre, great en- largement or alterations of the cervi cal glands.
 Chest, all chronic diseases of lungs and heart.
 Abdomen, chronic inflation of the gastro-intestinal tract, including chronic diarrhoea, dysentery and oth- CT diseases of the contained organs.
 All genito-urinary diseases, hemor- rhoids of pronounced type, prolap- sis, fstula and Assures.
 Other ailments included IF the list are rheumatism, diseases of the joints of disabling type, irreducible or false joints, severe strains, atrophy, par alysis, permanent contraction of the muscles, etc.
 Hands, webbcd fingers, extension or loss of motion of one or more fin- gers: loss or serious mutilation of either thumb: total loss of index i'm ger of right hand; total loss of any two fingers of the same hard; loss of second and third phalangcs of all iin- gers of either hand.
 Legs and feet. varicosc veins, pro- nounced knock knees, club feet, web feet, webbcd toes, bunions, overriding or marked displacement or deformity of any of the toes: hammer toes.
 The rules further admonish the eX- cmption boards that the affiictions listed as disqualifying men for ser vice must be present in such a degree as to clearly and unmistakably dis qualify the man for military service It is the purpose of the government to release men from service only for actual disability. This also is appar- cnt in a portion of the regulations which declares that temporary effects of acute diseases 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.
 Temporary disability of this kind. however. the rules prescribe, may be regarded as justifying a reasonable delay in completing the physical ex' animation in order that opportunity for recovery may be afforded
 Many Demand Exemptions.
 Judging from tclegrams and letters pouring in by the hundreds on repre- scntativcs and senators from States all over the union, the number of eX- cmptions in the drawing oi the men on the sclective draft because of oc- equations essential to the prosecution of the war is going to be very much higher than has been supposed. A New York member was surprised recently at letter from prominent soap manufacturer in New York who pointed out that in all the European countries at war it has been consider ed vitally essential, as matter of na- tional sanitation. to keep the soap factories in full operation.
 This flood of applications on top oi the announcement by Secretary of War Baker that not only would the first increment of 6S7, 900 and the sec ond increment of 5O0,000 men be rais-