The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-10-05
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION HAS
AIM TO DEVELOP HIDDEN
WEAKNESSES.
PERFECT MEN SELECTED
Morning Exercise OF Simple Nature
For Muscle Development Rosnd
Out Men.


nsthers and friends Of these men
would like to know just what each
enc OF them will meet up with first
in the new life they have just be-
gun.
First, each man will have to stand
stripped before six examining ply
siciaps, who will thump here and
there on the mans body, and it can
be said that when one Of these ex-
aiming surgeons gets through with
a fellow weak places in the mans
foundation will surely be found out.
These young physicians have GER
tain set of qualifications that the
War Department has decided viii al
low a man to serve his country. Then
there are certain weak places in the
mans physical makeup that will
make him of no use TO his Uncle Sam
as q soldier.
Tricks are a great hobby TO the ex-
aiming board And woe to the Sc
lected man who tries any OF the get
by" stuff. such as inability to see a
brick wall or hear a brass band.
After a man has passed the ply
steal examination he will start in the
first class in the school Of the SOL
der. The first thing that he Will
have to learn is to get up from his
he'd at 5:45 o'clock in the morning,
dress in fifteen minutes, and then be
ready for the first move of the days
work. In military service it is call
ed "setting-up" exercises, and Is
gone through with for fifteen min
utes before he eats his breakfast. 1t
can be said that most young soldiers,
when they have completed their first
"setting-up" exercises, have a most
wonderful appetite for a morning
breakfast of the food that their Uncle
Sam serves them.
Many mothers have experienced
great fatigue and soreness OF mus
cles after house cleaning, when I'M
usual reaching and the the using or
muscles not frequently used are 20
sore that it is painful for you to
move. 1t is just such condition
that the government seeks to avoid
by having it's men take certain exer-
cises each day until every muscle is
no longer sore when used. but is
hardened and strengthened. Ac-
eordingly certain minutes of the
morning are set apart for this pur-
pose. They are taught all OF the
tricks of building up the muscles.
The recruits stand in long rows in
the early morning, and as they work
in unison it is an interesting sight
to watch. Up go the hands over the
h cad, down they go to the ground in
front, and as the body bends the
knees are kept rigid, and this is done
several times. Then the hands go
up again and the body is bent to
either side. The thighs also are
given treatment by squatting eXer-
cises that seem to pull every mus
Gle. and after many other similar
bendings and sHetchings it all ends |
by each man clasping his hands high /
above his head and, standing on his |
toes, he spins around and around /
like ballet dancer.
The representative OF the Evening /
Post stood watching a group OF these |
healthy looking selected men when
fat looking doctor turned and said:
And to think at FIT. Benjamin Har-
rison they made us doctors do just
those very things"
Yes" said another officer, see /
that puny looking guy there. After |
a few weeks of these exercises he VIII .
be as big a hulk as you"
Immediately after these exercises
the recruit will then be taken to .
drill, where he will be taught the
correct way TO walk Ana let me say
this Is not an easy matter to learn. F,
When the representative was stand .
ing watching squad drilling the F..
other day the corporal told Ken
lucky man from the mountains that .
simply could not walk right."He just
can't step thirty inches laughed the |,
corporal. "He steps nearer fifty, and d
he raises up his whole leg like q
horse with string halt" and then
the young corporal initiated the
young recruit. /
Cannot Learn TO Walk Right
This corporal has devoted some
whole mornings alone with this man
in an effort to teach him that in the
military drill you must not step more
han thirty inches in the ordinary
march. But 80 far this young Ken
ucltian insists in stopping at least .
fifty inches. Yesterday the ofcer
leclded that be was losing time, so