Evening journal., 1918-02-27
ARMY HALIHCERS
Forced INTO FIGHT
Government Regulations
Provide Tests TO Detect
All FakprS
ARE DIVIDED
INTO THREE CLASSES

lut lndllhserer VINO tries 10 CVade
military service by feigning disease
VIII run up against a Stone wall de-
renee In the second draft A study Of
mallngering in the United States while
the FIRST draft increment was being
raised is published by the provost
marshal general I'm a manual of in
struc ions which reached the advisory
boards here yesterday
The foreign born are more apt TO
] malinger than the native born" saws
! the report, which covers every phase
! OF the tactics and mannerisms of the
takers. Eastern Europeans are more
/ likely to malinger than Western Euro
1 peans. There are two main types.
country and city. The country types
are foolish and clumsy, often grotesdue.
Ihey come for examination provided
win recently purchased apparatus such
as speetacies, crutches and trusses.
complain Of pain in the back. kidney
trouble and all the diseases which are
the subjects Of quack advertisements
The city types are familiar with the
Jargons Of clinics and make their com
plants less specific. All malngerers
are generally timid, which makes them
tearful OF entering the army Aler-
cenary motives can be claimed i'm many.
Tor men hate TO give up good Jobs.
Farmers are disincined 90 give up
agriculture for military service. But
the largest class Of malingerers are re- /
cruited from those who take the same
attitude about military service as thev
take toward everything in life which
requires orderliness, obedience and in
dustry, such as truants, vagrants and
wife deserters. Some are Induced to
malinser for the reason that they have
friends or relatives In the armies Of the
Central Powers"
Malingerers, which are persons who
wish to use real or imaginable physi-
cal defects as avenues of escape from
The draft, can be divided into three
general groups, the provost marshals .
office finds. They are:
a.. Real malingerers with nothing
me matter with them, who inmre
themselves or make Allegations regard
ing diseases or such conditions as drug
laklhS or who counterfeit disease with
iul consciousness and responsibility.
All Tor the purpose OF evading military
service. Many Of these have been
coached
l2). Psyehoneurotlcs, who are nat
ural complainers and try to set out Of
every dlsagreeable thing In life. They
are perhaps only partly conscious OF
tle nature or the seriousness OF what
they DO and only partly responsible In
many cases the motives are not nor
sistent, and they can he made into
good soldiers.
"t3) Confirmed psychoneurotlcs with
long history Of nervous breakdoyyns
and illnesses who behave like Cla-s .
but more persistently, and from whom
not much can be expected In the vav
or reconstruction The important dues-
tlon TO decide concerning groups 2 and
8 Is not one or responsibilities. but as
10 whether there Is probability OF the
man Deing turned into a good soldier"
Under the new system Of physical '
standards a man will no longer be either
accepted or fatty rejected. One OF four
possibilities faces every draft eligible.
lie may be accented as physically quail
led for general military service: he !
nay be accepted as physically qualified /.
or general military service when cured
u a given remedial defect; he may be !,
ccepted for limited or special military !,
ervice in a named occupation or ca o
acity; or he may be Internationally
elected.
When a mans physical condition IS
either up to the standard for unoon-
itional acceptance nor deficient enough
Or unconditional rejection according
the regulations he is TO be held for
peclal military service behind the
nes
The group held for special service,
le instructions declare, shall INCLUDE
agstrants who are. for example, some
hat below the dental requirements,
lightly deficient in vision and hearing, |
zen with 'anchylosis Of the lower Jaw.
erforations Of the hard palate, but
no are physically qualified in other
'spects. The degree of disability taken
reference to the registrants present