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Loss of Eye No Bar
TO Service in ARM
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bility.' the new rules declare the prac-
tice Is frequent. Persons with trusses
crutches, spectacles and strappings are
to be carefully examined. Sand is often
used under the eyes to effect blind
ness; teeth are often pulled, artificial
substances to irritate the skin are fire.
quently found, and insanity is fire.
quently feigned by the "Inalingerer' or
draft dodger. the new rules warn.
-Four Glasses Provided For
Four classes are provided for in the
new regulations. Class No. 1 is for
those Internationally accep,ed for SER
vice Glass No. for those suffering from
remedial defects. who will be accepted
for general service in the deferred REM
edial group; Glass No. 3 for those hav-
ing defects, which permit their qualifi-
cation for only limited service. and
Class No. for those having such de-
fects sa warrant their unconditional re-
lection.
Total disability alone will place
youth in Glass No. 4. Blindness in one
eye will permit qualification for limited
service, while twelve teeth will be con-
sidered sufficient to qualify a prospec-
tive soldier for general military service.
Six of the teeth must be masticating
and six incisor, the new rules provide
and filled or crowned teeth and dunn
mics" will be considered as serviceable
natural teeth.
Weight requirements, which have
barred many youths from service, are
changed. Only youths of height less
than five feet three inches will be auto
matically barred from service Weight
yyil
bar as will height of more than seven
ty-eight inches or overweight so great
ly out of proportion to height as to in
terfere with normal physical activity.
Muscular tremors of moderate degree
and hysterical paralysis may not be
considered grounds for disqualification,
| but, insanity and acute alcoholism war
| rant unconditional rejection. according
to the new regulations.
Some Malingerers "Curable"
Good soldiers can be made of some
| malingerers, but not all, says the new
order, and care should be taken in dis
| posing of their cases. The instructions
| in this regard read
"Malingerers may be divided into
three general groups
Real malingerers with nothing the
matter with them. who injure them
| selves, or make allegations respecting
diseases or such conditions al drug tak-
| taking, or who counterfeit disease with
full consciousness and responsibility all
for the purpose of evading military SER
vice. Many of these have been coached
| Psyche o-neurotics, who are natural
| complaine and try to get out of every
| disagreeable thing In life. Perhaps only
partially conscious OF the nature or the
| seriousness of what they do and only
| partly responsible. In many the mo-
| tives are not persistent and many can
| be made good soldiers.
| "Congrmed psyche o-neurotics with a
long history of nervous breakdowns and
illnesses who behave like the real
malingerers, but more persistently, and
| from whom not much can be expected in
| the way Of reconstruction"
| The purpose of the new order Is de-
| clared TO be for securing greater eff
| cheney and uniformity in the examina-
tion Of registrants and drafted men.
Medical examiners should consider
the standards as guide to their dis
cretion; therefore they are not to- be
| construed too strictly or arbitrarily.
The object is to procure men who
| are. physically fit. or who can be made
so, for the rigors of field service, or for
| special and limited service.
| Local boards and medical advisory
boards should be especially careful in
the selection of registrants who suffer
| from defects of vision. defects OF hear
| ing and with chronic discharge from the
ear or ears toxic conditions associated
with abnormal conditions of the thyroid
gland valvular disease Of the heart; tu-
berculosis epilepsy, mental disease or
deficiency and irremedial defects of the
feet. In other words, to make good
soldier the registrant must be able to
see we'll, have comparatively good hear
ing, his heart must be able to stand the
stress of physical exertion: he must be
Intelligent enough to understand and
execute military maneuvers, obey COM
mands, and protect himself. and must
be able to transport himself by walk
| ing as the exigencies of military life
may demand"