The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-11-01
'[AJAH REG|STRANTS
ARE BEING EXAMINED
SHERIFF CAMPBELL, AS ATH-
LETIC DIRECTOR, DOES GOOD
sWORK-MANY ARE FIT

If Jap Campbell is not reelected sheriff
| he wiz not be out of work long. He has
qualified for an athletic director and his
services will be in demand in the train
ing camps. Can you imagine our fat
sheriff as an athletic director? Few
can, but he is there with the goods,
just the same.
Yesterday The Star-Mirror was asked
to visit the marshaps room in the red
eral building where the men are being
exami1ied for military service Sheriff
Campbell is in charge of the work, being
chairman of the selective draft board.
DR.. D.F. Rae is examining physician.
Mr. Van Buskirk is the other member,
representing Homer Estes, county sl-
.ditor, who canot leave the court Aouse
for so long time as is required to do
this work.
The writer knocked timidly at the door
startled him, for it looked like an indian
ade. Every one but the reporter wore
a gauze mask and the reporter was given
one immediately and in that respect,
fairly well filled with registrants who
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tell the registrants from the examining
-undressed. The officers wore civilian
clothes. AsThe registrants did not. The
latter were dressed in their birthday
clothes. wearing nothing, in the way of
clothing, but a gauze mask over the
mouth and nose. Seated at desk was
Mr.. Burch, acting as clerk. Sheriff
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One of the plainly dressed regis
trants was called to the front and put
through calisthentics. Sheriff Campbell
set the pace. Facing each other the in
structor and the registrant went through
the exercises. Put your hands on your
hips and stick out your elbows" said
the sheriff, showing how it was done.
The registrant made the motions re-
quired. Iold out your arms in front
of you and wiggfe your wrists" was the
next command. The portly sheriff show
ed the applicant how to go through every
motion of the limbs and body, develop
ing OF showing the action of every
muscle, including bending forward and
touching the floor with the points OF
the fingers May be you think that IS
easy work. If you do, just try it. 1t is
not easy, especially If you have much.
of s'bay-window" to bend over but the
sheriff did it easily.
And so it went until 30 or more men
were examined in day. Each man is
put through the most thorough exam
nation and nothing is left to chance.
His measurements are taken and re-
corded. The officers have the regula-
ton army table of weights for heights
and measurements and Sheriff Campbell
could tell in minute if a man were
sstoo heavy for his height" or not heavy
enough. When the reporter remarked
that the sheriff would make a good ath-
1etic director, Mr.. Campbell said: swell,
I have had enough practice. | have per-
sonally examined more than IS men in
this way"
After the registrant has gone through
the regulation movements and submitted
to the most careful examination by the
sheriff and his assistants, and every fea-
trre, defect or abnormal point has been
recorded, he is sent into an adjoining
room where DR.. Rae, assisted by Howard
Campbell, the sheriff's son as clerk, gives
the most thorough medical and physical
tests. Everything is thorough. No
chances of influenza are taken by the
officials and the men are given every
protection. The tests are rigid and
thorough and nothing left to chance
Ont of "a examined Wednesday II
were passed as physically fit. Seven
were afflicted with slight ailments that
can be cured by minor operations and
five were sent to the medical advisory
board at Lewiston for further exan1ina-
tion. while two were suffering with
temporary ills and will be examined
later Only five were permanently re-
iected. The work is tiresome and
arduous for the board, but it is being done
as carefully as, can be and few OF the.
boards findings have been reversed by
the appeal boards.