Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-11-21
ARE YOU FTP
By H. AddinqtOn Bruce


Mo7yright, 1879, by the ASS ciated Newspapers
VOJ are ambitious to exc in your chosen
calling. You are determined to apply
your elf to it in such a way that success
is sure to be yours. You realize that this means
hard work. but you are not discouraged by the
thought OF hard work.
That is splendid Ii shows you have :..~ right
spirit. But how abol. YOU physical ability to
endure hard work? Are you fit?
You have never had day. illness, you tell
me. You feel in first-cass -hapc Do you pos
lively know that y III are H. firSt-claSS shape?
Let me suggest that GU allow a decor to
| look you over.
Nothing VIII be lost if he confirms your be-
lief in your fitness N lch will be gained if
| he discovers that, unknown to yourself, you
have Sundry weaknesses which ought to be cor
| rected to enable you to work to best ad-
vantage.
And, let me add, there is possibility that
he will make such discovery Remember wla.
happened in the medical examinations for the
army draft.
Again and again W ung men of the age which
| you have now reached presented themselves for
examination, Oily to be rejected becauS of I'M
respected bodily de. ectS. These ranged from
| comparatively Sigh: ,cfectS to diseases of a
eally serious character.
To give a few figures
OF 7o1t yong men examined by certain
DRAFT boards in three larg cities. no fewer than
| reasons. Defective eyesigh' caused tie reec-
lion of per cent; bad tech, 4S per cent, and
extreme underwe;g It. 40 per cent.
Nearly Ter cent were victims of hernia.
| Almost as many had heart trouble of varying
CeriOuSneSS. Foot defects suffice to incapac;-
| tate from military service wer' found in more
than per cent of The whole number and more
| than per cent hlG tuberculosis in some de
| gree.
Of course, the timely discovery of 'hese de-
fectS and disorders enabled many of tl.eir VIC
| TINS to correct them +h'Ou h prompt rem. { a!
treatment. Which is why urge you, who have
never had to call IN a do or, to LIT doctor
ascertain precisely how you ar physically.
| Any defect bound / Unfair YOU eff
cheney to some extent. Neglected, it NAV no.
simply mean to YOU the difference b tween
success and failure, but may mean invalidism
or senl;-invalidSn:.
And if, having been examined by doc,or.
you are given clea bill of health, do no.
assume that you need never again be exanIned
unless you feel out SC IS.
On the contrary make it a rule to have a
! periodic medical examination. at intervals of
| at least once year. Su b periodic eAamna-
| tons Will not cost much and some day may
be the means of nipping in the bud a possible
atal illness.
II is, OH SO natural to take h ,alth TO, granted
unless one feels it. But illness seldom comes
| overnight. There is usually a preIinina BE-
Rod of gradual hea't h C!c,.ne .erhapS inr err
ceptlble to ordin~~y observation. but preSen;
| nevertheless.
To endcavor t detect decline IN good
season is manfest'r the part of wisdom. And
he periodic medical examination is the sureSt
means of doing this, as mere and molt PEG.
are approaching.
Become yourself one of the appreciative
| -%
j The small boy had been naughty. so his
mother had sent him away from the liable
without any fruit. For an hour he sat sob
| bng in the corner, nut at last, as nobody took
any notice of him. he thought it was time to
! cease.
Now. you've finished making that horrible
noise" said his mother, 81 hope you are 60
| ing to be good boy"
! Il haven't fnished' he said. 3assonetely
hrea king forth into sohS once aEain. II was