Evening star., 1923-07-25
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS

sands of psychologists to harmonic
the brain and wills and spirits of
Americans with their tasks and their
aim. Better q man with balanced
spirit and weak liver than one with
the lungs OF glass blower and de-
spondent will. ..s
Maybe the work OF the health asso-
citation, in sending every man and
woman to a competent physical exam
iner once year Is not in vain. Sure
ly. IL the report that the Army ex-
aminers found more tAan half the
men physically deficient be true, there
should be national legislation re-
ana made evsry R II mf Is the DS most serious
issue confronting 100000 half sick
patients. .. r..-l. E..
Theie has appeared no report yet
from the training camps as to the
percentage of illiteracy among the
trainees. 1t is possible that the men
who voluntarily. enter training camps
do not include illiterates, or not in
4 representative proportion to the
whole population. In the Army draft
25 per cent were found unable to
read q newspaper or write q letter.
and 25 per cent were defective phy-
sicaily.
In0 WHOl6 SHOWING pICcchtcd :"
serious situation at the time of the
draft. but not more serious than
the recent exposure OF the SO per
cent physical deficiency among
men who evidently supposed them
selves well enough for military duty
the cream of the population, In
physical fitness.
South Carolina has announced the
! selection OF the yellow jasmine. No
| longer shall that state be known
| for It's tarheels, but in more poetic
| vein, shall we think of her.
1.-The jasmine, throwing wide her
elegant sweets,
The deep, dark green of whose un-
vanished leaf,
Makes more conspicuous and IL
The bright profusion of her scat
tered stars"
The description is from Cowper.
| The white jasmine Is traced back
| through Arabia to Persia, and was
known in England. in 1913 but
| Shakespeare-lover of fiowers-rever
| mentioned it. The yellow variety.
| nudifiorup, a winter bloomer, was
! introduced to America, by way of
] China, in 1874, by Robert Fortune.
1t is shrubby and not climber
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News comes across the water that
| Yankees drop a million dollars year
at the gambling tables OF Deauville.
France. They are. nevertheless, not
the doughboys who made America
famous In 19l7-1S.
/, Live until next November and then
| one may drop thirty years from his
calendar age, according to DR..
Voronoff, the famous gland CRATER.
He addresses his announcement to
| the women that he will make public
his secret next November. But who
ever heard OF a lady who could pos
sibly drop thirty years off of her con-
| fessed age That would be like
! Mark Twain's proposed tunnel
through a hill. which was so long
that half the tunnel had to be run
on trestle work. Thirty years from
body wants to be that young.
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The chief of the rehabilitation
committee of the American Legion,
Joseph Sparks. appeals for sympa-
thy with a class Of political pris-
oners," quite as worthy of considera-
! tion. he thinks, as have been the
slackers and treason-nongers. for
whom parades and pieketings of the
White House have been conspicuous.
He speaks for an investigation of the
| circumstances which have caused
$4,000 veterans of the Army of the
world war to be incarcerated in
prisons and asylums for insane since
the war. 1t 1t likely. he says, that
thousands OF them might be given
another chance without jeopardizing
society.
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