Life — September 13, 1917 — page 35: what you’re looking at

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book | from dressed f unser date of Reclamation Camps Proposed R. JOHN H. QUAY land, wants to establish reclama- of Cleve- tion camps at which men registered for the draft but rejected hecause of minor ailments can he put in condition for service. Of men who offered for enlistment in March of this year, about sixty-cight per cent. failed to meet the physical requirements of the examiners. it will insists The men registered for the dr hardly do better, but Dr. Quayle that three to six months in a reclama- tion camp, with proper exercises and medical and surgical attention, would bring ninety per cent. of them up to the army standard, He estimates that the, cost of reclamation of this sort would he about one hundred dollars per man. Young men, he says, between twenty- irty-one seldom have any- utter with them that cannot ily be cured. If they are unfit, it is usually because their habits have been bad or their occupations unfavorable. He gives a list of twenty-five ailments on which rejections are commonly based, including blood taint, 1 and eye defects, flat-foot, alcoholism, injuries and hernia, most of which would yield to treatment ina short time con-General of the army retary of War are said to think well of Dr. Quayle’s project, and Senator Pomerene of Ohio has intro- duced a bill appropriating money to carry it out, Let us hope Congress will provide least for a trial of this idea. It sounds very good. Dr. Quayle thinks the Prussian machine will be very hard to break. He ha that a great many American soldiers will be needed before it is smashed He thinks that if we are to draw our armies from men of the called, we must use a much larger per- seen it, and believes ages now centage of them than we are now get- ling. If it turns on he expects, and we run through the ten million men now registered, and do not get as many quire, the reclamation camp idea will ¢ men as we in in favor, Try it, then, and see what it can do. It sounds entirely reasonable. It will benefit the men it works on whether they get into the war or not. It will be useful as a supplementary detail of universal military training as long as we have to have such.training. Well carried out, it would be worth its cost in peace or war. There are always in stock a lot of youths in the early twentics who need a stiff course of reclamation, and far too many of them go to the bad for lack of it. Their friends would welcome reclamation camps as a great boon for them C 435 The Military Razor In the field there is no supply base for razor equipment. The razor that the soldier carries must, therefore, be complete in itself and self-maintaining, That is why the AutoStrop Safety Razor 1s the true Military Razor. It takes care of its own blades, keeping them sharp and free from rust. It requires no stropping machine. It sharpens its own blades Its twelve blades will give five hundred clean, smooth, comfortable shaves, whether the skin is tender or rough, or whether the water is cold or hot. The AutoStrop Razor is small, light and compact; always ready for service. If you are called to the colors, take an AutoStrop Razor with you. If you have a soldier in training or at the front, send him this soldier’s shaving outfit. AutoStrop Safety Razor Co. AutoStrop Safety Razor Co., Ltd 345 Fifth Avenue, New York 83 Duke Street, Toronto, Canada To Dealers—Write to us for details of the 30-day approval plan which has been so successful. comicbooks. Q — om