Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1911 — Are Americans Deteriorating? [ARTICLE]

Are Americans Deteriorating?

Are Americans running down phy-< sically since so many of them havet left the farms and the sea to gather in cities? We are moved to the Inquiry because the secretary of war inhis report for 1909 Bays that of 100,999 pen examined for the regular army, 81,878 were rejected as lacking either mental, moral or physical qualifications. The physical lack was most in evidence; and, as the major percentage of the would-be recruits hailed from cities, where recruiting stations are handiest, the result of their physical tests would seem to bear directly on the matter of environment.