Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1911 — Either Hand Good. [ARTICLE]

Either Hand Good.

By -formal action of the War Dopartment any doubt as to discriminations against left-handed candidates for the army has been removed. In preparing recently to make a nomination for West Point a congressman asked the department if the fact that his nominee was left-handed would operate as a bar to his admission to West Point. As the question never before had been raised, the surgeon general or the army was asked for an opinion on the subject. That official reported that a left-handed cadet may not properly be considered as physically disqualified. It if considered as certain that there have been cadets at West Point who were left-handed, but this fact seems never to hare occasioned comment. They probably acquired the use of the right liand, so essential to the uniformity of movement necessary in military organlazdop.