Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1917 — Work of Weeding Out Defectives Under Way. [ARTICLE]

Work of Weeding Out Defectives Under Way.

Louisville, Sept. 28.-—Two hundred and seventy-one men, about one in every 120 in the first two corttinments of the national army now at Camp Taylor, have been rejected on physical examination and will be discharged at once. Approximately one-third of these are Indiana men, so that the proportion of those disquiaifieds corresponds to the proportion of Indiana men in camp. The giving out of the official list also indicates that the percentage of rejections will run close to the war department’s advance estimate of 10 per cent. The reasons for which the Indiana men were turned down were of many sorts. Defective vision, insufficient teeth, hernia and flat feet put out *he greatest number of Hoosiers. A few suffered from trachoma or had crippled legs or arms. The purchase of 201 more acres of land and the erection of 182 new buildings has been approved and Camp Taylor is to keep an spreaiing out. The new buildings will be barracK;.