The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1915.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 202, 4 May 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1915.

(With which- is incorporated The Tab faape Post Kswa.) I I w '

11 Com|)lajSiitsfb|’ would-be recruits agaj|ist wb|t|some of them have xhAT*acter«s(fe-| as over-fastidious-ness of e&lunining medical officers "have bbeh fairly frequent hi all. parts of |he Dominion, md such large linjnmbers, apparently in the bcsttol health, fiaye - been rejected th£t Jthe Ministeryfor De* feACg' has seriously discussed tin? question ofiproviding"them with an... official Jbadgc to save them from the public finger of scorn for being about the streets when they* should he at the front with others who hjave gone to assist in saving the "Empire from the despoiling Tcpten. We feel that rejects themselves wouyiniot -appreciate the Horn Mr. hindly iOSSWSeim fori flicir peace of mind awi convenience, which would operate rather towards lifting them o-Uit of the frying-pan. into. the fire-’ than |eijd to Wti picture a host of finelooking yoi|ng felows, some wo from childhood, go•mg- about tful streets fticke-icd m medically os physically unfit, and tweogan well imagine the jeers and opprobrium if the unthinking, »and the jar ;i in class which, unp ■ at all wanting yin oitr iafge c ties, or . try Aithcif, < $ ry, .it would ihh-het-itorafor. t|ei Q hand , themselves over to ;e per of the .asphyxh ating: chiml b: ■ at the Wbliington tdostructof t a i endure the lrf<? of folia.‘c Iho faring of : sitdil fiadges vfou d 'almost, assuredly

bring about/ Btiib’tbal is not tile aspect ob the question wo desire to notice; it is far more importantthat .‘the- authorities .should. be doubly sure that men rejected dor some "slight defect arc really unfit for military service. 'We Know that men have-been rejected in New-Zealand and, being determined to go to the front, they have paid their passages to Australia and have been accepted there; some few have actually gone to England to join the colours. Recruits complain that examiners find some slight, defect, and they arc at once thrown out without further thought. They contend

that they should undergo cxami--1 nation to completion before minor defects are considered. We hear of youths .challenging some of those accepted at 'any trial of strength and endurance.;.and they have been almost irresistably importunate, but the medical decree lias proved a.barrier. New Zealand has already . sent 16^000• young men to the front—lnc flower of the land, who have passed th o cxactin g NeqiiiTNmunfefbf nodical officers P'hofv wh bre'Vpprised of the fact that another .16,000 men • arc. .Nm , 'Zealand will npt^grn4s^dhtim>'although 1 it is iinHccd. a very bitten sacrifice ;we !af ccall eelaoiakt?!, | Since : d sclieiite came into force, last Ifeb- ! many; heaflySdOOfmen' have been but w> have 40 luct, i -from! thip hlinlber .the 40. -idoctpiis say are for : &oWifce?;lcaviff^^OO' as uuntber to'gdhdrwarci. ; ;,CqiD > w,e,. • : %t lieve '■-'•’thif ■' nfjaidy ' half b hhg £ hd tl'cf e'iid thpi r ‘Xahdf agaaust Itth-e. ihradeH it is 4a very isoTdousdisp'eCt Cffikfr fiatioual'lilfe,' I ihut urn-■ are' ilfhllUtf>‘ : t6 -'theebdiftjil, v of-tho*^^jehted i ''wepa , j a^-^.4d^rioO'!isti i fctft!otf&ily ! , to assist 'iiuvdt4endmg- pelhapst . tmm. \ sop tliafi: "many that Vwere | 'We do ndt 'Effect- £i' -all; ..have 'b-;>e'nr.-ove'mzealoi:fe- i that ! 'iioncP, ,bnhdWe/;absokitely perfect' should' be, se.ni??te) : uphold this yd'ahg'couiican>D§. of rpasatingnthe''’ medi-' cal 4c4t-id means . that there Arc to' be,3o,hOfi recruits'rofifeirtg front which #e are ••Eye : n..'jsjfeiM> the tions be,, r pi#intamed there is o one ;and. that -,ls, ■ if i the £ numbers coming; : in j arp,, o§aak tomthose-coming tke ..new •• regulations canie dm.to force there -«dll \w ample .to.vsedect, the■ -presenft&cfiiOagn but we mttet ' bear in miiid-tifiat the number 01/]

eligible recmit&ijk daily becomiftgfl less, anid it all probability | be found that the last thousand! will The- the most to; find.,; The 'Minister for -Defence is no more'pleased witk-slhc number rejected than the meii themselves, but The revelations made will cause otrr people to seriously ccm;sider the question of doing something to save our children from the defects said to be found in 40 ygff cent, of our adult yosng men.