6 JULY 1918, Page 11

In the House of Commons on Thursday week Sir Auckland

Geddes " confessed that he was extremely stupid " not to have realized the obvious and hopeless confusion between medical grades and Army categories, which forced the Chairman of the House of Commons Tribunal recently to declare that he would treat the older Grade I. men as if they belonged to Grade II. We indicated, in com- menting on that very necessary protest, that the root of the trouble lay in grading men according to their " fitness for their age," and not according to their fitness for Army work. By the former standard the head of a firm of chartered accountants, aged fifty, with the normal physical deficiencies which follow thirty years of sedentary work, might reach the Army vid Grade L, to be thereafter " posted" as a junior clerk.