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In this context we may express the hope that our

new Director of Recruiting will at once issue a revised and perfectly clear statement as to the terms of enlistment. They have been altered so .often that the public mind has become woolly" in regard to them. It should be made clear that neither the use of spectacles—provided that they correct defects of vision—nor the absence of sound teeth, should be a bar. A man should be prevented from serving his country only if a doctor will certify that he would break down under training, and so be a burden rather than a help to the Army. Fancy rejections, and rejections because a man may be expected to break down in four or five years, ought to cease entirely.