We can no longer let a Plattsburg camp be a strenuous sifting out, a mere survival of the physically fittest.

We need every man whom we can make available, and we need him with his vitality fully preserved and his endurance appreciably heightened.

Some are stronger, naturally, than others.

In football parlance we are no longer trying to pick a team out of a squad of two hundred men; we are trying to get a hundred and seventy-five out of the two hundred that can stand a fair pace and have enough left to fight with when they get there.

Any one who has been in touch with affairs in Washington, any one who has been engaged in our munition-plants and in our factories, any one who has worked upon Liberty Bond drives or Red Cross fund-raising, knows that if we are to support our boys on land and sea, these men who are trying to solve the problems of executive management, and who have the task of raising funds in thousandfold increased volume, must be also carefully conserved.