Aid for the rejected would-be aviators
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Aid for the rejected would-be aviators
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Title: Aid for the rejected would-be aviators
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Subtitle: Just a little something is wrong with 10% of the young men who wants to fly for the U.S. But they can be fixed up - and here's how it's being done
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WHEN the Navy calls, as it
did not long ago, for 25,000
young men to fly its fighters
and bombers, it takes 250,000 applicants
to make up the quota. Only 20 men in a
hundred are accepted for the United
States air services, and of that 20, ten
are dropped for minor physical or edu-
cational handicaps in the grind of train-
ing.
‘What of the men dropped for that mi-
nor nose obstruction or this slight vi-
sional defect? It was to salvage these
boys who are, but for slight physical
flaws, potential pilots in every sense,
that Aviators’ Post 743 of the American
Legion set up the American Flying Services
Foundation.
A nonprofit organization with members in
160 key cities in 35 states, the American
Flying Services Foundation is daily giving
the aid these young men need.
More than 5,000 young men have gone to
the foundation's New York offices. Many
have sought only advice, but 450 have re-
ceived valuable scholastic assistance, and
200 others have received medical aid, either
free or for whatever the applicant can pay.
A young man rejected from the Air Corps
for flat feet is sent to a specialist who usual-
ly recommends a simple exercise routine to
build up weak muscles, such as picking up a
ball with the toes. Varicose veins are cured
by injections, as are such nervous condi-
tions as polyneuritis, in which case the in-
jections are of nicotinic acid followed by a
diet rich in vitamin B. Operations remove
obstructions to breathing, impediments to |
hearing, and slight hernias.
Dr. Herman J. Gould, Brooklyn orthoptist,
has given his time and equipment freely to
boys sent to him for eye treatment. Most
of these boys have eyes which, they say,
never trouble them. They have perfect vi-
sion, yet Army and Navy doctors have found
that their eye muscles are out of control;
that they have poor converging or diverging
ability.
‘With a myological machine used for neuro-
psycho-refractive work, Dr. Gould is able to
determine in what manner the muscles fail |
to function, and to set up a cure.
Whatever the salvaging operation, the
American Flying Services Foundation is to-
day responsible for the reclassification of |
many a promising young man, for whom
the Army or Navy air force had given up
hope. Their motto is: “Start ’em Flying!”
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1942-02
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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102-103
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google Digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Roberto Meneghetti
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 140, n. 2, 1942
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