The _British Medical Journal_ has published figures showing that of 2,080,709 men examined by Medical Boards--the men constituting "a fair sample of the male population between the ages of 18 and 43, and a smaller proportion of the more fit between 43 and 51"--_only 1 in 3 could be classed in Grade I_. That is, out of every 150 members of our British manhood in its best years of life, _only 50 were up to the mark in health and normality_. The _Journal_ comments on "this mass of physical inefficiency, with all its concomitant human misery, and direct loss to the country." Sir Auckland Geddes, addressing the Federation of British Industries, stated that "_appalling facts about the health of the nation have been disclosed in reports of medical examinations carried out by recruiting authorities_." One of the most startling and disquieting of these disclosures was that of hundreds of thousands of our men, between the ages of 18 and 43, dying of tuberculosis. Despite all this, however, because our authorities fear to face the truth and the drastic economic upheaval involved in the prohibition of all young wives and mothers from the stress of breadwinning, attempt is being made to shelve the whole blame of this appalling state of national health upon faulty industrial and hygienic conditions; too long hours of work, imperfect ventilation, bad housing, inferior cooking, poor wages, and so forth. All factors, of course, but only contributory to the great vital one. And in order to placate the public conscience, reforms in these directions are promised. Excellent and sadly needed reforms, it is true--in so far as they go; but bound to failure because they will not go to the root of things. They will be tried, no doubt, in our promised Reconstruction-scheme. But being palliative merely, further holocausts of human life and faculty and happiness will be sacrificed in the experiment. Sooner or later--and Heaven send it be sooner lest it come too late!--the truth must be confronted, and the crisis met. The further the Feminism now threatening our downfall secures footing, however, and more and more diverts the nation's life-resources into merely economic channels, more and more squanders them in abnormal ambitions and output, the more deeply-rooted and more desperate will have become the cancer of our national decadence. And incalculably the more difficult and dangerous will be the task of its eradication.