"Since recorded history, there has been a long gruesome record of billions of our men in their prime who lost their lives on the fields of battle, and the most vigorous and virile of our young men were slaughtered and maimed. Both victors and vanquished were the losers. "Our theory of the survival of the strongest is deceptive, for it applies only to our wild and domestic animals. "The weak, sick, feeble-minded, unfit, and old men left at home, plus some of the crippled soldiers who returned were and are to a great extent our progenitors. No wonder one of our senate committees got the following reports:" Washington, Aug. 26, 1946. (UP) The Army's top psychiatrist told a Senate Committee yesterday, Gen. William C. Menninger, chief of the War Department's Psychiatric Division, declared that-- 1. Psychoneurosis was the basis for 43 per cent of the Army's medical discharges. There were 300,000 men discharged for 'neuropsychiatric reasons.' 2. Another 130,000 men were let out because of inadaptability or ineptness, which, Menninger said, is 'another way of indicating that personality factors did not permit them to fit into a job in the army.' Washington, Sept. 19, 1945 (AP)--Major General Louis B. Hershey, selective service director, disclosed today that: Of boys nineteen and twenty years of age, 40 per cent were found to have beginning sclerosis, or hardening of these organs. Of those twenty-one to thirty years of age, 45 per cent had beginning hardening of the liver, and 57.5 per cent had beginning hardening of the kidneys. In the same age group, 40 per cent had confirmed hardening of the kidneys, while only 10 per cent revealed both liver and kidneys normal. These findings, not on sick men, but on those who passed every test and were considered perfectly well, reveal an important cause of low vitality. Among the young women who applied for admission to the Women's Army Corps, there was similar disability. Each year we lose many more persons from preventable and premature deaths than we lost in battle or from war injuries during the entire war.[33] "Above are the fathers and mothers of our future generations. To our money lust we can attribute the following shameful conditions: "Before the war, one American in 13 or 14 had either a sick mind or a defective one. Now one in ten has crumbled. Not all will be hospitalized. But doctors estimate that one American in 20 now alive will spend some time in a mental hospital before he dies. That means seven million Americans in mental hospitals--or headed there!