Such an ideal community plant has proven by no means a vision incapable
of realization. To-day men and women realize painfully the need for one
in their home community and are prevented from the fulfilment of their
dream by only two obstacles--lack of funds and adequate organization of
the plan.

This work and these centers offer the greatest possibilities in the
Americanization scheme, perfection of which is a paramount duty for
this country.

[Illustration: SETTING-UP WORK OF A COMPANY OF ONE HUNDRED]

[Illustration: DOCTOR ANDERSON LEADING A GROUP IN THE YALE GYMNASIUM]

Not only do such plants transpose the astonishingly large percentage of
the physically unfit of our foreign and domestic population and reclaim
those whose physical imperfections have either become evident through
the draft, or which are not known, but it affords the surest possible
means of interesting this large element of our population in American
institutions, of attracting them to the soundest and most beautiful
features of American life, and of convincing them of their comradeship
in the strength and sinew of American manhood; in short, of building the
foundations of democracy on a base as stable as the eternal granite
hills.


AN OUTLINE OF THE SYSTEM

The Senior Service program starts with setting-up exercises which open
the chest, gently stimulate the heart, and start the blood coursing