As one fellow said: 'I can do that in sneakers'-- but he couldn't if the second day involved a tramp on the sore feet.
"The point is that whereas formerly officers had to practice walking a bit and give some attention to proper footgear, now they don't have to, and the natural consequence is that they don't do it.
"There are plenty of officers who do not walk any more than is necessary to reach a street car that will carry them from their residences to their offices.

Some who have motors do not do so much.

They take no exercise.

They take cocktails instead and are getting beefy and 'ponchy,' and something should be done to remedy this state of affairs.
"It would not be necessary if service opinion required officers so to order their lives that it would be common knowledge that they were 'hard,' in order to avoid the danger of being selected out.
"We have no such service opinion, and it is not in process of formation.

On the contrary, it is known that the 'Principal Dignitaries' unanimously advised the Secretary to abandon all physical tests.