A social scientist said some twenty years ago that the "greatest nation of the future would be the one which could send the most men to the top of the Matterhorn." Nations now realize that in such a time as this all men up to forty may be required for the firing-line; and this means that all the men from forty to seventy must be rendered especially efficient and physically fit in order to stand back of the fighting forces as a dependable reserve--money, power, and brains.
[Illustration: HIKE OF A SENIOR CORPS] [Illustration: THESE MEN, ALTHOUGH OVER FORTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE, MARCHED FOR OVER FOUR HOURS WITHOUT DISCOMFORT] THE BASIC IDEA This was the idea of the development of the Senior Service Corps--to take men who are over military age and make them physically fit for whatever strain may come.

It has resulted in not only making them physically fit, but in practically renewing their youth.

The experimental (New Haven) company of a hundred, varying in age from forty-five to over seventy, in weight from 114 to 265 pounds, and in height from 5 ft.

4 in.

to 6 ft.