[The chairman, after discussing various measures relating to the Section on Ophthalmology, proceeded:]
Much has been done by our special committee, and by individual members of the section, to spread the gospel of conservation of vision; but we must do more. The problem of the protection of the baby's eyes is fairly well in hand, though much remains to be done in some states. But the experience of the selective draft has called attention to defective vision in young adults, which was to say the least surprising. My own experience on an advisory board impressed me with the enormous number of cases of rejection for myopia, uncorrected, or very imperfectly, corrected. In talking with the men about their eyes, I found that the neglect was due to their own ignorance and that of their parents, or to the fact that they had been imposed on by opticians who had sold