Motion Study
A Method for Increasing the Efficiency of the Workman

I oo MOTION STUDY Consider the single example of the first stroke on the first letter of each word. Here is a motion that can be eliminated wholly. While its existence is necessary in type that represents handwriting or imitates engraved plate work, and in enameled separate letters of window signs, its adoption and use in handwriting is of no purpose and is wrong from the standpoint of motion economy. Each letter of our written alphabet is a natural devia- tion from our printed alphabet that is the result of leaving the pencil on the paper. Now the time has arrived for revising our written lan- guage by means of a new scientifically invented alphabet specially devised for the purpose of securing clearer writ- ing, made of connected letters, each designed of itself and in connection with all the other letters, so that it conforms to the laws of motion economy. This is not a suggestion that we should adopt stenographic signs for words or sounds, although a general knowledge of one standard steno- graphic system would also be a great benefit to a nation. The suggestion is, that in as much as it is the aim of our nation that all citizens should be able to read and write, a new written alphabet should be devised for us that shall conform to the laws of motion study, — that we all can increase either our outputs in writing or else that we all may be able to do such writing as we are obliged to do in less time. It is to be hoped that an international society of highly trained educators, similar to those composing the Simplified