Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

132 APPLIED MOTION STUDY At the close of the war the various countries now engaged in it will find themselves for years,, and probably decades, fully occupied in devising ways and means for paying the interest on their enormous debts. They will not be able to pension adequately and properly to provide financially for their astounding numbers of incapacitated soldiers. Neither would any system of pension- ing, if that were financially possible, completely solve the problem, since the large majority of such cripples will be helped more by being pro- vided with interest and occupation than even by financial support. The great problem that faces the world to-day is, therefore, immediate and per- manent provision for enabling these millions of crippled soldiers to become self-supporting. This is a world problem rather than a problem for those countries only that are directly involved in the war, and demands a world-wide solution. The crippled soldiers are of many types, for this war is a war of all classes, and not of the professional soldiers only, as one is at times in- clined to think. In all countries, men from the colleges, the professions, the shops and the fac- tories are at the front along with the usual mili-