Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

FOR THE CRIPPLED SOLDIER 133 tary force. The cripples, therefore, will be of all types, and vary in training and capability as well as in the injuries that they receive. We might, therefore, roughly classify them as fol- lows : a. Men who have done chiefly mental work. b. Men who have done chiefly physical work, but whose capabilities will allow them to be transferred to mental work. c. Men who have done physical work, and whose capabilities and inclinations are confined to physical work. The first two classes can be handled with com- parative ease when crippled. The third class pre- sents the most difficult phase of the problem. This problem might be summarised as that of teaching and fitting cripples for some sort of pro- ductive work, and specially modifying and adapt- ing the work to the individual capabilities, prefer- ences, difficulties and shortcomings. The prob- lem is an exaggerated new form of vocational guidance, vocational training, and systematic placement of men. The educators have been quick to see their re- sponsibilities in this work. They have provided,