Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

FOR THE CRIPPLED SOLDIER 145 cially large because of the great war, but the methods that we now advise and use because of the great pressure will be available at all times. Through the reclamation service, if we may so call it, that we are using for the war cripples to-day, we are introducing a method that will never become unavailable or unnecessary. We beg every member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers to co-operate in this work, with us and with our friends abroad, who are waiting to pass on the data to those who need it so sorely. It is a work that is both timely and permanent. The need is sudden and new, but the data will be useful forever. Discussion Professor L. M. Wallace : It is indeed grati- fying that such an able investigator as Mr. Gil- breth has consented to devote time and effort to- ward solving the problem of providing for the in- struction of those disabled by the European war. That large numbers of young men of the highest type are being crippled for life is indeed as dis- tressing as that so many are losing their lives in this great world calamity. It is my conviction