Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

FOR THE CRIPPLED SOLDIER 153 which we should build on efficiency efforts — from the bottom up rather than from the top down; and I think we would be making a great mistake if with our own prosperity and our own good fortune in this country we should not give our careful attention to what is being done in Europe and watch carefully for the results which will come from this effort to raise the efficiency of those who are naturally inefficient. W. N. Polakov : The paper by Mr. Gilbreth is of great importance, not only for the European problem of the near future, but for that in the United States, which is, so to speak, permanent, because industrial accidents happen and will hap- pen in this country, although probably in dimin- ishing proportion. It is well known to us how much money is being paid to the crippled sol- diers of former wars, although if provision of some kind had been made in this country they could have been put to productive work and not be a burden on the country, but be productive members of society; but aside from that there was a question raised here whether it is in the domain of an engineer to look into this matter. In my