Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

FOR THE CRIPPLED SOLDIER 155 chines are driven by a motor. In many other in- dustries, when we consider it necessary to employ able-bodied men, we are doing a great injustice to those who are crippled, and more than that, we manifest our own lack of understanding. We do not want legs for the man who is working with his brains, and vice versa for the messenger boy it is not necessary for him to have two hands. For a telegraph operator two arms or two hands are entirely unnecessary, and many other ex- amples could be cited. Alvin Louis Schaller : I think that one of the points ought to be emphasised that Mr. Gil- breth brought out in his paper, and that is the psychic state in which the man must be brought before he can be made successful. The only rea- son why a cripple is so successful is because he has a will and a determination to devise his own methods for doing things. I believe that one of the largest problems that Mr. Gilbreth had to confront when he began to reclaim these crippled soldiers was to get them into a state of mind where they could forget the discouragements into which they had probably fallen after receiving their wounds and realising