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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1916)
THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1916. 12 SCIENCE MEASURES fiDTDBirC DAWUDG rOUTICAL ADVXTHaatKNT. POLITICAL ADVEBTMESIEHT. POLITICAL ADVEKTISBBKHT. POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT POLITICAL ADVEBTUEMENT. POLITICAL APVEBTI8EMEHT. mm Wonderful Instruments In vented by Belgians Gauge Wounded Soldiers' Abilities. HUMAN BEPAIR SHOPS Corrmpondnce of th. Auocl.t.4 Preu.) Paris, Sept. 14. A number of re markable scientific instruments for measuring exactly the efficiency of a wounded soldier to perform some new line of useful work have been put in operation at the Belgian Military in stitute at Port Billet, France, for the re-education of mutilated soldiers. While the outer world regards Bel gium as prostrate under the iron hand of Germany, it is a striking tribute tn th vitality nf the countrv that it U - ... .1.1. ,n ..t.Klich cufh institi,- lions outside of the country. Here at a small town between Paris tnd Rouen 1,500 wounded Belgian sol diers, most of whom fought in the bat tle of the Yser, are being made over for some useful occupation. A park of 600 acres has been donated, and ex- i tensive buildings have been erected. So that Belgium, prostrate as it is, has an establishment comparing favorably with the best English and French in stitutions. The Belgians have always been fa mous for fine mechanical appliances, and here they have shown their genius in this line by the use of seven or eight new scientific Instrument! which .measure precisely the efficency of a wounded man. Dr. Nymi of the med cal staff of the institute, has furnished the following sketch of these instru ments and how they measure a .wounded workman's energy: Stopa Human Wastage. , "Recent studies on the efficiency of workmen have shown the enormous force wasted through the non-adaptation of working conditions to the workman's capacity for production, and the chief object of efficiency re searches is to suppress all useless ef fort and establish precise conditions for securing the best results. When the study concerns mutilated soldiers, is acquires a new value. A certain loss of. effort may be tolerated when a workman is normal. But it is not to with the mutilated, whose functional powers are diminished, and to whom ll is lnaispcusuuic ui.i cvciy jiaiimc of work of which they are capable should be made integrally available." After explaining the method' of charts and tracings employed, ur. Nyms describes the instruments which measure the energy of the wounded, in part, as follows: ' 1 First, the arthrodynamometer. It permits the measurement in degrees of the angles formed by the flexion and extension of the forearm. It it particularly useful in studying partial ankylosis. A dynamometer attached to this instrument measures in kilo grams the force that a wounded man can exert. " "Second, the lime, with cylinder giving a chronological register. This registers the impulsive force of the right hand, of the left hand; the pres sure of the right hand, of the left hand. These are compared with the standards showing in kilograms what , the maximum force would .be, thus showing what it lacking and. what needs to be corrected. . . "Third, a varlop with registering cylinder' and electric signal, which permits ut to ttudy the work in car pentering similar to the measurement of force by the lime "Fourth, the cheirographe, which re stores the mobility of the fingers and registers their power of work. "Fifth, a spirometer, with eudio meter, a cardiograph and a pneumo graph, complete the installation, and . permit the study of all the physiof logical phenomena bearing on work manshiD. and Indicating? when work is too neavy ana tnouia oe timitca oy additional periods of rest Futurt Not Dismal ' The use of these novel instruments is, of course, only one phase of the extensive work Demg done nere, which includes the training of archi tects, tculptort, paintert in art and trade, carpenters, anoemakeri, i saa dlert, machinists, typewriters, print' era, engravers, linotypert, photogra phers and vast number of other oc-cunations. Men who have lost ft teg were thought at first to be adapted to tome work not requiring the man to ttand. But thit hat been found to be a mis take and one-legged men art now con aiderel well adapted to standing at a printing case or working at ft car penter! bench. However most ot the one-armed and one-legged men thow a preference to becoming tail ors and shoemakers. They are alto much opposed to taking up oceupa ' tiont, such at jewellers,, lithographers and paintert, who are not much in demand in the small towns of Bel gium and France. Usually ft wounded soldier chooses an occupation akin to hit former work An iron moulder who hat lost his arm and can no lonaer lift heavv mould, has become modeller of these mould. A mason has become stone designer. Others mutilated, have taken up entirely new occupa tions., A restaraunt waiter has de veloped into an expert aign painter. Many wounded soldiers are prepar ing themselves to be government functionaries after the war, in the customs offices, pott and telegraph offices, state banks, etc, at it la as sumed preference will be given to old soldiers. One of the tchoolt here preparei men for thit government work and for the provincial and com munal administrations. This school for the training of government em ployees it tomething of t pioneer in thit line and it his suggested the establishment of regular institutions after the war for the training of people for government employment the same as people are trained for all branches of private enterprise. Austrian Saw Napoleon ' On March to Moscow CorrwpoDd.Be. of Th. AMoelaUd Prwa.) Vienna, Sept 30. The war corre spondent of the Zeit in one of his re . cent dispatches recordt that while passing through Volhynia he met a villager of Karpilovka who taw Na poleon on hit way to Moscow in 1812. The man had recently celebrated his 113th birthday and himself related that as a boy of 9 he had seen the great French emperor. The man is siill in good health, and what makes his longevity so remarkable, ia that he has lived all his life in a marshy district, commonly regarded at unhealthy. Ji i i m M I I If i $ H - Woodrow Wilson, President, Declares for Local Option: May 1, 1911. My dear Mr. Shannon.--- The question asked in your letter of Aprfl twenty-seventh about my atti tude toward the important question of local option is, of course, a perfectly legitimate one, and you are entitled to a very frank answer. I would have re plied sooner had I not been prevented by imperative public engagements. I have explained my views to you in private, but of course have no objection to your making them public. , am in favor of local option. I am a thorough believer in local self-government, and believe that every self-governing community which constitutes a social unit should have the right to control the matter of the regulation or the withhold ing of licenses. , But the questions involved are social and moral and are not susceptible of being made parts of a party programme. Whenever they have been made the subject matter of party contests, they have cut the lines of party organization and party action athwart to the utter confusion of political ac tion in every other field. They have thrown every other question, however important, into the background and have made constructive party action impossible for long years together. So far as I am myself concerned, therefore, I can never consent to have the question of local option made an issue between political parties in this state. My judgment is very clear in this matter. I do not believe that party programmes of the highest consequence to the political life of the state and of the nation ought to be thrust on one side and hopelessly embarrassed for long periods to gether by making a political issue of a great question which is essentially non-political, non-par- tisan, moral and social, in its nature. Rev. Thomas B. Shannon, 16 Clinton Street Newark, New Jersey - Very sincerely yours, (Signed) WOODROW WILSON X William Howard ! Declares for Regulation: . y '. V j From Mr,Taft9 Book, "Four Aspects of Civic Duty" t "Nothing is more foolish, nothing more utterly at variance with sound policy, than to enact a law which, by reason of conditions surrounding the community, is incapable of enforcement. Such in stances are sometimes presented by sumptuary laws, by which the sale of intoxicating liquors is prohibited under penalties in localities, where the public sentiment of the immediate community does not and will not sustain the enforcement of the law. "In cases where the sale of liquor cannot be prohibited in fact, it is far better to regulate than to attempt to stamp it out. ' - "By the enactment of a drastic law and the failure to enforce it, there is injected into the public mind the idea that laws are to be observed or violated according to the will of those affected. I need not say how altogether pernicious such a loose theory is. 1 The constant violation or neglect of any law leads to a demoralized view of all laws." These are the views of two of Americas greatest citizens and statesmen. We have Local Option and Regulation in Nebraska. Prohibition destroys both. Are these great men mistaken? Think it over. How to Vote Against Prohibition These squares appear at the TOP of the general election ballot An X marked in the square opposite number 301 is a vote AGAINST PROHIBITION. Yes 300 Q 301, No Shall the above and foregoing amendment to' the Constitution be adopted? THE NEBRASKA PROSPERITY LEAGUE