El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-05-24

(CO0TlQu6Q rom rage SHC.t
committee on benevolent associations
s6-The accounts of the organization
shall be regularly audited and copy
of the annual report shall be filed with
the committee on benevolent associa-
tons
THE operations of the organiza-
ton and its accounts shall always be
open to the investige ton of accredited
representatives of the committee on
benevolent associations
The Toxin of Fatigue.
new popular conception of indus
trial morals is necessary, according to
Dr. Henry Baird Favin of Chicago, TO
the continued health and efficiency or
the nation DR.. Fav1ll in an address on
the Toxin of Fatigue" before the con-
ference here last evening, reported that
the results of long continued expert
ments in chemical and physiological Ia
boratories indicate that in fatigue from
overwork a change in cellular struc-
ture occurs in the body Of the worker.
Just what these changes are have not
been determined accurately nor have
their effects upon the continued eff
cheney of the worker been scientifically
demonstrated. The speaker urged the
necessity for the chemist, biologist and
Psychologist to pursue their investiga-
tons further but submitted that there
were certain well defined lines of social
procedure which ought TO be prosecuted
upon the basis of knowledge already at
tanned.
A Popular Problem
THE purpose of this discussion" said
Dr.. Favill, ''is to further the estab-
lishment of fatigue as a factor in
standardizing the number and ar
ranging the hours of labor. 1t is not
purely merciful or perhaps pri-
marily mercifuL but fundamentally. an
attempt to economic the powers of our
working population. We are not dealing
with mechanical problem, it is not
mere physical problem. 1t is distinctly
a human problem in which the interre-
latiOn of physical. mental and industrial
needs must be inteHigently interpre-
ted. No single movement along these
lines can be regarded as final. not even
very useful, except as it tablishes
beyond question, recognition of the
principle that labor is a human function
and intended to elevate and not to de-
grade the race.
The WOrnOut Man.
Long ago, students of industrial
conditions came to recognize as type.
the individual who is spent by reason
OF Undue labor before maturity We
have hardly yet grasped the idea tina.
the same factors, showing acutelv in
the resultSIupOn the immature, operate
SOME what less rnantfes-ly II ali labor
ers. The two factors. specialization and
economy of production, are bringing Us
20 an indTStriol crisis wien VIII have
to be reckoned with. Specialization
means beyond a doubt. Industrial effec-
tiveness, tTt its counterbalance is mon
otony; economy of production means
especially. economy of time, but It's
counterbalance is speeding up Out
of these two factors arise the great
offenses against human endurance and
community welfare Any conception
which makes material production para
mount to the essential interest in the
units entering into that production can
only aggravate our present condition
and accelerate an inevitable disaster"
Abuses of Insane.
Announcing his abandonment Of the
role of militant reformer, assumed in
his book, "a Mind That Found Itself"
published in March. 1905 Clifford W.
Beers, the author. promulgated his new
program in relation TO the treatment
of insanity in an address before the
conference here this morning Mr..
Beers was himself for some time a
patient in several hospitals for the in
sane and, after his recovery, wrote the |
book which created considerable stir
throughout the country He told OF
many abuses which patients in such in