The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1913-08-19
EDITORIAL COMMENT
rha nav of ths. Expert.

Manitoba Free Press: Today ex-
perts are in the saddle, because they
deserve to be. There always have
been experts, but now they occupy
many fields wholly new, fields Great
ed by advances in education, applied
science, and business method. Sixty
years ago doctor took care of a
patient as an undivided unit. If any
thing went wrong with his heart or
lungs, his eyes or ears, DR.. Allround
prescribed remedy. Today each
organ has a specially instructed and
drilled guardian of it's own, whose
life is devoted to studying the nervous
system or the bony skeleton, the
organs Of hearing or vision. Better
still: experts in diagnosis cultivate
field, steadily widening, where disease
is not cured, but prevented by every
available means. A man of delicate
lungs is pointed to the outdoor life he
should lead the regimen he should
observe, with warning word as to
stimulants and worry. If another
patients heart betrays weakness, he
Is forbidden Fall exercise as severe, as
rowing, and If he mounts a bicycle he
is told to dismiss all ambition to be-
come a scorcher. Many leader in
banking, commerce, or the professions
owes his clearness Of head his vigor
prolonged past his sixtieth year, to
stated calls on physician who sounds
his chest, counts his pulse, and looks
into his eyes.
Health largely turns on working
with zest, and at a profit, too. Doors
for such work stand open today as
never before, thanks to the new part
nerships into which teachers have en-
tered. investigators of good sense,
compare boys and girls in compre-
hensive tests to ascertain, as far as
they can, what careers these young
folk may adopt with most promise
Elective studies take on a new value
when they follow upon judicfous in
quiry al. to individual tastes and apti-
tudes. And when schools have sent
their pupils into factories and mills,
the expert continues to be as useful
as before. He catechizes the make
and the use of planes and saws, drills
and pulverizers, and links every step
from raw material to finished pro-
duct into the shortest and smoothest
possible chain. 1t was thus that FIRE.
derrick Winslow Taylor, of Philadel-
phia, multiplied by four the output of
tal-cutting machines.
Bookkeeping meanwhile, has as
cended many rllng of it's old-time
ladder, and with gain. Today costs
are known with precision. A huge
factory of sewing machines in minute
ly subdivided into departments, with
elaborate cost sheets throughout. TO
lower these costs score of inventors
are busy devising improved rnechan-
ism. At times a concern of this kind
has tIlriyen SO fast that additional
stories have been built in a hurry,
with extensions to right and left, and
d trebling Of boiler capacity In such
premises an efficiency expert finds
much to alter and recasts In one
shoe factory, thus irregularly expand 4
ed, he cut down the charge for motive
power BY 20. per cent as soon as he
replaced betting by an electric drive.
Today a single btrnisher may be the
only machine at work In the whole
plant. Its cost for motive power
stops on the instant that its wheels
stop. AT this hour thanka to ex-
| perts, large fortunes are growing
larger through turning to account low
grade ores, and regidues from petrole-
| urn, which thirty years ago were
! thrown away as worthless
EoW far advances It'd agriculture
4 may so, in response to modern exi-
/ gencies, lii exemplified ira the marvel
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