The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
copyright. 1914. by A. S. Cray)
FRICTION.

FRICTION.
The life and efficiency of every ma
chine depends on overcoming friction.
friction wears things out, and TO over
come friction is the recognized need
OF today In every branch OF Industrial
ACTIVITY. large item in the cost of
operating every machine Is that cover
Ing anti-friction bearings and lubri-
cants. Neglected friction will quickly
wreck and land any machine on the
scrap pile
Railway systems, steamship lines,
manufacturing plants OF every descrip-
ton. telegraph and telephone COM
pan1es, great and small, all employ
highly trained and well paid experts
constantly to supervise and test appa-
ratus and structure for the purpose of,
guarding against breakdown from the
development Of any Inherent weakness
In physical equipment and to test finan-
cial and executive departments in or
der to insure against breakdown or
any loss Of efficiency In these I'm
portant functions of our great artificial
bodies. Experience has evolved a now
we'll established economic theory In
the bushes world to the effect that
1t is cheaper to spend money to pre-
vent wrecks than 10 is to spend money
to clear away and repair wreckage
But for man himself, the one funda-
mental factor upon and for whom the
entire industrial structure exists this
theory OF the business world is re-
versed. The theory upon which the
medical profession has been organized
is highly absurd and irrational. The
physician must stand around and wait
until there is human breakdown, and
then he is called In only as a repair
man--frequently too late to secure
worth while results.
and sob when in trouble, and we all |
know there are but two alternatives |
to such conditions-rest and lubrica-
ton to overcome the roughness, or an
early trip to the junk yard. And 1t is
the same with man: Man feels, and
on every side we see evidence of the
squealing, the squeaking and the sob
bling of the nerves composing the hui
man machine; and but little effort is
made to remove the cause. And In our
mortality and other statistical tables
we see the result In an ever rising
premature mortality-an enormous
economic loss through destruction at
what should be the period OF greatest
usefulness and efficiency.
Genius Is the type Of mind that per-
ceives and grasps principles where the
ordinary mind sees only isolated facts.
Grille, with the fash of genius grasp
Ing the principle of cell exhaustion, de-
veloped and demonstrated 1t to be the
cause of death from shock" a dis
covery acknowledged by no less an au-
thority than Sir Berkeley Moynihan at
A recent meeting of the British Medi-
cal association to be epoch making."
1t is experimenting" not only be-
cause 1t has reduced death from
surgical shock to an almost negli-
sfble quantity, but experimenting" be-
cause 1t gives rational explanation
o the serious physical and mental re-
suits arising from long continued irri- /
alton of any part of the body, wheth- :
n the victim be conscious or uncon- I
cious of the irritation. 1t is epoch /
making" because 1t establishes rea- {
onable cause for and sane basis |
rom which to combat intelligently q
hat large group of vague but most 6
distressing trcnb1no I,
'eneral term neurasthenia, conditions
reated with little success but consid- c
rable levity and profit by large per I
entage of the profession. And fur Z
her II is experimenting" because IL I
demonstrates man to be subject to the i
anne laws as the primary battery-it I
roves we can be run down and ex- L
austed even beyond the point Of re- s
operation by too frequently repeated a
erve cell discharges incident to the Il
ally routine of life. We may short h
ircuit and exhaust our cells by use h
sss worry, work and friction, or we
lay guard our tissues and so conserve .
ur vitality as 20 live long and happily. a
is largely a matter of avoiding fric- =,
on-irritation. :
1t matters not whether the irritation h
e In the eyes, the feet or the abdo- h
len, the final exhaustion is in the ,.
rain. and tina net result is premature =,
ecay. :,
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