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Itures of finite ideas. An effici- ency expert, were he given the chance, would endeavour to cen- tralise the whose universe, with disastrous results, no doubt.
On the whole, though, we are very tolerant of waste, having learnt from history and long ex- perience that many of the world's greatest characters owed their success to having seemingly wasted their time, talents and op- portunities at some period. Mr. Colman has gratefully confessed that his profits are made from the mustard which diners leave behind on their plates. Occa- sionally someone is appalled by the fact that a third of our life is spent in sleep, or that if we devoted thirty minutes of unused spare time a day to concentrated study, we might learn a foreign language every year. All illness and incapacity appear an unmiti- gated waste of time any money yet some of the world's best work Hong Kong, Monday, August 15, 1938. has been done on siek-beds and
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WICKED WASTE
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One of the most distressing facts of existence to a sensitive thinker is the appalling waste on every side. Life, time, power, effort, material. not to mention worry, affection and beauty.
are
under severe physical handicaps. Nevertheless it is a sad truth that just as the best engine is capable of utilising only a part of the power imprisoned in its fuel, so does the average human body and brain develop a mere seventy-five per cent. or so of the strength and energy of which it might be capable. Much of the food we swallow is worse than wasted, apart from the benefits conferred on poisonous bacteria. As for the drudgery expended in cooking and clearing up unneed- ed meals, perhaps it is wiser not to assess such statistics. Agricul- ture is just beginning to realise tons of fertilizer wasted by indis- criminate sowing, and of valu- able water squandered in hap hazard irrigation. The feeding of livestock is now studied so scien→ tifically that the chief source of waste lies in putting good food into poor stock. The pig is a prince of thrift, converting house- scraps skim milk and waste fruit Chicago into profit. In the stockyards his squeal only is lost, and that is sometimes captured from the ether on the wireless.
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being squandered without much compensating result. Here and there attempts are made to check some of the more practical leakages. Highly trained experts are turned loose in factories and arrange matters so that no em- ployee is idle for a moment, all superfluous movements of ma- chinery are eliminated, and every particle of scrap is utilised. The result is called “efficiency," mass production;” or simply "hell" by the Charlie Chaplins who cannot adjust themselves to the mechanisation of modern life. The world, in fact, is divided into three great groups; those satisfied with things as they are, those out for ruthless progress, and a minority, trying to get back to Nature. And that lady herself is an arch-waster of life, time and labour. She thinks
Even with the most skilful nothing of letting a fish or an insect lay a hundred thousand technique, the mining industries eggs in order that one or two seldom recover all the minerals may reach maturity. She spends they handle. There are millions an era fashioning a mountain of pounds worth of gold lying and blows it to dust in an hour; waste in the tailings dumps of and before a method laboriously makes rivers and the Rand, dries them up again; plants for- of treating "slimes" was discov- este...and tears them out with ered, there were millions more. tornadoes. As for time, no won-War is cited as the most colossal der many faithful souls cannot example of waste--men property, face a rational view of creation effort and money. Yet the short- when it is a choice of man being age of materials in war-time In several million years or necessitates the Keenest anti- minute. Even the most diligent waste measures. Dust-bins are wool her subjects seldom behave, carefully sorted tufts of
operatives in an up-to-date gleaned from wire fences, and trial plant. Ants, stop for a the most unlikely objects con- brief chat with every comrade verted into food. In the Great they meet. Bees cover much un- War, curiously enough, any pro- necessary ground in fussing test at the appalling waste of around for the perfect flower. life in senseless offensives shock- Beavers, certainly, turn out a resed the public as deeply as the pectable pile of woodwork, but rather reasonable, though hor- like plenty of time off for meals, rible and quite mythical scheme games and conversation. As re for extracting badly needed gly- gards busy, nest-building birds, cerine from the fallen. Men have anyone who has attempted to ever strained at gnats and swal- photograph such oper ms will lowed camels, Nevertheless some aesthetic minds dream..... of a day when we shall take all our neces- saryvsustěnance în, tabloid form. A ̈most convenient-arrangement for explorers and harassed house- wives; but our insides are at pre- tituted that they re- roperly without
roughage.” Seem- demands a ileum of waste for its
vouch for the exasp liberateness of these Nature, we all know, seldom wastes millions of lives that
maturity for the most nourish other
ing that they help the ear with phosph
finally return to
essential there is that
diture
smooth running; - a comforting theory, for it certainly gets this In full measure.