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THE WORLD

that

to the Bedaux

of late worker generally alter its opposition

the workers exceed 80 B's perf which, you hour, they get a percentage of the regard.

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 20, 1938.

GOES BY

the workers do mot

one might suffice.

enticing_vision, Love Units

remember, accounted for cancella- increase on their wages, which they First, they want to know who will He is saddened by the tion of the Duke of Windsor's visit will probably call a B wave of pro- to the United States.

sperity.

One may go further, and say that Mr. Bedaux has somehow or other An Awful got himself disliked. And, doubt-

less, he would go into the garden Waste

A

tion.

man learning to use of scientists have pronag

as

ht of

the two eternities

get the saved money, how they will mankind going through life with a be expected to spend the saved time, prodigal waste of time and energy, and who will get increased produc- throwing away seconds and inches as if they were inexhaustible, and No answer is yet forthcoming kissing the

the same girl twice when The experts don't even know where

a single operation would convey and eat worms if someone would Broadly speaking then, it is de- production goes in the ordinary the same aggregation of love- show him how to eat two worms, signed to make the worker more way, let alone under a Bedaux sys- units. where only one was eaten before. efficient. To give you a rough idea tem, though I hear that a number: To him, life is but a narrow

I will admit t that, at first glance, —imagine a

to look

bridge between there are one or two points about two hands instead of one, and when into the matter

they full of nothing. The universe is the system that require explanation he can do that, to use his feet as have discovered where flies go in rapidly running down,

and we before it is universally adopted as well. From thence he rises on late Autumn.

"Should swift death this night holiday.

selves until he can at the same perly, you must grasp the motive o'ertake thee," he says, panting The purpose of the system is to time knock nails in with his nose behind it. Mr. Bedaux's object is with impatience, and thy couch save time, energy and money, and and sweep the floor with a broom to stop the awful waste of time increase the output of the worker harnessed to his behind.

and energy that goes on ever become thy tomb (or, if thou art on a nightshift, should it o'ertake by showing him how to use his en- And when he has reached that where. He sees men taking twenty thee in the morning), think how ergy in the most economic way. It stage of efficiency, if he isn't count- seconds to do something that might rotten you'd feel if you'd only measures labour-power by a unit of ing the buttons on the wall of a be done in ten, moving three feet driven in 995 rivets instead of a effort and speed,. called "B" unit, padded cell, he starts learning how when they might move only 18 in possible thousand!” which happens to be also what the to do the whole thing in half the ches, and perferming two actions"

a pleasant way of spending a half- stepping-stones of his half-dead To understand the system pro- can't afford to waste any energy.

-We

It is said that he once walked out in disgust. in the middle of "Romeo and

and Juliet" He said the balcony scene was a lamentable ex- ample of the waste of man-power.

“Why can't Romeo wait till Juliet comes downstairs," he asked, "and

BY-

"ULYSSES"

thus save all the time and energy spent in climbing up the side of the house?"

Some of you -may regard this state of mind as bordering on obsession. You may even

ask

whether he wouldn't be better un- der observe

Universal

is the

way

to

make this delicious

and refreshing

Drink

or Shake

OVALTINE Hot or Cold

BSG37

A tumbler of cold or hot milk spoonfuls of ‘OVALTINE

Efficiency

But you must understand that Mr. Bedaux is an idealist. His whole soul is possessed of a beauti- ful vision of universal Efficiency.

•

Just as a certain political party looks into the future and sees each separate personality merged into the unity of a single dominant race, so Mr. Bedaux gees each individual worker merged into the florified Oneness of

a single dominant machine.

run

to

He reverses Carlyle's definition of man as a tool-using animal, and two tea-thinks the world would be mix them more efficiently if the tools used well together with an egg whisk or shake them man. up in a shaker — and in less than a minute Unfortunately, this lofty_concep- you have a creamy, délicious drink, wonder. tion is opposed to deep-rooted pre- fully invigorating- particularly on a cool judices. Man persists in thinking day. What do you ask of a drink? Tempting he ought to use tools, not to be one. flavour, refreshing quality and energy-giving|Regarding himself as possessed of

nourishment? Then OVALTINE' is the per- an immortal soul, he is loth fect drink for you. Its delightful, unexpect-abandon his status of homo sapiens ed' flavour never cloys. The scientifically and rank himself with tin-openers balanced nutriment it supplies is just what and squeegees. you need to maintain your health and energy during the long and often tiring days. Remember that mid-Winter meals are seldom sufficiently nourishing to replace the energy you spend so freely. “A glass of ‘OVALTINE'

By the gradual application makes even the lightest meal complete in scientific principles, he hopes that health-giving nourishment. That is why the worker will ultimately become OVALTINE should be the meal time bever- so tied up in the machinery that he age for every member of the family.

Remember

ALTINE COLD. Hət

now served at Cafès.

urants Bathing Fools

un-

Nevertheless, Mr. Bedaux, daunted, will strive to go on cutting seconds off eternity and inches off infinite space.

of

won't know which is which; and he

Tooks forward to the day ave f

a

you ask a working man to drink," he will say “Squeak! |Squeak!" and open his month for

the oil can.

Then will true Efficiency have been achieved and the aim of modern civilisation realised. will have become

Man

the

machine, and the god will turned into a gadget.