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Show True Efficiency' Still a Goal That Is Far in the Distance By FRANK H. McGEE, Canadian Educator. The model factory is still this fine old world of ours, planned by Omniscience, Om-niscience, furnished by Omnipotence! We are. still learning from and about it, hoping in time to do as effectively and as noiselessly in our little lit-tle subdepartments. There the several atoms of ninety separate elements are constantly being transferred from one combination to another. Even in a "solid" bar of iron the infinitely little particles of which it is made are continually on the move, their tendency always to line up in regiments facing towards the magnetic pole. Rutherford and other scientists claim to have "listened in," and heard the movements of the atoms, after magnifying magnify-ing the sound many times over. To the great majority, however, the combinations com-binations the elements make two hundred thousand have been numbered, millions there must be in reality are going on noiselessly, no sound of mixing, or assorting, or measuring reaching us; wood, stone, metal, liquids, gasses, being made or altered all the time by day and by night, without haste, without rest. Solomon's lovely temple never grew into be-iug be-iug so quietly and so perfectly ! It is our imperfection, our waste of precious power, that makes our age so noisy. We are still a long way off from being as wonderfully efficient as we imagine ourselves to be 1 |