In these days of strict scrutiny of mankind hardly a thing exsists in regard to which some one does not cry, "Something ought to be done about it!" The latest wrinkle in reforms has been brought to light by Le Figaro in the shape of a conference at Amsterdam to do something about the severely detrimental economic effects of rheumatism. The statisticians of this gathering have discovered that by limbering up the world three million days would be saved annually; they have the will to accomplish this result, "mais comment?" as Le Figaro concludes.

Such a conference, with all its high ideals about bigger, better and more continuous production assumes a rather ridiculous position in the order or things. A great deal of energy working without any brains always stands a fair chance of accomplishing very little and it is in this respect that the Amsterdam gathering is more closely related than at first appears to so many other groups which differ only in the end to be obtained. Reform, limited by sanity and a sense of humor is an essential in human relations but the incessant dinning and nagging about every little thing that strikes one's sense of the disagreeable does nothing but irritate. One wonders how many working days are lost annually by rheumatically minded people congregating to find something about which to do something.