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your constructive enterprise. 1t brings
to YOUR profession field hardly opened
to 1t before"
Secretary Redfield predicted a period
ct ct uneauaied prosperity when the "a Tay
engineers, he said, who have been the
first to feel the retrenchment, will get
their reward in a larger share In the
replacement Of values which the war Is
devastating.
Development Of Engineering.
velopment of engineering into a pro-
fession. "a few generations ago there
were but three professions-theolog
law and medicine. Today we have three
new professions-journa account
ing and engineering. These latter two
go hand in hand to enable us to meet
the complexity of the modern system
of giant industry and to enable us to
economlze our resources in the con-
quest of physical nature"
After reviewing the various develop
ments OF engineering, taking on new
duties to solve complex problems of
the national life, Commissioner Daniels
continued:
Last of all and most important of all
for the data indispensable in the fixing
of Just and reasonable rates for the
services rendered to the public by vari-
Gus public utilities.
"A very interesting example of how
the engineer is inevitably drawn into
the human and social problem of effect
ing equity and justice between man
and man is found in the very important
and as yet fmperfectly solved problem
of valuation for rate making purposes !"
He issued this word of warning in
conclusion:
The engineering profession must
school itself to such clearly reasoned
considerations of social equity, bal
tenance and perpetuation of future
s"rvice efficiency that the result will
compel the acceptance of fair minded,
enlightened and equal-dealing public
opinion
American Opportunities.
DR.. Willis discussion of the American
opportunity in South America consid-
cred it from ''the broadest possible as
pect. as involving the activities of the
people of two continents, the possibfli-
Ties OF the new world, the DEVELOPMENT
of nations that are still very Young
Ine American engineer is pre-emi-
nently the man for the job of ORGANIZED
progress in South America. European
engineers are trained in small coun-
1rles' the American in n large one: the
european gains his experience in a An
ished country, the American has not
begun to finish his; the European is
Obliged to build on a small scale for
immediate results. the American to
entertain vast projects to achieve sue
cess through foresight and faith in hfs
country's future.
South America is of all the conti-
nents the one of least DEVELOPMENT
The nations of South America are in an
early stage of progress which COM
pares with that Of different sections of
the United States at the close of the
civil war
Here are the opportunities for the
engineer: South America is unsurveyed
I do not say unexplored Even the
River of Doubt has been discovered and
put on the map. This work can be done
quicker and at least cost by the topog-
raphers trained in the methods of the
United States geological survey than
by any others. In efficiency and skill
they are not equaled anywhere in the
world.
Railway Building Discussed.
Railway building attracts most at
.ention in South America, for there is
he greatest need. While there has been
much Of this work done on the fat
plains, principally, there is vast op-
for the American. Those al
eady at work there can build a finish
ID road as we'll as he, but he has over
them the one great advantage of hav-