Bisbee daily review., 1916-07-09
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] | lant and unselfish. Now. conditions of life in England and the United States are almost precisely alike as to 1. fundamentals and unler similar cir ] cumstances we shall blunder. expend ! lives. treasure and time just as they { are doing, so the British are not only [ fighting our battles for us against thee common enemy Of liberty and all man kind. but they are giving us a vivid obiect-lesson as to how we shall err 1 and behave when our turn comes. An ! ticiuating that time. we are now en- gagged in a campaign of prepared ! ness;' it is a most welcome sign of national sanity and it is to be fervent ly hoped it will continue unabated un- { til something substantial is accom- plished. The plan suggested by Presi- den Wilson in calling for the cooper ation of our national engineering so- cieties is a wise one, for they are like , ly to become the very backbone of any sane cOmmon-sen scheme of ! defense. And I think it will be found , that the engineers who will become the most efficient leaders are those
 having broad educations and tolerant
 sympathies.
 As to the Over-crowding of the engi-
 neering professions in general and
 that of mining in particular, I would
 venture to say a few words. It is ob- : viOus, it seems to me, that if the en- i gineer is to live a narrow life and con | fine himself strictly to the technical , phases of his craft, the field is cer- tain to be restricted and Over-supplied. ! My notion is that simply because
 man has had an engineering educa- ton and training is no reason why he | take to that class of work The mere | fact that youth has had such an edu- cation ought to make him a better business man, a more efficient public | servant, and 9 better ali-dIound citi7
 zen than if he had not had it. It is
 ! hard, rough road to the top in any harrow strictly professional career,
 and one will notice if he looks care- fully about him that today many. if
 not most, of our leading engineers
 Ire also good business men. It is certainly no disgrace to make a busi-
 1ess of ones profession. indeed would go further and say d man is | fool who neglects to do so unless he
 s on salary and employed in strict v technical work having little or
 nothing to do with the commercial md of the organization with which he s. connected. I think I have said enough to show that a professional nan cannot be too broadly educated put there is great danger in send ng out into the engineering prOfes 'ions men who are simply skilled arti- ians, whose hands are trained but not | heir heads: such men are useful for what they can make in the same sense ! brick-making machine is valuable | or the bricks il produces, but as its capabilities are strictly limited to that product, nothing more nay pc expect | d of it. A man, on the contrary is lying growing. developing entity | whose capabilities may often be un- inspected even by himself, until op- l Dortunity or force of circumstance | 'ompels him to do things he never an- | icipated doing. It is to the glory of | lur race that we so often do them veil and one may be thankful to live I nder system of culture that devel- | >ps the individual and in a country | hat affords abundant opportunity for ! 'ersonal initiative. We hear much aid against soulless corporations. l nd indeed this indictment has often l cen justified, but it must be remem- | 'ered that without the unity of indi- | idual effort in the form of corpora l ions. there. are a great many enter | rises that could nO- be carried out: {: | corporation is simply form of team | york in which a number of individuals l re pursuing a common purpose in a | o-ordinated effort As our mineral esOurces become more and more de- | leted the individual has an increas- | 1gly difficult task in competing with | operations having great resources | T both brains and money. As ores | ecome leaner it is necessary to han l lle a larger and larger volume in or !! 'er to make profit; logical carollary this is the increasing equipment nd a payroll; hence the obvious and onsistent line of least resistance is ! TT the individuals to combine into an mpersonal corporation. Of course, l he tendencies of corporations is to tultify individual initiative, which to be deplored. but it is hard to ee how this may be avoided, although doubt there are some corporations hat give. considerable latitude to | leir employees and due credit to their bility and genius. I believe a young lan fresh from college should seek mployment with a corporation whose vstem is well matured and that has sound traditional policy, even though ! he pay may be smaller than those rganizations which appear to have no 'olicy at all rtreat their employees olely as parts of the machine de igned for the purpose of making mon V. Men want money because they lust live. but there is subtle, hough nevertheless distinct differ nee. between the attitude of mind 'hich regards money solely as an end I itself. and that point of view which 9nsiders the wages of labor as the | necessary complement to decent living. other words. one cannot make a enuine success of life and disregard tc bu,,o.. aIo-,oDf in his daily work