The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-04-13
COLLEGE ENGINEER
ON NAVAL BOARD
DR.. B.. 3. BRAckETT, STATE COL.
LEGE, APPOINTED BY sEcRE.
TARY DANIELS
THOMAS A. EDISON HEAD Of BOARD
One OF Five Business-Engineer Select.
ed to Form Organization for
Industrial Preparedness


DR.. b. B. Bracket, professor of cleo
trical engineering of State College, has
received and accepted an appointment
by Josephus Daniels, secretary of the
navy, as a member of the Board of
Directors of the Organization for In.
dustrial Preparedness of the State of
South Dakota, and as Associate Mem
Der of the Naval Consulting Board"
h organization to which DR.. Brack-
EFT has received appointment is a
branch of he Naval Consulting Board,
OF which Thomas A. Edison is chair
man, and has been formed for the pur.
pose OF assisting the Naval Consulting
Board in the work of collecting data
for use in organizing the manufacture
ing source of the country for the
public service in case Of
This organization is made up of men
from the five great technical societies
of h countryside American Society
Of Mechanical Engineers, the Ameri-
can Society of Civil Engineers, the
American Chemical Society, the
American Institute of Electrical En-
g%ineers, and the American Institute of
Mining Engineers, and Is being formed
in response to a request sent out by
President Wilson last January.
Howard E. Coffin, chairman of the
committee On production, organization,
manufacture and standardization, of
the Naval Consulting Board, says that
in every state and territory Of the
Union a board of five directors has
been formed, each director being a
leading business-engineer familiar
with the states factories, mills and
mines. These men are chosen, one
from each Of the five technical So
c~ieties mentioned above, and, to quote
Mr.. Coffin:
"A minute, sweeping inventory of
industry will be made by a carefully
prepared printed form. The informa-
ton called for in this form will be
based upon what business men con-
slider 1t necessary to know in arriving
at the physical capacity of plants and
their fitness and reliability for specific
classes Of output. Such information
has never before been collected by my
department of the Government"
The letter from Secretary Daniels
requesting DR.. Bracket to serve on
the board follows:
My dear Professor Bracket:
In requesting you, which | herewith
take much pleasure in doing, to serve
as a member of the Board of Directors
of the Organization for Industrial Pre-
paredness of the State of South Da-
kota, and as Associate Member of the
Naval Consulting Board, I am given
opportunity to impress upon you the
value and Importance of the work
which you are now about to take up.
At the same time, | desire to tender
you the hearty thanks and deep ap-
probation Of the Department and of
the Administration for the definite
tisan and unselfsh spirit, are about to
render to the Government and people
Of the United States.
There can be no higher service to
the country than that contemplated
in the plans Of the Committee on In
dustrial Preparedness of the Naval
Consulting Board, which has in hand
the general direction of the work in
question. The wal in Europe mas
taught us that industrial preparedness
is the foundation rock of the national
defense, and to the end of accomplish
ing it in full Measure you can contrib
ute a large and patriotic service for
the common interest of this Republic.
Very sincerely yours,
~Josephus Daniels.
Secretary of the Navy.
The other four men who will make
up the representation or the board
from South Dakota are: Civil engin-
eeiing-Bruce C. Yates, Of Lead. SUI
p~erintendent of the Home Stake mine.
Mechanical engineering-N. w. David
son, of Vermilhon. professor of Me-
chanical engineering University of
South Dakota. Chemistry-Wm. J..
Sherwood, Lead, of the Home Stake
mine. Metallurgy-Allan J. Clark,
Lead, of the Home Stake mine.