Evening star., 1919-05-11
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

MERICAN industry is going TO
~ be fitted to meet world COM
~ petition through more intel
ligent, economic production.
Friction between capital and labor Is
going to be eliminated. because it
ears destructively upon Industrial
machinery.
Fears that the wages Of American
labor may be cut in order to cheaper
cost of production. SO that goods
Made in e. 8. A." may be laid down
in world markets in competition with
the products OF other lands that have
cheap labor. should be brushed aside.
it is asserted. The production cost is
to be reduced by making the ma
chinery in the factories do moro and
better work. The American standards
of living are to be Northumberland,
as a matter Of fact. the wages for
American labor. will eventually be
higher rather than lower. in relation
to purchasing power.
Science Applied to Industry.
This solving of the great after-war
labor problem is not going to be done
by any radical revolutionizing Of in
dustry. There will be no bolshevistic
turning of factories topsy- 1t
is going to be brought about gradual
1y, as the result Of scientific studies
that have been in progress for more
than a quarter of century, on
which governmental attention has
been focused by the war emergency
It will be effected through the train
Ing of engineers not only to design
and build good machinery. but to
work in business skill with the scien-
tihc skill, SO that the machinery will
have maximum production. and to
bring into harmony with the hum of
the machinery the hum of contented
workmen-thus reducing to a min
imum the overhead costs.
This vision for the future Of indus.
try in the United States is before the
conference on the training of the COM
mercial engineer. called by the com.
missioner Of education, which is to
meet in Washington on June % and
"a. Interest in the project of this
conference runs down through practi-
cally all the departments and bureaus
Of the federal service. The govern
ment in 1915 for the first time formal
ly recognized the engineering profess
sion in the organization of the naval
consulting board. the Council of Ma
tiona1 Defense and the National Re-
search Council. The Navy is inter-
ested on account Of its construction
work; the Army on account of its en-
gineers, chemical warfare service
and the great war Job of building
railroads and ports and miles of ware
houses and factories overseas: the
shipping board on account of the
great merchant marine being built;
the Interior Department for its
reclamation projects, mines and geo.
logical developments; Commerce De-
partment for motive power for indus
try at home and abroad; agriculture
for machinery. for manufacture of
fertilizers, good road systems, etc
Scientific Bodies COOPERATING.
American science Is cooperating
through joint committee on enei-
neering education Of the national en-
gineering societies, made up of tn.
American Society Of Civil Engineers
American Society Of Mechanical EnRi-
neers, American Institute of Electri-
cal Engineers. American Chemical So
ciety, American Institute of Chemical
Engineers. American Institute of MIN
ing Engineers and the pioneer worker
of them. all the Society for the Promo
tion of Engineering Education. This
latter. was organized at the worlds
fair in Chicago in 1898, and now has
the support OF the Carnegie Founda-
tion. 1t is represented in the confer
ence by Dean W. e. Mott. School of
Applied Science. Carnegie Institute OF
IechhOloRy PittsDurRh 1t will hold