The Washington herald., 1920-12-19
PLANS CONDUCT
RESEARCH INTO
ROAD BUILDING
Engineering Foundation
Will Coordinate High
way Work.

In alliance with leading technical
and other organisations govern
mental departments. universities
and colleges. Engineering Founda-
tion, which is raising Q fund of
many millions to promote researches
in American industry. has. 1t is an
nounced. embarked upon a national
program of highway research.
Functioning through tine engineer
ing division of the National Research
Council. 1t Is planned to coordinate
all the agencies in highway re-
search. and, aided by the Federal
government, to employ highly
trained reseafch men, who will
gather scientifically the great mass
i of fundamental facts underlying the
economic construction of the modern
type of highway. This data will be
distributed among road builders In
every State.
Engineering Foundation, the chair
man of which Is Charles T. Rand.
II Broadway. N. Y, past president
of the American Institute OF Min
ing and Metallurxical Engineers.
dlEcdQJ mas . Vi SOUUtUUU. III
is seeking to increase this to S5.-
100000, the income from this fund.
It is stated. being necessary to
carry out the work outlined.
Many Large Centributiens.
Recentis~the foundation, which is
a trust funG established by Am
brose Swazey, of Cleveland by gifts
to the United Engineering Society,
received an anonymous contribu-
tion of 100000. 1t was said yester-
day that within the last few days
the foundation has received an Of
fer of $4,000 conditioned upon OBJ
tanning a like contribution from
nine others.
The formation of the Advisory
Board on Highway Reseach al
ready has been announced. Com
mittees are preparing to make sur
veys in various fields, including bib
biography, economic theory of high
way Improvement, structural de-
sign of roads and character and use
Of road materials.
Prof. Anson Marston, dean of the
Engineering School, Iowa State COL
lege, has been elected chairman of
the board, to serve for one year.
Alfred ID. Flynn, secretary of En-
gineering Foundation, has been ap-
pointed ad interim director.
would Seek Csngress' Aid.
The advisory board aims to &C.
cure q definite assignment by Con-
gress OF q certain portion of the
unexpended balance of Federal aid
road money to some agency which
VIII administer the funds under the
direction of the board. It is planned
to begin the research work at once
and to obtain definite results at
an early date.
Many national bodies are active
ly cooperating with Engineering
Foundation in the engineering d.
vision IL the National Research Coun-
Gil. Among them are American As
sociation of State Highway Oflcials,
American Society of Testing Ma
terials, Society OF Automotiye En-
gineers, Bureau of Public Roads,
National Automobile Chamber of
Commerce, American Society of Civil
Engineers, American Institute of
Consulting Engineers, American So
ciety of Mechanical Engineers, As
sociation of State Biologists. West
ern Society Of Engineers American
Concrete Institute, and the Amer
ican Automobile Association. The
engineering departments of Column
bia, Harvard. Yale, University of
Maryland, the University of Illinois
and Iowa State College are also TAX
ing part in the movement.