The Washington herald., 1921-07-13
ENGINEERS ADD
nine TOBOARDO ON
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Resolutions of Ad.
miration for British
And French.

NEW YORK. July lz-Nine ne"
members have just been added to
the American Engineering coun-
ellis committee on foreign relations
to complete the personnel of the
committee of which Lewis B. Still
well. of New York. is chairman
Dugal C. Jackson. Boston; Louis
s. Gates, Salt Lake City; Nelson
p. Lewis. ]. Parke Claiming. C. O..
Mallloux and John w. Lieb, New
York City; T. A. Rickard. San Fran
cisco; B. ]. Arnold. Chicago. and NJ.
o. Leighton. Washington, are the
men whose appointment to the COM
mittee. which has recently partici-
pated in the entertainment and re-
'ception of delegation of Italian
and French engineers visiting the
United States, has been approved
by the councils executive board.
The committee submitted to the
council at the meeting in st. Louis
a set of resolutions to the British
and French engineers, which were
adopted and presented for the Feu-
Grated American Engineering Socie-
ties by Col. Arthur S. Dwight, vice
chairman of the delegation OF thtr-
teen American engineers whtch-car-
ried the John Fritz medal to Sir
Robert Hadfeld and NJ. Schneider.
Resolution to British.
The resolution to the British en-
gineers was in part as follows:
frn ms erf
neering Societies desire to express
TO the professional engineers of
Great. Britain their admiration and
sympathy-admirat for the splen-
didly effective work of British en-
gineers during the great war. and
sympathy for the sacrifice of life.
health and property. which their
great service to civilization in
volved-
american engineers have watch
ed with a profound sense of COM
radeship the manifold and effective
activities of their professional
brethren of Great Britain in the
great war for civilization, and in the
work OF reconstruction which has
followed. They recognize that the
work of the British engineers dur
ing this period of trial has brought
honor to the profession throughout
the world. They realize that the
war and its consequences have i'm
posed upon the professional classes
Of Great Britain especial hardship,
and II is with warm feeling of pro-
fessonal pride that they have seen
how British engineers have faced
that hardship without fiinching and
without complaint.
For the losses which the profess
sion in Great Britain have suffered
they tender their profound sympa-
thv and they record their confident
belief that in the great work of res
toration. British engineers will
carry on not less effectively than
they did in the war. and that as
leaders of the British Empire in the
broad fields of applied engineering
science. their part in restoring and
advancing civilization will be not
less honorable and distinguished
than IL has been in defending Brit
tsh and American ideals"
Sympathy for French.
The resolution to French engi-
neers declared that:
Federated American Fnsineer-
ing Societies through American En-
Eineering Council extend greetings
TO the engineers of France and take
this opportunity to tender sympathy
for their sufferings and Affections
and appreciation of their maenin-
cent achievements during The great
war
They would also express interest
in the great problems of recon
struction now being confronted ana
rs the comrsdeship of nations on
the battlefield has brought into
close bonds of friendship the neo1
pies Of the two countries it is the
hope of American engineers tb.t
there may also result closer CO.
operation and increased mutual in
terest among the members of. tho
enGineering profession in France