Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-10-31
ENGINEERS IN
BUSY SESSION
Webster City Club Guests
of J. A. Dunkel at Din
ner in New Wilson
Hotel.
J. H. DUNLAP SPEAKS
Committee Appointed to
Consider Question of
Training.

SOAt0AuS1 VANoOAON VI
Training.
An engineering education com.
mittce made up of members
of the Webster City Engineering
club will be appointed in the near
future by J. A. Dunkel, president of
the club, as a result of a suggestion
made by J. H. Dunlap, president of the
Iowa State Engineering association, at
the regular meeting of the local club at
the New Wilson Hotel Saturday eve
ming. The committee will find out the
opinions of local club members as to
the present needs Of engineering
schools and its report, together with
similar reports from other Iowa clubs,
will be submitted to the meeting OF the
state society to be held nNSiOuX City
in January.
Guests of Mr.. Dunkel.
Preceding the regular meeting of the
club Saturday evening, members and
friends to the number Of twenty were
guests of J. A. Dunkel at a dinner mi
the Wilson Hotel dining room. The
meeting marked the official beginning
of the new administration headed byI
Mr.. Dunkel as president. Other officers
are II. A. Little. vice president. and +.
H. Austin, secretary-treasurer.
The meeting was opened by +. d.
Scbenk who. after calling for reports
from c. II. Currie. delegate to the adj
visory council of the state society, and
NJ. v. Norris, of the membership COM
mittee. gave up the chair to Mr.. Dun
KEEL.
Publicity Is Need.
4 In a short talk in which he accepted
the club leadership and thanked the
members for the honor they had be-
slowed upon him, DR.. Dunkel declared
that the engineering profession has new
or received the recognition which is its
due. either from the press or from his
torians. He pointed out that, while
names of rulers have come down
through the ages the names of the en-
gineers who did much to make their
rule successful have not been preserved.
He discussed the relative Importance Of
engineering news to other news.
Called Parasite.
Speaking of the public opinion of
engineers, he declared that farmers
feel the engineer is parasite" He adj
vocated spending money if necessary in
publicity campaign to educate the
people to the Importance Of engineering.
He urged a closer attention to the
business side Of the profession, assert
ing that engineers have emphasized
the technical side of their work and
have gotten away from the business
side"
In closing he suggested that the club
pick an objective for which it could
work as an organization.
Calls Other Speakers.
Following Mr.. Dunkels address, sew
eral other speakers were called upon
for short talks.
Roy Austin brought out the point
that federal aid work has been largely
misunderstood and suggested pub
Lefty campaign by the engineering club
to explain exactly what this law is.
Z. S. Boudinot suggested a publicity
campaign to combat propaganda
against the highway commission and
engineers in general.
J. f. Quakepbush gave most in
teresting short "reminiscences of The
Early Engineer
What Engineers Can Do.
In carefully prepared paper on the
subject, What the Engineer club can
do for Webster City" f. f. Schenk de-
clared that he believed it the duty OF
the club to mould public sentiment to-
ward certain improvements"
He called attention to the fact that
engineers by their profession are speci-
alists in public improvement and named
as few of the projects in which en-
gineers were especially fitted to use
their efforts for civic betterment, mat
tiers of bridge construction, railway
crossings, curbs, parks, city entrances,
fighting conditions which tend to in
crease insurance rates, industrial ven
lures, sanitation, sewage and garbage
disposal.
Mr.. Dunlap requested that copy of
Mr.. Schenk's paper and the reminis-
cence by Mr.. Quakenbush be sent to the
advisory council of the state associa-
ton to be printed in the official pub
lication of the society.
Mr.. Dunlap Speaks.
President J. II. Dunlap. of the Iowa
State Engineering association, called
upon to furnish the piece de resist !
ance'-a word which Mr.. Dunkel adj
mitted he used at the suggestion of Mr..