The Washington herald., 1921-02-15
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alton. Hoover presides over the
meeting OF the executive board
which represents universities, en-
gineering societies and industries
in many States. The vice presidents
of the council are Calvert Townley'
of New York; W. E. Rolfe, Of st.
Louis; Dean D. S. Kimball, OF Cor
nell, and J. Park Claiming, Of
New York.
Tomorrow the National Council
OF the American Society of Me-
chanical Engineers will meet in this
city. Plans will be laid for the ma
tional convention of the society
which, it was announced today, will
be held in Chicago, May % to 26.
At the dinner of the American
Engineering Council tonight Frank
H. Htscock, chief judge of the New
York Court of Appeals, will preside
in the absence Of Governor Miller.
Hoovers Address.
Hoover, in his address, said: The
Federation of Engineering Societies
has been brought about solely that
We might secure for public service
the collective thought and influence
of 100000 to 200, 900 of our profess
sional engineers. This great body
of men in administrative and tech
nicaI service penetrate every indus
trial avenue and thus possess a
unique understanding of many of our
intricate economic problems, and an
influence in their solution not equal ed
by any other part of the commu-
nifty. Wanting nothing from the
public, either individually or as a
group, they are indeed in a position
Of disinterested service. This fed
Grafton has initiated services to the
public in many directions.
Il propose to deal with only one
measure of this service today. Your
council has organized a preliminary
survey of some of the weaknesses in
our production system. This survey
will attempt to visualize the nation
as a single Industrial organism and
| to examine its efficiency towards its
only real objective - the maximum
production. In a general way this
| inquiry will bear upon the whole
question of deficiency in production
industrial waste in a broad sense
Unemployment Waste.
The waste in our production is
measured by the unemployment, the
lost time due to labor conflict, the
| losses in labor turnover. the failure
| to secure maximum production oi
the individual, due either to misht
or lack of interest. Beyond thi.
again Is a wide area of waste in
| the poor coordination Of great in.
| dustries, the failures in transporta.
! tiOn, coal and power supplies, which
re-echo daily to interrupt the steady
| operation Of industry. There are
again such other wastes due to lack
Of Standardization, to speculation
to mismanagement, to inefficient ma.
tiOnal equipment, and a hundred
| other causes. There is a certain
proof of deficient production by
| comparisons Of our intense result!
in 1918, when, with 20 per cent ot
\ our man-pOwer withdrawn into thi
army, We yet produced 20 per cen
more commodities than we are doine
| today.
We are probably not producinl
| more than so or 10 per cent OF ou
! capacity; that is, if we could syn
| Chronize all national effort to maxi
mum production we could produc,
4 Nv VI HO PCA NGhN llAOlc {
( and service. Our national machin,
is today doing worse than usual, a
witness the 10000 900 idle men walk
ing our streets. One part of tn,
human measure of this shortage il
production is the lack of necessities
or comforts to them and their fami
lies. and their anxieties as to tn
| future.
Results Possible.
NO one will ever suppose tina
it is ever possible to bring nationa
productivity up to the full 100. bu
the whole basis Of national prog
ress, of an increased standard o
living. OF better human relation.
indeed of the Advancement of civ
ilization. depends upon the continu
Gus improvement in productivity
While we currently assume tina
great advances in living standard
are brought about by new and basi
invention, yet in fact even a create
field of increasing standards lie