The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-04
SERIES OF TOURS
Dean of Michigan Engineering
School To Be Here Feb. 8.
Prof. M. E. Cooley Is Successor
of Herbert Hoover.
TO ADDRESS KANSAS SOCIETY
Will Complete Gigantic Task
Undertaken by Hoover.
Projects of National Importance
Now Under Way in q. S.

Now Under Way in q. 5.
Rounding out a career of almost
half a century in the service of the
state, of education and of his profess
sion Mortimer E. Cooley, at the age of
sixty-seven years, will on February D
turn aside from his labors as dean Of
the engineering school Of Michigan
university, and embark on series of
tours which will carry him from coast
to coast as a herald of a new world
force moulded by American engineers,
Successor to Hoover.
Dean Cooley is the successor of
Herbert Hoover as president OF the
American Engineering Council of the
Federated American Engineering So
cieties, ard as such is the spokesman
of q profession which claims to have
made greater strides in America than
in any other country in the world.
Dean Cooley goes to bring to compile
ton the gigantic task, undertaken By
Hoover of Welding practically quar-
ter of a million engineers in every
state of the Union into a single unit
capable of vOicing its united mind in
questions affecting national interests
and Of swiftly joining its immense
of the republic in peace or in war.
To Visit Topeka Feb. 8.
Dean Cooley will make his first
speech Monday night, February 5. be-
fore the Engineers club of Kansas
City, Mo. He will speak to the stu
dents and faculty of the engineering
school at the state university on Tues
day, February 7, and to the Kansas
Engineering society at Topeka on Feb
ruary s.
Dean Cooley will leave Topeka to
go to Oklahoma City, and will con-
tinue his tour thru Oklahoma, Texas,
Louisiana. Alabama, Georgia, Tennes-
see and Kentucky In each state he
will address the leading engineering
organizations and the colleges and
universities.
In Lawrence, Dean Cooley will be
introduced by Perley F. Walker, dean
of the school of engineering of the
state university. In Lawrence and To-
peka, he will take up with the lead
ers OF the engineering profession plans
to extend the scope of the federation
in this state. Dean Walker, of Kansas
university. is the representative on the
American Engineering Council of
Kansas Engineers.
To Take Up National Subjects.
.- During the course of his tour, Dean
Cooley will discuss projects of national
importance now under way, including
the establishment of national de-
partment of public works. to wipe out
the millions of dollars lost annually
thru inefficiency and dissipation of
federal energies; changes in the patent
office which would result in the en-
couragement of industry and inven-
ton; the elimination of industrial
waste; the promotion of better rela-
tions between labor and capital; plans
sT,E, oil
power of the country, as advocated by
Hoover, and a wide range of other
projects into which engineering and
technical skill enter and which are
vital to the industrial and economical
progress of the nation.
Heads of the great national en-
gineering societies, which are en-
braced in the Federated American En-
gineering societies, of which Dean
Cooley is president, will make supple
mentary tours to aid in the work OF
the more intensive engineering organl-
zation.
Aestatement quoting Herbert Hoover
as to the aims of the Federated Amer
lean Engineering societies. has been
issued from the New FORK office, in
.connectin with the tour of Dean Coo
ley. Hoover was the first president
of the organization.
For Public Service.
The engineers of. our country y.
Hoover says" represent an intellectual
possibility for service possessed by no
other group. 1t is therefore an augury
of real social development when the
engineers of the United States join
together for purposes of public service.
This association has the unique
value among the associations that it
cannot have any material interest for
its purpose. No engineer can receive
any material benefit from it 1t can
advance no economic interest. 1t can
not therefore be charged with any I'LL
terror motive. 1t is accepted by the
whole American people who have be-
come acquainted with its detectives as
being clearly single minded.
The birth of this society marks the
evolution of the engineer into an in
terest in public affairs. With his in
telligence, his experience and training
and the unique knowledge which ne
possesses not only of the material but
of the Intangible values among our
people. he is now organized so that his
united voice may become heard out
side of his profession"