The Washington herald., 1922-02-05
PLAN
FOR BIG MEETING
In FOUR STATES
treat Forum to Be Held
In Atlanta Beginning
May 8.

hounced here yesterday by the
american Society of Mechanical En-
sineers in making known prelim-
mary plans for a fve-day spring
meeting of the society to be held
Atlanta. Ca beginning May 8.
problems of the textile industry, in
Tolving labor comparisons. and of
the steel industry. showing obscure
Factors on which its entire opera
lion hinges. will be among the wide
range of topics of national economic.
scientihc and social interest to be
discussed by engineers. technoIo-
sists. educators and others from
practically every industrial center
PC the country.
Several New York engineers are
among those who are preparing
addresses showing the development
Of engineering progress and one
fvent scheduled deals with results
pf recent tests on the $4,000 kilo-
watt turbine of the Interborough
Rapid Transit Company.
VIII Gather Mt U. of Va.
Preliminary to the Atlanta ses-
eions. according to the announce
Fnent of Dean Dexter S. KimbalI, OF
Cornell, president of the society
known as the Society of Industries
1.-The engineers will gather at the
University of Virginia on Friday
May 5, to take part in events last
ng two days. At the. close of the
Atlanta sessions the great steel and
extile plants of Alabama and South
carolina. notably at Birmingham
md Greenville. will be inspected.
he whole program is designed to
bring to national attention central
problems of the steel. textile and
bther industries Railroads and
fuel. management and power, ord
hance and aeronautics, are amons
he hundred or more topics to come
Ip In addresses, discussions and
onferences- Forest products will
be a leading feature and the power
division of the society will present
pydro-electric power development.
PARTICULARLY in the Southeast
The sessions of the aeronautic d.
fision. Of which Orville Wright and
bthers prominent in American avia-
ion are leaders. will show the de-
1eIopment of aircraft since the
var. The ordnance divisions pro-
eedings will attract many who
erved in the army during the war,
nd whose efforts are now being ap-
blied toward bringing about a close
FOTking arrangement between en-
ineers and the ordnance depart
laEt Of the army.
Fuel Experts to speak.
:.hc fuel division will hear ad-
r":.y-s by experts telling of steps
lIscn to solve through science the
oUntry's fuel problems. DIR. E. a.
FchIia-. of Milwaukee. Wis. will
escribe the relation of combust-
bic coal elements to the oxygen
on,cnt and the establishment of a
ucL unit of practically constant
eat value for over 90 per cent of
n bituminOus Goals. C. W. e.
|larkc. a New York power engi-
eer. will deliver an address on
Ice at the CoIfax station of the
buquesne Light Company and the
eward station of the Pennsylvania
IubIic Service Corporation Reduc-
ion of fuel wastes in the steel IN
ustry will be the theme of +. G.
(utIer, Bureau of Steam Engineer
h-, Tennessee Coal and Iron Com
|any. Alabama.
+. l.. Leach. of New York City. in
Inc Of the most important ad-
resses of the meeting. will treat
he entire steel industry as an eX-
mple of the great Importance "f
raterials handling, showing how
he operation of this industry
hinges on adequate designs for
haterials handling equipment.
social Events Planned.
Three States will be included in
ne meeting. The full program will
tart at the University of Virginia,
hay and 6. the Virginia section
the society acting as hosts. The
tIanta section is planning numer
us social and sightseeing events,
ncluding barbecue and exhibit
lon golf match
Special delegations from all the
outhern States will attend the
neeting and Southern Industries
FiII be largely represented. Large
roups representing the local sec
IONS of the society in Birmingham,
ouston and New Orleans. among
thrr cities. will attend The Nir-
inia section will also send a large
Representation. New York, New
England and the West-the soci-
ty's branches extend from Boston
San Francisco-will contribute
heir quotas. Many of the leading
Universities and technical schools
in be represented as well as stu
ent branches. of which the soci-
ty maintains fifty-nine in Ameri-
an educational institutions.
The Atlanta meeting will be one
two great national gatherings
b be held by the society during the
omIng year. The second will be
I'D in New Hork In December.
hree hundred meetings are sched-
Ied for this year by the society's
bcaI sections IN fifty-one Industrial
enters. -Four hundred meetings
I'M be held by the student branch.
Big Preparations Made.
Preparations for the Atlanta
neeting. which will be one of the
Ippest national engineering gath
rings Of the year, are involving the
ttention of more than 1900 mem
ers Of the society, comprising
ixty-seyen technical committees.
birty-seven administrative commit
ees, in addition to the fifty-one To-
al sections. the twelve professional