The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-11-11
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CENTRAL EUROPE
Suggested by DR.. Stepanek as
Promoting World
Peace.
SPREAD AMERICAN CULTURE
World Union of Engineers Also Advo-
Gated In Line With Marconi's Su0-
gestion Of Promoting Peace
Through Science.

on.--Establishment in cen
trail Europe of great American uni
versity and library Is urged by DIR. B.
Stepanek, minister to the United
States from Czechoslovakia, who, to
advance International peace, calls
upon the engineers of this and other
countries for united participation in
world affairs. Doctor Stepanek makes
an appeal for the formation Of world
federation of engineers, and for an in
ternational engineering conference to
deal constructively with the problems
of civilization.
Doctor Stepanek's views, made pub
lie by the American Society of Me-
chanical Engineers, which, through it's
official journal, stresses the need of
engineering solidarity among the lead
ing nations, are regarded by engineers
as significant diplomatic utterance
supporting the efforts now being made
in America, Great Britain, France and
Italy to bring about closer relations
among engineers.
Closer Relations Among Engineers.
Award of the John Fritz medal to
Senator Guglielmo Marconi has
aroused fresh interest in the idea Of
world union of engineers. Marconi's
expressed hope of promoting peace
through science comedies, it was said,
with action to devise a working plan
of international cooperation between
the engineers of America and Italy.
John w. Lieb, vice president of the
New York Edison company, has re-
ported, after trip to Italy, that Ital-
ian engineers are ready to form such
an alliance. Herbert Hoover, Prof.
Comfort A. Adams of Harvard univer-
sity, Eugene Schneider of Paris and
Sir Robert A. Hadfield of London are
others who favored advancement Of
world peace through the united action
OF men of science. Actively backing
the project also are the presidents Of
the American Society of Civil Engin-
GERS, American Institute of Mining and
Metallurgical Engineers, American In
stitute of Electrical Engineers and the
Federated American Engineering So
cieties.
Alfred D. Finn, secretary of the
engineering foundation and chairman
of the engineering division of the Ma
tional Research council, indorses Doc
tor Stepanek's suggestions ''that at an
early date there should be an inter-
national conference Of engineers,
rather than of politicians and states
men, bound by tradition and self-seek-
ing nationalism-a conference of con-
structively minded men who could
take fresh views of the worlds con-
dition, deal scientifically with funda-
mental causes and suggest impartial,
far-sighted plans for continuing prog
ress."
Mr.. Finn advocated joint conven-
ton of the great national engineer
ing societies in Europe in the sum-
mer Of 1923 to meet the engineers Of
all the countries Of Europe for dis
cussion Of such of the world problems
as may be the most vulnerable to en-
cheering attack.
For an American University.
In appealing for the establishment
OF an American university in central
Europe, Minister Stepanek said that
1t would constitute center from
which could be given out the best
products of American culture, a source
of correct information about America
and American ideas. Through q world
alliance of engineers, the minister
thought. a constructive type of mind
could be brought more effectively into
the service of the nations.
Professor Adams predicted that ar
tificial distinctions between nations
would be removed by engineering
science. Removal of the barrier Of
distance, he said, is bringing nations
so close together, and making them so
interdependent, that intelligent COOP
Grafton will make war impossible.
Racial and national antagonism, Pro-
fessor Adams asserted, will give way
to the progress Of engineering science.