The Washington herald., 1922-06-04

ENGINEERS STRIVE
FOR WORLD PEACE
Ambassador Jusserand
Asks Firm Union of
Nations Scientists.
CONFERS HONORS
French Representatives Laud
u. s. Aid in War at
Dinner Here.

Engineers of this country. in union
with the engineers of the allied ma
tions, are determined to exert their
influence in favor of world peace and
to aid in dispelling clouds that may
from time to time darken the political
horizon, II was declared In a state
ment issued yesterday by the officers
of the principal American engineer
ing societies at the Engineering So
cieties Building, New York City.
This declaration of purpose. 1t was
explained by Ambrose Swasey, Of
Cleveland. founder Of the Engineer
ing Foundation and past president OF
the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, followed a private dinner
given at the University Club in WASH
ington recently by Ambassador Jus
serand to a group Of leading Ameri-
can engineers. This function, 1t was
stated, was arranged by the French
envoy to express Frances apprecia-
tion Of the visit to Paris last year
of the American Engineering Mission
of thirteen who conferred the John
Fritz gold medal upon Eugene
sot works, and Sir Robert Hadfeld'
of London.
Mr.. Hoover Toastmaster.
Secretary Of Commerce Herbert
Hoover was toastmaster at the din
ner. at which the speakers were Am
bassador Jusserand. NJ. Aime Du-
maine. representative Of the Creusot
works in America, and president of
- Of q SnRintV
of Civil Engineers of France, and Mr..
Swasey. who is an officer of the
Legion Of Honor. Secretary Hoover
is honorary president of the Ameri-
can section.
Announcement was made also by
the engineers yesterday OF the con-
ferring of the Cross of the Legion OF
Honor upon DR.. Arthur E. Kennedy.
professor of electrical engineering at
Harvard University and the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology. who
has just finished a successful year as
exchange professor in France.
Prof. Kennelly's appointment was
the first to be made by the COM
mittee on exchange with France of
professors OF engineering and ap-
piled science. representing Harvard.
Yale. Columbia, Cornell. Massachu-
setts Institute sf Technology. Johns
Hopkins and %he University of
Pennsylvania
French Pror-sor Speaks.
Prof. Jcques Cavalier. rector of
the University of Toulouse, anu
leading authority on metallurgical
chemistry, sailed from New York
Thursday for France after, as French
exchange professor. delivering a Sc
IL 81 ha
Grating institutions, which are
making this exchange a permanent
arrangement as a part of the gLu-
eral plan to p -On"te closer =ei2-
tions between the engineering pro-
fessions of France and America.
Mr.. Kennedy will be succeeded in
France next year by Dean John
Frazer of the Towne Scientific
School of the University of Penn
sylvania and professor Of chemistry.
A. the Washington dinner, Am
| bassador Jusserand expressed his
| views concerning the qualities OF
the French and the American engf-
neer. Engineering methods could
| not be the same in both countries,
said the Ambassador, because the
difference in size. He spoke of the
great care with which the French
perhaps this was his greatest mark
Cf distinction.
NJ. Dumaine, who is active in pro-
noting closer relations between the
engineers of France and America,
through the American section of
the Society of Civil Engineers OF
France, said yesterday that a world
union of engineers for the advance
ment of international peace and
engineering ideals was the goal of
those who had fought together on
the French battIefields for the
allied cause. It was inconceivable,
he said. that anything could occur
to weaken the friendship between
the French and American repub-
lies.
Sees Permanent Union
The war has had at least one
happy result in bringing into closer
relations the two great republics.
which, although old friends. did not
know each other but superficially
on account of distance and Ian
guage." continued NJ. Dumaine.
That was especially true as to the
engineers of both countries, hun
dreds of whom have now met on
the battlefields, in the instruction
camps and in the war plants. The
ties formed there will last forever.
They constitute a great force in
bringing about a better under
standing between the two peoples.
Nothing can separate America
and France permanently. The two
countries fundamentally have no
opposite interests; each has the
same democratic foundation, the
same ideals and the same aspira-
fions."
NJ. Dumaine conveyed to the en-
Eineers of America a message from
NJ. Schneider, which read: You
have welded during the war the
steel of Franco-American friend
ehip. On that firm, that indestruc-
ible basis. Franco-American Coop
eration will erect a monument that
hall not perish"
M. III. A. Excursion June 25
The Young Mems Hebrew Asso-
iation will hold Its eighth annual
xcursion to Colonial Beach on the