New Britain herald., 1922-09-11
LOCAL ENGINEERS
 GOING TO MEETING
Regional Conference at Spring.
 field September 25-27

A delegation from the New Britain branch of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers will join with other branches and local sections throughout New England at a big re- gional meeting to be held in Spring field, Mass, for three days, Septem- Der 25 to 27.
 Calvin w. Rice, for many years secretary of the society, is now in Rio de Janeiro. as envoy of the engineer ing profession of the United States to the Engineering Congress in that city MT. Rice will journey through South America to, promote Pan-American unity and in the interest of world peace.
 B. s. Lewis of the Stanley Works has been elected chairman of the New Britain branch of the Connecticut sec ton. MT. Lewis heads the new group of New Britain officers who will serve during 1922-23, succeeding E. c. Goodwin of Hart & Cooley Co.
 The society's announcement of the election of the new New Britain exc cutives stated that within the society more than 5000 engineers are active ly engaged in developing twelve fields of industrial effort. The organization of professional group to study the printing machinery industry and the utilization with this society of the American Society of Safety Engineers was also announced.
 Large Membership.
 The membership of the society, one of the largest and most influential or ganizations composing the Federated American Engineering societies is ra- pidly approaching 10000. President Dexter s. Kimbali, dean of the college of engineering at Cornell. has recently completed nationwide tour extend ing to the Pacific coast in the interest of organized engineering, which, as a result, it is said Is increasing through out the west. One outcome of Dean Kimball's trip, notable in engineering annals, will, it Is expected, be greater unity of thought and effort between eastern and western engineers.
 Other engineering organizations will, it is anticipated. be embraced in the society's network of affiliations spreading over this and other coun- tries. The membership of the society, exclusive of affiliates and of student branches in colleges and universities, is given as 16,3o5 and growing stead fly in every section of the country.
 The United Typothetae of America is cooperating with the new printing machinery group in arranging pro- gram for the annual meeting of the society to be held in New York in December, at which John L. Harring- ton of Kansas City will take office as president, succeeding Dean Kimball
 Of the twelve professional divisions of the society, in which 8,694 are en- rolled, the management division leads with 1,729 members. The power di- vision Is second with 1,619 members. The aeronautics division, whose work CTS include Orville H. Wright and other leading aviation experts, has 349, and the ordnance division, which is cooperating with the United States army, has 322 members.
 The progress of the management division. it is said, illustrates the in- terest which American industry is displaying in the problems of manage ment, especially those which affect labor and waste. Enrolment of other professional divisions of the society, known as the society of industries, follows:
 Railroads, 547; textiles 327: ma chine shop. 1,0S3; materials handling, 1,oS6; forest products, 197; fuel, s44; cement, 145; gas power, 446.
 The printing machinery group was authorized by the council of the so- ciety, which has decided to permit the formation of industrial groups which will be developed into regular professional divisions Tn this way the socety's study of various phases of industry will be broadened.
 Machinery Groups.
 The purposes of the printing ma chinery group, it is announced, are the development of the idea of stan dardization of methods and sizes of paper stock and of paper products, with a view to securing the standardi- zation of printing machinery sizes; collection of data on standardization,