The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-02-23

Forced by the general condition OF
unemployment to seek new fields, en-
gineers of the metropolitan district OF
New York have formed a volunteer
committee to open VI fresh avenues
CT effort. Department stores, indus.
trial establishments and many branch
es of trade, commerce and manufac-
turing are being thoroughly c%anvassed
to uncover hidden jobs into which,
under modern methods of %organiza-
ticn, it is thought the engineer can
be fitted.
Thousands of engineers, mostly
graduates Of colleges and technical
schools, are idle in all parts of the
country, it was said by Walter V.
Brown, manager of the employment
service of the Federated American
Engineering societies. The situation
is so bad that the service maintained
by the societies is being supplemented
by volunteer assistance.
Mining Engineers Hit Hard.
The mining engineers are the hard
est hit. F. f. S~harpless, secretary of
the American Institute of Mining and
Metallurgical Engineers, said that 1t
was impossible to determine the num-
Der Of such engineers out of employ
ment, but ne would not be surprised
if the number reached 5000. Mr..
S%harpless said that relief would be
experienced in the mining industries
soon with the resumption of opera
lions in the big copper mines. The
institute normally has 10000 members.
The Institutes data on unemploy-
revealed many cases in which
in normal periods earning from
50, 800 to $4,000 a year were driven to
accept minor jobs, sucn as watchmen,
or were out of work altogether.
The volunteer committee now at
work, principally in the New York dis.
trict, is composed of thirty men. F.
NJ. Bond of Baltimore, a major in the
ordnance department during the war,
been appointed chairman. An ex-
committee consists of w. N.
and George Beavers Jr. CT
New York and G. b. Good Of White
Mr.. Gately said that idleness was
likely to result in the extension Of
engineering to new spheres. When the
called on the department
stores they were received with skepti-
,ism because retailing tfaditionally
las been regarded as foreign to en-
cheering. Now, however, the pos
ihiIitiac Of apoinooripr +ro;nipr oro
beginning to be better understood.
methods. simplifcation of sys-
ems and personnel were activities,
said, to which industrial engineers
night properly apply their efforts.
Many Seek Jobs.
The employment service conducted
v the Federated American Engineer
ng Societies is free. Mr.. Brown said
hat 3,165 men in different parts of the
ountry were on the active list seek
ng employment. During the early
art of January 125 positions were
lied, and for these 600 men were
Mr.. Gately said that instead ct
ding owe prepared ground a careful
Judy of possibilities was made, and
lese fields were found to offer new
opportunities for the engineer: Indus {
ial, covering manufacturing. con- {
ruction and consulting work; bank t
G, accounting, insurance, department
Icres, filing and publication. Mr.. {
rown gave the number of men reg /
tered during 1921 at the Federation's T
Service as 1905. OF
ese, 1866 were placed in positions. q
ore men were placed in December n
an in any other month, and more men II
ere registered in June than in any u
the low mark in this respect O
ing in November. h
1t was said that nationally the civil e
gineers ranked neXt to the mining 81
gineers in numbers of unemployed,
tn the electrical engineers third. =
The American Society of Mechanical :
lgineers, the largest organization Of
gineers in the country, with a mem .
rslip of more than 10000 was be-
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