Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20

poses are wanting in perfection as long
as they produce excessive and injurious
noises.
These considerations bring us to the
conclusion that the duty of the engineer
in the immediate future is the removal
of all the Objectionable features which
accompany his works And man
should be blessed with the untold bene-
fits which engineers can confer without
losing a single one of the amenities
which were enjoyed in less mechani-
cal age"
Sees Man Dominated by Machines.
Another engineer who expressed the
opinion that mans machines have got
the better of him, at least temporarily,
was Wilhelm Nordstrom, eminent in
dustrial engineer Of Sweden. In an
Swering the question, What has en-
cheering contributed to humanity" he
said:
Briefly, the contribution can be
summarized by the words, a higher
standard of living and if the happi-
ness and welfare of humanity have not
increased on the scale that might have
beens expected, perhaps this may be
due to the fact that the technical and
industrial evolution has been so swift
that the human mind has not been
able to follow and grasp the essential
advantages that might have been OBJ
tanned. It is to be hoped that our
children and grandchildren will sue
coed where We have fallen short, and
that they will benefit greatly by our
pioneering efforts"
Austria Looks to Engineers.
Austria is looking to its engineers to
save the country from one of the dark
est periods of its history, DR.. Ludwig
Erhard, director of the Technical Mu-
scum of Vienna. stated. The economic
restoration of Austria is one of the
culture, he said, and engineers are
graphing valiantly with it. They have
already done much to promote the cul-
tural progress of the now independent
countries which formerly united in the
Austrian empire.
For Belgium, too, the great war was
a calamity" according to the mono
graph prepared by six eminent engi-
neers and presented by Baron CASTOR
de Bethune, but without the interior
ence of another such catastrophe the
future will be bright and marked by
much technical and industrial progress.
Belgian workmen Is due entirely to
technical and economic progress made
by the country's engineers.
Engineering developed in Japan al
most entirely during the past so years
and has been Of incalculable benefit
to the nation, said MaSawo Kamo.
president of the Society of Mechanical
Engineers in Japan, in his review.
Since science as known in the West
was practically unknown in japan a
half century ago, it is reasonable to
he To
aneSe people have been more profound
than upon any other nation, he as
serted It's introduction brought about
a sweeping revolution of daily life: it
created the idea of national defense
and inspired the Japanese empire to
look to the broader horizons of inter-
national affairs. The progress of Japan
in the past five decades has been the
progress of engineering in the country.
Spread of Industry in Japan.
Today 90 per cent of the dwellings
throughout Japan are wired for cleo
tricity; coal is now mined and used
for heat and power and in the manu-
facture of dystuffs and other chemical
products; railroads and airplanes, tele-
phones and the telegraph and radio
have revolutionized communication:
modern refrigeration methods have i'm
proved the silk industry tremendously
by permitting the preservation of the
eggs of the silkworm until there Is
SUFFICIENT supply of mulberry leaves to
feed the worms
In Canada, with its natural resources
largely undeveloped, the outstanding
probability in the engineering field for
the near future, according to Brig. C.
H. Mitchell of the University of Toronto,
is a greatly increased development of
water power on the st. Lawrence, where
the combination of power with deep
ocean connection will form very large
factor in the development of Canada S
contiguous material resources.
so, looking to the future, a young
country such as Canada, with its huge
natural resources as yet only partially
ascertained, will still more and more de-
mand the fullest assistance and contri-
buttons from its engineers to secure the
best for its economic and social develop
ment," Gen. Mitchell said. When that
best is obtained economically and So
cially in the upbuilding of such coun-
try, then the best political and cultural
results will follow and national pros
perity will be assured"
France and South America.
All Frenchmen have a right to be
proud of the French contribution to the
evolution Of the art of engineering,
Georges Claude declared in reading the
report on France, prepared by many
engineers. The report refers to the
achievements of Ferdinand de LeSseps
in constructing the Suez Canal, of Nine.
Curie in chemistry, of Breguet in avia-
ton, of Gen. Ferrie, developer of the
first important radio transmitting sta
ton in the Eiffel Tower and of d'Arson-
val in physics.
In South America, Prof. Donate Gam
mara of Uruguay reported the chief
mission of engineering is to improve the
means of communication and thus to
bring producer and consumer closer
spiritually as well as materially, to pro-
mote closer contacts between citizens
and between nations, and so bring about
that full cooperation in aims and
methods which is essential for the pros
perity of the whole continent.
Peace and engineering will really
make this world a worthy place in
which to live, declared Senator Luigi
luigi, in reporting on engineering in
Italv. The highest engineering achieve
ment in that country Is the develop
ment of hydroelectric energy to a point
where Italy now produces about tenth
of the total of the worlds production.
This has been necessary because the
country is without coal mines and oil
fields. Italian engineers are now en-
barked on the building of 10000 kilo-
meters of road improvements in 10
years, and already they have built sew
eral "autostrade," or express highways
for automobiles, where no speed limit is
set.
Work for Economic Peace.
Engineers in Czechoslovakia were
pledged to work with all their might
to insure political, social and economic
peace and to create cooperation in
rationalized production and distribu-
tion," by Dr. Stanley Spacek of Prague
Their record includes the creation In
Prague in TIT of the first engineering
school; the first mining school in Cen
ira Europe, established in Bohemia in