The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-10-07
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Program hunters still operate a,
high speed and produce reams OF
paper and columns of print.
The great American game of hunt.
ing the way through the woods oi
depression with paper shotguns wad.
ded with programs for salvation goes
merrily on.
Just now the engineers are at it.
and there are. more kinds of engi.
neers now than you can shake stick
at.
Time was when an engineer was q
man who ran an engine.
Now engineers who run engines
take look at their greasy overalls
and wonder what they ought to cal
themselves.
The term engineer doesn't dis.
tinguish them any more and they are
more puzzled than anyone else.
An engineer nowadays is fel.
low who can engineer himself into
print. At least that goes for lot
of them.
Engineering isn't a vocation any
more; it's profession, and there
aren't any greasy overalls in the
business.
The engineering professions form 8
group-there are engineers of this
and engineers of that; management
engineers, sanitary engineers, maybe
unsanitary engineers, too. Who
knows?
Funeral directors once were under.
takers, then they became morticians
and next they'll be engineers. Sure
enough, why not? Mortuary engi
neers would be good.
Mighty near every kind of engi
neer has had his hand at the job Of
mapping out program for economic
recovery, for long-range planning, OF
some other designation of the same
big idea.
Mostly it all comes to so much ap
pie sauce. Producing apple sauce
ought to be left to farmers and can
ming factories, but, 10 and behold, i
turns out to be an engineering job.
These are strange days and nobod!
knows what will pop up next.
Be that as it may, if it adds to the
gayety of nations, let it come. The
nations need gayety, sure enough.
President Hoover says the nation
needs good new joke. He's right
That's strictly non-partisan obser
vation on his part and all can loil
in agreement without any fear O.
contributing to the advantage o
someone.
What a relief everyone would ge
out of big national laugh-a laugl
that would go way down deep AM
fetch the abdominal muscles into &C
ton.
Most all the good jokes have gon
fiat. Some new ones are on tn
horizon, but the time to laugh hasn'
quite arrived. Let it hurry.
Maybe the engineers are engineer
ing one. Pomposity always is goo'
for laugh.
If American history ought to maxi
anything clear it is that no plan i
ever going to be thrust full-forme'
upon the American people and ge
their o. X. 1t will have to grow, TAX
it's lickings and its changes and thu
evolve into something native to tn
soil.
Even the constitution went through
it's years of birth pains.
The states came together in bick
ering and compromise.
Industrial planning, if ever there i
such thing, will come slowly, grow
ing to fit facts and notions.
Still that doesn't answer the query
Who and what is an engineer today
anyway? Those who adorn and brint
honor to their professions have ;
heavy load to carry in those VIII
illuminate and scheme for the head
lines, the glory and the cash.