A meeting of the Engineering Society of China was held on Tuesday when Mr. J. 8. 8. Cooper read a paper on "Engineering China.
The author began by deploring the fact that the standing of engineers in China among their fellow citizens was not higher, and urged the Engineering Society of China to act in such a way as to. raise that standing. The speaker he claimed that engineers had a duty to China, and this duty was the real keynote of the whole paper The commercial engineer who sells plant he knows to be unsuitable, the' oilway engineer who ceases to " insist on proper construction, the consultant who allows himself to be overborne by the persistence of ignorant clients, the public utility engineer who thinks' that just and equal service to all is & hope-ess ideal, and construction designer who takes advantage of the absence of proper building laws and safety codes—each one of these is failing in his duty to China and is betraying " trust which circumstances and the blind gods chance have placed in his keeping.
"It it is right to say that each individual engineer has a duty to China, surely it is right to claim that the Engineering Society of China has a still heavier responsibility towards the country whose name it has assumed, It is greatly to the society credit that in the past ith recognized this responsibility and has tried sincerely to meet it. The appointment of com mittees to. study standardization and education in the interests of our Chinese neighbours without question arose from this sense of duty, and if these labours have not been" fully successful, it should be recognized that this has been due large causes beyond the seviely's 6 High aims should evoke not criticism. but encouragement and praise, -ang it ig devoutly to be hoped that this society will account abandon its efforts to help the country in which we live."
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