Capt. J. E. Inch Elected: President for Ensuing Year At the annual general mesting of why China, should not have, say, tone to 100. Economies (and one St Patri Socety of hangs tions were set forth by the Eh China road conditions) do not make held on Jan. 13 at the man (Mr. F, Gill), at the annal this possible.
Astor House Hotel, Captain J, E. dinner of the Institution of Elec-'When considering whether the Inch was unanimously elected pretrical Engineers (China Centre). continuance of invention and the sident for the ensuing year. held at the Shanghai Club on application of machinery. is an In his address the retiring pre-Jan, "12, 'The questions asked advantage or a menace I think we sident, Me. S. W. Wolfe, remarked: were: must differentiate. Improvements "Por many years the' outstanding Are the present world conditions in transportation, for instance, tend Hteature of each president's term of office has been our St. Patrick's Day mainly due to over-production, under-distribution, or to some-other to increase employment, making it possible for more and more goods Ball. "Unfortunately, as you cause? *Is the continuance of in-reach markets, though "they know, our plans for holding " ball vention and the application of ma-May, as in case of Upper Yangtze, jon March 17, 1982, were frustrate chinery 'a benefit or a menace? Is. temporarily cause some unemploy. by he abnormal conditions which it wise to/have a spreading of work ment. "Many modern" inventions prevail fed here from January onward, ight through the first three months nee persons, such as by re-could not be made without machin-ofthe year. ducing hours of labour or restricting ery. It is impossible to imagine "Last St, Patriek's Day, there-the use of machinery? Ought this World in which every motor-owner fore, H was possible for your Com-to be carried out to its logical cor had a Rolls Royce. In the manufmittee"only to lay a wreath, in the ¢lusion by securing a compulsory facture of modern" machinery, {form of a floral harp, on the Geno-Holiday for invention, such as by ary must"be used; on increas: tap in the early morning, and at closing the patent offices of the Moon to meet again at the Shangha world?
Club for tifin, on which occasion we In_ an Mr.
Her industrialization bade a formal farewell to Mr. H. starting "a century or more late LIG. W. The Bret an Trshman who bad done without any gradual evolutionary and "machinery is being applied resent world position seems to be mach useful work for our society @ue to slowing up of consumption committee man. Before leaving, Mr. yatiier than over-production. No prseess. "Her new cotton mills can Brett sent in a generous donation to equipped with the most modern tone can pretend that there are Jour charity fund, and at the same spinning machinery and automatic time paid a final Subscription of $60, too many motor-cars, for example. looms, which it has taken the guts thus making himself a fife member. If America has one car to five oF side World a century and a half to evolve." Modern machinery," when he fact that the prevailing "Jintroduced into. Chinese factories, [conditions compelled the cancellation fof our bail made it necessary for
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