Nov. 26.
Dr, Herbert, Chatley will not claim originality for the idea that, engineers should be called upon to save a stricken world from the economic woes which other less sagacious professions have b unable to avert. Nor is it qu fair to remind him that nited States of America hi an engineer as President. until March of this year. Particularly will it be forgotten that one of those fantastic schemes for putting economists in their place and making the law of gravity perform somersaults in sympathy with the riot among the cur-rendes {s said to be fathered by an engineer. For, really, it w 'a happy thought which induced Dr, Chatley and other engineers, speakers at the dinner of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, to puff out their professional chests. Not the least noteworthy remark was that of Dr. Paul Hsu who, evidently acutely sensible of sharp differences of opinion and misunderstandings in Sino-Foreign relationships, emphasised the ce-operative faculty which en-xinaers possessed, owing to the precision of outlook demanded by a scientific training. The professions which cannot claim to order their procedure on the basis of logarithms and parabolas—although they are sometimes permitted to fly off at a tangent—will of course humbly note this clear evidence of the engineer's superiority. While they have at times heard rumours of heated discussions over the coefficient of friction and the respective merits of the suspension and cantilever bridges, they are quite prepared to accept the stigma of doing quarrelsome, unruly and difficult to please in contrast to the academic calm of the engineer when on his job. They are ready to give the engineer, in fact, a full share of the privilege of helping the world to recovery. Cynically they might be disposed to observe that this is merely an act of poetic justice—or irony. The present plight springs directly from the serious dispute between the nations in the years of the Great War. In that pageant of destruction the engineer played a leading part.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.