Mr, J. Haynes Wilson Calls on the Engineers of The World to Prevent War: A Resolution think that one of the most important steps towards ultimate prevention of war is that engineers themselves shall realize the tremendous resources to which they have access, and shall aim at applying them to this end.....if engineering principles could be applied on the international scale as thoroughly and efficiently as they often are within a single industry, the most astonishing progress could be madi said Mr. J. Haynes Wilson in a pres-identical address which he gave before the second ordinary meeting of the Engineering Society of China yesterday. no warlord could proceed, Engineers have a great opportunity by working together to assist in the organization of peace which is bound up with the development of international trade on more stable foundations."
It was possible tó see the whole world at once as a field for achievement and to° realise that something must be done to prevent the violent, oppressive acts which were becoming all too common. They should let it be known that they had no interest in destruction, but that their one desire was for progress. They should endeavour to obtain support from engineers of all nations and should invite them to join in the efforts to ensure that science, controlled for the benefit of mankind, should He would like, he said, to see their by-laws amplified to include among the society's objects the organization of peace, and would suggest a resolution something as follows:—
"The Engineering Society of China dedicates its efforts to overcome prejudice, to consolidate public opinion, and to subdue miscarriage of science, believing that by pursuing sincerely the common purpose of all engineering institutions, by insisting upon the expert management of machines and activities dependent thereon, it is possible to raise the general well-being of the population of the world and to outlaw war After dealing with society's past activities and hopes for the future, he turned te the present local situation. No one would deny that the war of to-day would be impossible without the yield of the accumulative efforts of engineers for decades past. Many had indeed said that the products of science should be retarded until such time as mankind was properly able to manage the machinery or handle the discoveries developed to the benefit of the world at large.
"We, as engineers, have seen our handiwork greatly misused, We have had demonstrations of misapplied science. We have seen the offspring of scientific brains used improperly. All around us is waste and destruction instead of construction; retrogression instead of progress; labour in vain instead of time well spent; blunders instead of efficiency; collapse instead of stability; loss instead of profit; depression and instead of prosperity. We have seen one machine used to destroy another.
The modern barbarians of war are treating monuments of engineering as the barbarians of old treated ancient edifices. So we descend!"
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