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130 Twenty-first Congress--National Safety Council the influence of the maclrine upon human well-being. It is not surprising that the statement is being made that this depression is to a considerable degree due to the use of machinery. It is not surprising that the phrase "technological unemployment" is in daily usage. These statements are a challenge to the engineering profession. The engineers of the nation should make a searching examination to determine whether or not some evil?, a? hy-jiroducts. have groan out of their work. Undoubt edly they have and n so. it is their responsibility to determine what they are and to eradicate them in j-o far as possible. A? someone has well said, "the engineer has conferred many great services of incalculable value upon mankind, and he cannot afford to be blind or indifferent to their sociological effects. While the factory' and the lower house increase comforts and add to the amenities, they do not reach their full sociological efficiency as long as they poison the atmosphere or load it with dust. The Thousand mechanisms which are employed for transportation and other useful port**** are wanting in irerfection as long as they produce excessive and injurious noises. It is the duty of the engineer and it should be his desire to affect the removal of all the objectionable features which accompany his handiwork, so that men may receive untold benefits without the loss or a single one of the camiortf which were enjoyed m a less mechanical ape." Mar we. now. resort to the dangerous matter of making some propltectes as to what inav Ire expected from the engineer m the next 50 or 100 years? There will be witnessed railways electrified and inland waterways developed tar Ireyond our present conception: telegraph, telephone and power lines underground and rt may he power transmitted through the air. 11V shall have homes heated, cooled and lighted with artificial light having all the wholesome qualities of sunlight. We may anticipate homes equipped with television and movietone and supplied whh numerous appli ances for relieving the drudgery and increasing the enduring satisfactions of home life. We shall have a greatly increased number of synthetic commodities. We shall see tlie economic and social status of farm life markedly improved. Then may we not anticipate with confidence the members of the engineering pro fession taking a more active jart in the affairs of government, an agency defined by Burke as "a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants." Since government, according to Clay, "is a trust and the officers of the government trus tees. and ltoth the trust and the trusters are created for the benefit of the people", it is the ever increasing doty of the members of the engineering profession to con tribute of their time, thought and effort to the development of a sounder and more economic government in order that human wants may he equitably and fully realized. We should remember that mtr duty as citizens comes before our duly as engineers. The si*cial ot sajterior knowledge which our training gives us also lays upon us an obligation to use that knowledge in the interest of the public. It is my conviction that the engineer*? battlefroni of the future should not he alone the subduing and rntrnllmg ot the forces of nature, but also the combatting of the impediments to human progress, security and happiness. Chairman Uovd called for the rrjxirt nf the nominating committee whose personnel included E. \Y. Beck. Chairman, j. I. Barash. R. McA. Keown. \V. R. Smith and A. 5. Regula. The following officers were elected: General Chairman--H. S. Smith. Union Carbide & Carbon Corp- Xew York. J'iee-Cltairtnan--S. E. Whiling. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. Boston. Viee-Chairman--E. S. Beaumont. Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company, Chicago. Secretary--W. Dean Keefer. National Safety Council. Chicago. .1/rmfvrr of Exeeutke Committee for three-year frrm---Harry GruJbert. The Pull man Company, Chicago: \Y. M. Graff. National Bureau of Casualty & Surety Underwriters. Xew York City: and R. E. Donovan, Standard 03 Company of California. San Francisco. ADJOCRXMEST twenty-first annual safety congress NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL Automotive and Machine Shop Section Officers 1931-32 General Chairman--C. M. Dctterrer, Graham-Paige Motors Corp.. Iktroit. Midi. I `ice-Chairman--Carl Stosck, Buick Motor Company. Rim. Mick Secretory--E. C. Wm-KCr, Dodge Brothers Corp.. Detroit, Mich. Xrtcs-Lctfer-Editor--K. A. Caixam. Kelscy-Hayes WliecI Carp- l>etrok Mich. Chairman Poster Committee--G. E. Saxfowi. General Electric Co_ Schmtctadv, X. Y. Chairman Membership Committee--W. A. Bf.ciulu Chrysler Corporation. Detroit, Mich. Chairman Puhlieity Committee---C. W. Bishop. Lycoming Manufacturing CoH Wil liamsport, Pa. Chairman Statistics Committee--John Clifford. Briggs Mtg. Co.. Williamsport. Pa. Chairmen Engineering Committee--Da. Jastes H. Grec.ve. The Sfudrhaker Carp,, South Bend, Ind. Chairman Slides and Safely Kinks Committer--Marvin A. Hrtit, Budd Wheel Corp., Detroit, Mich. Chairman Health Committee--Dvl A. F. Letkliuer. Fisher Body Corp.. Detroit. Members at barge-- L. E. Averiu-, C. H. Dockson Co- Detroit. Midi. Hovt L. Fraciier, Detroit Steel Products Co., Detroit. Mick R. A. Shaw, The Murray Corp. of America, Detroit, Mick R. F. TitALxat. Buick Motor Co- Flint, Mich. TUESDAY MORNING SESSION October 4, 1932 In the absence of General Chairman C. M. Dotterrer, the first session of the Automotive and Madtine Shop Section convened in the Wardman Park Hotel with Marvin A. Hctdt. Director of Personnel, Budd Whed Corporation. Detroit, pre siding. After welcoming the delegates the chairman said in part: "The sessions this year have been developed around the economic side of accident prevention. In developing this theme your program committee has built the ses sions upon the theory* that the Boards of Directors of some organizations are not familiar with the entire scope oi the saiety functions. On the basis of this theory, a hypothetical company has been designed which has been called the Disc Manafac- 131