The Views of An Engineering President
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nELIVERING his second presiden
tial address before the Society of Engineers, last Monday, Mr. .Frank Parfett claimed that there was a widespread and growing opinion amongst professional engineers in favour of the federation of their institutions, so as to obtain co-ordination of policy alad joint representation on matters common., to' the 'profession.
During the past year, two committees, the members of which came from various institutions, had been concerned with this matter, one dealing with a national, and the other with an international, federation.
• An interesting point as regards the international body was that when Mr. Parfett raised with the secretary the difficulty of holding meetings between council' Members frohi various cOuntries, he was coolly informed that there would be no difficulty. All mem bers* would be connected by radio to their own homes and offices, and they would be able' to discuss_ and dispute with almost as much freedom as if they met in the same room.
In future, young engineers required to have Army training should be sent to military engineering centres, and then entered on a national register.
Amongst post-war improvements suggested was that main and secondary roads throughout the cduntry should be so illuminated that individual lighting of road vehicles would be unnecessary and merely reserved for minor roads.
In all general utility articles, the public should accommodate itself to the acceptance of mass-production from. standardized designs. This is the only ‘.vay in which industry would be able to meet the high wages now demanded. There would still be ample scope for individual craftsmanship.