The following members of the Associated Societies are members of the "General Council of Civic Needs," organized to determine the items for the projected bond issue for municipal improvements for the City of St. Louis: Baxter L. Brown, J. T. Dodds, A. P. Greensfelder, Hugh K. Wagner, Louis H. Egan, H. J. Pfeifer, R. S. Colnon, J. D. Robertson, H. J. Pettengill, C. M. Talbert and Prof. E. L. Ohle. Messrs. Brown and Robertson are the official representatives of the Associated Societies The American Association of Engineers is represented by Mr. K. S. Stoner. The first sub-committee appointed was on "Plan and Scope." Its personnel includes Messrs. Brown, Dodds and Greensfelder.

Hearings before the Missouri State Public Service Commission on the elimination of grade crossings of the Wabash Railroad in St. Louis have been concluded. Briefs are in preparation and a decision is looked for some time during the coming summer. It is hoped that the decision of the Commission will settle for all time this vexing question which has been under discussion for twenty years.

The Efficiency Board Committee of the Engineers' Club, composed of representatives of the several Associated Societies, met with Mr. A. C. Meyers, Chief Examiner of the Board, on April 24th. Mr. Meyers explained in detail the results obtained in carrying out the old method of examination and pointed out to the satisfaction of the committee the desirability of making some radical changes.

Written examinations for technical positions have tended to discourage many men best suited for and most available for city positions. Mr. Meyers suggested that future examinations be confined to a somewhat detailed written description of the applicant's education, experience and past performance, followed by a thorough oral examination by an "Examining Engineering Board."

The committee agreed that it would be highly desirable, in the light of past experience, to try out this method, the examining board to consist of two engineers selected by the committee and a third to be designated by the head of the municipal department in which the applicant would be employed. It was Mr. Meyers' preference that the members of the committee serve in this capacity and it was so decided, with the understanding that alternates be designated by the members if they were unable to attend.

The first examinations under the new plan were held on May 9, 10th and 11th, for the positions of Junior Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and Draftsmen.

Pursuant to the suggestion made at the meeting of the Academy of Science and the Engineers' Club on March 20th, the following joint committee has been named to assemble data, biographical sketches and memorials, to serve as a basis for a history of engineering, scientific and technical accomplishments of St. Louisans: R. G. Terry, H. M. Whelpley, William Chauvenet, W. E. Rolfe, Philip N. Moore and M. L. Holman.

Members of the Associated Societies are requested to look up theimemoranda and brush up their recollections. The proposed record will be of great value in the future.

The Spring Meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers,

held in Dayton, Ohio, April 5th to 7th, was a great success. The important subject of Flood Control held the foremost position in the deliberations. St. Louis civil engineers who attended were Edward E. Wall, Col. Ockerson, Baxter L. Brown, John Garrett and Richard E. Wachter. Lieut. Norton Monteith of the Air Service, formerly of St. Louis, acted as a most cordial host during the inspection of Cook Field. friend Ed. Smith was also on the job.

The St. Louis Section of the A.S.C.E. held its regular monthly Luncheon Meeting on April 24th.

The "Refrigerators" haven't warmed up to the JOURNAL apparently. They haven't let us know anything about their private affairs.

APPLICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP-ENGINEERS' CLUB. Member-JAMES G. SHEPHERD (age 27), Three years Washington University. Now with Laclede Steel Co.

Sponsors: F. A. Berger, W. W. Horner.

Member-BERT H. PECK (age 37), Graduate University of Wisconsin, B.S.E.E., 1906; University of Wisconsin, E. E., 1916. Now General Manager, Southern Ill. Light & Power Co.

Sponsors: C. L. Clary, Geo. W. Pieksen.

Member-LINDLEY C. MILFORD (age 29), Graduate Washington University, B.S.C.E., 1915. Now with Fruin-Colnon Contracting Co. Sponsors: Jos. E. Vollmar, S. W. Bowen.

Member-FREDERICK C. TAXIS (age 40), Graduate of College of Technology, Stutegart, Germany. Now Consulting Engineer. Sponsors: Wm. C. E. Becker, W. E. Rolfe.

Associate Member-GILBERT E. MUELLER (age 30), Missouri University. Now Vice-President, Vulcan Incinerator Co.

Sponsors: Chas. S. Butts, Geo. R. Gibert, Byron L. Ashdown. Associate Member-WILLIAM P. LYON (age 39), Manager, Power Apparatus Dept., Western Electric Co.

Sponsors: C. L. Clary, Geo. W. Pieksen.

Associate Member-EDGAR GENGENBACH (age 36), Asst. General Secretary, Chamber of Commerce.

Sponsors: Chas. S. Butts, Ralf Toensfeldt.

Associate Member-EDWARD F. SALLAND (age 31), Phelan

Faust Paint Mfg. Co.

Sponsors: Chas. S. Butts, Ralf Toensfeldt.

MEETINGS IN REVIEW.

1045th meeting. April 5, 1922. Engineers' Club. 47 present.

Mr. Jos. M. Slater, Street Commissioner, City of St. Louis, read a paper prepared by Mr. C. H. Fisk, Director of Streets and Sewers, outlining the city's needs in respect to sewer extension and reconstruction. $4,000,000 was suggested as a necessary appropriation to cover the cost of the work.

Mr. W. W. Horner presented a paper descriptive of the River Des P'eres improvement project and proposed sewer extensions to be included in the coming bond issue.

Mr. Edgar Gengenbach, Assistant General Secretary of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce, spoke on "The Relation of Distribution Cost to Geographical Locality.'

It was voted to refer the question of a recommendation that the River Des Peres project be included in the bond issue, to the Joint Council.

1046th meeting. April 12, 1922. A.S.R.E. 89 present.

Mr. S. E Lauer, Vice-President of the Pilsbry-Becker Engineering and Supply Co., read a very comprehensive paper on "Design and Operation of an Ice Plant."

It was voted that the Associated Engineering Societies participate in the St. Louis Day plan and that the action of the Director of Public Safety in appointing an advisory committee of engineers to co-operate in the smoke abatement work of the City of St. Louis be heartily endorsed.

The following amendments to the Joint Regulations of the Associated Societies were adopted:

Article III, Section 1, change to read:

Section 1. The affairs of the Association shall be conducted by a Joint Council consisting of the President and the Junior Past President of the Engineers' Club, together with two other Councilors chosen by each of the other affiliated societies, one each year for a term of two years. Each society shall also select one representative to act as alternate councilor in the event either of its regular councilors is unable to attend meetings.

Article III, Section 5:

Section 5. The Societies of the Association shall act jointly through the Council on all public affairs presented for consideration to any one or more of the societies. Such questions shall be referred to the Council, which shall have power to act for the societies after proper vote of its members. Action by the Council may be taken provided the meeting at which a vote is taken on public affairs is attended by two-thirds of the total number of councilors and alternates, and provided further that at least one representative of each society shall be present, and provided a two-thirds vote in favor of such action results. The vote of each councilor or alternate shall be recorded by the Secretary in the minutes of the meeting.

1047th meeting. April 19, 1922. Engineers' Club. 55 present.

The meeting was held in the rooms of the Architectural Club and was followed by a dance. Miss Sarah Wolf, Supervisor of Community Centers for the Division of Parks and Recreation of the City of St. Louis, talked on the recreational needs of the city. Her talk was illustrated with lantern slides and motion pictures. Miss Wolf pointed out that St. Louis facilities were much inferior to those of other cities. 1048th meeting. April 26, 1923. A.I.E.E. 103 present.

Mr. William McClellan, President of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, delivered an extremely interesting address on the subject of "The Broader View of Engineering." A resume of the talk appears in another column.

1049th meeting. May 3, 1922, A.S.M.E. 93 present.

Arthur M. Compton, Professor of Physics at Washington University, discussed the Electron Theory of the Composition of Matter. His talk was amplified by demonstrations illustrating methods of infinitesimal measurements. Prof. Compton also showed a motion film prepared by the General Electric Co., illustrating the electron theory by means of animated diagrams.

H. M. Hess, an engineer who went into insurance to make a living, presents the following letter received by a firm manufacturing washing machines. He is investigating the potentialities involved.

"Dear sir your macheen she look good to me. How many galons will she hold and how much money will it cost to put pipe for cooling. Does she work on wheat or barley or corn. You work great bluff on wash macheen. I laff. You let me know what it take to fix me up."Missouri Notes, Kansas City Times.

Jimmy Robertson donated the flag for the TABLE. Jimmy got tired of waiting for someone to make a speech, so he had a flag raising all by himself.

Oh, hear the man! The man is an en-gin-eer. He is writ-ing on the ta-ble-cloth. If we do not wish to lis-ten to him we must take a-way his pen-cil.

See the pretty flag! It is an en-gin-eers' flag. The cas-tle is on the flag be-cause en-gin-eers are good chess play-ers. Would not a pok-er be bet-ter?

Is the man a-sleep? The man is a-sleep. He has been a-sleep a long time. We must wak-en him lest he snore and dis-turb the speak-er of the eve-ning.

Table Talk.

Practical Guy: "Is the mortar in a wall intended to hold the brick together or to keep them apart?"

Theoretical Cuss (after deep cogitation).
P. G.: "I hope so."

Know Kauffman? Radiator shield man.

“Both."

That's the one. He for

got where he had parked his car the other day and spent an hour or two looking for it. Query-What kind of a car does Kauffman drive?

An expert is a plain ordinary fellow a long way from home.

F.A.E.S. BULLETIN.

Patent Law Working Clause Agreement. The Senate Committee on Patents held a hearing on April 6th on Senate Bill 3325, which proposes to amend the patent law so that every patent granted by the government will have to be worked or become invalid. The Patents Committee of American Engineering Council submitted a statement to the Senate Committee opposing a favorable report on the bill. The statement aimed to show that the present system has given good results, that monopoly is necessary for the patentee to successfully develop inventions, that patents do not come into their greatest usefulness until the end of the seventeen year term, that commercial production in many

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