The Employment Service is to be turned over to the administration and control of the four Founder Societies, but the Employment Committee of Council is to continue its study looking toward co-operation of all engineering employment agencies. The Board announced plans for the solution of national problems in water power and forest conservation and directed its Committee on Water Power to place facts concerning the present situation before President Harding and to arrange for co-operation with other interested groups. The Board pledged its support to President Harding in his plans for government reorganization and further adopted the recommendation of the Public Affairs Committee to use every effort for the establishment of a Department of Public Works. The report on the progress of the two-shift vs. three-shift investigation showed that practically every industry had been covered. The report will be edited and resubmitted to the Board preliminary to its being printed. An intensive study of the steel industry was voted for the purpose of determining methods for converting engineering aspects as to metallurgy and production from a two-shift to three-shift basis. General plans for a comprehensive study of the national problem of flood control were announced. The Board voted continued co-operation with numerous organizations interested in types of government contracts. A progress report on a plan for a more intensive organization of engineers under the F.A.E.S. was presented. The question of a printed bulletin for the F.A.E.S. was discussed in detail. President Cooley was further given authority to raise sufficient funds to start a printed F.A.E.S. Bulletin. Jurisdictional Awards in Labor, Patent Legislation, an International Engineering Congress, Aero Research, Engineering Representation. on the Civil Service Commission, Foreign Relations and Waste in Agriculture were some of the other topics discussed by the Board. Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Waterways. The Prime Minister of URBAUER-ATWOOD HEATING COMPANY CENTRAL HEATING INSTALLATIONS ELECTRIC PLANTS VENTILATING APPARATUS Main Office 1450 SOUTH SECOND STREET ST. LOUIS, MO. Canada has returned the proposed treaty which was to be the basis of this project, to the Secretary of State, with the opinion that the present is not an opportune time for the negotiation of such a treaty. This reply was formally received May 31st, and no information could be obtained from the State Department as to whether an additional move would be made by the United States Government at this time. Coal. Mine operators now producing coal pledged their wholehearted support to Secretary Hoover on May 31st, when he announced to a large gathering of those interested in the coal industry, that he is perfectly willing to accept full responsibility for an effort to prevent a runaway coal market. He admitted that under existing laws, coal operators could not undertake unity of action in the public interest even in the matter of reducing prices, but he said it was in his province as a public official to expect their individual co-operation with him, to the end that consumers of coal may not be made victims of speculators. Mr. Hoover will work through a central committee with district committees in each of the eighteen fields now producing coal. Investment and Profit of the Bituminous Coal Mine Operators. The Federal Trade Commission has made report on this subject covering the past six months. Figures were collected by the Commission itself except for the three years covering the period when it was under court injunction, during which time figures collected by the National Coal Association were used. The report shows the average rate of profit for 1916 to 1921 to be 15%. It is based on the average investment per ton of 1,126 representative companies scattered throughout the country and producing 32 per cent of the country's tonnage. The total investment of these companies was $521,250,000. A Memorial to the Twelfth Engineers Unveiled in Chain of Rocks Park, St. Louis, June 25, 1922 The Engineers' Club of St. Louis The Associated Engineering Societies of St. Louis 3817 Olive St. Miss C. B. Adams, Secretary. Office hours, 9:00 to 5:00 daily. Edwin H. Conrades, Pres. Edmund C. Donk, Vice-Pres. Wm. F. Gould, Secy. & Asst. Treas. GOOD COAL FOR EVERY PURPOSE BY THE TON OR CAR LOAD Backed by 58 years of dependable service 2 MINES MARYVILLE THERMAL MAIN 3700 DONK BROS 14 RETAIL YARDS ST. LOUIS EAST ST. LOUIS COAL & COKE CO. ST. LOUIS COUNTY STOCK EXCHANGE BLDG., ST. LOUIS, MO. CENTRAL 3605 Edwin H. Conrades, President 0. S. Conrades, Vice-President F. W. Risque, Secretary-Treasurer ST. LOUIS MATERIAL & SUPPLY CO. We are PRODUCERS of washed SAND and GRAVEL, WHOLESALERS and RETAILERS of full line of BUILDING MATERIAL with exclusive connections and seven retail yards and a delivery system that insures service. 314 Fourth St. ST. LOUIS OF THE ASSOCIATED ENGINEERING SOCIETIES OF ST. LOUIS A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Interests of the Engineering Profession in St. Louis W. E. ROLFE, Editor ST. LOUIS, MO., JULY, 1922. THE TWELFTH ENGINEERS' REUNION. By MAJOR W. W. BURDEN. No. 7 The reunion idea was suggested at the annual meeting of the Twelfth Engineers' Association in May of last year, and met with unanimous approval. Three years of Peace is not a long period of time, of course, but it was felt that by the Spring of 1922 all the old "shovelshocked" veterans and others would welcome an excuse to foregather again and fight over those sanguinary battles of Amiens, Paris, Monte Carlo, et al. History has it that on June 25, 1917, before General Crowder gained his national popularity and while the knitting needles still reposed in the bottom of the old trunk in the garret, Maj. John A. Laird went out to the camp at the Chain of Rocks to take command of the in-coming detachments of recruits and to bring them into a regimental organization. As might have been expected, one of his first official acts was to issue a general order. That practice became very prevalent later on. In fact, it was really overdone and great deal of the matter thus published has been forever lost to posterity. The substance of the order referred to, however, has become fixed, not only in the history of the Regiment, but also in that of St. Louis, for it gave to the camp its name, “Gaillard.” With this in mind, it was decided to commemorate by the first reunion, the fifth anniversary of the Regiment's birth and again mobilize on the old camp ground. The work of promoting the project was actively taken up last December, when Col. Laird, the Association's chairman, called together an executive committee composed as follows: Col. Frank G. Jonah, Railway Transportation. Maj. James W. Skelly, Supplies. Maj. Henry S. Crossen, Camp Medical Officer. Maj. W. Wilson Burden, Construction and Memorial. Capt. Theodore P. Brookes, Program. Capt. Charles S. Johnson, K.C.B., Camp Adjutant. Lieut. Charles A. Lieber, General Secretary. Sergt. Charles J. Almstead, Treasurer. Mrs. W. Wilson Burden, Woman's Auxiliary. Entered as second-class matter, February 11, 1916, at the post-office at St. Louis, Mo.,, under the Act of August 24. 1912. Acceptance for mailing at the special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3. 1917, authorized August 23, 1918. |