Correspondence

To the Editor: In his very interesting letter (August Journal) on the subject of remuneration of engineers, Mr. Katzman attributes the fact that the engineering profession is paid very poorly to the attitude of injurious modesty on the part of the engineer whenever the question of salary is raised. One need not look, far from Mr. Katzman´s letter to find evidence of his contention that this spirit of modesty is encouraged by the spokesmen of the engineering societies. On the very same page, in a paper on training of engineers, Mr. Milton argues that colleges should teach modesty as most modest men are thinkers.