Engineers hear plan to mobilize industry in war

Over eight hundred members of the engineering societies cooperating with the War Department representing the New York sections of the Army Ordnance Association, the A.S.C.E., the A.I.M.E., the A.S.M.E., the A. I. E. E. and the S.A.E. assembled at the Hotel Commodore on Tuesday evening, February 5, at a dinner, after which a program for the rapid mobilization of the nation´s industries in the event of emergency was explained and discussed. The purpose of this gathering was to bring the War Department´s plans for mobilization of materials, as well as men, directly to the engineering profession as a means of speeding up production. It was the general tone of the meeting that industrial mobilization plans were not militaristic but were to be regarded as the best insurance against war.