Registration of engineers [comments on "Letter to the Editor" by Louis S. Leavitt]

The commentor states that the original author\´s [Louis S. Leavitt] charges (ibid., Jan 1938, pp 42), that the engineering examining boards are composed of politicians and that the whole thing may degenerate to a political racket, "is not" substantiated by the facts. These facts are available to anyone; even to those whose sincerity of purpose is questionable, when tainted with such violent abuse of their fellow practitioners. The commentor further states that he has yet to witness in the legal or medical profession such an unethical attack unchallenged. The members of these examining boards are members of our profession serving with little or no compensation at great personal sacrifice without fear or favor and need no defense other than their unimpeachable records.