Abstract :
IN THANKING you for the honor which you have bestowed upon me, I wish to emphasize some aspects of the responsibilities and opportunities of the engineering profession in the present emergency. For the men upon whom the John Fritz Medal has been conferred in the past—and in whose company I am happy to find myself—are men who have helped to build the industrial democracy of the present day. Merely to mention a few of their names—Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Lord Kelvin, Elihu Thomson, General Goethals, Charles Kettering—is to call forth the achievements by which they have given us not only a more efficient world but, as we fully believe, a better world. I am deeply appreciative of the honor of being counted worthy to be included as one of their number.
