Show Plans for Reserve Corps of Engineers Are Taking Shape Committee Organized to Act in operation Co-operation With War Department 0 Aug The Tue 28 The movement move move- C CHICAGO I J ment ment begun besun in a tentative way last spring to 10 form torm a a. reserve corps ote of engineers to bo available In case of or war var has assumed definite form torm according to an announcement made hare bore today by Blon Bion J J. Arnold Some time ago the suggestion was as taken up by tho American Society of ot Civil l Engineers tho the American Institute of ot Mining Engineers En En- the American Society or Mechanical Engineers tho the American Ameri can Institute of oC Electrical f Fn- Fn n- n and tho the American Institute of Consulting Engineers Each of ot these organizations appointed appointed appointed ap ap- ap- ap pointed committees to further tho the movement which has now more closely consolidated b by thie appointment Just announced of or I too the chairmen of or these committees as members of ot a n joint committee to take chargo charge in Sn operation co-operation with the war department of ot the work The members of or the committee are William Barclay Parsons chairman chairman chair chair- man New York Henr Henry S S. Drinker Pennsylvania William H. H Wile Wiley Now New York Blon Bion J J. J Arnold Illinois and Ralph D D. D New York The European war war according to members of at tho the committee has shown that engineers arc are needed on a 0 scale hitherto unknown |