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Show WAR AID, THEME OF MINING INSTITUTE . - Engineers Plan Study of Government Needs During Meeting Next Month. j KBW YORK, Jan. 2$, War -work for the mining engineer and a concentration of his efforts to meet the mineral needs of the country will be the subjects to dominate the one hundred and sixteenth meeting' of the American Institute of Mining Engineers- The meeting- opens in t New York February IS. and continues for t four days. During the sessions prominent j men who have been in the center of war activities in this country and in Europe :, 1 will address the gathering', and mining i engineers from every part of the country will study means of solving the war min- I eral difficulties. . About fifty technical subjects win be ; presented at the institute meeting. Some of them deal with such timely topics as the economy of electricity over steam for , power purposes in and about the mines, the arosion of guns, extraction of gasoline from natural gas, the Chilean nitrate in- i dustry and the employment manager and i labor turnover reduction. An elaborate entertainment programme has been arranged, both for the institute members and the women accompanying them. On Monday evening, February 18, a war smoker will be held. On Tuesday evening a novel entertainment, and on "Wednesday a "Hoover dinner" at Hotel Blltmore. Herbert Hoover is one of the few honorarv members of the Institute. On Thursday, the last day of the con- 1 vention, an all-day excursion will be made to Princeton, N. J., to visit the government aviation field and university campus. 'ome of the features of the entertainment entertain-ment of ladies are a visit to the art galleries gal-leries of Senator W. A. Clark and of Henry Frick, a matinee, a tea and several luncheons at the Engineering Societies' So-cieties' building. |