Show Triumph of an American Engineer J I James Q i. i Whito is in fact one of tho ho great silent forces at this moment In th the tho worlds world's industrial development silent silent because his work and policies nowhere directly affect politics As the en engineer contractor and business businessman man this quiet quid dynamic man Is buildIng buildIng building build- build Ing up UI the worlds world's Industrial forces without seeking to control and exploit them Unlike our kings of transportation tion ho docs does not own the railroads or street stroet car lines Jines that he ho has constructed construct construct- ed ed nor docs does he seek seck to control th the gas gasworks gasworks as works work water works or electric power plants that he is installing all over the globe With him tho the engineer be became be- be came CaIne his own contractor and the magnitude magnitude mag mag- of ot the work commanded the al alliance alliance alliance al- al liance and partnership of the thc banks Tho The only organizations that he ho controls controls con con- trois ore are tho those thoe e of ot his own conception tho the firms that bear his hia name in AmerIca America Amer Amen ica lea in Canada and in Great Britain and the these u companies are aro engaged in work In five rive continents continents Europe Europe Asia Au Australia and North and South America Amer Amen ica Including lea including nearly proJects project wll nn a aggregate value of On the roll pay of oC these are more than 1000 civil mechanical electrical and hydraulic engineers engineer while the tho rank and file of ot their industrial army numbers numbers num aura bers hers 00 of all l kinds and nationalities Tho The man mun who has created all aJl th great enterprise Is scarcely past t 15 45 Twenty five years ago he heYns was a a. student stu dent in a Pennsylvania college at Johnstown but hut er c every day he went to to toa toa a shop hop in the town where elect electrical rica a and hydraulic machinery was being built and there he put in his time at work for the sheer love lo of practical I engineering eng lie He was getting the from text boo books s and putting the principles principles prin prin- to a practical test af nt every opportunity op op- op- op There wo we have th the father to the man But Mr White Whito was at thIs th stage o o of his life as he has hns ever been since a theoretical student He Wl was wasas wasas as devoted to pure mathematics as Tn rin rinold n nold old professor Indeed a few years cars after ho he himself was a simple mod modest cst professor protessor of ot engineering in the University Uni I of Nebraska where ho was recognized recognized rec rec- as the tho master of ot the theory and a very Yen able in Instructor The Tho science sd- sd ence once and art of ot construction and development de tie- took the tho supreme place In his mind He lie had had a previous pre academic aca aca- demic and practical training training- in en engineering engineering engineering en- en and kindred branches at Cornell university |