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From the Sky top roof of the hotel stop where your city station is about to bring you the proceedings of the twenty fifth anniversary convention of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers the gathering will feature a welcoming address by the honorable Vincent are in college Terry mayor of the city of New York. To introduce the Toastmaster Frederick H. the mule and past president of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers we will turn our market phones over to Mr Charles B. Molineaux who is first vice president Mr moment is now talking very imperfect all science is that we have found that body of knowledge which is a necessary foundation for any profession and nineteenth century these imperfect science has made great advances and our intellectual forebears the fathers of engineering have done a wonderful job and correlating and correlating the work of the impairing sciences and making them and such a way that we could use them for either direct conflict of man we have engineers have taken that char in hand and where the evolution of our work and the growth of the way we have done things and the contributions we have made have worked out a science that is really a fund of knowledge for a great profession. Using that fund of knowledge we have through the years developed a group that had done the thing in the way that really means much to all of mankind that was taken time and I real professional recognition and professional consciousness has developed along with that and at the time one that seemed to be and it's for. The New York State Society of Professional Engineers was founded we have been among the first in our country to really recognize the professional needs and professional merits. By science and our contribution to mankind and we have very happy today to realize that this society has seen twenty five years of active service and progress and its contribution to mankind. For the continuation of our festivities today I'm very happy to announce that we have secured the services and good wishes of a one time president of the society a man who has made a great mock as an engineer a man who has done a great deal to bring engineering to the foreground and Iowa City State and in our nation. And I like it this time to present who will be chairman Toastmaster for the day for us to federalism and commission of public life the same New York. I give our my Toastmaster Molineaux Mr Mayor. Distinguished ex presidents and guests on the day as I follow engineers there ladies and off friends my principal person accepting the honor of being Toastmaster at this occasion is to introduce our principal speaker. And introducing him I should like to tell you will give you a few appointment engineering facts. Concerning the design and construction program. Of new public and prove once in the city of New York. The city of which next speaker is the mayor in my mind nothing reflects moronically. Tireless efforts the administrative ability and plus seeing civic understanding. Of ironic guest and to relate these point. Design and construction program. As you know did he pop into public works of which I am very proud to be the Commission. As the engineering an architectural arm of the city of New York. Responsible for the design and construction. Of facilities for almost all of the various city services and various city departments. It is significant to note that during a forthright administration of our present guest of honor a. Mighty pipeline the stablished the highest production record in the history of the city. Present and design and construction program is the largest on record. This program accelerated by the then acting mayor during the four months of one thousand nine hundred fifty brought the as production. To an all time high of more than thirty nine million dollars of actual construction work. And also a completion of designs of another seventy five million dollars worth of construction. Even more important is the fact that the upmost dollar value is being received by the taxpayer for these public and proven through sound contractual relations and reduced construction costs. This can only be achieved through the most careful administrative planning and diligent application of the very best techniques in our profession in addition. My department continued its role as the nation's largest housekeeper. Maintaining an operating public buildings sewage disposal plants and bridges physical property valued at better than a million and billion. Dollars. With pardonable pride. I should like to point out at the expense budget of my department and its vast plant. Is about twelve million dollars a year on just one percent a little less than one percent of the entire city's budget. Gentlemen and ladies none of this would have been possible without the splendid guidance of cooperation and a vigorous action of the mayor of the city of New York it is my honor and pleasure and privilege to present to you is Ana the mayor of city of New York Vinson are in public there will. Commissioners among distinguished guests ladies and gentlemen. I am happy to welcome the mid century convention of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers we are indeed honored that you have selected our city for this meeting in doing so you have chosen the scene of some of the greatest engineering triumphs in the entire world. There is probably no other area more extensively developed and so very replete with examples. Of engineering achievements I know that I speak for all the people in our setting in foisting our appreciation of your organization's success in promoting and guarding the professional standards of engineering which are so very vital to the safe and progressive development of our city to your everlasting credit engineering standards in our state have been raised to the high level deserved by your profession it is they good fortune of my administration that among the active in. The founders rather in the very active supporters of the movement we have the able services of such distinguished engineers as the chairman my Public Works Commissioner Frederick czar Mullen our chief engineer of the bought a vast amount John rebel and Bronx borough works commissioner Sheridan. There are many other financial areas and city services to numerous to mention who are also members of your organization. I am proud of my association with your profession and I am glad for whatever help I have been able to give and for storing our city's vast public improvement program mentioned by commissioners among. It is of course an ambitious program and yet every benefit is necessary that is if we are to adequately meet the need for expending services that are required for the welfare of the people and the commerce of our city. Our people must be properly housed our children must be well educated and decent up to date schools our hospitals and health services must be expanded I plan operations must be modernized our transit must be streamlined and our traffic problem must be alleviated many obstacles lie ahead it must be remembered that the rising cost of living also applies to the cost of government. A one dollar rise in a ten dollar household grocery bill means a rise of a million dollars in the city's grocery bill in fact and I know it's not necessary to point that out to a group of professional engineers the cost of every item used in the operation of our city has just bounded upwards and up towards and upwards. Our sewer hospital and sewage treatment construction program alone and vows an expenditure of nearly a half a billion dollars The city's budget limitations shortages of essential materials the rising cost of construction and general inflation are but just a few of the problems which must be faced Unfortunately however inflation while imposing additional burdens on the city does not at all commensurately increase the city's tax revenues and yet. Increased revenues are necessary if we are to carry out our responsibilities to the people. My administration will be measured by what we do to keep our city operating at a high level of efficiency in the trying days to come. I have accepted this challenge and I mention it here today at this convention convention of Professional Engineers because in my judgment it is also a challenge to the engineering thinking of our city. I am fully aware that much more than concrete and steel brick and mortar will go into the making a public improvement and public service they might be better measured in the heartaches of civic planning the headaches of administrative problems and the skillful application of modern engineering techniques. Addressing you here today I have the comfortable feeling that as long as men in your profession apply their knowledge and high standards of it of engineering No problem will be too complex or insurmountable in the development of our city's resources. One of these problems which I should like to leave with you today is a matter of grave concern to all of us as individuals. As communities or indeed as a free nation. I referred to the important contribution which your profession can make towards civil defense too often civil defense is considered only in the light of bomb shelters and preparations before a possible enemy attack. Nothing is so vital to the security of our nation however than preparedness to restore our physical facilities and to continue normal community functions after and then we can only attack. Whether at war or peace the military forces of our nation are only as strong as the terminations of the people to carry on the activities of production and government which an attack on cities and industrial areas is intended to disrupt we must remember that the enemy rather just contemplating actually waging war on const The cost of attack in terms of results achieved obviously a city well prepared for the fence offers a less inviting target your training and your experience are most essential in the planning necessary for rehabilitation and reconstruction of stricken areas all of the equipment and all of the personnel at our command. Well be of little value for several defense on less we take the same approach a consulting engineer would take before undertaking a large construction job. You and your organization can be of value of all assistance and this type of planning some of you are specialists in fields which are closely related to the type of rehabilitation and reconstruction work now being planned by our city several defense organization if you have not already done so I urge you to become affiliated with whatever Division of Civil Defense you feel might best make use of your engineering know how. The Public Works emergency division under the able direction of commissioners or Mullen isn't a maximum example of one of the phases of seven City defense set up in which your services are being eagerly sought civil defense is not think so responsibility of your government but rather a community effort wherein everyone must do his proper share we cannot let our enthusiasm fluctuate with international developments this is everyone's job and American free way of life may depend upon it. Let me congratulate you and your society for the contributions you have made in the progress and the development of our city. I wish you were the continued success you deserve and should there be anything within my power to make this convention more pleasant and more productive please call the office of mayor and I will say to what that is done thank you for your interest and. I. Will proudly welcoming address the honorable and some current commentary in the air of the city of New York to the human twenty fifth anniversary convention of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers and now until we return you will return to the hotel staff and the money for the symposium on the engineering industry at three o'clock we return you to our studios in the mean discipline building this is the municipal Broadcasting System.