AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 June 1927, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

FLOOD CONFERENCE ENDS. NEW YORK, June 5. A Chicago message states the Flood Conference, terminating after a three days’ session, will request .Mr C'oolidge to call out civilian engineers for the purpose of formulating a plan for preventing a recurrence of the disaster. It is believed such an official summons would be able to bring together the cream of United States engineering talent. .Simultaneously the Department of Agriculture is completing arrangements for a campaign to assist the southern fanners to sow crops. Printed information has been issued and stations -set up. Bulletins declare cotton .should be planted immediately. Farmers, by following the receding water should be able to realise a. normal crop. It is revealed that an intensive study lias been made by the Department into flood conditions and the potential agricultural yield, and for this reason the directions are regarded as accurate and reliable.

• INDUSTRIAL MISSION. WASHINGTON. June 2. Mr H. C. Hoover received the Australian Industrial Mission. During the course of his speech ho said the industrial growth of America was due partly to educational advancement. The industrial inillenium, however, had by no means hern reached, but the progress made during the past live years encouraged optimism. The Americans accepted almost unanimously, the doctrine of waste elimination, together with a recognition that high wages increased output and stimulated

ton-sumption. ' In 1921 America Juul five million unemployed. To-day she had less than half a million. An Australian employers’ representative here interjected : Unemployment is always serious. Mr Hoover .agreed, saying unemployment was a disease hut incurable through Government action being entirely an economic ill. The old doctrine of employers that low wages gave greatest output had been superseded by the new doctrine showing a changed outlook of capital and -labour. American labour refused to accept the doctrine of restricted production. SCHOOL OK AERONAUTICS. NEW YORK, June 4. A school of aeronautics, too gift of Daniel Guggenheim has been opened. Prominent in industry attending the exercises at New York University, or which the school is a part of a-linlf million dollars building, complete irievery detail, incuding testing laboratories, departments for construction of actual planes, aeronautical library, and aircraft museum, the donor declared the Lindbergh flight was a happy incident and lends great impetus to the work which will lie undertaken by the school. Mac Cracker (Assistant Secretary of Commerce) asserted the future of aeronautics was in the hands of the world’s youth. The principal feature of the school is a .wind-tunnel a hundred feet long and fifty-live feet wide, in which wind is propelled by a threehundred horsepower motor at a velocity of one hundred miles.