Engineering Without Imagination Sinks To A Trade.

Let Us Not Forget That The Value Of This Great System Does Not Lie Primarily In Its Extent Or Even In Its Efficiency. Its Worth Depends On The Use That Is Made Of It... For The First Time In Human History We Have Available To Us The Ability To Communicate Simultaneously With Millions Of Our Fellowmen, To Furnish Entertainment, Instruction, Widening Vision Of National Problems And National Events. An Obligation Rests On Us To See That It Is Devoted To Real Service And To Develop The Material That Is Transmitted Into That Which Is Really Worthwhile.

The People Have A Vital Interest In The Conservation Of Their Natural Resources; In The Prevention Of Wasteful Practices.

About The Time We Can Make The Ends Meet, Somebody Moves The Ends.

Engineering Training Deals With The Exact Sciences. That Sort Of Exactness Makes For Truth And Conscience. It Might Be Good For The World If More Men Had That Sort Of Mental Start In Life Even If They Did Not Pursue The Profession.

To Go Fishing Is The Chance To Wash One's Soul With Pure Air, With The Rush Of The Brook, Or With The Shimmer Of Sun On Blue Water. It Brings Meekness And Inspiration From The Decency Of Nature, Charity Toward Tackle-makers, Patience Toward Fish, A Mockery Of Profits And Egos, A Quieting Of Hate, A Rejoicing That You Do Not Have To Decide A Darned Thing Until Next Week. And It Is Discipline In The Equality Of Men - For All Men Are Equal Before Fish.