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24,1920 METAL WORKER, PLUMBER AND STEAM FITTER
News of the Trade Associations
Sanitary Engineering Society's President
Members Urged to Support and Co-operate With Their
Leader in Society's Work
The far-reaching benefit already derived from the
activities of those who have brought into existence
and maintained the American Society of Sanitary Engineering
justifies the determination of the small band
who compose it to continue its existence and its work.
To no one is more support and encouragement due
than to Major William C. Groeniger, 8 East Chestnut
Street, Columbus, Ohio, who accepted re-election
at the meeting in St. Louis last week.
PRESIDENT WILLIAM C. GROENIGER
During the period of its establishment there have
been many loyal and excellent workers in the society.
But because of the small membership it has not attracted
those men best qualified to join in its work.
The best service its members can now render to its
loyal, active and self-sacrificing president is to labor
all through the coming year to provide that number
of new members which will insure an income to carry
out the plans of the president for the advancement of
the organization.
This is duty which must not be left to the president
alone, who has done valiant service in this line and
who has taken up the work which other self-sacrificing
early workers left when they entered upon other
duties. For three years he has carried the society
along so that its honor and its service to the sanitarv
field is as bright as formerly.
Now it is the duty for the rank and file of the
membership to prevail upon those in the sanitary
field who should co-operate and support the work of
the society to join in the work and aid it. It is their
duty also to take up the problem of financing the
work of the society and offer that solution to the
executives which will insure sufficient funds for the
work thev have in mind.
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There i.s still another duty to the president and that
is apprise him of opportunities for carrying on research
work and to file with him accounts of findings
under all conditions as a matter of record which can
be used in solving the problems of sanitation. The.
field of the society is not restricted. As yet there has
come into the organization those who can give it a
substantial impetus and insure its maintenance without
the sacrifices that heretofore have been necessary.
In presenting the portrait of President Groeniger
another time it is to attract the attention of sanitarians
to the needs of the field so that they may contribute
in accordance with their capacity to supply
what is needed. Its splendid work has attracted wide
attention and caused great things to be expected of it.
This reputation can only be maintained by more applications
for membership and more funds. They can
be secured by the general membership if they will
work and support the executives.
Georgia Association at Tybee Island
State Convention of Master Plumbers' Association Met in
Savannah, Ga., on Aug. 30-31, at the Tybee Island Hotel
The members of the Atlanta, Augusta, Brunswick,
Dublin and Manchester Associations arrived in Savannah,
Ga., on Sunday morning, August 29 and were
met by the Savannah Association and jobhers. They
were carried in automobiles to the Savannah Hotel,
where breakfast and refreshments were served. Later
they were shown over the city, which is so frequently
called the "Beautiful Forest City" and Thunderbolt.
They were then taken to the station and caught the
train for Tybee Island, where they were joined in the
afternoon by the members of the Savannah Association.
The convention, which was the first semi-annual
convention of the Georgia Association of Master
Plumbers, was opened on August 30 at 11 o'clock,
with President Sam S. Shepard in the chair. After
the opening address by Mr. Shepard a committee on
application was appointed by D. V. Tidwell, Macon,
consisting of Ben J. Seckinger, Maeon, and Vollie
Gresham, Atlanta, and to this committee the following
applications were referred: C. B. Burke, Tifton;
R. W. Manning, Cairo; A. E. Roberts, Covington; D.
W. Bell, Dublin; C. C. Cavin, Madison; H. F. Corbett,
Cordele; Cosgrove & Zoller, Savannah; M. N.
Oglesbee, Statesboro; E. J. Schroeder, Americus.
On motion of Secretary James E. Belcher and seconded
by George W. Payne, Atlanta, the first order
of business for the afternoon session was the address
of J. Roberts, of the American Radiator Co.. in regard
to the advertising. He gave an explanation of "Package
Advertising," and made a plea to the merchant
steam fitters and plumbers of the South to co-operate
witli the company in selling its goods.
Mr. Whaley, of Thomas Maddocks & Con Co.,
Trenton, N. J., addressed the convention and was
followed by a talk, by Julius J. Lax. of the Julius