150 HEAR JOHNSON GIVE ADDRESS AT PIERCE HALL

An audience of approximately 150 persons filled the lecture hall in Pierce Hall last evening to hear the address by L. J. Johnson '87, professor of Civil Engineering, delivered under the auspices of the Harvard Engineering Society. The subject of the address was "The Relation of Engineering to Public Questions."

Sample Election

Following the address, an election of a fictitious national council was conducted, using the proportional representation system, and counting the ballots under the plan now used in Cincinnati, Ohio. On the first ballot, Hoover polled nearly twice as many first choices as he needed for election. The first choices above the necessary number were passed to other candidates, who were elected as follows: Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alfred E. Smith, and Owen D. Young.

Johnson's Address

After outlining the presence of forces of right and wrong which have never been used by either engineers or anybody else, Professor Johnson described the results that could be obtained by so doing, and said in part:

"The claim upon us of democracy, thus consistently worked out, is imperishable, because it accords as nothing else can with the nature and needs of man,--of man the individual, because it leaves each individual free as nothing else can to rise to the very limit of his powers and character; of man in the mass, the community or state, because after opening to each the maximum incentive to usefulness and wisdom, it enables all, as nothing else can, to profit by the wisdom of the wisest."