57  This  leads  up  to  the  final  functions  of  the  Society,  with  the
urging  of  which  this  paper  will  have  accomplished  its  ultimate
purpose.  It  is  that  the  Society  should  foster  and  cause  the  growth  of
other  organizations  or  societies  or  clubs,  specialized  either  by  their
location  in  city  or  district  or  state,  or  by  their  particular  line  of  study
and  pursuits.  Such  bodies  should  be  entirely  autonomous  as  respects
their  officers  and  procedure  and  rules  and  financial  support.  Their
membership  should  include  both  members  of  this  Society  and  other
engineers,  the  latter  embracing  both  those  who  are  eligible  to  member-
ship in  this  Society,  but  having  a  prior  allegiance  to  some  other
Society  or  do  not  as  yet  want  to  join  any  such  organization,  and  those
who  by  training  or  experience  are  not  yet  eUgible  to  any  existing

national  society.      Such  bodies  should  be  known  as:    "The

Society  of  Engineers,"  or  some  equivalent  name,  the  blank  being  filled
by  the  name  of  the  place  where  they  prefer  to  meet,  and  the  full  desig-
nation to  be  "The Society  of  Engineers  AffiUated  with  The

American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engineers."  The  emphasis  is  to  lie
upon  the  fact  and  relation  implied  under  the  word  "  Affiliated."  The
members  of  the  local  or  specialized  body  would  not  be  members  of  The
American  Society  and  would  not  or  should  not  call  themselves  so.
They  are  members  of  their  own  society.  Their  autonomy  and  self  sup-
port secures  for  them  the  dignity  and  responsibility  attaching  to  their


662  THS  ruNcnoN  of  the  engineering  societt

for  its  success  or  failure  by  reason  of  the  effort  put  forth
by  those  interested.
