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Report of Standards and Nomenclature Committee 449
over and will get the suggestion that they get together and standardize something so that we can take it up at the next meeting.
President Cook: The Chair recommends to the Chairman of the Membership Committee that he make an effort to secure at least one representative member from each of the new talking movie companies — the General Electric and others — so that they may be represented not only in the membership but on the Standards Committee. The Chair will be pleased to appoint a representative member from each of these organizations on the Standards Committee in an effort to clarify standards of this new branch of talking movies.
Dr. Hickman: The President's suggestion that members of leading firms be asked to join the Society for the purpose of cooperating with the Standards Committee shall be attended to immediately. We have circularized such men in the last few months but have received the same excuse in each case; namely, that they could not spare the money personally. Now it is my very strong feeling that such men should be made members of the Society by their parent firms, that it is in the interest of the firms to be represented, and that they should therefore pay the dues. I suggest that Dr. Gage write to the heads of departments of the big technical companies and put the matter before them.
A request for cooperation sent to English firms through Mr. Vinton received another rebuff, which you may agree was a just one. Mr. Vinton said that so long as our attitude towards the Standards proposed by other people at the Paris conference remained unsatisfactory, he would not feel justified in recommending membership to his coworkers. Surely, we should look into the matter and dispel such feelings.
President Cook: That is what Dr. Gage has done in the present instance. I think your suggestion is a good one — that the invitation to membership representatives in our Society would very properly come from the Chairman of the Standards Committee in his reply to those letters, so that we should start at the top, and they would delegate the member to come in. I suggest, Dr. Gage, that you recommend that one of their members join the Society for this purpose.
Mr. Beggs: I think the Standards Committee should be interested in different types of incandescent lamps for studio lighting to avoid disagreements on use. It is the same matter as would come before the American Railroad Association.
President Cook: I suggest that you write a letter to the Committee and place the matter before them.