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PAPERS COMMITTEE REPORT
MR. KETTERING expressed the chief aim of your Papers Committee, when he said last night that engineering will advance most rapidly by the exchange of information. There are, in general, two ways in which data is exchanged — one, through personal contact and good fellowship ; the other, through the presentation and discussion of papers.
It is the privilege of your Papers Committee to have most to do with the latter. In carrying on our work, we have tried not only to secure papers that would interest you and record progress in the various branches of the motion picture industry, but also to accomplish a little broader work by devising ways and means for the committee to become more permanently useful to the Society.
Your committee had thirty-six (36) prospective papers lined up in preparation for this convention. Out of these we finally secured the papers which you have heard. We would call to your attention the fact that the arrangement of an interesting and valuable program is seriously handicapped by those who promise papers and then fail to finish them in time for the convention, or fail to deliver them after they have been finished.
We realize that occasionally conditions arise which necessitate the withdrawal of a paper, or a change of its scheduled time for presentation, but we urge upon authors that every effort be made to prevent such occurrences.
We have made earnest efforts to find out from the membership of the Society the subjects in which they are most interested. We have even written a letter to every member of the Society asking for suggestions on convention papers. This has met with very little response. In lieu of such information, we have analyzed the papers that have been presented and tried to secure subjects on which information is more or less lacking and which are of importance in the industry.
However, the convention is primarily yours, and if you will tell us what you want in the way of papers, we shall make every effort to try and secure them for you.
We would suggest, that before this convention is over, while things are fresh in your mind and you are enthusiastic, you get in touch with some member of the Papers Committee and make suggestions for the Spring convention, as your committee starts work on the Spring convention the day that the present convention closes.
After a convention is over, your Papers Committee has experienced considerable difficulty in securing for use in the Transactions complete texts, photographs and drawings for the papers which have been given. Unless the Transactions are issued promptly after a convention, they lose materially in value.
There is a great deal of work entailed in the preparation of the Transactions; not only do the texts, drawings, etc., have to be
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