Abstract :
THERE appears in this issue of Electrical Engineering the usual annual notice inviting the membership to suggest to the national nominating committee candidates for the various national offices that will become vacant July 31 next. It recalls the comment occasionally heard that our elections of national officers are more or less “cut and dried,” that the rank and file of the membership can have little influence in the selection of our officers, and that, as a consequence, our elections are not carried out in the completely democratic spirit contemplated by the prescribed procedure. A review of our election machinery therefore is opportune at this time.
