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IT goes without saying that I appreciate the great honor which the membership of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers has conferred upon me by electing me its president. In ordinary times we might let it go at that, but these are not ordinary times. The world is in flames and the instrumentalities that are being used to set it on fire are man-made by engineers. That throws down before all of us a double challenge. First, we must engineer adequate fire-fighting equipment; then, after the fire is out, we must construct a more fireproof world — one that is not full of “have nots” ever ready to destroy because they themselves have nothing to lose.