LeTourneau Tech's NOW, Volume 2, Number 6, June 1, 1948 Page: 3
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medical doctor who has completed his
internship and had a few years prac-
tice.
C. C. Banks, engineering drawing
teacher, thinks of his subject as a
language study. "We are teaching the
boys the language of the factory, the
Esperanto of industry-a universal
tongue for industrial men."
That says it too for each subject:
Calculus, Chemistry, Economics, Phy-
sics, all the others-they are lan-
guages. And the more of these lan-
guages LeTourneau Tech students
beome adept in using, the fewer will
be the managers and workers in indus-
try who can say, "They don't talk
our language."
Beginnings
IN THE beginning I developed a
power control for the tractor-
drawn drag scraper with which I was
doing some land leveling. This scra-
per dragged about two yards of ma-
terial. My power control eliminated
.the use of a man to operate the scra-
per.
Then I began working over the
scraper, cutting here, adding there to
improve loading and spreading and to
increase capacity.
Year after year I experimented
with various forms of power transmis-
sion-hydraulic, air, cable, electric. I
was constantly redesigning the shape
of the bowl, the cutting edge, loading
and discharging and carrying mech-
anisms, all to arrive at more effi-
ciency, greater capacity, greater speed
of operation. My goal was ever lower
cost per yard of material moved.
I experimented with tractors to in-
crease loading power and to speed
loading, traveling and spreading. To-
day Lis a result of a quarter century
of designing, experimenting, testing,
improving I have a rig that can pick
up a load of 60 tons in about 30 sec-
onds, haul it at 20 miles per hour, and
spread it to any required depth.
This '49 model, riding on huge rub-
ber tires, looks nothing like the crawl-
ing vehicle I began with. Yet it was
from that beginning, which someone
else's ingenuity supplied, t h a t I
evolved an earthmoving method in
universal use today.
I am proud that this earth moves
earth by the LeTourneau method,
whether the machines are built by
our factories or those of our compe-
titors. But that is not the reason for
which I have recited this brief resume1,
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PeoriaSpeaking engagements
of modern earthmoving history, nor
the reason for starting this article in
the abrupt manner I used.
For centuries men have been spin-
ning theories as to the origin of this
marvelous world on which we live.
And their estimates of its age are
about as numerous as the estimators.
I have no quarrel with their varied
dates. But may I call to attention the
contrast between the Scripture story
of creation and my story of earth-
moving invention?
I have said, "In the beginning I
developed." So must every inventor,
engineer and designer say, "I deve-
loped." or "I made." Even if it is an
original invention in a virgin field it
must be made from something that
already exists. And, may I add, the
inventor had better go on developing
it if he does not want to see his darl-
ing superseded by someone else's
brain child.
"In the beginning God created."
See the difference in those first five
words of the Bible. Man must start
with something, but God began with
nothing, absolute nothing, and "cre-
ated the heaven and the earth." As
we have it in the Gospel of John:
"All things were made by Him; and
without Him was not any thing made
that was made." So whether it be pro-
ducing a world or a universe from
nothing, or making man from the dust
of the ground and breathing into his
nostrils the breath of life, or making
the clod of the earth from which man
was shaped, God is the Creator or
Maker.
Had He begun with matter which
another had provided, He would not
be God. Having begun with nothing,
nothing is for Him impossible. He
could form man complete from the
dust of the ground in one act, and in
another single act shape a woman
from his rib. He could furnish theheavens with universes which men
could discover only with the telescope
and thereby picture the construction
of the atom which they cannot see
with a microscope.
Our wisest action then is to bow
the knee with Job and say, "I know
that Thou canst do everything." And
then bow to every word He has
spoken.
234 To Receive Diplomas
One hundred and twenty-nine jun-
ior college students and 105 high
school students of LeTourneau Tech
will be awarded diplomas at com-
mencement exercises 8 p.m. Friday,
June 18, at the gymnasium.
H. P. Hammond, dean of school of
engineering, Penn State College, rec-
ognized as a foremost engineering
educator and an authority on techni-
cal educatiort, is to give the com-
mencement address. Dean Walter
Brooking will present the classes, and
President R. G. LeTourneau is to pre-
sent the diplomas.
Dr. W. B. White, president, Baylor
University, is to deliver the baccalau-
reate sermon at 11 a.m. Sunday, June
13, at First Baptist Church, Long-
view. LeTourneau Tech chorus will
sing.LeTOURNEAU
TECH'SDonald M. Taylor, Editor
Published monthly by LeTourneau Technical Insti-
tute of Texas at Longview, Texas, a regularly
incorporated institution of learning.
Entered as Second Class Matter January 10, 1947
at the Post Office at Longview, Texas, under the
Act of August 24, 1912.
NOW will be sent without charge upon written
request to The Editor, LeTourneau Tech's NOW,
P. 0. Box 2307, Longview, Texas.
.Behold NOW. is the accepted time: behold NOW
is the day of Solvoion."-2 Corinthians 6:2.
3R. G. LeTourneau's July Calendar
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LeTourneau Technical Institute. LeTourneau Tech's NOW, Volume 2, Number 6, June 1, 1948, periodical, June 10, 1948; Longview, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1526573/m1/3/?q=%22Education+-+Colleges+and+Universities+-+LeTourneau+University%22: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting LeTourneau University Margaret Estes Library.