Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1885 — Proposed Licenses for Architects. [ARTICLE]

Proposed Licenses for Architects.

A law requiring an architect to be licensed by a board of examiners might possibly, if drawn with proper care, be of benefit to the public, but it would be too much to expect of it that it would keep out the incapables, the incompetents, and the scalawags. We have a license law for lawyers, but unfortunately it has failed to prevent the admission to the bar of men who are a disgrace to the profession in every respect. We have also a license law for plumbers—a class of men only second in importance to the architects themselves—but every householder knows that it is much easier to find an ignorant or a dishonest plumber, or both combined in one, than it is to find a good one. If we are to have licensed architects, it is to be hoped that the rets alts of the law will be better. — St. Paul Pioneer-Press.