SCIENTISTS: U.S. CAN'T GET ENOUGH

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: April 2, 1956
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,APP 2 1956
CPYRGHT
ee V m(
which he r `lifietd. in- Q.
speecFtoii oasd fiSE}'; `i4'the
preface to' a study prepared by
the congressional legislative ref-
erenbe` service. ga_d~,e itt his re-
qn,`s t ryh'tud'y 'iQAS(-ptrinted ,iii
pamphlet ",dorm by the Joint .Com-.
button military age, it would be a
grave threat to this nation's de-
fenses if the lussiarls should turn
out more se e tists than we.
at .alhrm bell was rung on
Capitol Hill last weed by Rep. Mel-
viii Price, (D-111); chairman of the
subcommittee bh research and de-
velopment of the Joint Congressio.
na` Committee on Atomic Energy.
''We are Scal'cely"even with the
soffit Union as regards numbers
of 'engineers and have only a slight
in"'humbers of scientists,"
declared. "From here on, the
ans~show promise of widen-
)as. many college-trained specialists
engineering and'science as we
any as we."
I sit ;last week, It spells, out ? in
g
htening detail the arithmetic of
f
the situation. - ~~
For instance, it shows that:
The United States now has be-,
tween 500,000 and 535,000 graduate
engineers and between 210,a0b and
,225,000 graduate scientists.
According to latest estimates,
this gives us an edge- over the
Russians at the moment whether
you count the Russian total at
700,000 engineers and scientists or
add in 190,000 agricultural special-
ists to give them a grand total
of 890,000.
Can't Get
But? the future is black if the
estimated tffl t the Soviets will
cording to Dr. Clifford'C. Fur
assistant secretary of defense
in `chal'ge of research and develop-
ment.
He listed them as follows in se-
cret testimony made in February
before the House subcommittee on
appropriations and just released.
1;" 'Our difficulties began during
World War II when as a matter
of national poligy the graduate
work in the universities was es-
against going in` for science a
engineering on the grounds th t
they wouldn't,be able torind jot
when they got out.
The advice was based on variQL k,
surveys all of which co iciuded th
there Would beanbe icess of scfe ,
tists ad$ engineers within 10 year
thThi thinkin was sound fro
pom ,wf the' 1930s, Bu"
di d t and fpate'the vastly'-
bf sderifs`, " interested f thl
"gtlic 'buck and tfte shit touch.'.
aci scie$i 'because- It` calls fo
hard ''0r'
..There,is'a great shortage o
teachers; brought on by the Io
salary s,offered teachers compare
to, t r *11 sa arses available f
ind try.
Wh
at can we do about the situa
tion?
CPYRGHT
Rte." Price Is ea:lling for s
"crash pram" to increase swift.
k,ly and steadily he number of adel
quately trained scientists and en~
gineers.
He *aiits fo_ ppropriat federal
funds to fexpan? the science 'de
partments and engineering. schooh
of tife universities-apj, o providt
scholarslupa for bright young higI
school graduates . willing to enter
these fields.
Tc tlloae, iyha_ would,criticizpt'thi
ppopos1s raising the 'contrsive
sial question of federal ail
schools, Price replies:
"Since it is a constitutional-10
eral function to provide fof r
common defense, federal spOd
is proper to provide enough w
trained engineers and scien
sustain our security in an
great scientific. break-throi
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