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Show ' Democrats Name Committee To Study Science Matters The appointment of a 17-mem-ber Advisory Committee on Science Sci-ence and Technology to work with the Democratic Advisory Council was announced this week by Paul M. Butler, chairman chair-man of the Democratic National Committee and of the Council. The chairman of the new committee com-mittee is Dr. Ernest C. Pollard, chairman of the Biophysics De-, De-, partment, Yale University. The committee is composed of 17 outstanding American scientists, including two Nobel prize winners, win-ners, covering the following fields: physics, genetics, botany, anatomy, biophysics, zoology, geochemistry, engineering, and geography. The committee also includes member who have special spe-cial competence and experience in the relation of science to modern mod-ern warfare. J In announcing the formation of the committee, Mr. Butler remarked: re-marked: , "The Democratic Advisory ! Council authorized this committee commit-tee because it recognizes that science and technology should play an enormous role in the formulation of virtually all as-i as-i pects of government policy rang- ing from national defense and I foreign affairs to our economic 1 and physical well being. I "Our party believes that our X recommendations concerning ad- : ministrative actions must be ar- ' rived at with full knowledge of the scientfic and technological aspects of the problems which confront us. "The Council feels that the scientific community has not been consulted sufficiencly on national policies in the past six years and has been listened to even less. We want Democratic "policies to be a sound as possible from the technological point of view." : The new committee will work yl closely with the parallel Advis- ory committees on Foreign and Economic Policy and with the I Council's Advisory Committees in other areas as well, f Mr. Butler expressed great sat- isfaction with the calibre of the ;! membership of the new commit- tee and with the willingness of I the individual members to serve. I Mr. Butler said, "This is the r most distinguished committee of If its kind ever formed." He point-led point-led out that it is planned to en-J en-J large the committee to a total membership of 25 to 30. 'I Dr. Pollard, the committee chairman, has spent most of his scientific career at Yale University Uni-versity working on nuclear phys-ics phys-ics and more recently on biochemistry, bio-chemistry, specializing in ionizing ion-izing radiation and viruses. He was educated in Cambridge and is the author of "Applied Nuclear Nu-clear Physics," with W. L. Davidson; Da-vidson; "Microwoves and Radar Electronics," with J. M. Sturte-vant. Sturte-vant. He is chairman of the biophysics bio-physics department at Yale Uni-I Uni-I (Continued on page 8) Democrats Name Committee To Study Science Matters tion. 10. Analyses of deficiencies in financial or facility support of research programs in the U.S. 11. Make projections to forecast fore-cast the impact of technology on our society; anticipation of problems prob-lems before present trends make solutions impossible. 12. Appraisal of the adequacy of the U. S. National effort in space research. 13. Projections of the impact of automation techniques upon the future., 14. Recommendations concerning concern-ing science in relation to education. (Continued from Page 1) versity and president elect of the Radiation Research Society and the Biophysical Society. Dr. Pollard pointed out that, "It is not intended that the new committee prepare or issue public pub-lic statements for purely political politi-cal purposes. The Democratic Advisory Council and the members mem-bers of our committee recognize that scientific and technological facts should not be the property of any political party. At the same time, we are agreed that we muset do everything possible to secure the most authoritatire advice in these areas to assisj in sound policy formation." Dr. Pollard said that a small organizing meeting of the committee, com-mittee, held in January of this year, developed general agreement agree-ment of the following tentative and partial agenda for future work of the committee. 1. The relation of science to national na-tional defense policy. 2. Formation of an adequate national defense policy. 3. Formulation i of legislation to promote the free exchange of non secret data between nations. 4. Steps to permit freer communication com-munication between U. S. and foreign scientists and engineers; encouragement of international conferences in the U.S.A. 5. Scienific and technical aspects as-pects of foreign development programs and foreign aid. 6. Technical aspects of disarmament; dis-armament; feasibility of detection detec-tion of nuclear and missile tests. 7. Evaluation of local and global glob-al health hazards resulting from civilian and military uses of atomic energy. 8. Conservation of natural re- sources including strategic minerals, min-erals, fossil fuels, economically useful ores; research required for development of new technologies tech-nologies for the future. 9. Research in medical science for the welfare of upper age groups which form an increasing increas-ing fraction of the U. S. popula- |