ready to cooperate with the Armed 

 Forces histitute along these Hnes, if 

 requested by the Army, by sending 

 overseas instructors in technical and 

 scientific subjects — instructors, who, 

 fresh from war research, would be 

 up-to-date. Technical branches of 

 business and industry might well do 

 the same. 



4. The Place of the GI Bill of 

 Rights in Ameliorating Scientific 

 and Technological Deficits 



Public Law 346, Sexenty-eighth 

 Congress, commonly known as the 

 Gl Bill of Rights, provides for the 

 education of veterans of this war un- 

 der certain conditions, at the expense 

 of the Federal Government. Among 

 the returning soldiers and sailors will 

 be many with marked scientific talent 

 which should be developed through 

 further education, for the national 

 good. However, the 1 year of edu- 

 cation which the law provides for 

 essentially all veterans clearly will not 

 be enouph to train a scientist nor in 

 most instances to complete training 

 begun prior to entry into the armed 

 forces. The law makes the amount 

 of education beyond 1 year at Gov- 

 ernment expense depend on length 

 of service rather than on ability to 

 profit from the education. It would 

 seem to us that our mandate to set up 

 an effecti\'e plan for discovering and 

 developing scientific talent must take 

 into account the scientific potentiali- 

 ties among the 10,000,000 young 

 Americans now in the armed forces. 

 Accordingly, it is recommended that: 



(a) a special advisory committee of 

 scientists be appointed to assist the 

 administrators of the law to discover 

 and direct the counseling of those 

 veterans who have marked scientific 

 talent; 



(h) an adequate advising and coun- 



seling service be established in each 

 State or region; and 



(c) a complete scientific education 

 at Government expense be provided 

 for a group selected on the basis of 

 the educational record of the first 

 Near (assured to all veterans) and 

 such other tests as may be neces- 

 sary — the length of this education to 

 be determined, on the merits of each 

 case, b)' the special adxisory com- 

 mittee. 



Under the suggested plans inter- 

 ested veterans while studying science 

 for the first year, during which as 

 veterans they are entitled to support 

 from the Federal Government, would 

 submit their records and take certain 

 tests. Outstanding men and women 

 of scientific talent would be se- 

 lected — and we recommend a selec- 

 tive process as rigorous as that pro- 

 vided under our main plan — and be 

 provided with funds at the rate pre- 

 vailing in the GI Bill of Rights for 

 completion of college courses in 

 science, and also for graduate train- 

 ing to those possessing very high 

 abilities. 



We are informed that to some ex- 

 tent the proposals herein outlined 

 could be put into effect under the 

 present law by administrative action, 

 and we venture to recommend such 

 action to the extent allowable. We 

 believe, however, that it would be 

 advisable, in addition, to have new 

 legislation authorizing the adminis- 

 trators of the law to select, as an 

 estimate, possibly 5,000 veterans of 

 each age group (i. e., those born in 

 a given calendar year) for scientific 

 education at the expense of the Fed- 

 eral Government (at the rates speci- 

 fied in present laws) irrespective of 

 the length of their military service 

 and up to a total of 6 years. Here, 

 we think it sounder to recommend 



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