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Our next witness is Dr. William H. Drew, associate clean of the 

 University of New Hampshire Graduate School. We have tried to 

 give as broad a degree of coverage as possible to this hearing. We 

 have representatives from Massachusetts, from Connecticut, and we 

 have television from Maine. All the States in New England will be 

 represented one way or the other. 



STATEMENT OF DR. WILLIAM H. DEEW, ASSOCIATE DEAN OF THE 

 GRADUATE SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 



Dr. Drew. Senator Pell, I bring you greeting from our 17 miles of 

 shore front in New Hampshire. 



Seriously speaking now as recording the testimony already given 

 I want to add that as recorded in the proceedings of the "Conference 

 on the Concept of a Sea Grant University," held at Newport, here in 

 Rhode Island, last fall, we at the University of New Hampshire 

 strongly favor the sea grant college idea as outlined in Senate bill 

 2439. There is a vast variety and amount of resources in the sea that 

 are available on a first-come, first-served basis. These sources can 

 'change the fate of New Hampshire, the United States, and of civiliza- 

 tion itself. For our country not to be in the forefront in developing 

 practical means of exploiting these resources is unthinkable. The 

 mere fact that we, at the moment, are not facing starvation without 

 food resources from the sea, is not an adequate reason to allow a lag in 

 developing marine technology. Increasing the marine expertise of the 

 United States will undoubtedly be important to the betterment of 

 mankind and to the economic and technical security of the Nation. 

 There is little doubt that the next generation will see vast improve- 

 ments in man's ability to survive in and to control the forces at work 

 on the surface and within the depths of the seas. Dean Spilhaus and 

 others have specified the potentials of this new era far better than I 

 could hope to do. 



As a product of the land grant college and one who has been closely 

 associated with several colleges of agriculture, I can, however, state 

 my conviction that the land-grant concept is an excellent type of 

 framework within which our scientific manpower can be placed in 

 order to provide the research, the technical application, and the edu- 

 cational and service needs of the country in the marine areas. 



The undeniable fact that we lead the world in the human efficiency 

 of our food production units is one kind of evidence that the land grant 

 college system has worked well for American agriculture. The United 

 States is currently producing an abundance of food and fiber with 

 considerably less than 10 percent of our total working force, while 

 the Soviet Union requires over 40 percent of its labor force to produce 

 somewhat limited supplies of food for its population. Although part 

 of this striking difference can be attributed to the political and eco- 

 nomic organization of the Russian farm units, it is the efficiency and 

 the teclinical means available to the American farmer that loom most 

 important. When Mr. Khrushchev came to the United States, it was 

 our farms and farming methods that most excited his interest. One of 

 our biggest current contributions to the underdeveloped nations of the 

 world is that of providing them with technical know-how in agricul- 

 ture. On the other side of the coin, it is quite evident that the Soviet 

 Union does not covet the American fishery, nor are foreign countries 



