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Parade of science. Man's condition in the years to come, human life and this atomic age depends largely on the achievements men make today. Upon the foundations being laid by modern scientists will rest the civilization, the joys and comforts of tomorrow.

Every day in every land, resolute men of science bend their efforts to new discoveries, new truths, and new applications of the knowledge man has already gained. The day by day accounts of their achievement are windows through which we may see a part of the future of being born.

Hooray! Arb Science! An office of science within the State Department has been proposed. Our State Department has proposed that the government assemble some of America's outstanding scientists in a Federal Science Office, whose representatives would be attached to our diplomatic staffs in thirteen world capitals as well as the occupation forces in Germany and Japan.

The recommendation was made by a special consultant to the State Department, Dr. Lloyd Berkner, who's been working since last October on a survey of what he calls the State Department's Responsibilities in International Science. He believes that the formation of a science office will encourage the free international exchange of scientific information, which is vital to the continued progress of science. It's a move which some circles regard as an

answer to criticism by many eminent scientists that the government is, in effect, cutting off its nose despite its face, damming up the flow of technical knowledge in the interest of military security and thus slowing down scientific progress. At present, from three to five years sometimes he lapsed between the time that a scientific development is

announced overseas and the time it becomes known in this country. The science office, as Dr. Birkner envisions it, would be headed by one of the nation's leading scientists whose staff would consist of a deputy science advisor and three scientists representing the physical, biological and engineering fields.