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8 A- SUNDAY. OCTOBER 20, 1363 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDEORD, OREGON Open Season Appearing on Scientists Bv JOSEPH I.. MYI.EII L'nilrd Prrss International WASHINGTON (UPl)-This seems to be the open season on scientists. They are under attack (rnm many quarters. Some of the hardest blows have come from scientists themselves. Many of the knocks have been delivered, if not with a blunt instrument, at least bluntly. For example, Dr. Phil ip H. Abelson, editor of the magazine Science, said recent ly that: "The scientific community has not responded adequately lo the high trust placed on it by the nation." No one is sugResting that the 20th century world can or wants to get along without sci ence. Science undoubtedly is here to slay. Affair Is Flagging But in Congress the love af fair between scientists and lawmakers which began with the wartime conquest of the awesome atom appears to be flagging. The House chopped the Na tional Science Foundation's budget from the $589 million asked by the administration to $323 million. At the same time, the House cut the space exploration pro gram from $5.7 billion to $5.1 billion, whittling for the first time an undertaking of the government which until this year had seemed immune to congressional criticism. The House also voted 3116 lo 0 to create a special commit tee to investigate federally fi nanced research and develop ment projects generally and specifically. The House Sci ence and Astronautics commit tee, meanwhile, will make a similar investigation. Support for Projects Support for research proj ects, including space explora tion, hit $14.9 billion for the fiscal year which started July 1. Less than a quarter of a century ago, in 1!M0, the fed eral government was spend ing only $75 million for such work. Since 1940 research and de velopment spending has dou bled every three to four years. Many congressmen, as well as others, are appalled. Scientists say most of this money is being spent on hard ware, not on science. But con gressmen and the lay public do not exactly understand the distinction which scientists make between pure research on the one hand and engineer ing development on the other. This may be because scien tists themselves have flocked in large numbers to big and costly government programs, such as atomic power develop ment and space exploration, which are concerned as much with exploiting as with creat ing knowledge. A Vocal Critic Albclson is one of the most vocal critics of the $20 billion project to land men on the moon before 1970. He is not alone. But there is more to the story than the moon proj ect. After World War II, scien tists were called upon by both Congress and the public to give expert advice on affairs in which they were not always expert and to make final judg ments on issues about which scientists themselves were di vided. It developed that scientists, too, were people. Many will remember the conflict within the scientific community over the possible effects of man kind on the small amount of radiation exposure resulting from delayed fallout spread around the world by nuclear tests. Some scientists magni fied the effects; others mini mized them. Some Things Not Polite This was confusing, not to say maddening, to the non scientists. Learned doctors denounced each other in pub lic and before congressional committees. Some of the Ihings they said about each olher were not, to say the least, polite. This same sort of confusion, this cleavage among members of the scientific elites, mani fested itself during Senate hearings on the limited nuc lear test ban treaty. One scientist said the treaty would hurt the United States. Another said it would hurt Russia. A third said it would affect both nations about the same way. 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Their in ability to close ranks among themselves rules out any such attempt. Still, scientists do seem to be different from ordinary mortals. Exaggerated notions about them have taken root in the popular mind. There are good scientists, who cre ate balms and panaceas, and there are bad scientists who invent bombs and poisons or so some people seem to be lieve. Only An Image Dacl Wolflc, publisher of Science, said recently that for many Americans the scientist "is only an image . and never a reality in the sense that the local doctor, lawyer, banker, and merchant are living realities." It is possible to revere the scientist. It is hard not to when you think of a Newton, a Planck, an Einstein, a Pauli, or a Fermi. It is also possible to despise him. Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, president of the Center for the Study of Democratic In stitutions, does not believe the scientist has much lo offer toward solution of man's moral and intellectual prob lems. Hutchins, former presi dent of the University of Chi cago, says: "A scientist has a limited education, lie labors on the topic of his dissertation, wins Ihe Nobel Prize by Ihe time he is 85, and suddenly has nolhing to do . . . he has no alternative but lo spend the rest of his life making a nuis ance of himself." Series of Papers The center which Hutchins heads recently published a series of papers charging that "a majority of American scientists, especially those connected with the arms pro gram, are not acting in the host interests of a free so ciety." Another person who long since has disabused himself of the notion that scientific enterprise will save Ihe world is David E. Lilienthal. Ulien thal, Ihe first chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy com mission, has worked much of his life with scientists. In a just published hook, he accused them in effect of get ting too big for their breeches. They involve themselves as experts in "non-scientific areas of human affairs." Because he Invented the A homh, the scientist "seemed to take on some of the at tributes of his world-shaking crcalion; there was. in the public mind," I.ilienlhal said, "something unearthly, some thing superhuman, something uncanny about him." Scientist Contused And with burgeoning of vast new government enterprises, Lilienlhal said, the scientist got "confused with bureau cratic impulse to justify ex penditure and see that next year's budget is higher than 'last's." "The space program hap pens al the moment," Lilien thal said, "to be the most ex tensive illustration of what has happened lo science through its absorption into a Slim NEW 11964 If 17? ,n. s. ,i. urnll riinqonal PORTABLE TV Get the World's Finest Performing Portable Television Trans- f ' .-,fteo " Chassis1 8 QUALITY PERFORM FEATURES Pik Piclurt Control Ciclusivl Automatic "f ring. lock" Circuit High Gain 1-Stago ir Amplifier "Gafad Beam" Sound System Ztnilh Quality Sound. 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If the $20 billion Apollo lunar landing program is vul nerable, how much more open to attack is a funny sounding $14,000 science foundation pro ject to study "information contained in echoes." The liny science foundation project is basic science, aimed solely at acquiring knowledge. But it just might help the blind to see with sound stead of light. Nevertheless projects like this are bound to suffer in the gathering of fensive against the bigger and costlier programs. Shocked at Sneers Dr. Abelson, who hits often at Apollo, was shocked by congressional sneers at scien tifically pure activities cost ing only a fraction of the total federal research and develop ment budget. Wolfle has said that perhaps it isn't worthwhile to try to change the public "image of the scientist." It is science, not the scientist, that is im portant. Lilienthal also pays tribute to science. He does not deny, moreover, that scientists are people. "They have proven beyond all doubt," he said, "that they are human, and nothing more admiring could be said. They have shown us that they can be just as wise and just as foolish, just as judicious and just as ridiculous, just as clear-headed and just as bone headed, as any of us laymen can ever be." Measures to Reduce Shoplifting Listed In Police Bulletin A bulletin discussing measures i Where and when possible, that can be taken to reduce use "clerk spotters" to control losses by shoplifting has been shoplifting. distributed to Medlord mer chants by the city police depart ment, Chief Charles P. Champ lin has announced. The problem of shoplifting, al ways serious, becomes particu larly acute during the Christ mas shopping season, Chief Champlin noted. But he advised that if a few simple precautions are observed Avoid display of extra value merchandise in the immediate vicinity of exits where thieves can "snatch and run." Guard against "disturb ances" among customers. They may be a "cover" for thefts. Prohibit use of stock room entrance by the public. The bulletin also recommends by merchants, shoplifting can be ; tnat a! incidents be reported I more effectively controlled and kept to a minimum. Among the suggestions in the bulletin are the following: Maintain an adequate sales force during rush periods, es pecially during lunch and din ner hours, so as not to invite shoplifting. Watch for Loiterers Watch out for loiterers, par ticularly those with large empty bags. If suspicious, call the police. promptly to police, since the el. ement of time can often be cru cial in the successful handling of shoplifting cases, Chief Champlin said. LAW LPIIKLD PORTLAND (UP1) A new law requiring public dental tech nichians who repair and replace dentures to work under super vision of licensed dentists was upheld today by Circuit Judge pro-tern Barrett H. Goldstein. 3 tl ri. C. 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