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Dr. Compton has always stressed the opportunities and obligations for scientifically trained men to render public service, and he himself has made a generous contribution of time to public service. Back in his Princeton days, during the last war, he served with the United States Signal Corps where he was engaged in the develop- ment of submarine detecting devices. The Armistice in 191 8 found him in Paris where he had been appointed Associate Scientific Attache to the United States Embassy. With the approach of the present war, long before the danger signals were generally recognized, Dr. Comp- ton was among the first public figures of importance to call attention to the growing dangers of a critical situa- tion. Again and again in public addresses, he sought to arouse the public to vigilance and preparation, and he was among the first to point out the vital contributions which science could make to national defense. More than a year before the outbreak of hostilities, he began directing the research energies of M.I. T. to war problems, with the result that Technology has become a great center for war research. Its temporary budget now totals $40,000,000 and its personnel is over five times the peacetime total of staff and employees. All this has only been possible by wise and farseeing administrative decisions, sometimes risky, but which have proved in the long run of notable importance to the war effort. Dr. Compton has been a member of the National Defense Research Committee since its establishment in 1 940, and since 1 943 he has been Chief of the Office of Field Service of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. His war activi- ties have also included membership on the Baruch Rubber Committee in 1942. His most recent assignment is that of Chairman of the Research Bureau for National Security, a long-range post-war agency established in February 1945 to organize and administer a Ibrward-looking pro- gram of research in scientific matters pertaining to national security. . The full story of his war activities will of course have to wait unti the end of the war, but they have been undouljtcdly aljsorbing and have sometimes carried Dr. Compton far afield. BARUCH RUBBER COMMITTEE Dr. Conant, Mr. Baruch, Dr. Compton A phase oj Technology Research
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Thus, in 1943, he was Chairman of an important mission to England, and during the same year he made a 28,000 mile inspection trip which took him to the headquarters of General McArthur in Australia and to the New Guinea fighting zone to study the use of scientific devices under active ser- vice conditions in the Southwestern Pacific. As everyone knows, Dr. Compton comes from a family with very deep academic roots. His father. Dr. Elias Compton, was one of the great teachers of his time in the College of Wooster where for many years he was Professor of Philosophy and Dean. I sometimes think that our Dr. Compton must inherit from his father the same broad hum- anistic interests and a singular capacity as a coun- sellor to analyze and suggest solutions for the puzzling problems of other people. Something, Compton on a war mission to the Pacific Technology s service flag
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