National Security Resources Board can look in carrying out its planning responsibilities in this field.

(3) The initiation and conduct of a variety of statistical and research studies covering such factors as the character and distribution of the national supply of manpower in the various scientific fields; the potential requirements for scientific personnel in the event of mobilization; the consideration of steps which might be taken to improve the national position in shortage areas; the development of methodologies and techniques, including relationships with American science, designed to provide the most effective methods of registering scientific skills. In the administration of this project, the Office of Education will work to the fullest extent with the scientific societies and councils in the development of basic information concerning scientific manpower supply. It will collaborate with other Government agencies, including the Department of Defense, in conducting the necessary research. The National Science Foundation, recently created by the Congress, (Public Law 507, 81st Cong.) is charged with the operation of a national register of scientific and technical personnel. Much work has been done by the National Security Resources Board in determining where the Nation stands with regard to its supply of skilled scientists and technologists and the relation of that supply to the demands which might arise in the event of another emergency. This work will be continued by the Foundation.

GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

In 1946, the Congress passed a law which authorized the Administrator of the Federal Works Agency to furnish certain facilities to educational institutions engaged in the education and training of veterans. The law specified that such facilities may be supplied "where the Commissioner of Education shall find that there exists or impends an acute shortage of educational facilities, other than housing, required for persons engaged in the pursuit of courses of training or education under title II of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of

1944

Since the beginning of the program, 1,200 building projects have been approved, providing approximately 18,000,000 square feet of floor space for classrooms, laboratories, libraries, student centers, and other college facilities. The cost to the Federal Government in dismantling, transporting, and reconstructing these buildings was $78,645,035 from the beginning of the program through March 1950. Similarly, the Commissioner of Education was authorized to certify deficiencies in educational equipment resulting from the enrollment of veterans, to the Administrator of the Federal Works Agency. The Administrator then acquired available items from war surplus and transferred them to educational institutions to meet the need. Under

this procedure, institutions had received equipment having a total fair value of $124,824,118 by March 31, 1950.

Fair values of equipment transferred to the educational institutions by school years are shown in table 43. A similar breakdown by school years, for the cost of building construction is not available in the summaries prepared by the General Services Administration.

The cost of building construction and the fair value of equipment made available to educational institutions in this postwar period of 31⁄2 years are shown for the several States and Territories in table 44. Table 43.-FAIR VALUE OF EQUIPMENT FURNISHED TO EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 1946–47—1949–501

1 Data supplied by General Services Administration, Community Facilities Service, Veterans Educational Facilities Program.

Table 44.—COST TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR BUILDING CONSTRUCTION AND FAIR VALUE OF EQUIPMENT FURNISHED TO EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS FROM SEPTEMBER 1946 THROUGH MARCH 19501

1 Data supplied by General Services Administration, Community Facilities Service, Veterans Educa tional Facilities Program.

450, 219

118,283

0

0

PANAMA CANAL ZONE

A program of public education is provided by the Federal Government in the Canal Zone. The total service includes elementary and secondary education and in addition an apprentice school and two junior colleges.

Federal funds allotted for the past 9 years to these educational purposes in the Canal Zone are shown in table 45. Under the provisions of Public Law 841, approved September 26, 1950, the Panama Canal Company will be required to reimburse the Treasury as nearly as possible for the net costs of Canal Zone Government, including public education.

Table 45.-FEDERAL FUNDS ALLOTTED FOR EDUCATION IN THE CANAL ZONE, 1941-42-1949-501

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS OF OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES Reports prepared for the Hoover Commission indicated that educational services are provided by many Federal agencies and departments. Most of them have programs which are in addition to routine in-service training of their own employees.

A special effort has been made to report in this publication more Federal funds for education than have customarily been presented in this series of biennial bulletins entitled, Federal Government Funds for Education. This effort is in response to the widespread interest in the subject manifested by the rapid exhaustion of supplies of the bulletins and by the many inquiries about Federal aids for education that must be answered in correspondence. This interest implies that future publications in this series should be made as comprehensive as possible as a service to Congress and to the people. All considerations of new appropriations to education should be based upon relatively complete data regarding present assistance to the educational program.