SECRETARY'S OFFICE Dues Anyone who pays bills knows that almost everything costs more today than formerly. For some years, infla tion has been at a rate of about 3.57c annually. The ACS has been affected in exactly the same manner as every in dividual. Its income is used entirely to purchase supplies and services. The present dues of $12,00 were effective in 1950. To maintain equal purchasing power, chies should have been as shown in the following table:
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Committee on Finance, this Committee made a recommendation on the amount of dues increase which it believed proper. By the time this is printed, specific recommendation will have been made.
U.S. Government Research Reports
During the recent war the ACS ap pointed a committee to determine whether or not Chemical Abstracts should cover the plethora of wartime reports released by the Government. The committee concluded that CA Annual Dxies Adjusted for Inflation Year would not be justified in abstracting this material. Some of it was not of $12.00 1950 12.42 1951 significant value. Much of the more 12.85 1952 valuable information was being pub 13.30 1953 lished in primary journals and was be 13.77 1954 ing abstracted by CA. The indexes to 14.25 1955 Bibliography of Scientific and Indus 14.75 1956 15.27 1957 trial Reports were adequately indexing 15.S0 1958 the abstracts of the unpublished reports. 16.35 1959 Consequently CA did not abstract 16.92 1960 any of the documents on file with the Office of Technical Service (OTS) of This situation has caught u p with us. the U.S. Department of Commerce. The Society will "go broke'* unless a Over subsequent years the material more realistic attitude is adopted. The filed with the OTS has become almost Board of Directors and the Council entirely reports emanating from recognized this a year ago and studies agencies of the U.S. Government con were initiated by various bodies. cerning their research or that sponsored Last September, the Council Com by them. These 250,000 documents mittee on Local Sectional Activities made a recommendation on the needs now constitute one of the world's largest collections of nonconfidential technical of local sections for additional financ information. ing. It was based on an exhaustive Some of this material is too special study of the financial reports o£ local ized to warrant reproduction and so the sections, circulation to sections of a originals are deposited at the Library of statement based thereon, study of the Congress. However, these and all returns from a questionnaire to sections, other reports are abstracted and in discussion at a breakfast of local section Research officers, and open hearings on the dexed in U.S. Government Reports (formerly the Bibliography of subject. Reports). The Joint Board-Council Committee Scientific and Industrial The Patent Office holds that the re on Dues Increase (membership: three ports and their subsequent abstracts in directors and five representatives from Research Reports Council Standing Committees) also U.S. Government held an open meeting in September constitute legal publication. Since diey to give members an opportunity to ex meet all the requirements for coverage by CA^and some of the material is well press opinions on the broad problem. In addition, the Council Standing worth abstracting—CA now wall cover Committee on Membership Affairs held such of the reports as its editors deem an open hearing devoted solely to the suitable and necessaiy for complete subject of a dues increase. After con coverage. Thus CA strives always for R.H.B. sidering the opinions " there expressed., comprehensiveness. the recommendation from the Commit tee on Local Sectional Activities, and. financial projections from the Board
