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Evening star., 1962-07-08
BUT MAIN JOB IS TO AID FORCES
BY Benz PRICE
AP NeWsfeatures Writer


The new So billion Defense
Supply Agency CDSA is now
nearing full operation.
And that may turn out to be
the best news taxpayers have had
in years.
This almost ignored agency Is
now eight months old and has
16,500 employees. Ultimately, it
will have $4,000.
Its job is to supply the Army.
Navy, Air Force and Marines with
the items they use in common
and to do it efficiently and ef-
fectively.
In the process, 1t hopes to lop
many millions annually from the
current procurement costs Of the
services millions that critics of
the military say has been spent
through sheer managerial inef-
ficiency and service parochialism.
The Secretary Probed 1t Through
Taxpayers have been complain
ing about the ineptness of mill
tary procurement clear back to
the days of George Washington.
Nobody has the foggiest notion of
how many long-forgotten studies
have been made on ways and
means to improve military supply
services.
Last year Defense Secretary
Robert s. Mcnamara ordered an
other study. The final report ap-
parently outraged his sense of
tidiness for on August 81 he an
nounced the Defense Supply
Agency would come into being on
October /.
For all practical purposes. the
Defense Secretary abolished some
of the procurement and supply
operations of the armed services
and transferred them to DSA.
Mr.. Mcnamara brought a high
degree of Capitalization to the
chaotic procurement field by es-
tablishing the agency outside any
military service and directly under
his office.
Military procurement has, in
the past, made some businessmen
extremely sensitive to individual
service viewpoints and some have
constituted a sort Of lobby on
behalf of more and faster spend
ing through larger budgets.
General Topped in Korea
Whether Mr.. Mcnamara and
the Defense Secretaries who fol-
low him can keep partisan poll
tics and favoritism out Of this
sensitive area of military procure
ment remains to be seen.
To head this new empire Mr..
Mcnamara picked 1t. Gen. An
drew T. McNamara, an affable
fisherman and a high-scoring
golfer Goo plus), back from
Korea, where he was serving as
deputy commanding general of
the 9th Army. The two McNa-
maras are not related.
1t was q yank for Gen. Nc
Namara, man with a distin-
guished combat record in World
War II though he was supposed
to be a rear-echelon supply type.
The general a 57-vear-old native
of East Providence, r. l., had
Evening star., 1962-07-08
Defense Supply Agency Sees Savings

BY cutting paperwork and CEN
tralizing headquarters-type activ-
tiles, Gen. Mcnamara figures he
can operate his Washington Of
flee with TAO people. The services
used 1,460, according to DSA
count. Over all. he figures, he can
cut 5000 people from the payroll
maintained by the armed services.
Gen. Mcnamara believes in
competitive bidding. 81 want COM
petitive bidding on every item in
the inventory I can get," he said
in an interview.
Every year DSA will have some
thing like $3.50 billion worth of
used or obsolescent equipment to
dispose Of as surplus. In the past
the Government has been lucky
to obtain a return of 10 cents
on the dollar Of purchase price.
Some Selected ExompIes .
By restoring competitive bidding
to the acquisition of jet fuel In
Japan, DSA achieved a reduction
OF $403,264
At Portland, Greg, the DSA po-
litely informed the owner of Pc
troleum storage tanks that he was
charging too much, that if he
didn't come down the Government
would begin looking for someone
interested in building competitive
facilities. =
Storage costs dropped immedis
ately $7,125 under the old con-
tract price of $4,000.
BY consolidating the Army and
Marine Corps textile plants in
Philadelphia and operating only q
single plant at capacity, DSh
achieved a substantial saving on
overhead alone. ~
By standardizing combat boots
for men and women's exercise
clothing, Gen. Mcnamara figures
he saved STA million q year. 81.
And so it has gone. DSA has
saved a thousand dollars here, q
hundred thousand there and sew
eral million in couple of places.
1t adds up.
Scattered Inventory
At the moment Gen. Mcnamara
has his inventory scattered
through "a warehouses, once the
domain of the services. He figures
a warehouse must be used to
per cent of capacity at all times
If it is to be claSsed as efficient.
Some of the "a are not only far
distant from the consumers, but
operate at only SO per cent Of
capacity.
II think" he said, that the
number may shrink drastically."
The general admits that the
economy angle is simple q by
product of improved efficiency,
that his job isn't really so much
to save money for the sake Of
saving money, though that is nice,
too, but to make the services more
effective.
Evening star., 1962-07-08
THE NATIONAL SCENE

ment. With only New York's Gov.
Rockefeller not voting, they asked
Congress to propose an amend
ment to permit voluntary prayer
in public schools.
In view of the division on most
other controversial subjects, this
was rather remarkable resolu-
ton. 1t was their reply to a
Supreme Court decision outlawing
in New York State schools a prayer
compounded by. the board Of
regents.
The almost unanimous action
was intended to lend weight to
several moves already begun in
Congress to initiate a national
referendum on constitutional guar
antees for non-sectarian. volun-
tary religious obServances in
claSSrOomS.
Evening star., 1962-07-08

been in Korea only three months
and was just settling down to life
among the rice paddles with his
wife and mother-in-law when the
summons came.
Snce he reported for duty,
Gen. Mcnamara has worked 12-
hour day-from z am. to pm,
often six days a week.
The DSA now has charge of
procuring food, clothing, medical
supplies, petroleum products, con-
struction materials, industrial
electronic and automotive supplies
for all the services.
Will Not Purchase Arms
Further, it is charged with pro-
viding transportation for all sup
plies from where they happen to
be to where the services need
them. In addition, DSA is now
charged with handling the sales
Of all goods declared surplus.
DSA will not undertake weap-
ons procurement. That will be left
to the ordnance experts of the
services. All research and devel-
opment will be left to the services.
too.
To supply his customers. Gen.
Mcnamara has a revolving stock
fund Of So billion a year. He plans
to sell about SO billion worth Of
goods to the services and buy a
like amount from producers.
In essence, DSA operates q
wholesale warehouse system
which delivers to the service
operated retail outlets. To keep
Evening star., 1962-07-08
Critical Words

He had hot words for an Eisen-
hover administration that ran
counter to the traditional princi-
Piles of the Republican party" and
said it was unthinkable that the
same people should be given an
other opportunity to lead us down
the path to political destruction"
Also cool to the new organiza-
tions were the inseparable minority
leaders. Senator Dirksen and Rep
resentative Halleck. Perhaps they
were not convinced by assurances
that the groups, unlike the ILL
fated Democratic Advisory Coun-
Gil, would have no say-so on policy
matters.
Mr.. Eisenhower felt impelled to
reply to Senator Goldwater's at
tack, calling the moves "the most
progressive steps the party has
taken in many years"
Whereupon the Senator, going
half way with the olive branch,
declared he had no quarrel with
the conference-it was the Citi-
zens' Committee on which he had
not been consulted. that miffed
him.
Evening star., 1962-07-08

for dissident Democrats and in
dependents.
Boosting Of the party Of busi-
ness" tag tied to Republicans,
Mr.. Eisenhower said businessmen
should have learned from the Ken
nedy administration they must
make politics their first business.
Eyeing potential election gains
next November. former Vice Presi-
dent Nixon Tin person. and Gov.
Rockefeller of New York and
George Romney of Michigan (by
letter. added their Endorsements.
The rosy hue prevailed while
1t was explained the conference
will have a small Washington
staff, financed by a newly formed
National Republican Citizens Com
mittee made up of old Citizens
for Eisenhower-Nixon and similar
groups.
This triggered something in the
brain of staunch Senator named
Barry Goldwater. The Arizonan,
who wasn't IN the Eisenhower
tepee that day, wrote National
Chairman William E. Miller:
This party needs workers in the
main tent, not in the side show"
Evening star., 1962-07-08

ment scared more than ! million
to an all-time record sos million.
unemployment also increased
slightly. largely due to teen-age
summer job hunters.
Fate of Mr.. Kennedy's tax bill
as it now reads is tenuous at best
because of growing disenchant-
ment with the provision to with
hold 20 per cent interest on divi-
dends and interest income. The
administration would like to save
the feature Of a 7 per cent in
vestment credit to businessmen,
but this may not be possible with
out the offsetting Withholding
feature.
Evening star., 1962-07-08
By JOHN J. KARCH
Contributing Writer

More than 1000 delegates,
guests, and observers from 100
countries will participate in the
coming week in a gigantic propa-
ganda show staged by the Soviet
Union.
The World Congress for Dis
armament and Peace opens to-
morrow in Moscow and will con-
tinue through July IA. Prime
Minister Nikita Khrushchev will
outline the Soviet policy on gen
eral and complete disarmament"
to the Congress.
Other themes likely to receive
attention are German mill
tarism," Berlin, Western military
bases, colonialism, the Common
Market, and peaceful coexistence."
The Congress is sponsored by
the World Peace Council (WPC).
The WPC was formed at the
Second World Peace Congress, held
in Warsaw, Poland, in November,
1850. Moscow considers the council
as the expression of the de-
termination Of the peoples to take
into their hands the struggle for
peace"
A Super Front on Peoce
The WPC is a Communist-front
organization-but a "superfront"
in the peace" campaigns-which
called the congress, apparently to
influence the non-Communist
world with Soviet peaceful" in
tentions. This could make it more
convenient for international COM
munism to advance its policy Of
subversion, particularly in the
newly emerging nations.
The peace" programs of inter-
national communism were espe-
cially vigorous during the late
l940s and early 1950s. Recall the
Stockholm Peace Appeal of 1850,
launched three months before the
outbreak Of Communist armed ag-
gression against South Korea; the
Warsaw Appeal Q950-D which
agitated for a five-power con-
ference; the Vienna Appeal Q955)
which campaigned against atomic
weapons. and the Helsinki Appeal
Q955) which supported the Soviet
Union on a wide range of topics,
including the summit" meeting.
This congress was called after
the Soviet Union broke the
moratorium on the test ban last
year. 1t is being held while the
disarmament negotiations are pro-
ceeding at Geneva, now recessed
but scheduled to resume July l6.
See 1862 Disarmament Year
Lenin called such mass organ
ization as the WPC transmission
belts" John Bernal, chairman of
the Executive Committee of the
WPC. in an appeal last January
for support, said new ways must
be found to unite mankind in
action to Danish nuclear weapons
from the world. The Britisher
added that 1862 can be the year
when the governments, urged for
ward by their peoples, reach
agreements on disarmament.
At the congress, the Communist
leaders will in effect be appealing
to the people over the heads Of
Evening star., 1962-07-08
Governors:
ForProyer

Fifty Governors lab0red
through their annual conference
last week with results that will
be not long remembered when
men speak of craftsmanship and
achievement.
Just before the 54th annual
Governors Conference ended in an
undignified furry of filibuster and
fuming, the delegates came within
one abstention of perfect agree
Evening star., 1962-07-08
No Amendment Action

Gov. Rockefeller refrained from
voting after offering a substitute
calling for a years study Of the
courts decision before the Cover
nors act.
(After a Nationwide survey,
the Wall Street journal said on
Friday it now appeared unlikely
that either of two proposed con-
stitutional amendments in Con-
greSs would be submitted to the
States this year. The sentiment
now is to wait for any further
Supreme Court decisions that may
either broaden or isolate the New
Evening star., 1962-07-08
Soviet Drums Beotinq
Disarmament ottoo,

their governments, including those
meeting seriously in Geneva to
reach an accord on disarmament.
Ivor Montagu, British WPC
Bureau member, wrote in the May
issue of the Communist Labour
Monthly:
1T cannot be doubted that
from it (congreSs) will come a
tremendous reinforcement in en-
ergy. understanding and purpose
to all the peace movements, both
those within and outside the
movement represented by the
World Peace Council" .
The Appeal to Geneva PorIey
According to the Soviet news
agency Tass, disarmament Is the
most important problem Of our
time. That the congress will sup
port the Soviet line on disarm-
ament is indisputable. This is pre-
cisely the reason the congress La
being convened. -
Moscow expects $50 participants
from the United States, ITO from
Brazil, more than 100 each from
France, Japan and India, almost
100 from Great Britain, including
"a personal representative" of
Bertrand Russell, 10 from West
Germany, 20 each from Australia
and Sweden, 80 from Communist
China.
According to Tass the United
States group will include in
dustrialist Cyrus Eaton, artist
Rockwell Kent, and lawyer and
the 1852 Progressive Party presi-
dental candidate Vincent Hal
Imam.
Tass calls the congress "the
most representative" assembly of
peace champions" ever held. The
1000 participants include political
leaders, writer's and artists, scien-
lists, leaders Of mass movements
and organizations, clergymen,
workers, peasants, students, busi-.
neSsmen.
st-Coneress Plons -
Indications are that the propa-
ganda appeals will continue to
receive high priority after the
congress. The Director of the
Soviet Institute of World Eco
nomics and International Rela-
tions, A. Arzumanian, suggested
in an article in the Kommunist
November 4, 1862 published in
Moscow that the WPC should have
its own information center, radio
station, and a staff Of corre=
spondents. -
The delegates may be expected
to support overwhelmingly the
Soviet policy and reflect a strong
anti-WeStern attitude at the COM
gress. World tension exists and
Moscow may well wish to perpet-
uate it. In addition to the anti
Western propaganda efforts al
ready stated, Moscow may feel
compelled to divert attention from
the widespread and acutely serious
economic difficulties throughout
the Communist domain.
The Western governments have
taken the proper attitude toward
the congress. They have ignored
it. viewing it precisely for what it
is-a major propaganda maneuver.
Evening star., 1962-07-08
y. S. Backing Is Key
To U. N. Foreign Aid

ical or military strings, to coun-
tries where people earn less than
the equivalent Of a loaf of bread
a day.
No U. N. Aid to Reds
There are 100 such countries
and territories in the free world.
The people in them comprise
roughly two out of every three
persons alive, outside the Com
munist empire. Conditions in Red
China, North Wet Nam, North
Korea and parts Of the Soviet
Union are as bad or worse, but
the U. N. does not supply any aid
there.
United States economic aid does
not yet amount to / per cent of
the gross national product. Using
a strict definition of aid" few
other countries have reached that
point, either.
U. N. experts estimate that If
all industrialized countries did
put aside one dollar out Of every
100 for this purpose:
Q Exports from rich countries to
poor ones would go up from $164
billion for the decade 1950-1960
to $3.50 billion for the period
1960-1970 - more than doubling
the total.
. BY 1870, the United States
alone would be selling poor coun-
tries $8.5 billion more every year
than it sold in 1860.
. This would create at least /
million new jobs in United States
export industries.
0 1t would make the difference
between hope and despair for
more than / billion human beings,
whose explosive demand for a
better life could plunge the world
into turmoil and produce dozens
of new Cubas if it is not met.
Paul Hoffmon's Ideo
Paul G. Hoffman, managing di-
rector of the U. N. Special Fund,
originated the idea of the Devel-
opment Decade. President Ken
nedy picked it up more than a
year later. Mr.. Hoffman puts the
case for it this way:
Foreign aid is not charity; 1t
is sound business management in
exactly the same sense as the
more familiar forms of product
or market development.
Morally we can't escape con-
Germ; politically the seething un-
rest in the underdeveloped world
demands 1t; economically, we will
gain from it. The bluntest and
most accurate answer to why we
should be concerned is that we
must be-"
But foreign aid bills often are
the first to be cut and the last
to be passed in Congress. In many
other industrialized countries,
politicians drag their heels even
harder.
This is what Mr.. Stevenson will
be up against tomorrow. He will
have to persuade the underdevel-
oped world that the United States
really means what it says when
it talks about a U. N. Decade
of Development. 1t will not be
easy.
Evening star., 1962-07-08
Continued From Page D-1

smaller cuts in lower brackets.
Corporate rates would drop from
SO to a per cent.
Evening star., 1962-07-08
BY WILLIAM r. FRYE

GENEVA. - Adlai E. Stevenson
Is due to make tomorrow what
much of the world will regard as
one of the most important
speeches of his career.
He is slated to tell the United
Nations Economic and Social
Council CECOSOC) here what the
United States will do to help get
the U. N. Development Decade off
the ground.
The Development Decade is not
much more than high-sounding
phrase to many well-fed people
in the industrialized world. But
for the other 1.3 billion in the
free world who go to bed hungry
nearly every night of their lives,
1t Is q vital matter.
The plan is a co-ordinated, 10
year effort to lift from two
thirds of the world the stagger-
ing burden of poverty, ignorance,
hunger and disease.
Coils 1t Up to US.
And the United States can
make the difference between sue
cess and failure for it.
One of the standard gags at
ECOSOC meetings is that the
U. N. would get further if there
were "less echo and more sock" /"
Eloquent speeches will not feed
hungry children, or open to the
illiterate the wonder of the
printed page. or give a single
farmer new steel plow.
The U. N. is looking to Am
bassador Stevenson, therefore, for
more than just the eloquence that
has helped make him major
world figure. 1t is looking for
promise of action.
The United States has poured
out an immense amount, in abb
solute terms, for foreign aid. But
relatively, If one uses the phrase
to mean all money flowing from
rich to poor countries, the United
States has only the fifth largest
economic aid program in the
world.
Others Give Relatively More
Four other countries, France,
Britain, Belgium and Portugal,
have spent more in proportion
to their national income than has
the United States.
Some of what these countries
call foreign aid" is more di-
rectly self-serving than is Ameri-
can aid. 1t represents investments
in their own colonies, past or
present. 1t probably should not
be classified as laid" at all.
But if so, then much of what
the United States has spent has
not been "aid' either. 1t has been
either military aid-34 per cent
of American foreign aid in the
last is years has been military
or else it has been defense sup
port" both Of which in the last
analysis have been efforts to buy
military allies in the fight against
world communism.
This is not what the U. N.
means by foreign aid. The U. N,
is asking rich countries to put
aside / per cent of their national
income each year and lend it, at
low interest rates, without polit-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-31
BY Cyril Heinan

The Rockville Little Theatres
final production of the season,
Nude With Violin" had two
strikes against it even before
the curtain went up-the Civic
Center Auditorium was hot as
an oven and the play was from
the bottom drawer of Noel Cow
ard. a playwright long past his
prime.
The thin plot threaded to.
gether by the usual Coward
quips into three acts of a play
concern the trials and tribula.
tons of a late artists family
when they discover that their
husband and father was not the
illustrious artist the world
thought him to be but a COM
plete fraud. Adding fuel to the
flame is the fact that he had
not one ghost artist but whole
host of them ranging from a
jamaican religious fanatic, a
Russian lady Of sorts, an Eng.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-31
County Press
Kicks Off New
Season June Z

David Brinkley, television
and radio news personality, will
be guest speaker at the launch
ing of the Montgomery County
Press Associations 1928 sea
son.
Launching" will consist of q
banquet and dance at Kenwood
Golf and Country Club, June Z
Cocktails are at Z pm. and din
ner at 8.
Miss Bethesda, In the per.
son Of Harriet Mcmahon, and
Miss Silver Spring, otherwise
known as Anne Southworth,
also are on the program.
Titles of the two county love.
lies were gained through con.
tests sponsored recently by
their respective Junior Cham.
bers of Commerce.
Invited guests will include
county, State and Federal gov.
eminent officials.
Tickets may be obtained from
Laurette Collier, APP. 7-7700; By
ron Sedgwick, 587-6479, or VIII
liam P. Allen, OIL. 2-6118, for
$40 each.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-31

The Montgomery unity
League of Women Voters
launched its annual fund drive
this week.
'In order to meet the ever
increasing demand for Voters
Guides and to continue to fight
for equitable representation, we
are appealing to public spirited
citizens in the county for help
said Mrs. Gustave Tuckerman,
the groups finance chairman
Through the finance drive
the League hopes to add $175O
toward its adopted budget Of
$1,000 for the 1962-63 pro-
gram year." she said. adding:
Dues and contributions OF
League members and the sale
of calendars accounts for near.
ly IS percent of the budget
which makes possible a com
munity-wide program in the
field of government"
Primary purpose of the
League, a nonpartisan organiza
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-31
Rockville Man
Wins Prize in
Kentucky Derby

Ogden c. Graham, 1920 Ok
inawa ave, Rockville, is $500
richer as a result of taking sec.
ond prize in the recent national
K entu cky Club Derby Day
Contest.
Graham, a retired naval Of
ficer. submitted Runpharsamoa
as the name for a colt sired by
Polynesian out Of Secret Re-
cipe, in a contest conducted an.
nually by a tobacco company.
The name he submitted was
based on his knowledge of ex.
otto Polynesian recipes, gained
during wartime service at a
naval mobile hospital in Samoa.
Graham is an administrative
assistant to County Health OF.
ficer William ]. Peoples.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-31
WOmen's Peace Leader
To Talk Here June 8

Mrs. Alexander Stewart, ma.
tional legislative secretary OF
the Wome en- S International
League of Peace and Freedom,
will speak June 8 at 8 pm. in
the Friends Meeting House,
Sandy Spring.
The active worker for peace
will speak on Alternatives to
Annihilation." The public is in.
vited.
A mother, minister, Iectur.
er and lobbyist, Mrs. Stewart
served as president of the
u. S. section of the WILPF
during 1946.5O.
A graduate of Illinois Yves.
leyan University in 1921, Mrs.
Stewart became one of the first
ordained women ministers of
the Methodist Church, and the
only woman in the history of
Congress to have served as
guest chaplain of the House of
Representatives.
She is the wife of DR.. Alex
ander Stewart, who was for
merly associate secretary of the
Commission on World Peace OF
the Methodist Church, and who