Taft Agrees to 'Small Deficit'
If U. S. Gets Out of Red in '52
Washington, Jan. 3 U.R Sen. Robert A. Taft (R., O.), said
Monday he was pessimistic over chances for balancing the fed
eral budget next year, but that he would not object to "a small
deficit" if the government could get out of the red the fol-
ing year,
He told a news conference on
the eve of the new session of
congress that the outlook "does
n't look very optimistic" for bal
ancing the budget in the fiscal
year which begins next July 1.
He added, however, that he
thinks there is hope for balanc
ing the budget tn fiscal 1952 and
that he would not object to a
reduced deficit in fiscal 1951 if
It were "absolutely certain" that
the 1951 deficit would end def
icit spending.
Asked what he 'would consid
er a "small deficit," Taft said
congres would be doing well to
trim the deficit, estimated at $5,
500,000,000 this year, to about
$2,000,000,000 next year, while
aiming for a balanced budget in
fiscal 1952.
The Ohioan told reporters that
he considered social security leg
islation, a tax program which he
apparently linked with the bud
get issue, and civil rights legis
lation to be the most important
k matters before c on g r e s s this
year.
He said he was "not in favor
of increasing any taxes" but was
unwilling to discuss detailed
views on cutting excise taxes at
this time.
To a specific querry as to
whether he favored cutting the
wartime excise rates now. he
replied: "I think I do. If the tax
question is opened at all, there
are a number of excise taxes
which ought to be reduced."
Save for his reference to a
possible $2,000,000,000 deficit,
which would indicate an overall
spending budget of about $40,-
000,000,000 in fiscal 1951, Taft
would not suggest any budget
figure until he had seen Presi
dent Truman's budget message.
On social security, he said the
house-approved bill to broaden
the old age insurance program
should get thorough study by the
senate finance committee, but
that the senate should act this
year on that matter.
He made it clear that he be
lieved the committee should
study the recent pension pro
grams granted by private indus
try through union contracts.
Taft said he thought those pro
grams were "unwise" to the ex
tent that they linked the amount
of the private pension payments
to federal old age insurance
benefits.
Mountain Roads
Reported icy
Highway travel in mountain
areas was dangerous today and
chains must be used, the state
highway commission reported
today.
Cold weather brought Icy con
ditions on other roads, but most
of these roads have been sanded.
The 9 a.m. road report:
Government Camp Packed
snow, plowing, carry chains. 80
inches roadside snow.
Portland Spots of ice.
Corvallis Bare in exposed
areas.
Newport Spots of ice.
Eugene and Roseburg Pave
ment bare.
Santiam Pass Packed snow,
plowing, carry chains. 96 inches
roadside snow.
Willamette Pass Packed
snow, well sanded, 2 Inches new
snow.
John Day Packed ' snow.
Columbia Highway Blasting
daily at 9:45 a.m. and 12:45 p.m.
About 30 minutes delay each
lime on Dodson-Bonneville sec
tion. Trips should be timed to
avoid traveling over this sec
tion at those hours.
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Finding Right Man for High Job
Is Difficult Task, Expert Says
Chicago. Jan. 3 (U.R) The use of a single written aptitude test
tn notormino an nnnlicant's fitness for a "high level job is
criticized by a psychiatrist who helped select secret agents for
the OSS during the war.
Dr. James G. Miller, now cnairman or me university oi
Chicago's department of psycho
logy, said "the qualities that
mark a capable, rounded human
being just don t show up on one
paper-and-pencil aptitude test."
He said that particularly true
if the applicant is looking for an
executive position.
A single test might be success
ful in trying out a person for a
single skill, such as typing,
brick laying or sign painting. Butl
the single-test method for de
termining the success of a poten
tial executive Just won't work,
Miller said.
Glamorous Corner is ordinary Hollywood and Vine.
Hollywood, a Glamor Spot?
Not So You Would Notice
By JACK QUIGG
(AP Newsfeaturca)
Hollywood, Jan. 3 Glamorous! Fabulous! Astounding!
How many times have you heard these tiresome but tireless
niofi-iro. nnolied to Hollywood, its people and its wares?
The myth that this sunny southern California town is the
first wonder of the modern wona is servea up anu, iuo uucii,
swallowed in every cranny
of the globe.
Man's appetite for tales ol
mnvieland. and his eagerness to
believe them, is one of the mar
vels of our time.
Four decades of high-powered
T,MicHv have created such
popular fantasies as these:
Hollywood isn't a cluster' of
movie mills, it's the glamor
capital of the universe. Ac
tors aren't people, they're fab
ulous personalities. Movies
aren't plays on celluloid,
they're epics, staTk dramas
or smash comedies.
A favorite legend of this type
is attached to Hollywood Boule
vard, subject of this essay.
silk scarves and maroon sport
jackets, lounge against store
fronts appraising feminine strollers.
Look sharp and you might
spot Peter the Hermit or one
of his brethren striding along
with swinging staff, like rag
clad figures out of the Old
Testament.
But characters are as much
a part of the scenery, and go
just as unnoticed, as the pur
ple hills to the north. It's a
blase Boulevard. The last
time anyone created a sensa
tion was the day one ambitious
starlet paraded in a leopard
skin with a lion on a leash.
1 It's not always a letdown to
visit Hollywood, meet a star, or
see a movie. Sometimes they
surprise you.
But the Boulevard fails com
oletely to live up to its billing.
The movie town's main drag
is extraordinary, but not for
what it is.
. It's much more notable for the
things it lacks. Not one of the
film colony's much ballyhooed
nightspots or cafes graces this
lane. Not a single studio bor
ders it.
The stars? They shun it in
favnr of plushier Beverly Hills
byways. Although it runs
through the heart of filmland,
it is largely ignored by the
movie industry.
Hollywood Boulevard is six
and a half miles long. But
when natives speak of "The
Boulevard," they mean the
mile-long tenderloin between
Vine street and La Brea ave
nue. The tag ends don't
count.
Let's take a ride down the
Boulevard, beginning at the
fabled crossroads of Hollywood
and Vine.
Right off you note that instead
of MGM and Ciros the intersec
tion is bounded by a drugstore,
a luggage shop, a bar, and a
department store.
Except for the casual dress of
the street herds, the corner dif
fers little from any other met
rono'itrn intersection.
"'ot that the natives aren't
cj nrful. Grandmas in sun
suits and wedgies scuttle across
the thoroughfare. Mink-clad
matrons, even on 90-degree days,
"' '"" 'n and out of dime stores.
. v.. luoking gents, sporting
Driving along in the sunlight
you get the impression that the
Boulevard Isn't particularly gay.
just gaudy, not a sideshow, but
merely a shopping section.
Many store fronts look like
sets. When the flickers were
new in Hollywood, the Boule
vard was a favorite location site.
Studio gangs roped off the street
and used it for countless scenes
of robberies and auto wrecks.
Driving west you pass the
last landmark of bygone times,
the Hollywood Hotel. The
faded stucco hostelry, once THE
hotel of filmland, is slated to
go. Soon it will be replaced by
a modern structure.
Down the way a bit yon
pass a rococo white apartment
building where lives Mack
Sennett, the aging sultan of
slapstick, now the Boulevard's
most famous resident.
Sid Grauman's colorful and
grotesque Chinese theater, most
pretentious of the score of movie
palaces on the Boulevard, dis
tinguishes the western end of
the golden mile. There, day
and night, the curious gape at
stars' footprints In the cemented
courtyard.
Beyond are Ivy covered man
sions, once the homes of screen
famous, now converted into
rooming houses. Perhaps, a gen
eration ago when the celebrities
lived and played there, the
Boulevard was the glamorous,
fabulous, astounding place it is
proclaimed.
But today it's more a frame
of mind.
Tito's Border Watchdog Snared
Into Love Trap by Bulgars
By ALEX SINGLETON
IAP NewsleiturwO
Belgrade, Jan. 3 If true, it was a dirty trick even for a dog.
But, as the story was printed by Yugoslavia's official press
recently. Marshal Tito's border guards recruited a handsome
watchdog in the prime of life to help secure the Bulgarian
frontier.
I his was a new menace for
Proud of his post, the watch
dog abandoned the free and
easy way of life in city and
countryside and snarled bare
toothed warning to anyone who
would dare trespass across the
border.
Bennett Gives
Radios to 'Brass'
Chicago, Jan. 3 W.B David A.
Bennett, who gave the famous
'deep freeze units to high gov
ernment officials, gave the same
persons "very fancy radios" this
Christmas, a Chicago columnist
said today.
Irv Kupcinet, columnist for
the Chicago Sun-Times, headed
his column today with the item:
Remember all the fuss
kicked up in congress when it
was revealed that David A. Ben
nett, the Chicago perfume mag
nate, had sent deep freezers to
his political pals in Washington?
"Nobody s reported, up to
now, that at Christmas time he
dispatched very fancy radios to
the same people. (He just likes
to send gifts, that's all.)"
Kupcinet declined to give the
source of his information dui
said Bennett himself was the
only one who could confirm it.
Bennett was on a perfume-
buying trip to Paris, France. He
is expected to arrive there to
morrow aboard the Queen Elizabeth.
It was Bennett's gifts of home
freezers valued at $390 to $520
last year that set off a big con
gressional investigation into al
leged "gifts for influence.
Among those listed as recipi
ents of the freezers were Maj
Gen. Harry M. Vaughan, presi
dential aide; Mrs. Truman; Fred
M. Vinson, later appointed U.S
chief justice; Secretary of the
Treasury John Snyder and Pres
idential Secretary Matthew Connelly.
Washington, Jan. 3 U.R Sec
retary of Treasury John W.
Snyder said today that it is
untrue" that he received a ra
dio as a Christmas present from
David A. Bennett, Chicago per
fume maker.
Bennett was the donor of deep
freeze units to high government
officials last year. The action
was investigated by a congress
ional committee.
A Chicago Sun-Times colum
nist reported that Bennett gave
"very fancy radios" to the same
government officials, including
Snyder. Asked about the re
port, Snyder said:
"That is untrue."
Presidential secretary Mat
thew Connelly, another official
said by the columnist to have
received a radio gift, said "very
definitely that report is not
true." He said he did not re
ceive a gift.
He explained that the worth
or usefulness of an executive de
pends less on his mastery of a
special skill than on his posses
sion of a rounded personality.
Industry could save itself
money, Miller said, if it made
use of a "$200 or $300" execu
tive aptitude test before hiring a
high level" man.
He considers that preferable
to putting the man through
long training program only to
find he didn't possess the quali
ties his single aptitude test show
ed he had.
Miller was quick to point out
that few places exist at present
where such tests may be admin
istered. But he said the Veterans
Administration is trying to estab
lish such practices in its hiring
policies.
"It is possible to def ine'success'
in a given field by analyzing the
psychological characteristics that
the job requires," Miller said.
"Then you can devise a series of
tests to find out whether some
one possesses the necessary per
sonality traits."
But one of the primary stum
bling blocks in defining a 'suc
cess," Miller said, is to get lay
men in different fields to agree
on what traits the well-rounded
person in various locations
should possess.
Miller said the armed forces
Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 1950
the Bulgarians. But they rea
soned: for every weapon, there's
defense. So they recruited a
handsome female dog and
turned her loose on the border.
Sad to relate, love triumphed
over loyalty. The handsome Yu
goslav watchdog, unmindful of
the cold war, padded his way
across the border to woo the
paw of the beautiful Bulgarian.
Instead ot rupture, the hand
omc Yugoslav watchdog found
capture on the other side of the
border.
Bulgarian guards seized him
while he was a-courting.
They stuffed beneath his col
lar a batch of Anti-Tito propa
ganda which they had been at
tempting vainly to sneak across
the frontier. Then they sent him
packing homeward.
A reluctant courier, a crest
fallen lover, he reported back
to his post still carrying the propaganda.
Burned up by the ruse, the
Yugoslav border guards prompt
ly burned up the propaganda.
And their watchdog is in the
doghouse now.
'50 Dodge Prices
To Stay Unchanged
Detroit, J a n . 3 (JP) Factory
retail prices of the 1950 model
Dodge passenger cars will re
main unchanged from last year's
models.
The new models will go on
display in dealer showrooms tomorrow.
Factory prices at Detroit for
the various models start at $1,
525 for the 115-inch wheelbase
Wayfarer business coupe, and
range up to $2479 for the Coro
net sedan. The Coronet station
wagon has a $2715 price tag.
learned during the war that an
individual who can perform one
complex task requiring a well-
rounded personality usually
"makes a capable human being
in other different, though equal
ly complex, positions.
"His general personality traits
are not centralized and are there
fore interchangeable," Miller
said.
He predicted that within 20
years the system will be well
established, which will eliminate
the large number of misfits in in
dustry who have become frus
trated trying to adjust to a job
they never should have been hir
ed for in the first place.
The Yellow River and the
Yellow Sea are named because
of their color, the result of huge
amounts of soil washed into the
sea by the river.
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