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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1947
Page
4
Henry Ford, described as one of America's greatest, died last night. He praised paying workers well and using efficient production to keep prices down, forming the cornerstone of the Ford empire and elevating the American standard of living.
The piece criticizes President Truman for using free radio time on major networks for campaign messaging during the 1948 cycle. It urges networks to adopt clear rules, warns Republicans about FCC fairness, and calls Congress to focus on domestic crises like labor and coal, urging restraint and statesmanship.
An Associated Press dispatch from Washington reports the senate labor committee began work on a bill to authorize court injunctions to stop strikes that threaten national health or safety. Chairman Taft said the provision is part of the preliminary general labor bill draft aimed for Senate floor next week.
Governor Thomas F. Dewey of New York signs a broad bill outlawing public employee strikes and stiffly penalizing participants. He faces organized labor attacks and compares his move to Coolidge in 1919, while weighing political fallout and public welfare priorities.
Moscow reports a high powered Yugoslav delegation pressing Carinthian claims. The piece notes strategic passes the region holds, the 1920 plebiscite split, and the mixed Sloven and Serb populations, warning of renewed force if WWII era settlements unravel.
The Time Life Fortune figure Harry Luce funded a panel of professors including Hutchins Chaffee Clark Dickinson Hocking Lasswell MacLeish Merriam Niebuhr Redfield Rumi Schlesinger Shuster to define a free and responsible press. The piece suggests a jury of saloon keepers might be as capable and notes the professors were paid large sums and failed to study the issue directly.
The piece critiques the idea that radio and motion pictures belong to the press. It argues newspapers remain primary, while radio is entertainment and news is shaped by wire services. Sokolsky ridicules professors and notes Archibald MacLeish’s UNESCO role as a constant presence.
The piece argues that early constitutional guarantees favored broad individual liberty and limited government. It contrasts this with later “new dealers” who sought greater state power, asserting amendments expand freedom but not endorse total social equality. Prohibition and suffrage are discussed as examples of liberty constrained and expanded.
Paul Mallon argues that the suffrage amendment plus the Americans for Democratic Action misinterpret liberalism. He defends press and religious freedom as central to the framers' philosophy, warns that new dealers confuse freedom, and cautions dictatorship uses democracy to suppress opposition.
Capitol Notebook reports Townsend planners plan a Washington convention in late June with Dr. F. E. Townsend hoping to attend. The agenda includes lobbying Congress and backing from about fifty congressmen for a 3 percent tax on higher incomes to fund pensions.
The article explains why Truman sought a one year extension on import controls due to shortages of raw materials. Without controls, world prices for fats and oils would rise, hurting nations with severe shortages. The policy aims to keep allocations, stabilize world supplies, and ensure access. It also notes Navy plans to bar newsmen on the Leyte training cruise to avoid a repeat of a prior incident involving correspondent William H. Newton in Dairen.
The Post Office will accept parcel post shipments to any country except Portuguese Timor, an eastern half of a small island once under Dutch control. Timor lies between Australia and Java in the Dutch East Indies, where most natives live in grass huts and subsist on wild crops.
The Army faces a deadline to recruit 30,000 new soldiers per month to sustain a one million man force, a peak peacetime establishment. Officials note a six month test will reveal viability. Drafted soldiers averaged 10 months of active duty despite 18 months service, making the peacetime draftee costly.
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