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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1948
Page
2
A columnist argues displaced persons DP camps offer skilled workers for American farms and industry. He notes 95,000 trained farmers and over 21,000 in construction and maintenance, urging admission of capable DPs to help relieve labor shortages while criticizing detention costs and policy limits.
A column contrasts Communism with religion and cites a party motto about using bourgeois institutions only to destroy them. It recalls Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the Daily Worker, noting Flynn’s portrayal of Marxism in household life and the Lenin memorials as guidance for party members.
The House opens an election year tax debate center stage on a 6.5 billion dollar cut proposal while Gandhi is assassinated in Delhi. GOP aims to override a possible Truman veto, needing Democratic support to reach a two thirds majority. Democrats warn large cuts risk debt and security as India mourns the mahatma.
Cyrus J. Waud of Camden presents the everyday strain of inflation before the senate banking and currency committee. He says a $50 weekly wage scarcely supports his wife and six children, claiming Americans are “existing” not living as prices rise and debt grows. A new bacterial flypaper promises to trap germs without killing them, reducing room contamination.
Columnist Westbrook Pegler accuses President Truman of dragging the United States toward war with Soviet Russia. He cites Greece and Tito incidents, warns of a potential third world war, and criticizes American restraint and policy in global conflicts.
A column notes proposed US budget costing 270 per person annually, with older figures. It mentions inflation irony at a motorboat show with nurses aboard. Lakewood officials punish drivers who ignore school buses by forcing writing lines. Governor Stassen’s testimony provokes Democratic opposition.
President Truman submits a 39.7 billion peacetime budget the largest in history. He notes 31 billion funds war costs and 8 billion for running government, with debate likely over three billion in cuts affecting defense foreign aid or domestic services. He cites rising prices and shrinking savings while promising a program to resolve the issue.
Walter Winchell reports on Elizabeth Firestone and society fixtures at Charles of the Ritz. Snippets note a deb crowd, Broadway warnings, a Park Central counter gal ex marine, Tojo trial pace, and fashion jibes about the Duchess of Windsor. Also mentions Dumont TV veering into vaudeville Videoville and baron guesting with Barbara Hutton.
The article notes a surge in births since 1940 reaching over 26 million, raising the national population to more than 144 million and last year totaling 3.37 million births. It predicts ripple effects: bigger markets, more schools, homes, food, clothing, and employment, with peak youthful strength between 1960 and 1970 and implications for universal military training.
The article notes nearly 60 million stockholders have funded industry and transportation, creating jobs for about 60 million workers and financing mills, factories, systems, and utilities. It states small investors, who save for retirement, provided the bulk of capital and that in 1947 the average return was 2.7 cents per dollar invested.
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