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In the Library
By David M. Kinchen
Historian Details U.S.A.'s Creation of'Consumers' Republic
Reviewed By David M. Kinchen
From 1945 to 1975, the United States was transformed into a
"Consumers' Republic," marked by the development of consumer credit,
the construction of shopping centers, the creation of massive housing
developments on the rural fringes of the big cities and a heightened sense
of deprivation on the part of many minorities.
That's the picture drawn by historian Lizabeth Cohen in "A Consumers'
Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America" (Knopf,
480 pages, $35.00). It's difficult for anyone under 50 to imagine, but once
upon a time there was an America without credit cards and shopping
centers, where the majority of the nation' s urban families rented an
apartment in a central city rather than owned--with the bank--a ranch
house or Cape CoO in the "ourbs.
Cohen is a prize-winning historian at Harvard Univerpity--and judging
by the 1956 photo of her and her sister in front of their family home in
Paramus, N.J., a member of the early wave of baby-boomers. She tells the
story of how much of America--the white majority, at least--formoo the
vanguard of today's mass consumption society.
Except for a number of politically correct phrases, Cohen doesn't look
down her professorial nose at consumers: She tells their story, warts and
all, as Oliver Cromwell instructed his portrait painter 350 years ago. The
"warts"---including the unintentional or intentional exclusion of minority
consumers from the "Consumers' Republic," often dominate her narrative.
One of the PC phrases that Cohen uses throughout is "racial rebellion"
to describe what we newspaper reporters called "urban riots" in the mid-
1960s, It was the time when I was starting out as a metropolitan newspaper
reporter and the riots that hit New York, Los Angeles, Newark, Milwaukee,
Detroit, Chicago and other cities weren't called "rebellions" in the
Milwaukee Sentinel where 1 started working just after Milwaukee' s
summer riots of 1967.
Much of Cohen's focus is on the heavily urbanized--and suburbanized
counties of northern New Jersey, across the Hudson River from New York
City• She describes the white flight from Newark, Jersey City, Paterson
and other once tl'vi slik hometown ofPramus y
where two large PI___ s oir4. ..... i
The Garden State dt " Mre deliberatelydesigned
to draw customers from the surrounding suburbs, customers who had cars
and could reach the centers at or near the junction of the New Jersey and
the Garden State Turnpikes. If you lived in rapidly declining Newark or
Paterson or Hackensack, you were largely out of the picture unless you
had a car. This, she points out, was de facto racial segregation of the harshest
kind.
Cohen shows how the foundation--including a powerful consumer
movement driven by both women and African Americans--for the postwar
"Consumers' Republic" was laid block by block in the 1930s, as the Great
Depression and FDR's New Deal transformed the political structure of the
nation.
With unemployment at 25% or more during the 1930s, she illustrates
how difficult if not impossible it was to put into place the ideas of the
"Consumers' Republic" that began in 1945 and lasted for a hectic three
decades.
Still, revolutionary changes in the nation' s mortgage system instituted
by the New Deal in the 1930s, along with the Veterans Administration's
so-called GI Bill of Rights passed the year before the war ended, were
major factors in creating the mass housing market that resulted in housing
starts as high as 2 million a year in the postwar years.
This aspect of Cohen's well illustrated and carefully documented book
was particularly interesting to me, since from about 1970 on, my reportorial
duties at both the Milwaukee Sentinel and the Los Angeles Times
encompassed the housing and development industries.
By quoting and referring to people who were present at and during the
creation of the "Consumers' Republic," Cohen makes the story of America'
s amazing transformation relevant to readers who've never known anything
else, as well as to those of us who lived through it and reported about it.
Council on Aging
This is a weekly publication of the
Summers County Council on Aging,
Inc., 120 Second Avenue, Hinton.
Funded in part by the WV Bureau
of Senior Services, Appalachian Area
Agency on Aging, other grant and
local resources and donations, any
older persons is encouraged to
participate in the program
regardless of race, creed, handicap,
or national origin. The Summers
County Council onAging is an equal
opportunity employer.
Wednesday, February 19th.
Menu: Chili with meat and beans,
festive waldorf fruit salad, peach-
yogurt dessert, whole wheat bread,
margarine/milk;Activities: Activity
Room Exercise 17:05 AM.
Thursday, February 20th.
Menu: Chicken stew, long grain
brown rice, broccoli, pear halves,
whole wheat bread, margarine/milk.
Activities: Richard Flanigan, Field
Representative, Office of Gov. Bob
Wise, Topic: Update on Senior
Services i1:00A.M. Bingo for prizes
after lunch
Friday, February 21st. Menu:
Seasoned pinto beans, onions, turnip
greens, unsweetened apple sauce,
cornbread, margarine/milk.
Activities: Gosepl singing 11:00 A.M.
Monday, February 24th. Menu:
Lean"N" Light lasagna, raw
vegetable salad with oil and vinegar
dressing, purple plums, whole what
garlic bread/milk. Activities: Gospel
Singing 11:00 A.M.
Tuesday, February 18th.Menu:
Baked pork chops, creamier mashed
potatoes, golden pork gravy,
mustard greens, banana, whole
wheat bread, margarine/milk.
Activities: Board of Directors
Meeting 10:00 A.M. Bible Study
11:00 AIM. Bingo For Prizes After
Lunch.
January Blood
Donor Awareness
Month
The Big Picture: Blood and Who
Needs It
*Approximately 12.6 million
units of whole blood are donated in
the United States each year by
approximately 8 million volunteer
blood donors.*
*Whole blood is broken down into
its components; red blood cells,
platelets D.nd plasma.
*The 12.6 million units of donated
blood each year are broken down
into more than 23 milion units of
blood components transfused to
about 4 million patients per year.*
*A single shock-trauma victim
can use 100 units of blood
componentsin just a few hours.
*On any given day, approximately
32,000 units of Red Blood Cells are
needed.*
*25 percent of blood prooucts are
used to treat cancer patients.*
*A large portion of the plasma
that is recovered from donated blood
is broken down or processed into
specific =derivatives" to meet the
needs of people with genetic diseases
such as hemophilia, primary
immune deficiency and other
conditions.
*Each year, plasma derivatives
are used to treat thousands of
individuals who are missing a factor
in their blood that prevents
excessive bleeding, do not have the
ability to fight infections or who
have experienced significant fluid
loss as a result of a burn or other
injury.
The Source: Volunteer Donors
and Blood Drive Sponsors
*This year, the Red Cross will
collect approximately 6.3 million
units of blood, a 3 percent increase
over the previous year, and a 12
percent increase Over the last three
years.
*Who donates blood to the Red
Cross:
Median Age 38 years old
Male donars 53 percent
Female donors 47 percent
Repeat donors 79.3 percent
First-time donors 20.7 percent
*The approximate distribution of
blood types in the US population is:
Type Percentage of population
0- 7 percent
A+ 34 percent
A- 6 percent
B+ 9 percent
B- percent ° :: , _ :.
AB+ 3 percenf ........
AB, I percent
Note: Distribution may be
different for specific racial and
ethnic groups.
Last year, 21.4 percent of the
blood collected by the Red Cross was
donated at a regular or irfixedld
donation site, while 76.4 percent was
collected at mobile blood drives.
*Who holds/sponsors red Cross
Blood drives:
Community groups 61 percent
Companies 23.2 percent
High Schools 5.8 percent
Colleges 5.5 percent
Military 2.5 percent
ACEP COACHING CLINIC
The West Virginia Secondary
School Activities Commission and
RESA-I will be sponsoring a class for
any non-teaching personnel wanting
to be certified to coach in any public
school in West Virginia. Thc class
will be held on February 26-27th.
and will be taught at the Pineville
Middle School in Pineville, WV. The
class will be conducted from 5-11
p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday
nights. The course fee is $150.00 and
the instructors will be Robert
Gunter and John O'Neal. Larry
Hatfield will be the First Aid
instructor.
The class will certify the
participants to coach in public
schools and also be certified in First-
Aid. Anyone wishing to enroll must
enroll on or before February 25th.
calling RESA-I at 1-800-766-7372 or
256-4712, or Bob Gunter at 732-
6690 in the evenings.
We'd Like To Hear-From, You
about your club, church group and civic organizations,
births, engagements, weddings, academic honors,
men and women in the armed services and all
communityactivities.
To be considered for publication, items should be
timely, either typed (NOT in all caps) or printed legibly.
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E-mail HintonlOOO@aol.com
" TEMPTATIONS/FOUR TOPS
The Temptations and Four Tops
will be in concert on Friday,
February 21st., at 8 p.m. at the
Municipal Auditorium 'of the
Charleston Civic Center. Ticket
prices are: $46.25* / $39.75"1530.75"
All Seats Reserved• *Includes
Facility Surcharge Fee.
For ticket purchase - call Ticket
Master Charleston Area (304) 342-
5757, HuntingtonArea (304) 523-.
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***
The time to stop arevolution is
at the beginning, not the end.
Adlai Stevenson
BASIC EMT CLASSES
The following classes have been
scheduled:
120 Hour basic EMT class will
begin March 3rd., at 6:00 p.m. in
Raleigh Cmmtv t the Mine Safety
& Health Academy in Beckley, WV,'
For additional information please
call RESA-I at (304) 256-4712 or 1-
800:766-7372 ext. 330/319.
ATTENTION
Effective February 3rd. DMV will
be in Hinton on the lst., 3rd. and
5th. Thursday of each month. They
will NOT be here on Friday.
Operating hours will remain 9:30
AM - 4:30 PM. (You must be in the
office no later tha 4:00 P.M.)
BIG BEND PSD ....
Big Bend Public Service District
will hold their monthly meetings on
the second Tuesday of each month
.at the water plant at 3:45 pro.
Big Bend PSD serves the areas of
Talcott, Hilldale, Pence Springs, and
- Willowwood Road. The public is
invited to attend these meetings.
Creeksid
Chiropract,c Clinic
Dr. Kevin Harvey
Dr. Holly Harvey
(304) 832-6420
Greenville, WV.
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