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Show I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS " Landlords Rebel Over Rent Curbs; Russians Set up Anfi-ERP Program; Israel, Egypt Sign End to Fighting EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions art expressed hi these columns, thay are thote of Western Newspaper Colon's sews analysts and not necessarily ot this newspaper.) New Leader JACKSON DAY: Million Or Mora "Happy Harry" Truman had pulled himself up by his own bootstraps, boot-straps, grasped the dark cloud of Democratic gloom and ripped it aside to disclose a satisfying silver lining. And now. party big-wigs and adherents ad-herents are smiling expansively in anticipation of hacking the million-, dollar mark when the traditional,! $100-a-plate Jackson Day dinners are held In February. NOTHING SUCCEEDS like success. suc-cess. Truman might have reminded his followers and because of his personal success, money, which was woefully lacking in Democratic party coffers before the election, is now expected to come rolling in. Normally, anywhere from $600,000 to $700,000 is raised for the party at the dinners, but this year the national na-tional committee thinks it can surpass sur-pass that figure and come nearer the million-dollar mark. And they well may do it. for many people who wanted no part of Harry Truman during the campaign, and who kept their hands in their pockets, now are willing to give and give generously. However, careful planning is going go-ing into this year's Jackson Day dinner project. One such dinner will be held in every congressional district dis-trict of the larger states, and at , least one dinner in each of the smaller ones. Plans already have been mapped to seat an all-time high record of 3,000 at the Washington dinner. "Of course there are still some lukewarm 'Wednesday Democrats'," Demo-crats'," a committee said, "but the financial return this year should be terrific." ? -' ;. ? & I iff 'VttC W If, 9g& LWi i 1111 Li Tslng-Jen, China's nationalist vice-president was holding the reins of organized government following fol-lowing Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Kai-shek's departure from Nanking to clear the way for a Communist-directed Communist-directed peace. I Chief Killer Once again the nation's attention would be called to the fact that diseases of the heart and blood vessels ves-sels are the leading cause of death in the United States. The occasion: The American Heart association's 1949 national campaign. Hard to dramatize, be cause its victims seldom die spec-tacularly, spec-tacularly, heart disease is a major concern of those who deal with a people's health. The malady is responsible re-sponsible for one of every three deaths in the nation each year. Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease take a heavier toll from youngsters five to 19 than any other disease. Even in the years from 35 to 54, heart disease causes far greater mortality than the other leading killers, including cancer, accidents, tuberculosis, pneumonia and nephritis. REBELLION: Among Landlords Chest out, muscles flexed, truculent truc-ulent of attitude, members of the American Property Owners association asso-ciation in 20 cities threatened wholesale whole-sale eviction of tenants in protest against rental control bills now in congress. AN OFFICIAL of the organiza-tion, organiza-tion, composed chiefly of owners of email property, said in Tulsa, Okla., 600 to 1,000 eviction notices would be mailed to Tulsa tenants advising them to vacate within 60 days. Similar Sim-ilar action, he said, was expected in Chicago, Houston, Kansas City, Detroit, St. Louis, Fort Wayne, Crand Rapids, Danville, 111., and other cities. I The eviction notices affected rent- controlled housing and included I houses and apartments. Business units are not under rent control SPEAR - HEADING the Tulsa movement was a retired Baptist minister, the Rev. Wallace J. Murphy, executive-secretary of the 200-member Tulsa property owners organization, and an honorary president presi-dent of the national association. The Rev. Murphy termed two rent control bills now before congress con-gress "intolerable," and said, "we refuse to operate so long as rental controls are on." Owner of considerable consider-able property in Tulsa, the retired clergyman asserted, "we don't intend in-tend to serve under slavery which would take away the right-to control con-trol our property. It is not enough that we must rent our property at a loss now they want to fine us and put us in Jail. Landlords appeared mainly Incensed In-censed because pending rent curb measures would be giving the federal fed-eral housing expediter right to control con-trol evictions, extend rent control periods, provide triple damages for overcharges on rent, and permit fines up to $5,000 and a year in jail for convicted violators. OBSERVERS WONDERED if landlords weren't letting their wrath becloud their Judgment. For, under existing law, which doesn't expire until late March, landlords are prohibited from doing exactly what the Rev. Murphy and his associates asso-ciates plan to do. The Tulsa incident was merely fuel to the flame of belief that if rent curbs are not maintained, the question of housing for those who cannot afford to buy homes would become even more difficult than it is at present. RUSSIANS: Coming to Tow? Messers Joe Stalin and the polit-buro, polit-buro, so long and so vocally derisive of everything the western world has or offers, were subconsciously paying pay-ing that world the sincerest form of flattery imitation. The Russians had come forth with their own version of ERP. alphabetical alpha-betical symbol of the Marshall plan for aid to Europe. AS THE EAST'S answer to the European recovery plan, Russia had organized the economic council of mutual assistance for cooperation with five of her neighbors, Bulgaria, Bul-garia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania. The purpose, as outlined from Moscow, was "the exchange of experience ex-perience in the economic field, the rendering of technical assistance to each other, and the rendering of mutual assistance in regard to raw materials, foodstuffs, equipment, etc.". Russia, with her vast re-sourtes, re-sourtes, obviously was to be the key nation in the council. The Kremlin held the door open to other nations. The announcement said, "other countries of Europe that share the principles of the council and wish to participate in broad economic cooperation with the aforementioned countries," may join. THAT MOSCOW was considering the Marshall plan when its six-nation council was formed was evident in a Russian charge that the ERP interfered with the sovereignty of nations, and that the U. S., Britain, and "certain other countries of western Europe" were boycotting the six nations in trade. The Russian action may prove to be the vital error in the Soviets' program of expansion. If the system fails to function, it will serve only to spotlight the efficacy of the Marshall plan and the superiority of the western nations in equipment and ability to keep European commitments. PEACE DOVE: Hovers in East Hovering wings of the dove of peace were becoming faintly audible audi-ble in the Holy Land dispute. Israil and Egypt signed a permanent perma-nent cease-fire order and armistice talks were still going on after recent re-cent difficulties. THERE WERE even more significant sig-nificant developments looking toward to-ward final peace in the long controversy contro-versy stemming from the partition of the Holy Land to make the area available as a place of settlement and nationalization of Jews. Great Britain had capitulated, and with the British lion on its side, the new nation of Israel had the two most powerful nations in the world committed to its support. Other nations were falling in line to recognize the Jewish state. Indications In-dications were that with the trend apparently fully in motion, Arab opponents to the Israeli state would soon be standing completely alone in their opposition. SHOULD THAT condition eventuate, eventu-ate, Israeli seemingly would have nothing to fear, inasmuch as its armies already have proven a match for Arab forces. Bible students and others religiously re-ligiously inclined would be quick to see in the developments the beginning begin-ning of fulfillment of the old prophecy proph-ecy that the Holy Land would one day be returned to the Jews, that they would one day become a nation na-tion again, with their own flag, their own land, their own government. govern-ment. SURPLUSES: Curbs Are Sought Fearful of large surpluses of wheat and cotton, the government was studying moves to prevent this contingency. Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan outlined to a senate agriculture agri-culture committee plans to hold down this year's cotton and wheat crops. Brannon's plan called for serving notice on wheat and cotton farmers that the 1949 crops they plant will not be ' considered part of their average production in figuring any future acreage allotments. This means growers could plant fewer acres without being" penalized later by proportionate acreage chrbs on their crops. Under present law,, if acreage controls are renewed, the average acreage planted by a farmer in the five previous years is the amount he is entitled to plant. Many officials felt that might induce in-duce many farmers to plant as much as they can in order to have the maximum possible acreage when and if controls are clamped on. Brannan's plan, assuring the farmer far-mer of no restrictive penalties through curtailment of acreage, was seen as a possible curb on any excessive ex-cessive planting. About as large a winter wheat crop as possible already has been planted and a committee member declared cotton farmers are preparing pre-paring to plant an "extra large crop" to get benefit of present high support prices. Chairman Elmer Thomas (D., Okla.) of the committee which heard Brannan, said legislation to back up Brannan's proposal would be offered in congress. 2,.7t THE SIX LEADING 3 CAUSES OF DEATH IN THi UNITED STATES DURING A REPRESENTATIVE rtAi. Fl mrm lB?t 40 04 lunnnn dMiws ii uuut kummi aneiit mm iwkaunt a on m This chart tells Its awn story about the fatalities resulting from heart diseases in the nation. The dates of the national campaign cam-paign of the American Heart association asso-ciation are February 7 to 28. The dates of National Heart Week are February 14 to 21. THE FUND-RAISING goal of the campaign is five million dollars. Of this, three and one-half million dollars dol-lars will be used by local heart associations to maintain and expand their community cardiac programs. The remainder will be used by the American Heart association for expansion ex-pansion of its national programs. The 1949 campaign slogan is apt and compelling. It is: "Open your heart fight heart disease." COAL SUPPLY: Everyone Relax The American male who must wrestle with the furnace, worry about keeping a fireplace full of fuel, concern himself with the possibility pos-sibility of a heatless future could sit back and relax. There is enough coal under the surface of the United States to last a thousand years. After that, somebody else could worry. AUTHORITY for the extent of the nation's coal resources was Dr. Edward Ed-ward R. Weidlein, director of the Mellon institute of Industrial research. re-search. Pointing out that half the world's known coal reserve is possessed by the United States, he asserted many industrial leaders and technical experts ex-perts believe "that a large industrial in-dustrial development based on coal is in the making and that a considerable con-siderable expansion in coal production produc-tion is imminent." PSYCHIATRISTS: Who's Next? Americans had something else to worry about besides prices and possible war. It seemed the nation's chief need, despite any suppositions to the contrary, was more psychiatrists. psy-chiatrists. According to a subcommittee of the Hoover commission, nothing could be done about the nation's deplorable de-plorable mental health condition until un-til the present 4,500 psychiatrists were increased to 10,000. Even so a Quick mathematical |