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russnnv. my 12. 1936. The Dominion Housing Act

The Dominion Housing Act (I935) and_il5 probable effect toward stimiilatiiig the Canadian building industry are the subjects of. an article by T. D’Ai<cv‘LaoNAizo, Toronto, which is pub- lished in the current issue of the Joumal Of the Canadian Bankers’ Association. The Act is in two parts, the first of which provides that an Economic Council might study and report on housing, in the sense of provision of shelter for the loiv-wage group of citizens. Inasmuch as no Economic Couiicil has been appointed, the Act has accomplished nothing in this respect. The article covers the second part of the Act, which deals with the making of loans. Loans under the Act may be made up to 80% Of the 1lpP|’alSEd value or cost of the property, whichever is the lower. The tlovcriiiiicnt contributes up to 20% of the loaning \‘(|lllt‘, and the lending institutions fiirnisli the vi-iiiaiiitlcr.

‘”r()‘1lllIlt‘I‘Slflll(.l just why it is contemplated that such loans would stimulate the building in- dustry.” writes Mr. LEONARD, “it is necessary to be fainiliar with the normal method of fin- ancing house construction,

“Conipaiiies such as life insurance com- panies that ordinarily provide the bulk of first mortgage money for constructing houses are subject to stattitory limitations which prevent them from loaning more than 60% of the value of the propert_v. This is a very reasonable pre- caution iinposcd for the protection of policy- holders and investors whose moneys are entrust- ed to these companies, and there is no doubt that as a general rule 00% of value is the limit for safe loaning in Canada. Therefore it has l>':€I1 customary to finance a portion of the balance of the cost or sale price by a second mortgage. sometimes placed during construction, or more often taken back by the builder on selling the property. Second, mortgages have been very speculative investments and as none of the loan, trust or life insurance companies make such loans, that business has been left largely to in- divirliials. Interest rates, either charged directly

' .,_,_or throiigli the discouiiting of the mortgage, have

been high bccziuse of the risk involved and have ranged from l(),’7é= upwards.

“Seconcl—iiiortgagc investors have been 50 badly hit by the depression and by legislation passed for the relief of iriortgagors that there is today practiczilly no second-iiiortgage money available. There is a surplus of funds seeking 'safe first niortgages, but the balance of the fin- ancing has been missing. The idea of the 30% loan under the llotisiiig .\ct is to liritlge the gap “ ordinarily covered by the second iiiortgagc. At the same time. through the use of governnient fiinds, the builder and the owner are saved a wcry appreciable sum of iiioiicy rcprcsciited by ' the difference between the interest rate of 5% and the usual rate charged On second iiiortgagcs. In addition, the costs of two mortgages are avoided."

Canadian Literary Survey

The editors of the University of Toronto Quarterly have embarked on a new literary enter- , ‘prise which should prove to be of permanent - ‘value. It is a survey, covering the past year, of Letters in Canntlzi, and is now reprinted in book- let form from the April issue of the Quarterly. The intention, apparently, is to make this an an- nual featiirc. The survey includes critical essays

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.1‘ book," says MILTON, “is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmcd and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond life." That definition has never been improved upon. It makes one vital demand of literature: that it be sincere. The case against shallow optimism in poetry is that it is never sincere. _.._________________

Editorial Notes

Pineapples‘ from Australia have been added’ to the free list ltlfleai offilclpcr lb. as heretofore.

Surely 50% of the cost of hardsurfacing now is better than beazring ti; whole burden later. it

“Picriics" to Ottawa are now inexcusable as they result only in the declaration “the cupboard is bare."

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An applicant for provincial government work the other day was told there were 500 be- fore him.

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Now that the Ruiico Road and the Borden Road are financed for hard surfacing the rest of the Province can go hang, is apparently the at- titude of Hon. B. W. Li-:PAoE,

fill lit 9k _ Premier CAMPBELL may take a month's holiday in the hope that some degree of quiet-

Nofes by the Wily

What England line In her I13. lstera ls ii. certain nonchnlnnoo, gives: culture, it taste for leisure, sump. tlmes oddity almost amounting to eccentricity. she

members of his own Oablnet. aha adopted Disraeli not ln splto 4:, but because 0!. his mum

she suspected in Gladstone the passionate oonvlctlon of his pop- tics and his religion, but also his strunso team for the Job of 3 wood- cutter.—-Andm Maumu hi the Fortnight, London.

The rest of the mantra ngud EUIODG as a continent. gone crazy, a. world of madmen bent upon mut- ual slaughter and sell-destruction. And they marvel that we in this country cannot. grasp the fact. that the sooner we leave Europe the swlfter we shall be able to strenu- then Britain ‘and the llfmpli-o by developing our own resources.- London Dally Express.

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The secret is out. sir Thoma Insklp, the Attomey-General, L: the new Minister of Defence, charged with duties of an importance which have seldom fallen to a Minister of the Crown. sir Thomas has been 3 Successful Law officer, and the House of commons like"; him. But neither lt nor the people have

ness may be restored to the Provincial Building by the end of that period. sit are are V A correspondent in Toronto Saturday Night thanks Prime Minister KING because his $100 U. S. A. purchasing privilege makes her “An Honest Woman.” Does it really, or does it more- ly let her “get away with it?” 3K 5K 3! Here is the Bankers’ Credo as given by Mr. I. P. l\lORGAN at a. recent banquet of the Na- tional Institute of Social Sciences, New York: ”Do your work; be honest; keep your word; help when you can; be fair.” . ilé BK if

President Roosi:vai.'r‘s mother, Mrs. JAMES ROOSEVELT, is opposed to him canipaigniiig for re-election. “I don't think-my son should cani- paign this year,” she said. “The people know whether they want him for another four vears. If they.don't. well, he'll get along well enough." \\’hich is good philo:‘ophy but bad politics,

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Tdronto Saturday Night, rather unkindly: “It does not appear to us to be a matter of any great importance, at any rate as affecting the conduct of the Radio Commission, whether the personal references by ‘Mr. Sage’ to the lead- ing statesmen of other parties were in good taste or not, nor whether they were‘ written by an author who had no business to be in Canada or by an absolutely undeportable native, nor whe- ther they were described in the broadcast as being sponsored by the Conservative party or by john Jones of joiiesvillc-, P. E. 1.”

While we have not yet been credited by Mrs. Black, M.P., and Miss MAcl’itAiL, l\l.P., with having any handsome or distinguished rcp- rcsentalive in the House of Commons we still have one consolation left us. According to Miss

on poetry, fiction, drama, and “remaining ma- ‘ terial" of a literary nature published in Canada during 1935; also an exhaustive bibliography of books and articles on the cultural and literary life ‘of the Dominion-—in itself a laborious undertak- ing and one which should fill a long—felt want. The object of the survey, the editors explain, _i,,i,s “to furnish material for a conspectus, not merely of literature in the narrowest sense, but of that culture of which it forms a part and by which it is (or ought to be) nourished. Nor are those lists devoted to matters beyond pure liter- ature without interest and significance in them- . selves. They illustrate, for example, something of the place held by organized religion in the ' ‘ Dominion, Canada's interest in the arts, her con- cern for education, and finally the effort of her universities, as they emerge from the frontier :~ state, to take their inodest share in the labour of

W humanistic scholarship.”

, The critical cpmmcnts are for the most part brief and to the point. They are not of the kind calculated to swell the egotism of authors. Med-

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'g_ocre literature, particularly in the field of poetry,

put. and this fact is duly noted in the survey. We like particularly the comment on one poetess of pleasing talent but no genius to whose work ,-,popular opinion has tended to assign a false im- once. Her name is little known to readers , so we ricedriat give it. She is a type not (uncommon among literary aspirants, and herein gains the significance of the criticism passed on , - compositions: "Mrs. (Blank) exalt! the Q, pony things in life-rocltfngs'-chairs. flower-pots. wee dresses on the line, strawberries in a blue ' T I. end, of course, lavender and m5KflP,flm¢.- er triqtism, even religion itself, take on a

' eodlneu lrl iierverm. as they, doubtlesl. till!/itnlfid'I'of~"a multitude of Canadians.» " ' model: of the ordinary self

V talus. that is to say,‘ of 1 . = ‘,'.1‘.her..:tir

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Aomzs l\l/tCPH/UL “the most distinguished‘ look- ing man in Parliament” is the Rt. Hon. R. B. BENNETT. When Mr. D. A. MACKINNON, Man- ager of the Charlottetown branch of the Cen- tral Bank visited Ottawa the other day, he was mistaken for Mr. BENNETT by the sentry on duty in the East Block, who saluted him accord- ingly_ 96 3K 3K

Existence of a hitherto unknown force, dif- fering radically from electricity, magnetism and gravitation, and more powerful than any of them, has been demonstrated experimentally, scientists attending the recent annual meeting of the Am- erican Physical Society were informed. One of the properties of this force prevents the universe from exploding into a mass of hydrogen gas, and other properties make possible the existence of the nearly 100 varieties of chemical elements. The force is hidden in the nucleus of the atom and does not extend its influence even as far as the electrons rotating around the nucleus. The only name by which the force is known is “nu- clear force."

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The ghosts of a world that is gone, and never can return, still are playing nominal roles in a strangely transformed post-war world. This was never brought out more forcibly in recent cables than that announcing the recreation of the ancient Roman Empire, with King Vrcron EMANUEL III. of Italy as the modern CAESAR. Declaration of Vicmiz EMANUEL as Emperor is to mark Italian occupation of the Ethiopian capi- tal of Addis Ababa, and doubtless will be\attend- ed with all the pomp and pageantry that ancient precedent and modern facilities can conjure up. The irony of this is lost because one is so used to the situation as it exists in Italy. For here is a hollow image of a mighty "Rex-ct Imperator," propped up and decked out with stage trappings, and owing its existence to BENITO Jmiinrz Mus- sonmr, a former Socialist editor, -whose very first names are those of a Mexican revolution-

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The offer of the Rt. Hon. R. B. Bsimivrr to co-operate with the Government in solving the railway problem is noteworthy. The leader of the Opposition his given. all undertaking which is sufficiently comprehensive to include any reme- dy, which the Government may choose to apply to the railway problem. He emphauizes_ the fact that the Government has the majority and the

or to deal with this issue. He trusts that it hzvthe inclination also and he adds: “Let them proceed to give effect to their inclination and they will receive the support of those members of the Homejvho uninterested in the solution of

or not the for-m'e‘r Government could - l have done what its successor is now being

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~ to do is beside the point. The ques- - .,b-one of the present internment’: up-‘ . _ ‘ ‘F5’! ''’?’°‘.‘

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this groblearg who.Ire~..cnmemed about it." etc. ,

rem upon ‘

considered him as a candidate for such respuslbllltles as have now been placed upon his shoulders. We do not question Mr. Baldwin's wis- dom. He has means of weighing up the capabilities of his colleagues which are not at the dlmsoeal of outsiders, and we are ready to be- lleve that the appointment is the best that could be made, having regard to all the circumstances. Time will tell. More often than once the “dark horse" hm been proved to possess the stamina which carries to the winning post. It. re- mains a question. however, wheth- er the impressive circumstances of the moment would not have been better served by a. more spectacu- lar aippolritment.—we mean by the choice of some one better known. to the publlc and who would more‘ readily carry the stamp of the “in- evitable man."-—Gla.sgow Herald.

Signor Mussolini cannot be blind- ed for all this “shlrt." business. It was not an original idea. of his: he mere‘y changed the colour from the ozirlbalill red to black, the for- mer hue having acqulred special significance since Gsrlbaldlzs days. But he certainly re-introduced the ldea.- to the modern world. where it has’ proved the most infectious of diseases. Germany has come out in brown, Ii-e‘and ln b‘ue, Sir o.-waici Mosley (lacking ai~:gina.i- ity) in bfack, Egypt in green, and now in blue. The general notion behind a ;‘Blue,, -Shlit.s"- here, at its inccp yon’ at least, is somewhat. more’ pac_t‘lc than the other shades. Though they are urged to dye them

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ANAESTHETIC AND OPER- BE'l‘TEB THAN WAS THOUGHT

Although deaths whilst. under an uiaiestaietlc are now very rare, every anaesthetist, surgeon and physician is alert and very watchfill before. during, and after an operation.

It is to prevent accldents durlns the cabin; of an anaesthetic that the patient is usually admitted to hwpltal the previous day so that an

sure and urine can be made.

one of the dangers that is always in mind is that a patient may have heart. disease whlch has always

my the anaesthetic,

It.l.s ‘nteiestl .5 therefore to read in Archives of surgery. Chlcago. of the study made by Drs. J. I-Ilokman, 1-1. L. Livingstone and M. E. Davies,

period of two years the history of

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run «run In on M "7 . *2. -".'::.i:::!"".:. Ohllllflodl cum unusually‘:-nleno the of cwfllflqlnltl.

nn oitooxm sowou. alr.—In my, use letter I touched

but 0. feet of the twists and un- oouth curves at tubers! default. 1

’ D_q-I-lg-'11- 3-‘-'-__.!L-9 intend no sblllty to reach them :11. Much Is hidden and much more HEART CASES WPIFESTAND TEE will be concealed hill Colieervatlves

no-enter to clean up the Augean Stables. And what. 3 mass of partl- un nibblsh they will have under

their broan?

Hepburn in his "repudiation" policy tried to put the stamp of dis- honesty upon the people of On- tario. It even nauscated his Fed- eral Leader. and was one of the real causes of the breach, now tempor- arily patched up.

The same infection la 5 trump in the Campbell ezgrezatlon, one item was even cruelly brought. to light by I questlou on the order Book In the House. "Was a flat granted to Mr. to sue the Government?" "Yes.'.' “Was the case settled?" "Yes," for $6,003. Afraid of the courts. No wonder. Your indictment No.6. Wllllngt.ore- pudlata an honest debt. satisfied to deprive this man of his honest due. until confronted with the courts, then a reluctant show of honesty. and settled for $5.000.

heart, blood pres-

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and no money to lay than.

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lnninmo will do. Then In every need nail evety mu-Io.

found Brunch Oflfce.

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Provincial Mflflfl

Ioeelvlnc eveqmonfliwnnldllndltverydlmeulsfocarry lrur. lnoomo were suddenly cut olf—-with NIIIIII blllim ‘

Atennllooctyoncnnnn-nntefoouitfnneyournlaryto your-wllefornyaou-ornaore,hurryyeurfnmIly over-the roodllul-men tbntwouldeoinelfyouuhuiild die. '11..

1.- ennble your fnmlly to level out thelr stlndnd of living-

Thle In only one annullonlwhuureat.-wes¢|.ir.

Consult your nesrest Agent or write Prince Edward

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not In to meet this need, on:

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Mr. Tea Polt Says: For a Delicious Cup of Full Flavoured Tea

336 patlents wlth heart. dlseaee who had undergone operation.

since there were only six deaths due to heart disease and two to lung disease mi-. could be llnked up in any way with the operation and

underwent 345 operations (a death rate of about 2 per cent), it shows that. as A group, patients with heart. disease are fairly good surgical risks. Angina pectorls (the severe pain under the breast. bone due it ls thought to lack of oxygen in the blood going to the heart), coronary occlusion (when the blood vessel or vessels helping to brlng blood to the heart muscle gets blocked), decom- pensatlon (when the heart muscle has not. the power to pump the blood properly), hardening of the

anaesthetic tn the 836 patients who u

Well, thlg is not all. Them are

still honestly contracted accounts against the government, unpaid, the sole reason being that the money is due to those who dined to einsrclse their franchise and vote conserva- ve.

You spoke of "Not even the com-

mon courtesy of notlflcanlan or dis- missal was accorded these men." You can from the exclusive and would-be elusive dictators not even the cour- tesy of a reply to most. important business letters. Oonservatlva with lawful business, as well as Liberals seeking bare justice, must face the

gt a. grunt from a hog. but

of contempt. Hitler. when the head of a citizen

was demanded an a charger. would

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arteries. and

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to deal.

local anaesthesia lsfactory results mentioned.”

These flndlngs

red if necessary, “obedlence" ls the first word in their brevlary. The Young Waldlsls are to obey orders from their chJa's, which Is more than the students wou‘d do when the prlltlcsl leaders tried to make them go back to work. In a cer- tain serve it is out of this dLs- obtdlenoe that the "Blue Shirts" have grown. so long as they stick to their first principles, they may be useful to their country. Obed- lenoe and dlsclpllne are two things that are badly needed among Egypt's youth. They are hard les- sons to learn. and it will be inter-

esting to see what. the “Blue Shirts" make of t.hem.—'rhe Sphinx, Calm.

when attention was called by Right I-Ion. Arthur Metzhen to the seventy-seventh birthday of Rt. Hon. George P. Graham. the latter, never at a loss for a story to ll- lustmte his point, thanked him as follows: "Our steps are not as speedy as they once were. As an elephant when crcmlng a river al- ways tests the bridge with his feet to see whether it 15 safe, so we have to do now with our pedal ex- tremities. once on his return from A trip to the Old Land Blr Wilfrid Laurler brought an Irish thorn stick for Ned Crane, of the Inter- colonlal Railway. Ned was an en- gfneei-—a good Irishman, llkie my right honorable friend (Right Hon. Mr. Melglien) and in 11’. Himdlnc it back to Sir Wllfrl , he slid: ‘Blr Wilfrid, thank ye. May hebven be your bed, but may you be u. long fame out. or it!’ That is the sent!- ment. I feel my right honorable friend has in his he ."-—NlI1Il'8 Falls Review.

If. h I.l| odd slip that the name of John Christian Bitch should be attached to the portnlt of ms father. John swutlan. shown It the Gainsborough Exhtbtlon, but the non-musical publlo easily loses its way tn the long ramifications of the Bach elm. when Dr. John- son uked peevlshly, "Who is this Bach? in he a piper?" he was ru- terrlug not to the great. Bach, but tohlssonchrlstlanwfiowuu much more fnshlonlble figure fn fiondon at the time . John aehetlsu ever was It be .—¢.on- Obeeuver.