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Can we have a passion for liberty. if we have no liberty? Can we have a love of home if we have no home? Can we nave the will to fight and even die for cause, if we do not believe in it? Czan we have health and stamina, if our children have rickets, our mothers to figzht and even die for a cause, and health and stamina to make such resi=ance effective. Low Cost Houses 7‘%e most crying need in Canada toâ€" day is lowâ€"cost homes for our people. Given these our unemployment probâ€" lems would in large measure solve themselves. You ask me how we will firence such. I ask you in return "How will you finance rearmament?" Ye: you will finance rearmament on a riuge scale! Now I am not taking issue with a rearmament programme. In fact I agree with its needs. But you know the adage: "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage." Ne‘iner do armaments alone make for the security of a counriry. Behind the armaments, we must have a people a passion for liberty, with a love of with the intestinal fortitude . Communism can have no place in zation of home owners for even worzing men are then capitalists. Contrast these conditions with those prevailing where people live in apartâ€" ment houses. Twentyâ€"five, fifty, a htxdred or more families live under ors> roof like a swarm of. rabbits in a warren. They lose their individuality and conform to a palttern. Instead of up!iit and ambition, there is a levelling dovnward by the contaminating effect of even one bad apple in whe crate. Insiead of happiness and enjoyment of life there is a breeding of discontent, opoortunity for increased. laxity of morals and a general lowering of stanâ€" dar«ds. There is a wise Scottish sayâ€" ing. "Every new hive should have a new skep" meaning that when ° a young couple marry they should ledve for a home of their own as‘ the bees do. away from the disturbing influâ€" enc of inâ€"laws. In our apartment house system we add to an interfering motnerâ€"inâ€"law a hundred other interâ€" fering busyâ€"bodies. Yet we wonder why there is an increased tendency to diverce! nsz which has become an actual fact, thet, "An Englishman‘s home is his casrle." Size and cost are not factors in ithis philosophy. The small lowland Scot. laird in his little better than clay biggin felt just as independent as the ear} in his castle. The Highland crofâ€" ter in his thatched cottage developed a jlove of home ownership which was the underlying incentive of Britain‘s em:zration policy and the foundation stone of her empire. The eventual reduction in family overhead which comes of home ownerâ€" shiv and systematic payment on mortâ€" grse is the safest form of saving. (Continued from Previous Page) a Gozen municipalities in Great Briâ€" tain stating that it is their decided policy to build wooden schools. And trese include municipalities as large as Liverpool, Manchester and Brimingâ€" ham. Yet we in Canada are developâ€" imrg a snobbish fear of wood construcâ€" tion which is in the nature of a douâ€" bleâ€"barreled curse upon our peopleâ€" It makes the coss of housing scandalâ€" ously high, and at the same time deâ€" prives a large section of our people of employment by robbing our second lergest industry of its markets. The Porest Products Industry of Canada provides over 16% of the employment o0# our people. In lumbering and agriâ€" culture together some 1,300,000 persons are gainfully employed. Every restricâ€" ticn on the use of lumber is a direct ard unjustified restriction against the means of livelihood of all those people. T: has even more farâ€"reaching effects tran that. It is a further constriction of our home markets at a very time in history when the development of the home market is the best hope of surâ€" "ival in every country. Advantages cof Home Ownership C is a psychological reaction on an individual when: he becomes the owner of a home. He liserally secures a siake in the community and actually owns a piece of his country. There is a sense of security in ownership, which has no parallel in tenancy. There is cortained therein the ssed of indepenâ€" dence which has given rise to the sayâ€" Canada‘s Need More Low Cost Homes 7 MAY 12TH, 1938 "Better Homes" at once brings up the thought of more and better gardens. Home without a garden is scarcely home, and a town without gardens is in sad luck. Indeed, in this world toâ€" day the Horticultural Society in very special way may be classed as a patrioâ€" tic society because of what it does for the country, the community, the people. A ‘"Better Homes" edition would be incomplete withceut something about better gardens. The Almighty has gifted us with the finest country in the world.. Beyond any other people, we have been affordâ€" ed the loan of talents. If we are not worthy of them, then in fairness to humanity we should make way for a people of greater virility, of wider visâ€" ion, and practical common sense. Some Timely Hints for Flower Garden C ‘ Second Ftoor qo t sY Smallâ€"paned windows, batten shutters,. and colourful shingled walls, characterize this modern version of the popular old English cottage. are anaemic and tubercular from inâ€" sanitary living conditions, and our fathers have the lethargy of the hopeâ€" lessly unemployed and the flabby muscles of the unexercised? This comfortably planned room is lighted by five windows, and a large open fire place is centered on one long wall. Adeâ€" quate wall space for all large pieces of furniture is provided. The strapâ€"hinged front door opens into a small vestibule. This compact but carefully planned room boasts two clothes closets, both convenient for coats, sports equipment, games, card tables, etc. A turning stairway leads to the second floor from this room, and directly opposite the front door is a cased opening leading into the living room. The dinette is small, but designed to provide a maximum of usable floor and wall space. Two windows and a glazed door Better Homes Means More and Better Gardens. First Floor THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO ARCHITECT FOR THE NEW BUCOVETSKY BUILDING AND SKY BUILDING TELEPHONE 1135 McINNIS BUILDING, 20 PINE STREET NORTH B. KAMINKER CHARMING ENGLISH COTTAGE DESIGN Serdlings of garden plants, such as pansies and poppies, frequently show up in clumps of Disnthus and other covering plants and if carefully taken up they can be transplanted to some sStill other possibilities include photoâ€" mourals and colourful maps, # Add a room to your home and comâ€" fort and pleasure to your life, Perennials, such as Aster, Phlox, Helenium, that have grown into large clumps should be lifted, divided and replantsd. If any bad weeds are found in among clumps of perennials the plants should be taken up and the rocts of the weeds carefulily removed and destroyed. The plants will recover very quickly at this season of the year and there is no other way of destroyâ€" ing weeds like couch grass. _ Now that spring is here all dead stems should be cut off the plants, leaves and broken branches raked up and the garden tidied up. Plants that were put in last autumn should e examined and any that have been heaved out of the ground by frost should be replanted or pressed firmly into the soil. If left, the roots will probably dry out and die. The lawn should be well raked, advises Miss L Preston, Specialist in Ornamental Horâ€" ticulture, Central Experimental Farm. Ottawa. If the grass is poor and bare patches occur, some good lawn grass seed should be scattered over the surface and raked in. Rolling the lawn is very beneficial at this time of year. B. ARCH., M.R.A.IL.C. Thig small house, like most other designs of English inâ€" spiration, can be effectively built of almost any local material Shown here with a shingled exterior, it would be equally attarctive finished in stone, brick or stucco. lead to a small terrace at the{rear of the house, making 1 pleasant spot for outâ€"ofâ€"doors meals during warm weather, Adjoining the dinette is a complete kitchen. The rear entry has doors to the basement, driveway and a closet conveniently placed for cleaning supplies and storage, Two bedrooms are provided on the second floor, with a bati placed between‘them. Special care has been taken. to profâ€" vide a maximum of closet space on the second fAoor; each of the bedrooms has a large closet, plus a builtâ€"in linen closet and an extra large closet for storage purposes opening off ths hall. TIMMINS, ONT. For overmantel decoration use a large painting, wall hanging, mirror, panel, carved wood basâ€"relief or figured tiles, Many modern decoraâ€" tors make effective use of a goldfish bowl or terrarium built into the wall and illuminated by concealed lights, Still other possibilities include photoâ€" mourals and colourful maps, There should be a contrast of straight and curved lines, but one should dominate. If the reom . has many windows and doors, have the draperies tied back to give curved lines., Mirrors with curved and shaped tops are better in rooms with many winâ€" dows to vary the straight lines., vacant spot in the border. In loosening up the soil at this seaâ€" son it is well to watch carefully for young growth which may be just a% the surface as tips of lily and other plants are easily destroyed and that means no flowers in summer. OVERMANTEL DECORATION HMHARMONIOUS DESIGN IN THE ROOM