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tad daa ---- ee Housing Loans Total $14, 641,949 * During 1938 Advances To That Amount Were Made to Home Owners in Canada National Housing Act loans dur- ing-1938 were almost double those of 'the previous: year, amounting to $14,641,949, compared with $8,006, eo. 298 according 10 A statement jssued _] CAT by Finance Minister Dunning. Last year's total included advane-- es made under the Dominion Hous- ing Act, which was In operation from:October, 1935, to July 31 last, and under the Natlonal Housing Act, which superseded the Domiun. fon Housing Act last August, » Used in 293 Communities: - © Loans providing housing accom. 'modation for 4,138 families were ap. proved during the twelve-month perlod, compared with 1,961 in.the year 1937. The average loan per family unit was $3,538, compared "with $4,352 in 1937. . During the year loans were ap- proved in 124 addltional communi-. ties where previously there had been no Housing Act loans. Com- munities in. which loans have heen made now total 293 x, : Parade By Elizabeth Eedy ESCAPE: It's next to {mpossible for a German to get out of Ger- many with enough marks in his "pocket to start a new home 4n an. other - country. He's allowed to nough money Now comes ta our ears the story of a clever man who outwitted the agents of Hitler and escaped from Germany forever, taking all * his money with 'hin, Iow.did he do it? He sold his properties, pur- chased bonds (negotiable in Great " Britain) with the proceeds, made a record of the numbérs of the bonds, then took a holiday trip to England.' In London he contacted a firm of bond "dealers, told. them his story, The firm asked for a duplicate - record of the numbers of the * bonds, sent a lawyer back into Ger- many with our clever man. The numbers checked, our friend lit-a match to the bouds in the presence of the lawyer who later certified that they had been destroyed hy fire. Over in England again, the -- ; Daring Flyer Returns With Russian Bride TWEED MILITARY REEFER in the total amount of the honds, And life began anew, --0-- %. GREEN LIGHT: A Canadian judge recently ruled that a pedes- trlan who starts to cross the street when the light is green has the v right of way till he gets to the other side, regardless of whether the light. changes to red ih the © meantime or not. Thal's one to re- "member, motorists. "But if, pedes: trians stand too rigidky Ly their rights in the matter, they are likely to run into trouble. . -. or be Tun. into. : ---- FREEDOM'S A GIFT: _"I-have taken the veil for demod acy" last week declaved former Czech Ambas- sador fo' Great Britain, Jan Mas. aryK, son of Czechoslovakia's foun- der. Sad but not bitter at the-fate "of hiz beloved country, he lias cone to this continent to do his part An saving what is left of democracy. in the world today. 2 is the yest of his life to serving the triumphant fugitive was reimbursed" fle is devoting. his wife. from-whom he had been se is' pictured here with Mrs. Grover EE Re Ee EE VOICE OF THE PRESS a EXCEPT MONEY : A farmer's wife, after looking over a new recipe book, expresses the opinion that it is possible to 'make almost anythiniz out of eggs, except money.--Monctor Tran seript- TERIA? 2 PIRES] 1] TRY THE RURAL AREAS A. Toromo woman has written to Vancouver for a husband. The situation in Toronto probably is the same as in Guelph--the dear' lady has found out all 'the nice men are already married. -- Guelph Mercury, y AND THE DOUGH'S ALL SPENT As the public accounts of Ontar- fo are not distributed until the Legislatuie meets, and it will as- semble late this year, the accounts will be 11 months old before any- - one but members of the Cabinet see them.--Wodstock Sentinel-Re- view, - DRIVERS WHO FALL-ASLEEP "plea once more in the Garden of "completed New. Year's eve, "in December, 1934, with construc. Garden Of Eden May Grow Apples New Hope For Arid Eastern Land Is Seen In The Giant Reservoir Being Build In Iraq By British Engineers. Women and men may pick ap- « Eden when water flows "arid country froma glan built by British engineers, The Kut Dam (rrigation project; designed to bring under cultivation a great tract of land between the Tigrissand Euphrates rivers, tradi tional site of 'the land from which Adam and Eve were expelled, was Dam Across Tigris A 1,500-foot dam across the Tigris will send water down a-2% mile canal Into the Shatt-el-Gharraf riv- er at all seasons of the yéar, In addition locks will permit véssels to voyage along the Tigris between Baghdad and Basrah, Work on the project was started tion of workers' camps and actual building of the dam and reservolr begun---in-June. . Back on British 5 Nae a daring flight into Rinssif to bring home pavated_for four years, Brinn Grover as they reached London. made headlines a few weeks ago by making an unauthoized trip to the Soviet in a dilapidated old plane. He was detained for six weeks and after paying a fine was allowed to leave the country accompanied by his wife, born a Russian. "Grover met for the government of Rusia, his wife while doing scientific work Owls Creep Up | On Their Prey - ; + Completed March 31 Most of. the projects are under way. All must be -completed by agreements with the Federal Gov- Grover: March 31 under the terms of two. H--may be surprising --to--tearn that drivers who fall asleep at, the wheel are the cause of more than 70,000 automobile accidents annu- ally.. It pays to have all senses alert when in charge of a motor car.-- Chatham News, BETTER LOOKED AFTER ~ A very potent fact which re- strains emigrants from leaving Great Britain to risk ventures in the Dominions is the social secur- "ity measure in effect over there. Unemployment insurance and old age pensions are the main bene- fits which are not offered in all British Dominions: --Brandon Sun, SPORT AND CRIME Juvenile crime in Lethbridge has diminished perceptibly. This year there have been only 20 ju- veniles jn court so fur as against 58 last year.. This, we have no hesitation in saying is greatly due to the encouragement given boys by the facilities-provided-by com- munity playgrounds and" skating | rinks and the interest taken in ju- gun--in--Ju 2,600 Arabs and Kurds labored day and night removing 1,600,000 cubic yards of soil from the reservoir and placing more than 250,000 cu- bic yards of concrete {n the giant - forms that shaped the dam. In 1936 tho highest, flood ever known in the Tigris delayed work, Laborers worked under conditions varying (rom freezing In winter to 125 degrees in the shade in mid. summer, Hundreds in Berlin wore waste- paper baskets over their heads on "Pedestrians' Day" to draw atten- | tion to the carclessness that often leads to fatal accidents. j 130 --Ag--many--as--}-- Nazis Propaganda Minister Goebbe in an exposition -of German an Italian contributions to world pr gress this week reminded away living observers who insu and criticize authoritarian state that "America was discovered by an Italian." : ebbels spoke betore £ tion with Fascist Italy--the "Roma Berlin radio axis" as he put ft. Goebbels said "the world of today : 1s not imaginable" without Gérmans - Italian accomplishments, "Not Imaginable" Without Them "Books 'and -newspapers can Ye printed because Gutenberg invent. ed the art of printing, The wires less for all time Is connected wit the namo of the allan, "Marconi, The first combustion motors were mado by the Germans, Benz and Daimler," he summarized. "The old and new world have taken possession of these accomps lishments and benefit therefrom." Sets World Record} With Model Plane John T. Dilly Galt, aeroplane designer and builder, has been advised he broke a world's record for model planes. At the Canadian champion- ships in Toronto last Septem- ber his outdoor stick model stayed aloft feur minutes and twenty-two seconds. He lop- |. ped sixteen seconds off the world's mark. The Federation Acronautique International of Paris has now recognized this as an official world's record, ROLL YOUR OWN BETTER CIGARETTES FALLEN AMONG THIEVES: We noiseless. Once the bird's strong : Ann Rutherford chooses a tweod mil. . tary reefer for niepy, days. Double. . breasted, navy velvet fashions the- button trim and turned-down collar, tones of re avy accessories notes of LL CC Pill-box. ule wien tel-colored teim in). .| We're Burning Up. expresso The optuton fast-- week fhat stronghold of liberty and democracy on the continent of Europe is gradually being encircled by a ring of thieves and -black- mailers. The day will soon arrive when her position is intolerable. At the moment, France is report. ed to have agreed to do nothing to prevent a Fascist victory In Spain --in exchange for a German pro- ~mise-to dissuade Italy from taking "What a promise and what.a bar- . gain! Czechoslovakia first. will be sold dewn-the river. But France next: "that France is certainly. in for It. < "slices of France's African empire. talons have secured a grip on an animal's flesh, the creature sel- dom escapes, Birds are able to sce at least 100 times as well as can-human beings--yet they cannot see the color blue. Half the 'weight of a bird con- sists of the muscles that move the wings. .. Consume Small Creatures As many as 38,000 skulls of mice, rats and gophers have been ~--found--underneath the nests of barn owls. These birds consume small creatures jn their entirety, later coughing Wp the bones and © fur. : : Of all Hving creatures, birds b Too Much R serve ae Tire helped wa hols, .| possess most active respiration and : RE : THE WEEK'S QUESTION: What | reduire the-most oxygen. The reu- does: the Federal Government's now | Sons that-theair--they-inhaleis-- Physical And. Nervous Energy | oi: ogra invalvel Answers sent fon Hott dines pockets Needed For Future Years Is | giarting April 1 the Dominion wit | Surrounding = their interna or: M 4 gans, and 'even into the inside of Being Used In: 'Worrying pay 40 per. cent.. of direct relief ie of thle bape 3 - About Today's Ussisugeis tant payments (instead of 30 per cent)e | = ones, : ~ Details," yi. 4 Each province will be required to e Ay - pay At least an equal 40 per cent, Three -Millions . A newspaper. featire In which '| and the balance will be paid by the J 4 . the Inquiring reporter aske vari- [- municipalities, Under the proposed Be n Spent On "ous people ofall walks of Ife about | Deng - their Ideas and thoughts recently ment will provide for a sharing of Northern Roads asked the question: "What worrles the cost of ald Sit i Hahsioms . ou most?' The answers from in- on a 50-50 basis with the provinces. }i- or bi T telligent human beings, some of On the strangih of the program Ottawa Is Paying Half the Cost : whom were ashamed and others | newly announced, Canadian clties Of Work On Northern On- - amused at thelr worries, showed [ "have already started feeding the .tario Highways This Winter that often the most unimportant jobless. single-within thelr gates. - ~--Trans-Canada Links, things were causing them dally - -- a i in z - ii i © worry. . ree million dollars Is being 2 In or words, these normal, in- Hitler's New Study spent this winter ox Northern On- telligent- people were, worrying -- tario Toads, chlefly on the Trans- A" Canada Ilighway from North Bay in using.up thelr stored nervous en- ergy--about things that were most- ly unimportant. 4 Store. Up Nervous Forces ' Most visitors to Great Britain noticé a.calmer, "smoother" - ex- - pression on the faces there, which I have always attributed to their habit of eating more meals (not moro food) than those. in the Unit. ed States or Canada, I felt that the "contented" expression was due to a satisfted or contented stomach, However, William James tells us in Reader's Digest, that "the duller * counfenances of the British people betoken a better 'scheme of life' ~--they suggest stores of_reserved nervous force to fall back upon if the occasion should require It." It is only too true that in these days dll of us must be '""'up on our toes" in the battle of life, . there is no need to Be up-on 'ou' toes about the small or trivial things of 'life. This tenseness or woll'y abbut small things 18 using np the reserve: 'forces wo may need to face the big things "of lite. "Denmark has honored its great sculptor, Bertek: ©, Thorwaldsen, "stamps two 'of which bear "trait and the third 'a. statue of Jason, hls rst impoftant but who died in 1844, 'by issuin three Ss por work: J_the telephone, Thirty Yards Long 'Walls Are 32 ? Feet High i in the No Pictures, Few Books Nine pencils in different colors "1lo on Adolt Hitler's lexk in his new Chancellery study, probably. the lar- gest study maintained by any ruler, There is also a large magnifying glass, indicating Intensive study of maps. There are no pletures but books for daily use Including } err Hitler's own "Mein Kampt," . Hans Frank's "Book 'of German "Law," directories of the Relchstag, government - offices and youth groups, and -- topmost -- a volume on British and German lines fn the World War. The room fs 88 by 45 feet and 32 fet high, At one end'is a round table with chairs and sofa under a Lenbach portrait of Bis marck, The desk is at the other end. A bust of the late President Paul von Hindenburg is in one cor- ner, : "= Mrs, Sarah Adeock, of Wooton, England, 105 years of age, took Her frst thip. dn an airplane. "weeks after" her first ride in an automobile and her fires talk on German Fuehrer's Office --. few red brush can be burned with. out danger of causing forest-fires: in the winter months. ~ Clearing And Grading mated that upwards of 100 miles of the Trans-Canada Highway be- tween North Bay and the Soo is ready for permanent surfacing any ilme, a first class roadved having been laid. No decision has been made on whether any paving is to "be done this 'yea a was stated, - You Can Sleep On Either Side It was long held' that right- No permanent surfaces will be laid - The Highways Deparfment esti-- cagse of freddom. Ws Once the Bird's Talons Have ernment covering winter reliet nior Hockey Association, the ex- i 8 = Tora at can ~ Fastened On Its Victim There-{- orm io hat dats, -- - 2 <1. centive. of a i ompased of said: le y g that ea slearing and grading, involving adults.-- Lethbridge Heralc save the world now is to make peo Is Small Chance of Escape. the elimination of hills and curves, DO Jple understand that freedom is 'a | . a . constitute the chief works under " "great gl. We nist do Paring " - Owls slip up on their prey i the agrecments with the Federal Nonagenarians we ean tn preserve itt silent wings--the feathers being Government. An advantage of do- me vi i = A --f-- ITmged Witir AowIT to ronucr tnent this work in the winter is that For--24 3 CATE NEL ba Gabl has been keeping a redord of the death notices published daily in London Times. During that per- .iod, reports Gabb, 9,781 persons passed 90 before dying--and most of the nonagenarians were mar- ried women, 'Phe year 1938, when 489 persons over 90 died, was typical of that total: 154 were-- men and 335 were women, 213 of them married. assure the if the Chemical experts British Goyernment that "worst came people could be fed on tablets which would provide everything necessary except bread and water. Deer Leaps Into Office By Window _The | to the worst {he handed people generally sleep on Ba eT, while left-handed pedpkd go to/ sleep on the left side. Careful experiments which have been that this is not really the case. When 150 right-handed persons were examined it was found that there was no great preference for carried "out recently show + Police of London, Ont., were called at 4.30 one morning last week to arrest a new kind of Jip a 125-pound deer that caped through the office win- "dow of the Leonard Foundry, when startled by early morning noises, to Sault Ste. Marie and roads rune ning north from ft, Ontario High- ways Department officials report. £3 (JO) although in the case of left- handed people the majority preferred the left side. When, in the course of experi- ments, sleepers were asked to go to re.t so many nights on-their habitual side, .it was found that they got'to sleep more casily when on their normal side than when they were in the unustial position. The doctors, therefore, feel that people, whether they be grown-ups or boys or girls, should make a practice of sleeping on the side which they usually favor. "We receiv rt a call from the night wat:hman about 4 o'clock, . he said, 'You may not be- -- lieve it, but a deer just jumped through the window of the df- fice," " stated Seggeant Perey Last. P.C.'s and bil Shipley \g patched with the bla to remove the frighte from its new found sanctuary. It required four men to capture it and place it in the police transport, in which it was taken to Pond Mills and released. Res Nope, 4-1 By Columbus model | ES |Copyright 1068, by Prod Kader) "Why dont'cha take the striped one +o IVI make you look taller! ~ WONDERLAND oO FOZ By L. Frank Baum SEL IRA but frald. lh a rat and Ly y shall see him," the sneoring Foremost shall upon the best way to punish -theware!" interrupted threats" he stil was'not- laugh, 1 de: " - ne \ Fe FA2A Fe ey i 25 & AVE © Foi 15e, Rey 4 Lee Cs. ® V "If you try to escape," 4 hero the Je salg lan you on and keep "ain, f ho showed o adopted a bold manner as his r-- est ~defense, Was soon evident Shantasm with the owl's head turn. ed and Tea' the 'way up the moune This Guph was réally a clever ras "Ho will not punish me," returned cal, and It seems a pity ho was so ntruder, "What Gu ih, calmly, "for 1 have como here bad, for in good cause ho might have "" he demanded, 10 do him and his people a rare faye accomplished much, He 'realized of "va come to 8eo or. Lead on and. take mo directly that he had put himself into a dan- #olla, 0 your thantors The owl-nian rais« . Kerous position by coming to this v sa his club with a threatening get. yeagtul mountain, but he also knew were fear ho The wisdom of for the riscovered on among the dweliings Ing in the centre. O trance the that sounde At 4he very top of the path with a level plain upom which were heaps ock that at first glance scefed but on looking closer Guph that these rock heaps dwellings, for each had an Sp. ening, Not a person was tg hie &¢ outside the rock hits, All was sil- led the way o one stands taldé the ens Kuide gave a low wall like="Lee-OwsAhl" The owl-man PURPA JEP