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the acton free pbbss thursday junk 1 imi at 1mb minimi sea itak j lan bujott la fauasalna team an saturday iwwi int murray to mr and mia hairy o murray on jobs aotn mm at tha coalpit c hospital tha tin of a eon vu1 coozcji tj uc jji3 mil dtrfc van gooeen taae iiab aaaaefc- ontarlo oa john dtt lasbyking on saturday ac ihik the pertace la prairie united church manse by tha bav x w merit evetynne daughter of sat and mia j a klnc to lac joseph alexander laaby rjgjlt wtbblpac aon of mr and mn h- j laelij at acton ontario aids to home construction urged by llalton member i suggest that the present act should be used tor thle pa w lower interest men itt- cameron at hla horn 31 street cloversvwe n v on mon day june 19th 1944 john b cam- formerly of acton need 78 howard in ship on thursday afargaret f pupa late william howard in nassagaweya day june 22 toem- 1m4 of the her 83rd marshall at the home of hla daughter mrs sheldon trousdale corwhln ontario on tuesday june arth lse john btoehautbeloved husband of mary scott in his 02nd her gervais at the home daughter mre lloyd church street acton on monday june 2s 1944 mary caroline ben son widow of the late charles cer- vala in memosualf moore in loving memory of my dear husband nelson f moore who passed away june 26th 1943 i have lost my souls companion a u linked with my own and day by flay t miss him more as i walk through life alone i think of him in silence no eye may see me weep but many a silent tear is ahed while others are asleep sadly missed by lavlna moore pbjtuon john b cameron nlun of aetna john b cameron of cloverertlfe n y ana buried in falrvtew cemetery hero leet thnrs- day moraine mr cameron who waa 78 yean of ate died suddenly at lua home on monday jane nth re had men around ma home when etiteken with a heart attach he had been in poor health four years ad rejaed in tola district mr wawtto cloeergrulo in 1886- he waa a retired close maker a of fremont methodist church an honorary member of the official board of the church and at one time nerved an communion stew ard the a are hla wife mary stark cameron and n nephew gord on cameron of victoria can a funeral aerrlee waa held at the kennedy funeral home in glovers- vide on wednesday afternoon ji 21 the rev prod oerke of frem ont methodlat church officiated iltshf webb in the r ihe of leslie webb on june 17 the community of oeprlnfie lost one of lta oldest pioneer and an esteemed resident lealle webb the second aon of jaa and mary ann webb was born in ralnham centre haldlmand co in 1873 when he was eight years of ase the family moved to the form at ospringe leslie webb married ehiabetli reed daughter of joseph reed a neighbor to thla union were bom three children ella may llaeel elisabeth and james wilfred webb in 1908 elizabeth reed webb died two years later ella may the oldest child passed away in december 1010 leslie webb married mary appleyard of george town to this union were bom four children leslie albert william ir win ray edmund and nellie lorrll- on may 25 103 ray met with fatal accident and died on juno 3- the 1st mr webb leaves ma wid ow 123 stuart street guelph two daughters haxel elizabeth of sault ste marie and nellie mrs dan wln- terxrll no 4 rockwood and three sons wilfred or pelly sask leslie of hamilton and william of paisley block brothers and sisters are mrs david seuell of st catharines mrs lucy whiteside of blraay sask mrs hou wl imr wu jessie bessey of brampton mrs sar- head j wl h hma that somethlnit may nhwelhour of toronto irwin whb ki wher iby vll go the lome scots go into camp at niagara this week strawberries dropped to 27 cents in price on monday schools closed this week for the longer summer vacation entrance examinations were writ ten yesterday and today haying la well in progress on many of the farms of this district dominion day on saturday most business places will be closed all day a hew garage is being construct ed at the west side of the johnstone and rumley funeral home remember those days last winter when we longed for the warm sum mer weathert well thla is itl its hot official but a thermomet er at the free press office touched 94 in the shade yesterday afternoon the brick work on mr geo ben tons store and residence has been completed and the carpenters are busy finishing the improvements many friends here will regret to learn that word was received last week that flying officer dyke cor- leas was reported missing after oper ations over enemy territory rev e a tulker of niagara vails is the hew rector now in charge of st albans acton and st johns rockwood and he and mrs pulkor are now getting settled in the rect ory on willow street wovlf boa be loot speaking mjlto houep rf- last friday on postwar construct ion hughes cleaver member for llalton said that number 1 priority should be given to the o of homes and urged that special study be given this problem we quote from his address we have an acute shortage of houses in this country estimates differ but reliable sources agree that when this war is over we shall have a shortage of over three hundred thousand homes it is only right and proper that in time of war with its consequent shortage of materials we should try to get along with the housing svcconunodstlon we have we have struggled to do that mr speaker by rental controls and the like we have done out best tp get by the present emergency without any needless expenditure of either labor or materials on the building of houses while we have been quite correct in postponing house building tp meet the heeds of war yet in the long run i suggest it is going to turn out to our advantage because during the immediate postwar period this postponed consumer demand for houses will have to be met and it will put thousands of men to work at the moment we can reasonably hope that the end of the war u not in the too far distant future and i think we should immediately com plete plans for postwar house build ing i should like to urge that pilot or key organizations be set up now which can be quickly expanded when the war is over to support and direct house building schemes in adopting this plan of postponing the supplying of our housing heeds until the war is over we have of necessity caused some real distress today many people are living under almost un bearable housing conditions to some extent this has been the cause of in creasing crime 111 health and the like in addition to those who are in actual distress thousands of families are dally living under the threat that you like in order to bring those ad- vantag a within the reach of working man in the country my first suggestion in regard to in terest rates interest raise should be reduced to 4 per cent and to 4 per cent if possible as all ban members irnowrmnney hi now available in tha dominion of canada that is li term boi t at 3 per cent less let us take the governments cxallrlbiltion at 35 per eentr tflg- ure it on n 3 per cent basis let allow the loan companies s per cent on their 73 per cent loan content and we have a resulting rate of 444 per cent t i suggest that if we are to adopt a large building program the lending institutions may not have sufficient money to finance it on that basts and that perhaps the government should enter the field on a so per cent basis with 3 per cent money in thla ee- nt allowing the load companlea 8 per cent on their so per cent eon- tent the interest rate would automat ically fall to 4 per cent with the in terest rate of 4 per cent and the minister of finance has announced in advance that that is what is going to happen the monthly payment for these houses under which a man act ually acquires ownership are today less than the normal rent for houses of that type with a possibility of a further onehalf per cent reduction one can see what the effect would be in connection with monthly payments coming to the second recommend ation in connection with repayment of loans f i know something about these houses built under the nation al housing act they are well built i say without fear of successful con tradiction that homes built under tlie national housing act standards have a useful owneroccupancy lifetime of at least forty years i therefore sug gest and urge that the amortization period should be increased from twenty to at least thirty years that again will assist in bringing down the amounts of monthly payments the minister of finance has already announced that that proposal is un der discussion and that some pro gress will be made i would urge as strongly as i can that thirty years should be the minimum where an owner requires that time to pay for his home my next suggested change is a new one in the mind of each of thru now home owners is the constant dread the constant worry hanging dude the indirect labor the labor am tent that goes into tha rnanufact- ure of frames doors lumber floor ing plaster hardware plumbs and every thing else used fta ob struction if one pitee all that in the labor content he win roar at least eighty per cent labor content in a medium sired home i do not know of any type of const met km in which the labor content is as great for that reason therefore i say that la one of the postwar a mas we should first adopt nectlon with labor content and it la this i do not know of any construct ion work in which the labor c3 would be so diversified and spread out over the entire country one might say it would spread throughout all branches of industry benefit would accrue to all parts of the coun try for all these reasons i urge as strongly as i can that the present is not one day too aoon to make plana and to complete the organization for the financing and the supplying of materials for the new houses we do so urgently need plbase whefte ake the muhmiest guards at the royal ontario mus eum report that nine out of ten people visiting the museum want to see the egyptian mummies this ex hibit holds more shivers than a com bined ghost story and mystery thrill er its real important lies in the fart that it illustrates a burial cus tom five thousand years old one un- ifju in the history of mankind mum mification an attempt to perpetuate phyucal life by complicated embalm ing and ritual gradually developed in complexity frgaj nbout 3000 b c to its highest point or elaboration about 1000 b c the burial of ob jects to be used in the mummys physical life after death naturally de veloped as a consequenre practically oil our knowledge of ancient egyptian dally life comes from the tombs that this dally life la far more interesting than the mummies themselves you can easily prove by a few hours in the egyptian galleries her the life of the past con be reconstructed from the mus eums collection of jewellery toilet articles tools weapons furniture sculpture stone and decorated clay vases tc encourage milk use in britain cow has become a moat important creature in wartime brit am she is producing milk but the mothers and children and other people drink it faster than it comes her milk is the key to a new era in british health and in british ag riculture as the aulhottlea see it it is also the key to the prospects of poet war british markets for r products both production and consumption of milk are at alltime high levels in britain today the consumption la up because the authorities provide free milk for children and nurttnc mothers and do everything possible to encourage its uu it is strictly rat ioned and as you get it ina restaur ant for your tea or porridge looks de cidedly bluish the high level of production of milk is the result of the deliberately induced trend of british agriculture under wartime controls john bull asked his farmers for three things potatoes wheat and milk potatoes and wheat because they produce the most human food per acre of ground and so save shipping space milk to bolster the health of mothers and children the result has been that british farmers have fewer hog few er beef cattle but more milk cows than ever before free milk will continue after tit war and tastes for milk will remain britain will need still more cows many more even before the ration on milk can be lifted if as it seems probable the filling of british needs for fluid milk becomes the first post war objective of british agriculture britain will probably need cheese bacon and some other products from canada after the war in something like the volume now being shipped the farm help situation is more berious than gver the farm help problem explained in some detail is not as bright even as the picture given last week western farm hands expected to help in the harvest have not yet arrived and in stead of the 1200 expected the num ber is more likely to be 600 this meant that heltons share of this help will not be over 30 the term commando offices are re ported beeelged with applications for help and there is little available hay ing is now on in this district and the crop is a good one it is reported there are 2000 applic ations for high school students for tha ontario farm service force and no students available for the posi tions if the crops are to be harvested it appears the only solution is for townfolk to lend a hand in whatever time they can give on holidays or ev enings anyone who can land a hand la urged to register at local farm commando headquarter in milton at tha agricultural representatives of- qos phone 33a of guelph and dobble webb of aru- ona the funeral was held from oa- prlnge presbtyerian church and in terment in everton cemetery crowded ships crry soldiers over the ocean loon hours at sea taken up with meals games and church attendance cards are popular bv frank fuuiebtv staff witter chow cards craps and church ate the four btg cs of life on a troop ship i crossed the atlantic on one of the largest troopships in operation along with a good many thousand united states soldiers and sailors so many that life had lo be organized and regimented down to some of its more minute details 9 these ships carry so many men that moat of them spend their tlmo on their feet or their backs except when they sit on the decks to while away the time details about meals and church blared forth regularly on the ships loud speaker system which conveys a message to everyone at once chow came twice a day for all but there was plenty of it everyone attended church came several times a day in various denominations there is ho record of how many attended dally but sunday services were crowded and on all days it was something dif ferent for the men to do there were ho announcements about cards and craps on the loud speaker but games flourished every where and thousands of dollars changed hands sevencard stud wa the favorite but blackjack and dire werv popular games ranged from a modest and ten to tilts in which nothing bit folding money was to be seen with bets of 10 and 20 and occasionally v0 american army nurses like their poker game almost as well as the men but when the girls sat in on a game the stakes were usually modest people cheerfully and willingly en dure that sott of thing during war time but i suggest to you uv speak er thnt the minutes this war is over the canadian people will demand they have a right to demand that their proper housing needs be met in addition to the acute housing problem which exists at the present time when thousands of our service men return they will marry and want homes of their own in addition to giving the housing problem the rating which i bellove it deserves namely no 1 priority i should like to urge that government sponsor a campaign for every man to own his own home i do not know of any better time to tart than now when we have such nn acute shortage i should like to urge that credit facilities be made available for this need on a sound business basis the advantages of home ownership and the disadvantag es of tenant occupancy are so appar ent that i do not heed to labor the point in these days we hear many discussions of the relative merits of our capitalistic system and socialism so far as i am concerned the major complaint that i have in regard to the capitalistic system is that we have too few capitalists i would urge that every man in this country own his own home every man should be come a capitalist this proposal u hot a dream impossible of fulfilment t is a scheme which if undertaken as a national program could be quite easily attained in a very hhort tlmo today many men have to pay rent for their housing accommodation is there any man in this country who would hot rather pay the same monthly payments on a house which he will eventually own let me say something as to the down payment we all know that practically everyone in this country is accumulating savings which i sug gest in most instances will be suffic ient to take care of the ten per cent down payment at the end of the war to those who have not been able to acquire the compulsory saving as happen possibly through illness or ac cident as a result of which the bread winner would lose his life and thj widow would be left with an unbear able mortgage load if this is to bo a nationwide scheme for every man to own his own home then i say that in the event of his death thd mort gage should bo paid off and the wid ow should be presented with the house free from encumbrances and that this should be paid out of an in surance fund i am told that this typo of term insurance could be ac quired at moderate coat not exceed ing one dollar per month per homo my next suggestion deals with re straint in respect of alienation very serious thought should be given to this matter so far as i am concern ed the owner of a house should be placed in the position whore he could not through bad business judgment or in any other way lose his house i would have the house in such a po sition that it will not be subject to execution levies in addition i think it might be wise to prevent the own er from selling his house or possibly it would be well in the event of sale to freeze the selling price or set u apart to bo used only for the purchase of another house that is only my own thought on the subject but i of fer it for what it is worth these five suggestions will in my opinion make thovact workable and bring it within thereac1i of every working man in canada however we could not possibly succeed in reaching a point where every man would own his own home unless we were to provide for the use of exist ing houses already built i suggest thnt an additional number be added to tho housing act to make these sec ond hahd houses if i may so describe them available for exactly the same purposes and on quite the same terms i concede at once that the amortization period should not be so long that is it should not exceed the life of the houses in addition mon ey should be made available by bor rowing repayable in monthly pay ments just as under part i of the j cadesky optometrist will be in acton on monday july 3rd anyone buffering from eye strain pefectlve vision or head ache should not miss the oppor tunity of consulting thla eye sight specialist appointments may be made with mr a t brown drucglst ouiee i lours t lsso man till 445 pm 4dt naaatig royal palace guelpits leading theatres today til haturday ingrid bcrgmann charles boyer in gaslight todav til monday maria montez in cobra woman in technicolor with sabu jon hall monday to wednesday louise ahbrltton robert paige in her primitive man plus otto krugcr in they live in fearr tuesday to tuvbsdav susannah foster donald oconnor in jku 94 lit ifa down payment i suggest that the new set to provide for necessary perm- amendment to the bank act will anent repairs and permanent alterat- meet their difficulties the banks are ions to bring the existing houses up going to enter actively the field of i to modern condition small loans repayable on a monthly if those things are done and a not- basls at a reasonable rate of interest lonwlde campaign is instituted it a man desiring to own his own home i would he almost impossible to estlm- would be able to acquire his down i ste the amount of human happiness payment from that source and human satisfaction which might in the national housing act uelow therefrom these nurses made the most of have a welltried instrument at hand- 1 i have commented on the urgency their array outfits with two or three changes of dress a day for the bene fit of potential and actual boy friends who outnumbered them many tunes their morning appearance at break fast time would be strictly informal practically all dressing in green over all slacks and smocks by mid day moat had changed to a neat darker green outfit of serge slacks and tunic semlformsl at evening dinner and we do not need to create anything for the need for housing i have new to get on with this program do commented too on the benefits peace hon members know that since 103 of mind and human happiness which under the national housing act wo would flow from such a plan i ha have built something over 25000 one other reason why in my opinion houses they are practically owner- housing should receive priority in occupied and while the government i connection with postwar reconi haa participated to the extent of a ion and it is this the labor content twentyfive pe cent contribution of every medium sized house la at toward the cost of those houses the least eighty per cent some members i act was so well thought out and has may question that percentage but for cards and chat afterwards the been so efficiently managed that our i when i refer to labor content x am nurses turned up in skirts and tunic losses to date on the 23000 houses at not only referring to the ubor ax- formal for the evening j ic than 3000 or twenty cents per pended tn building the house i in- held under the auspices of the onsngaviue driving club saturday july 1st pour races 120000 in prizes dandna at night in main ball at the onngtwule fair groubaw music by the merrymakers orchestra soldiers in uniform admitted free to races betting pririlegta on grounds hal b watson starter s burns presiding judge dr c h campbell lee coonst vlvepreeloent sectreaa w h smith president