Buildins Homes

(A splendid home owning editorial from The l{ouston Chronicle.) This is the greatest home owning country in the world, yet even here 54 per cent of the population live in rented places.

The owner of a home, who can transmit it to his family by devise, or that will descend to it according to the law of inheritance, has an immediate and direct interest in social peace and order and economic and industrial prosperity.

He is a better citizen beiause he is a stockholder in that great informally organized corporation known as human society.

He has the sense of ownership, ihe consciousness of possession of that which cannot be taken from him or his family when he is stricken by the blows of adverse fortune.

He becomes imbtred with a spirit of patriotism because he has something to defend and protect.

Somebody has very aptly said that "No man is going to fight for a boarding house", but any man will fight for his castle, of which a great English orator once said: "Though it be but a hut through which the winds of heaven may sweep at will, the King dare not enter without the owner's consenttt.

The various home building organizations scattered throughout the United States, while organized for profit earning, may be truly said to blend benevolence and business.

They are aiding people to get homes, who could never get them in any other way, and every home owner is an added asset to the sum total of cornmunity, social, and moral values.

He is another agency of conservatism and stability. The fewer tenants and landlords there are in any communtiy, the greater is the economic strength, and the more assured its peace and order.

The late William McKinley, when President of the United States, commended in strong terms "the little savings in building and loan associations", and President Coolidge says such accounts "bring home to the people the lesson of thrift and the desireability of home ownershipl, and no greater contribution could be made to the stability of the nation".

Portland Hoo Hoo Club Planning Tpicnic

The Portland Hoo Hoo Club is planning to hold its annual summer picnic in the latter part of July, and a golf tournament will be one of the leading features of the day's outing. Elmer Xanten is general chairman of committees.