HOME OWNERSHIP IN SCOTLAND.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20272, 25 June 1931, Page 4

HOME OWNERSHIP IN SCOTLAND.

Homo ownership is one of tho biggest moral and political forces in the world, to-day. Tho man who owns a homo "of his own feels he has a stake iu tho country; so Air William Adamhon, Secretary of Stato for Scotland, told tho Co,-operative Permanent Building Society at Glasgow recently. The common saying that an Englishman's homo is his castle applied with even greater force in the case of tho Scot, declared Mr Adamson. Its implications of ownership and of freedom and independence within their own "but and ben" underlay tho whole.of their national character and traditions in Scotland. To-day, however, that saying did not apply to many Scots. Their homes wore not their own, and no matter how 'much they might pay for the privilege of living in them, not one brick or slate of their homes became their own. Rent paid for the privilege of living in' another mail's house was a njost extravagant way of spending money. To investor an<l borrower, alike, he added, sound and well-established building societies offered many advantages and inculcated in both the national virtue of thrift. A new theatre seat with a pivoted back, recently introduced in Seattle, will make sleeping more comfortable through a dreary production. When a belated arrival tries to squeeze into a row of seats, tlie occupants do not have to riso to let him by. Remaining seated, persons push against the back rests of their, seats, moving them to a vertical position and increasing the space between their knees and the backs of the seats in front. Tho new seats take up Do more room than those now in uss to .which the pivoted back can be attached. . - . -■ ■ ■