(Nya Svenska Pressen) Nr. 19. VANCOUVER. B. C- Torsdagen den 15 maj 1941. By E. A. SPONGBERG. Completed by M. M. Lindfors. HÄLSNING TILL SVERIGE It was perhaps In Memory of Alfred Aveson WRITTEN FOR THE SWEDISH PRESS By MARGARET MACLEAN. BRANTING PER ALBIN natural that, after food, clothing and some other important commodities, the next thing to be approached cooperatively should have been lodging. Some fifteen years ago a group of Stockholm tenants or-ganized themselves into the Tenants Savings and Building Socie-ty and set out to “bust” what amounted to a housing trust. This society, commonly known as the H. S. B., today extends across Sweden, and counts 14,000 mem-bers, representing 50.000 people, living in forty million dollars scheme. people Under this plan the bu;ld their own houses and their labor serves as the down payment. The cottages are built in garden suburbs, located just at the end of city street-car lines, and pleasantly surveyed out with curving streets, a village square for shops, and parks and playgrounds. The lots are about 60 by 125 feet, and electricity, gas, water, telephone and central heatlng mains are first laid in by worth of cooperatively owned and managed apartment houses. They are mighty fine apartment , houses, too. The central association plans, finances and builds the apart- I , ments. then turns them over for management to a “daughter” association formed of the tenant-members. H. S. B. has four types of house. A, B, C, and D. In the Class A scheme, ’the member has . to put down a deposit-loan of 10 per cent of the estimated cost of his quarters. He receives 6 per cent interest on this loan, and the principal back in 20 years. A. bank or Insurance company gives a first mortgage loan^on 55 per cent of the remainder, and State and municipality advance 35 per cent of the cost on a 25-year second mortgage. A two-roomed apartment with kitchenette, bath and balcony in a Class A house costs the tenant a deposit-loan of about $3?0, and payments equivalent to around $20 a month. Class B requires only 5 per cent deposit-loan, and the payments on some-thing like the above apartment would be around $ 16 a month. Class C is the same quality as B, but with no deposit-loan. For workers in the lowest wage groups, with large families the latest type, Class D, has been designed. It is subsidized by the State, in the interest of birth rate. (This has fallen from 19 to 14 to the thousand since 1923.) The subsidy amounts to 30 per cent of the monthly payments for a family with three children, 40 per cent for four, and 50 per cent for five or over. There is no down payment; a family with three children can buy an apartment of living-room with balcony, three bedrooms, kitchen and bath, excellently designed and reasonably well-built, sunny, and with ample playing space round-about, for $10,53 a month! Building Cottages and Citizens. Even more interesting is the Lists for applicants are then posted at at the Small Cottage Bureau. Preference is given to indoor workers with families, earning between $70 and $110 a month. The builders have a choice of half a dozen types of cottage, which run in cost from $2,500 to $3,000, and are finan-ced over 30 years by the City. Payments average around month for the first ten $17,50 for the next ten, 7.50 for the final ten. $20 a years, j and $ - ■ • • ■ ----- ■ ....... • One fine day in May, after fac- | tory and office hours, our home-builders assemble out on "loca- i tion” to start digging the cellar. ; The scene, with fathers, mothers, children, uncles, brothers-in-law and grand-dads all chipping in, Hän över hav, över svallande vågor, högt upp till Skandiens blånande fjäll stiger en längtan i tärande lågor ifrån Columbias nordmannatjäll. Svearnas söner i främmande rike hälsa dig, moder, med hjärtat i brand. Sverige, var finnes på jorden din Eke? Hell dig, vårt härliga fädernesland! Än för vårt minne du står lik en hägring skön uti vintrarnas glänsande skrud, skön, när i sommarens grönskande fägring smyckad da star lik en rodnande brud; skön, när i midnatten norr.-kenet flammar, höljer i lågor din isiga pol; skön, när de snökrönla fjällarnas kammar glimma som silver i sommamattssol. Runornas slingor i mosslupna hällen tälja din saga från forntida d.a’r, bardernas harpor än klinga i kvällen, än lever sången i dalarna kvar. Manligt och fritt är det släkte du ammar, aldrig för guldet du sålde din dygd. Hell dig, du folk, som från asama stammar hell dig, du älskade fädernebygd! Radiogram till The American Swedish N ws Exchange i New York. Stockholm den 6 maj: — Beslagtagna svenska fiskebåtarna till Kiel. De tio svenska fiskekuttrar från Hönö, som togos is like nothing so much as a glori- av tyskarna gju den 6 apn, Qch fied Tom Sawyer party. Careful planning in advance, a good set of drawings and occasional visits from an instructor save the ama-teur builder much trouble. Pre-cast concrete blocks of a conveni-ent size are delivered to him tor the foundation. The walls, which are sturdily — and warmly — built of wood, come pre-fabri-cated in sections, with doors and Windows mounted, all ready to be hoisted in place. The roof is laid gk nödstäl]da ska; ocb bek; with tile. Cupboards and kitchen gar de fyska åtgarJerra fixtures are ready-made, but ml * ¥ * the rough. Professional work . such as wiring and plumbing are spiny, prickly plant, which was derived from the greek word, ”kaktos.” Later Mr. Aveson came to British Columbia, where he was in the service of The Dominion Experimental Farm, at Summer-land for fifteen years. Thirteen years ago, he, with Mrs. Aveson, began to build their home at Garden City, Lulu Island, and soon it became a well known ar-boretum. The luxurious heather on either side of their gateway was most attractive, and every-where was beauty in richest color. It was Mr. Avesons pleasure and pride to invite you into his cactus sanctuary where over 750 , specimens and four thousand I plants were readily responding , to his deft and sensitive touch. pours forth its notes of sadness at his passing from the earthfy to the Eternal Garden where the Bergocactjs grown by Mr. Aveson. At times his love and admiration flowers never fade for his fascinating work knew no Today treasured limits as day m and day out one this dear friend wiH would find him daintily planting homes His memory and replanting his spiny fnends ]inger with that had become part and parcel of his life. It is interesting to know that oftentimes he planted one thousand seeds in a four inch pot, and later separated the tiny plants with a very small ivory fork. Detail to him was play and his patience never waned. In his conservatory the magazines and plants of find new however, for his clients became his true friends. Not only is his passing mourned by those who knew him, but the i Hprticultural world has lost a> genius. Stockholm den 3 maj: — Svenska Amerika Linjen redo- catalogues from practically every visar ett underskott för 1940 på country in the world also attested his ardent interest and fervent love for cacti . Though berett of his hearing, as the result of tropical fever con-tracted during the Spanish American war, he was gifted with an Två båtar genom spärren. Rederiaktiebolaget Transatlantics "Gullmaren ". som avgick från Boston den 8 april, anlände den 29 april till Göteborg. Samma bolags lastfartyg "Klipparen” hade samtidigt anlänt till svenska; farvatten. “Klipparen” avgick från Nordamerikansk hamn. Tankfartyg sjösatt. Vid Göta-verken i Göteborg sjösattes den 28 april ett tankmotorfartyg på 12,500 ton för rederiaktiebolaget Nordstjärnans räkning. •A Svenska Sjöfolksförbundet har beslutat att upprätta en avdelning i New York. För att organisera denna avdelnings verksamhet sänder förbundet inom den närmaste tiden en ledamot av förbundsstyrelsen, ombudsman J. Svensson, till New York. Reservofficer häktad. Löjtnanten i Flygvapnets reserv Ulf Chris tiensson har häktats för försök till i gärning, som kunnat skada rikets I försvar. 2,28 miljoner kr. Inga avskrivningar ske. Det nya, i Italien beställda fartyget “Stockholm”, när mar sig nu sin fullbordan. Ett nytt statslån har sökts för betalning av fartyget . Pereskia with it* leaves, and on which plant Mr. Aveson ha* grafted three other kind*.