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nation as a whole, and mei out- of! every sbteen .mortgages in: the coun- try -was in this two-state district. Data are fromr a new index start- ed,.the ftrst of the year by, the Fed- eral Homne Loan Bank board . t Washington, ,with estimnates, based où exact reports from ,400.çounties, throughoutý the. country. Ail mort- gages 'under $20,000 are listed las home mortgages. A. Rt. Gardner, president of the Chicago bank, .said that savings, building and loan associations in these two states furnished 33.93 per cent of' the' number of new mort- gages during the quarter, more than any other group of institutions. The associations, are the home lending outiets for the Chicago bank's funds in. the various localities. They prom vided 27.55 per cent of thie dollar volumte of lôaie for the- Period. Further analysis of thie figures showed that $40, 553000 of the dis- trict's mortgage boans were record- ed inu minois and $15,319,000 in Wis- consin. 0f thie .Illinois total volume 49 per cent was i n C o ok county where 3,528 home rnortgages were recorded. In Wsconsin, 32 per cent o! thie dollar volume was recorded in Milwaukcee county where 1,742 home mortgages were made. In numnber of mortgage boans sup- plied by savIn'grý building and boan associatios, #>é district had a high- er perce etheu tieý nation as ai whole, Mr.'Gardner sald. Individual lendej's were tRie second most pro-. Rifle source of mortgage .funds in thie district next to thie community home lending institutions. quadrangles on the jEvanston cam- pus. of, North we stern university. Funds for .its construction wrn be drawn f rom the $6,735,000 give re- cently made 'by the Walter P. Mur- p hy foundation 'to establish the in- stitute. Break Ground Zanuaryi .j.anuary 1, 1940, has been -selected as the date o! ground-breaking cere- monies 'for the, building, which Will take eighteen months to tomplete.. blolabird and Root are the archi- tects for, the structure, with, Me- Kjmh, Meade, and White, of New York, acting as consultants. The building is to be completed by.the faîl of 1941. Thie institute wilb occupy tempor- ary quarters beginning next fall, whenu the Jârst frepsimJn class of 100 wil be aàmltted. The new building wibl be four stories tail and will contain 5,500,-_ 000 cubic feet. It wibl include audi- toriu ms, classrooms,. arafting rooms., offices, and hundreds of speciabized laboratories. Work in civil, mechan- ical, chemîcal, and electrical en- gineering, chemnistty, and physies will be off ered in the institute. Llbrary and Roof Garden *Open wells two stories higRi, for crarieways aud large equipment, will be located iu thie four outer wings. A large library wlth an adjoining roof garden looking toward thie lake will be provided on the second floor. To make room .ior the building, Patten gymnasium, Evanston land- mark which at present occupies1 part VIRGlINIA 19 KNITTER Viginia -Bru ce. is spending much of her spare time, between scenes o! Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer' s "Stronger Trhan Desire,"*kniitting herseif a.new sewAing bag.. It îs5 of green and pink wool with a'handle Of brown.wood. ATTENDS GRADUATIOXS JO Ann Sayers is planning to -visit' he r former home- in Seattle in June for the high school graduation of her sister., Doris, Jeanne, and, cousin,. Corella Charles. Mr.,MaYo is chairman'of the edu- cational comnmittee o! the Chicago chapter of the Institute. On the Pro- gram, to be broadcast June 10, he wlll speak-on "'Own Your Own Hlome -and Act Now.", He states: ," Fromr the mgny inquiries reaching us as a result of these broacasts, itis quite evident that people in the. Chicago area* are certainby home - building consciou s. As the series progresses wie want t give somne of these peo- ple an, opportunity to: face .tRe micro- phone, and discuss their problems over tRie'air with experts in the home planning and building, business."~ Long Sum mer'Vacation Starts' Surin; Ikere Are Safrty Rides "School's out,' school' o.'..".'l n< a few days that carefree refrain will be voiced by children through- out thie nation. Hours o! pbay will Rie trebled and, sadly enough, traffic accidents mnvolving Young people will increase. "This summer," urges Carl, A. Barrett, president o! the Ilinois Automobile club, "let's 'close thie barn door before thie horse gets out.' By preparing, iu advance for thie new hazards wliich coule with vacation time, we cau eliminate a large por- tion of thie sad . accidents which cach year befail our children as they go about their pbay.ý' Read thie fobbowng rules to your .child, stress, their importance: (1). Look and wait for approachikig traffic before crossing streets. (2). Cross streets only at intersections or marked cross-walks, and obey traffic llghts. (3). Neyer chase a playnmate into the street. (4). Do not roller skate, coast or play games in the street. (5). Never dash Into the street to re- El1ected to Gave i Board at Principi a Miss Dorothy Carrmngton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Carrington,* 229 Woodbine avenue, Wilmette, has been electei to serve, as one of the five memlbers of the Gavel board, the girls' governing couneil of The Priwcipia Upper sehool in'St. Louis, Mo., where- she is a. junior. The Gavel board is an important part of the. system of student gov- ernment at Principia, and election to membership is one of the highest honors a girl can win.. The elections were announced at the annual ban- quêt of the junior and senior girls at which G. Eldredge Harnlin, comp- troller of The Principia, was the.. principal speaker. Miss Carring- tnn's term of office w il1 extend e ModernScuiptor