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Show ' in." At present there are a million houses in the British Isles which are unfit for human habitation, according ac-cording to an official estimate. The population is increasing by half a million a year, and to provide pro-vide the necessary accommodations a hundred thousand houses a year are required. Another hundred thousand a year are necessary for the next ten years to replace the houses which have already been j condemned, but which are still being I used because the tenants can find j no better places to live in. -London is choked with crowded I slums in her industrial areas. Unsanitary Un-sanitary homes where workingmen and their families live under most unhealthy and primitive, almost inhuman, in-human, conditions clog the crowded crowd-ed districts of the city. This problem prob-lem is now being actively attacked through a building program. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okln., Oct. 2. Campbell Russell, iudependeDt candidate for senator, opposing Jack Walton, anti-Ku Klux Klan Democrat, and W. B. Pine, Republican Repub-lican nominee who had klah support in the primaries, withdrew his candidacy today. . BETTER HOMES FORTOILERS International News Service. LONDON, Oct. 1. Britain is struggling to shake off its slums. The Labor government, with the combined co-operation of various county councils, is striving to carry out the promise of Lloyd George of "homes fit for the heroes to live |