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Show WASHINGTON nsws;"! FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER Utah's Reco d Withm Home Owners' Loan Corporation Current facts concerning the progress of liquidation of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation are interesting, particularly the record of its accomplishments in Utah. Out of a total of nearly two million applications filed throughout the United States and its possessions during the period from June 13, 1933, through June 12, 1936, at which time the Corporation's Cor-poration's lending activities ceased, 1,017,821 loans were closed and of this number 10,749 were in Utah. Citizens of Utah can take real pride in the way its home owners who borrowed from the Corporation Corpora-tion are paying off their obligations. obliga-tions. Sixty-six percent of the total amount of loans made in Utah have now been reduced through collections and the sale of properties. A total of 3,525 borowers have paid their accounts ac-counts in full, and approximately approximate-ly 1,243 borrowers are now making mak-ing monthly payments in excess of the amount required under their contract. Despite extensions and the delay de-lay of payments of some who are still unable to -meet their obligations obliga-tions on time, the Corporation in its nationawide operations has liquidated its assets to the extent of 57 per cent as of September 30, 1943. This is a record when one considers that the average HOLC borrower, at the time his loan was refinanced, was delinquent de-linquent two years on his mortgage mort-gage payments, in arrears two to three years on his taxes, and was either facing foreclosure or had already lost his home. Mental Breakdowns Among Our Soldiers It takes no" great imagination for the civilian to realize what stress and strain the mind and emotions of the soldier or sailor have to endure under modern conditions of warfare. Yet it is essentially necessary that the public understand these cases, especially when we realize there are still 67,000 mental and personality per-sonality casualties of World War I in our Veterans' Hospitals and 10,000 men a month are being be-ing discharged from the armed forces for psychiatric reasons. These figures may alarm you but when you consider the size of our armed forces it is still a small percentage. Yet for the sake of our loyal men we must keep in mind that these men are really sick, even "if they have no wounds or organic disease. And second, we must remember that the neuroses of war are the same as the enuroses of peace, although war has supplied the strain and stress that finds the breaking point. Their condition is often referred to as "shell-shock" "shell-shock" although they may never have been near a bursting shell, and they receive proper treatment treat-ment rest, extra feedfing, occupational oc-cupational therapy and discussions discus-sions with trained psychiatrists in order that they may become useful citizens again. |