Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 214, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1933 — Page 14

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VAST SPENDING UNCHECKED BY U, S. LEADERS Golden Streams Continue to Pour to Elaborate Bureau System. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER I tilled Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1933. by United Press* WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. One glance over random Items of government expense reveals that the government is keeping up its reputation as a deluxe spender. Government money continues to pour out in golden streams to nourish the elaborate interlocking bureau system in Washington. So much of this L. spent casually, without attracting attention, that the average taxpayer remains unaware of where his money is going, unless he takes the trouble to dig into trick official reports and their bewildering figures. Sublime Faith Shown The average taxpayer, in his sublime faith, supposes that it is necessary to pay more than $400,000 a year to keep up the White House establishment. He is willing to pay it, in order that the head of the nation should have every physical comfort and secretarial assistance. But how many taxpayers know that last year the government spent more on. the George Rogers Clark sesquicentennial than it did on the White House with its four secretaries, eleven limousines and all? This year the federal government expects to spend on the Chicago World’s fair more than one and a half times what it spends on the President of the United States and his official establishment. Spend More Than Received Random selections from the actual items of expense last year become even more interesting when it is remembered that they contributed to the fact that the Federal government spent $2,885,362,299 more than it received. The items include. CONGRESS Salaries and mileage of senators $ 998.000 Salaries senate officers and employes 1,676,000 Salaries and mileage of representatives 4,463,000 Salaries house officers and employes 3,212,000 Gratuities house of representatives 110.000 Capitol building and grounds 350,000 Site and construction house office building 3,276.000 Enlarging and improving capitol grounds 2,197.000 Completion senate office building 1.133,000 Botanic garden 500,000 MISCELLANEOUS Government printing office.. $ 3,953.000 White House executive office. . 424.000 Alien property custodian 221,000 American battle monuments commission 656,000 Arlington memorial bridge commission 1,580,000 Board of mediation 198,000 Board of tax appeals 607,000 Bureau of efficiency 160,000 Chicago World's fair (estimated 933 expense i 600,000 Civil service commission 1,727,000 Employes compensation commission 4,724,000 Federal board for vocational education 9.881,000 Federal farm board 1.341.000 Federal power commission... . 330,000 Federal radio corflmission 969.000 Federal reserve board 1,741 000 Federal trade commission 1.745,000 General accounting office. .. 4,117.000 George Rogers Clark sesquicentenial commission 465.000 George Washington bicentennial commission 611,000 Interstate commerce commission 9,081 000 National advisory committee for aeronautics 1,105.000 National capital park and planning commission 2.394,000 Puerto Rico hurricane relief commission 2,436,000 Public buildings and parks in Washington 5,288.000 Smithsonian institution 1,113.000 Tariff commission 1,187.000 United States Yorktown sesnuicentenial commission .... 142,000 Shipping board 51.140,000 Veterans' administration 1,073.974,000 ‘JEALOUSY’ IS BLAMED FOR LOOTING OF CARS City Man Furious Over Attentions Paid Girl, Police Told. Jealousy over attention paid to his sweetheart caused Calvin Rainey, 25, of 1049 North Pershing avenue, to take a sample case and clothing from two automobiles parked in front of 1051 North Pershing avenue Friday night, he told police. Rainey and William L. Sears, 28. of 1316 Polk street, were charged with grand larceny after their arrest when detectives found the missing articles in their possession. The sample case was taken from the automobile of Emory Davis, 1051 North Pershing, and overalls and a lap robe from the car of Thomas E. Tudor, Franfort. Rainey, police said, told them he saw his girl with Davis and Tudor and took (he articles trom their ears ”to get even.” Police said Rainey said he asked Sears to help him. LAWYERS TO DISCUSS LEGISLATIVE STEPS Program of Association to Be Talked at Meeting Thursday. Legislative program of the Indiana State Har Association will be discussed at a meeting of lawyer members of the general assembly, state officials and bar association officials in ihe Claypool Thursday night. Judges of the supreme and appellate courts. Governor Paul V. McNutt and three administration spokesmen. Lieutenant - Governor Clifford Townsend. Speaker Earl Crawford and Frank MeHale. Logansport, .nave been invited to at-; tend. Decisions as to one who will introduce the association bills will be made. A dinner at 6.30 will precede the meeting.

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THOUSANDS LIVE BY SWAPPING

.Jobless Return to First Principles When Cash Vanishes

This ii the first story in a Aeries of six on the rise of the barter movement in the I nited States by which thousands of unemployed are learning how to live without money. BY ROBERT TALLEY NEA Service Writer IN the fourth year of the depression and with upward of 10,000,000 persons unemployed, America's jobless are learning how to live without money. A modern civilization that presents the economic paradox of poverty amidst plenty—of surplus crops rotting on the farms and hungry men in the cities—is witnessing a return to the primitive system of barter. In a fast-growing movement, jobless throughout the nation are organizing to swap their labor for bread, to trade paoerhanging for dentistry, auto repairs for shoes and, in general, to exchange any commodity for the necessities of life which they have no money to buy. Latest estimates indicate that at least 1,000,000 persons in the United States are now earning sustenance in this manner. The American Statistical Association, meeting recently at Cincinnati, was told by Dr. J. Douglas Brown of Princeton university, that there now are 140 separate barter exchanges operating in twenty-nine states, with 200,000 persons in California alone obtaining the necessities of life by trading work for goods. Even this list was incomplete. Born of necessity and nurtured by rugged Americanism that scorns charity, these barter organizations of the unemployed suddenly have sprung up throughout the nation, simultaneously but spontaneously. All are similar but practically none identical, each reflecting the particular ideas of the community in which it arose. Some use scrip as a substituie for money, others prefer a system of credits; some pay goods in proportion to the amount of work contributed, others divide their mutual earnings on the basis of need alone. a a a IT is a system of strange contrasts, despite its similarity of purpose. In Dayton, 0., a jobless railroad switchman has gathered around him in a dingy and rickety old store building a group of men and women who are bartering their labor in shoe repairing, dress making, wood cutting, furniture repairing, for food. In Salt Lake City typewriters click and adding machines hum in the busy headquarters of a widespread co-operative organization that swaps in immense volume and boasts a tannery and coal mine. In Nyack, N. Y., a paperhanger can <one recently did) paper a dentist's office in return for his wife’s bill; in Minneapolis, a minister has printed $500,000 in scrip and is showing 65,000 jobless how to live by their labor alone; in Omaha an “Unemployed Married Men’s Council” does the same. In Seattle, 100,000 persons are linked in a powerful exchange organization; in California, jobless workmen toil for near-bankrupt farmers and swap part of their proceeds of vegetables to jobless fishermen for fish. In Waterloo, la., 165 jobless men who received hogs for husking corn didn’t want to give juicy pork chops to some and less desirable cuts to others, so they solved their problem by grinding, the whole works into sausage. o a u IN New York, a newly-born “Emergency Exchange Association,” backed by several eminent economists .is trying to link together all these widely scattered labor-swapping, and commodityswapping organizations. Among the association's leaders are Dr. Frank D. Graham, economist of Princeton university; Stuart Chase, famed liberal economist; John Carmody, president of the American Society of Industrial Engineers, and Leland Olds, assistant chairman of the New York State Power Authority. The latter is the executive secretary. "In Yellow Springs, Ohio,” says Olds, "there is an unemployed group that has machinery and material for making cloth. New York has plenty of jobless and poorly clad. “So it is proposed that Yellow Springs send the cloth to York, that New York will make it into clothing, keep some for its labor and send the rest of the suits and dresses back to Yellow Springs in payment for the material. Not a dime would change hands. “Another example: Twelve carloads of potatoes have been offered us from Maine, but we can't pay the railroad freight on them. "What we may do, however, is obtain a sailing schooner—which costs almost nothing to operate—man it with unemployed sailors and go up there after those potatoes ourselves.” nun ADMITTEDLY, the task of linking scattered barter exchanges from New York to California is going to be difficult. These units have sprung up so fast that nobody, as yet, knows much about them. Thus far nobody has even been j able to compile a complete list of them. Avery serious obstacle

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Jobless and penniless, he barters his labor for bread. This man is obtaining bread for his family through one of the many co-operative exchanges being formed by men who are learning how to live without money by going back to barter.

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to inter-unit exchange over long distances is the fact that railroad freight transportation can not be bartered for; as between nearby communities, it might function with co-operative trucks. Not only have jobless workers

Barter Bureau Starts Friday Commencing Friday, Jan. 20. The Times Want Ad Department will inaugurate a “Swap,” or Exchange Bureau. To Readers If you have anything to “Swap ' and can not locate a suitable trade in the want ads, you can phone or visit The Times Want Ad department for complete information on swaps that have been offered during the previous two months. Just ask for the swap bureau and describe your want. If then you have found a suitable “swap" or trade, just place a small “swap” adcosting only 3 cents a word. Your swap will be listed FREE in the swap directory for two months. Phone Your “Swap” Now to RI. 5551

in the cities reverted to barter; depression-hit farmers, colleges and certain manufacturers are doing the same. Louisiana State university recently bartered education for beef by trading tuition of a pretty co-ed, daughter of a farmer, for nine cows. Illinois Wesleyan accepts potatoes, chickens or what-have-you and serves them in the college dining room. At Antioch college, in Ohio, a farmer recently paid his daughter's tuition with young fruit trees, which the college swapped to other farmers for food. At Oklahoma Baptist university, trustees have announced that pigs, chickens, corn and wheat will be accepted instead of money. a a a THE famed industrial research laboratory of Antioch college, backed uy Charles F. Kettering, General Motors’ ace engineer, recently found business dull and traded research to a Cincinnati soap factory for soap, which was

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For 524 worth cf kettles, knives, rum and beads, early Dutch settlers obtained Manhattan island by barter from the Indians. This historic old print shows the bargain being closed between the barterers, conveying a city site without money

exchanged 10 farmers for produce. Similarly, the college's print shop did a lot of printing for an Indianapolis conserve company j and got canned food in return. Nations, iike individuals, are short of cash, and barter between them is developing. The United ’ States farm board swapped 25,- ! 000,000 bushels of surplus government wheat to Brazil for 150,000,- | 000 pounds of coffee. Canada is talking about barter- | ing surplus wheat and cattle to j Soviet Russia for oil and manu- ! factured goods. Nova Scotia is I trying to effect a three-way bar- | ter of fish, shoes and crude oil I between its maritime fish indus- | try, upper Canadian shoe manufacturers and Soviet Russia. Persia and Turkey, short on j cash, are trading natural re- | sources for what they can get. MAIL SUBSIDY WAR IS TO BE RENEWED Senator McKcllar Again Will Seek to Scale Down Ship, Plane Rates. j By Xcripps-Hoicard Xcicspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—A new attack on ocean and air mail sub- | sidies will be launched by Senator Kenneth McKellar (Dem., Tenn.) with considerable prospects of suc- | cess, when the senate starts debating the treasury postoffice appropriation bill this week. i Senator McKellar's earlier attacks i in the fight on 1933 appropriations were voted down on the ground that the United States has entered into contracts with steamship and airplane companies, and can not pay less for transportation of mail than the amounts agreed upon. To meet this argument Senator McKellar has framed amendment | to the appropriation bill directing j the postmaster-general to enter upon negotiations with the various companies, and attempt to secure from them agreements to accept not more than the reasonable value of services renders, and in any case not more than 50 per cent of the amounts being paid at present. Senator McKellar prefaces his 1 amendment with a charge that few of the contracts have been made : in compliance with law, and that ; some of them have been awarded j without actual competitive bidding.

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All business began with swapping or bartering, ■ then found money a more convenient method of exchange, and eventually developed a credit system w’hich began to pile up debt. When debt gets out of hand, business goes back to a ®ash basis, and when the cash disappears there is a reversion to barter. The present depression has seen debt set out of hand, has seen cash disappear and has seen the return to barter. So today countless thousands of unemployed—too poor to buy, too proud to beg—are leading the way in showing a nation how to live without money. NEXT—How movements for bartering abor for bread arose simultaneously and spontaneously.

1 New Legislators Three Counties Send Banker to Assembly A banker-business man is in the 1933 state senate from Shelby, Rush and Fayette counties. Russell R. Handy, Morristown,

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DIRE DISTRESS CAUSES WIDE FARMJJNREST Disquieting Reports Are Flooding Mails of Congressmen. (Continued From Page One) . | timent continues to sweep the west.” the editorial says, “and it is likely that the organized blocking of foieclosure sales will continue with in- ; creasing frequency. At Le Mars, i la., last week the Farmers’ Council for Defense stopped a foreclosure j sale on a farm, and made preparations to send a body of 1.000 farmers to the state legislature to demand legislation to prevent fore- j closures for a period of from five to seven months. “These farmers have a just complaint, and assuredly something | should be done in their behalf. “Certainly, the fanners mean business. The hundreds that gather ! in lowa and elsewhere To fight for i their rights may be the nucleus of a great crusade to come.” Neighbors Help Neighbors It is a matter of neighbors helping neighbors in this spreading movement to boycott foreclosure sales. And the boycotters have force not only because they hang together, but also because they are opposing the carrying out of the j law by the men they helped elect —the sheriffs and their deputies, j Senator George Norris (Rep.,! Neb.), tells of one such incident. Aj foreclosure sale was ordered, neigh- ] bors went to the farmer's home and there bid such prices as 5 cents for i a flock of chickens, 10 cents for a cow, a nickel for a plow—and then didn’t take over the articles they j “bought,” but let the foreclosed farmer keep them. What Chance Has Man? There tljere is a letter Representative Gordon Browning (Dem., Tenn.) received from a constituent: “On Nov. 24. 1932, I borrowed SBBO from the bank of , giving a deed or trust to 209 acres of land . . . Friday, Jan. 7, our friend, Mr. of the bank of notified me that in ten days if payment was not made something will be done. What chance has a man in my case? What we need most is legislation that will keep us from losing our good homes, the most precious of all things on earth, no matter how humble.”. Representative Tom Blanton (Dem., Tex.) tells of W. T. Sherrill of his home town of Abilene, who owns about 1,000 acres, on which he was once offered $75 an acre cash. He borrowed $15,000 from a bank. A three-year drought practically ruined him. Now he is faced with the loss of his land. Senator Capper had a letter from a friend which said: “I am inclosing a court docket for this term for Elk county. You will notice that there are eight foreclosures in this small county. This court docket does not tell the entire story. A large number of people are settled out of court.” From L. L. Sutton, operator of a ranch at Russell, Kan., Senator Capper had a letter; “We land owners urge immediate action. In our family they are foreclosing on land that we have owned forty to fifty years. The loans are not due, but we are delinquent on interest and taxes. “Within two years the mortgage companies will own 75 per cent of the land in this section of the ! state.” I

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Cecil Barnard. Greenfield, Chevrolet coupe, from Greenfield. William Sines. Hamilton. 0.. Oldsmobile coach, 16-475 Ohio, from Hamilton. William B. Miller. 1423 North Pennsylvania street. Buick coupe, 29-586, from Lebanon. Eari E. Maple. 2527 Shelby street. Cord sedan, 40-132. from in front of 2527 Shelby street. • F. Merle Walters. 2357 Central avenue, Buick coupe, from Twenty-fourth street and Central avenue. Harry Thurston. Alexandria. Ind., Pontiac sedan. 724-979. from Anderson. Alvina Zimmerman. 2215 South Delaware street, Chevrolet sedan, 101-500, from 1509 Union street. Lou Turner. Marion, Ind., Ford roadster, from Vermont street and Indiana avenue. Edore Meyer. 809 North Pennsylvania street. Chevrolet coupe, no license plates on car, from 809 North Pennsylvania street.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: H. Milov, 1215 Shepherd street, Chrysler coach, found in front of 705 Torbett street. A. Lorber, 1840 Brookside avenue, Hupmobile sedan, found at Henry and WTllard streets. C. E. Babcock. 1447 East La Grande avenue, Essex coach, found at 839 Weghorst D. Monduck, Lawrence. Chevrolet sedan, found at 1700 Reisner street. James Ramsey. 2110 Shriver avenue, Ford roadster, found at 416 West Fourteenth street. Frank Dickerson. 705 North Senate avenue, Hudson sedan, found at Fourteenth and Pennsylvania streets. Red Cab Company. 739 East Market, street. Red Cab. found at Kentucky avenue and Maryland street. Jennie Barr, 1015 Roaehe street, WUlysKnight coach, found at Twenty-sixth street and Paris avenue. Heliogabalus, Roman emperor of the third century A. D„ was denounced for is extravagance in buying a w'hole garment of silk. Old at 40? Beware Kidney Acidity Thousands past 40, and many far younger, suffering and losing energy from Waking Fp Nights, Backache, Stiffness, Leg Pains. Nervousness, Acidity or Irritation, caused by poorly functioning Kidneys or Bladder, should use Cystex (pronounced Siss-tex) specially prepared for these troubles. Works fast, circulating through system in 15 minutes. Only 75c at druggists. Guaranteed to fix you up or money back on return of empty package.—Advertisement.

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M'NUTT UTILITY PLANOPPOSED Cities With Own Plants to Fight Administration’s Rate Setup. Governor Paul V. McNutt’s plan to place control of rates to be charged by municipally-owned utilities with city councils instead of with the public service commission, is to be fought by a group of officials from cities with plants, headed by Daniel Hess, superintendent of the Richmond Electric Power Company, a city-owned plant. Hess also said that some municipal utilities objected to the administration's plan to require eities and towns to pay county and state taxes on publicly-owned utilities. Representatives of Anderson. Crawfordsville. Frankfort. Ft. Wayne, Logansport, Richmond, Peru and Washington will meet on Tuesday morning at 10:30 in the Claypool to discuss McNutt's proposals and to form a legislative committee.

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