Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 215, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 January 1933 — Page 5

JAN. 17, 1933.

DAYTON'S PLAN OF HOMESTEADS GIVEN APPROVAL 4 Jobless Groups Will Take Second Step on Way to Security. BV RALPH BOR SOI) I < Copyright. 1933 bv United Press Associations i DAYTON, 0., Jan. 17.—Dayton promises to make social history. Something really new is emerging from its struggle with the problem of relief. The Dayton production units, of which there now are ten, arc undoubtedly one of the most interest- , ing economic and educational experiments which have grown out of the depression problem. A decision by the unit committee of the council of social agencies at the Engineers’ club, Dayton, last Saturday, to take the next logical step and establish the "first homestead unit” is of high importance to those interested in the permanent contribution which this movement may make to social and educational progress. On Permanent Basis The Dayton movement is different from the many new self-help movements. It is not merely trying to tide over the unemployed until business picks up again. It is trying to furnish permanent employment in the production of things j for use—rather than for sale. The idea is to make the members of the units secure as to essentials of life, thus making them dependent upon outside employment only for the money which they would want for luxuries and for things which they can not produce themselves. The new experiment to which the Dayton Council of Social Agencies has committed itself, if suitable tracts of land can be secured and necessary funds raised, is to move as many families as passible to homestead communities near Dayton, on which they w'ould raise their own agricultural products and build their own homes, in addition to the .group activities in which they now are engaged. Back to Pioneer Plan Each tract developed in this way is to be divided into homesteads of about three acres, with a wood-lot and pasture for the common use of all members. Each family is to build its own home, erect a poultry house, cowshed arm workshop on its own homestead; cultivate its gardens, lay out orchard and berry patches, as the pioneers did a hundred years ago. Larger farming operations maybe carried on by the group as a whole. Already the group is producing clothes, bread, and other goods in its production units in the city itself. Funds for the project are to be loaned to the unit and to the homesteaders, under supervision of a committee of three outstanding i business men. The homesteaders are to repay these advances for building material, machinery, tools, and livestock over a long term of years. , In my opinion, the outstanding fact is that the plan looks not only toward family gardening, but toward family weaving and sewing and family activities in all crafts which have been neglected for years. Restore Looms, Workshops The loom-room and the workshop, with all their opportunities for self-expression and creative education, are again once to become part of the American home. They are coming back to perform the same function which they performed in the past—to furnish economic independence, security, and self sufficiency. The tools and machines which will be used, however, instead of duplicating the limitations of pioneer days, will be modern and efficient. Power will be used to , eliminate drudgery and increase production. Modern inventions are to be used to furnish comfort. Incendiary Fire Causes Loss Fire recorded as of incendiary origin caused slight damage to a vacant house at 821-23 East Tenth street early Monday night. Oilsoaked rags and waste were found on the rear porch, firemen reported. Cottage Burns; Loss $1,500 Fire late Monday afternoon destroyed the summer cottage of I. L. Land at Washington boulevard and Eighty-second street, with damage estimated by firemen at $1,500.

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SWAP WAVE SWEEPS COUNTRY

Thousands Find Way to Live by System of Bartering

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This is (he second story in a series of six describing the growth of the "Back to Barter" movement which is fast gaining headway throughout the United States. BY ROBERT TALLEY NEA Service Writer IN Omaha. George Redding, a jobless railroad man, tramped the streets each day looking in vain for work, like hundreds of others. Each night when he went home he felt a little more desperate. In Minneapolis, the Rev. George Mecklenburg, pastor of Wesley Methodist church, saw* the relief w'ork of his church breaking down under the sheer weight of pleas of moneyless families for food, clothing and shelter. In Salt Lake City, Benjamin B. Stringham, a real estate operator, saw the daily increasing number of jobless men w r ho sat on the benches in a downtown park, with nothing to offer but their unwanted labor. "Something ought to be done about this,” said each of these men, far removed from each other, but confronted by an identical problem. And so the jobless railroad man, the overburdened pastor, and the musing real estate operator each hit upon the idea of swapping labor for food and other necessities—all of which illustrates the simultaneous and spontaneous manner in which the "Back to Barter” movement has risen to sweep the nation. Their organizations are merely three chosen from 140 such exchanges now operating in twentynine states which are supporting 1,030.000 persons without the aid of money. a a a IETS tell the Stringham’s J story first, since his "Natural Development Association” is the largest of the three and has been perfected to the point where it has elevated barter to the class of “big business.” It's busy headquarters occupy two full floors of a Salt Lake office building and its interests—which spread to branches in Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Arizona, California, and Canada—include such holdings as a coal mine, an oil refinery and a tannery. The N. b. A.’s scrip serves as a medium of exchange for food, clothing, auto tires, fuel, furniture, barbering, medical and dental services, hospitalization, beauty shop work, auto repairs and countless other things. Five thousand persons in Salt Lake alone depend on it, getting their living by their own labor instead of from charity. The business turnover of the Salt Lake activities represents about $6,000 a day—if figured in money values. Beyond Salt Lake the N. D. A. spreads among the farmers. Farmers swap sheep for coal, jobless N. D. A. members shear the sheep, make clothing of the wool, butcher the carcasses for food, tan the hides in their own tannery. So it is with many other forms of exchange. Behind all this lies Stringham’s idea, which visions a rather Utopian, idealistic and moneyless existence of the unemployed that he calls "Natural Government.” He began in August, 1931, In a small way by sending jobless men

Scrip money in Minneapolis links jobless and jobs.

to harvest crops for farmers in return for potatoes, butter, eggs, etc. In January, 1932, he formed his Natural Development Association to expand his system of exchange and barter leaped toward "big business.” a a a STRINGHAM, a studious sort of man, tells you that doctors, in curing a patient, remove the cause of the disorder. Money, he continues, has fallen down on the job as a medium of exchange, so he proposes to remove money from the economic order. "Natural government, the *theory upon which the N. D. A. is based, is a plan of operation set up and ready to function in harmony with human needs,” he explains. "There is no price system, no medium of exchange, but a system of distribution to all according to their news, provided they will contribute according to their ability.” In Minneapolis, Mr. Mecklenburg saw his church—one of the city’s largest—breaking down under the load of mounting relief demands. Faced by this predicament, he founded a unique cooperative society known as “Organized Unemployment, Inc.” which now serves 1,500 persons daily, not including dependents, while upward of 7,000 families have availed themselves of its serivees. Typical of the movement, Mr. Mecklenburg began by supplying harvest labor to farmers near Minneapolis. Farmers paid for the labor with surplus crops, which were turned over to the organization. In this way the workers got enough cabbages to put up 900 barrels of * kraut; enough fruits and vegetables for 19,000 cans of foodstuff. Also, the workers painted and repaired numerous farm buildings and painted fourteen churches. a a a SENSING a big operation, Rev. Mecklenburg printed $500,000 in scrip in denominations ranging from 5 cents to $lO. To date, slightly over $20,003 has been issued. Workers are paid in scrip, which they use to buy food, clothing, and other things sold by their organization. In an abandoned school building donated by the Minneapolis board of education, the Organized Unemployed is growing rapidly. It has a huge storehouse for food, a “department store” where many articles can be obtained for scrip, a clothing factory, a shoe repair shop, a restaurant that serves 1,500 meals a day and in which a good meal can be had lor a dime. The outfit also operates a 100bed hotel, and a series of woodcutting camps just outside of the city, where 1,000 men are cutting timber for use as fuel in the homes of unemployed. “Members of the Organized Unemployed do not want charity, they want no dole,” says Mr. Mecklenburg. “They want opportunity to earn an honest living through productive, creative, respectable work.”

Back to Barter — No. 2

In Omaha, one of the city’s biggest depression-time businesses is the Unemployed Married Men's Council, founded by Jobless Railroader Redding with the assistance of Mrs. Redding. A three-story school building, a block long, is filled with offices, shops and store rooms and hundreds of men are being kept busy, a a a IT all began when Redding gathered a group of other jobless men around him and tried to obtain a contract for building a city sewer. Redding failed, but went on organizing. Soon the group became so large that civic leaders took notice. Permission was obtained for the council to occupy a schoolhouse that was standing idle. There an employment office was opened. The old domestic science kitchen was turned into a cafeteria. The old manual training department became a workshop. Mr. and Mrs. Redding are president and vice-president, respectively, of the organization. Only individuals eligible to vote in Omaha and responsible for children may belong. A widow with children has the same status as a married man. An oath of allegiance to the Constitution of the United States isrequired. The organization collects the pay from employers in old clothes, old furniture, anything that may be of use to someone. Workers—and nearly every trade is represented—collect their pay in scrip, redeemable at the council's stores. With this scrip, workers can buy almost anything—they can rWatchYour Kidneys/ Don't Neglect Kidney and Bladder Irregularities If bothered with bladder irregularities, waking up at night, and nagging backache, heed promptly these symptoms. They may warn of some disordered kidney or bladder condition. For SO years grateful tisers have retied upon Doan's Pills. I’raised

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even get a shave and a haircut from a jobless barber. They even can stage dances, for there is a jobless orchestra with services to barter. NEXT—Teeding 100,000 in and around Los Angeles with the labor of jobless men. ENDS LIFE BY PolsON Railroadman Despondent Because of Long Illness, Police Told. Despondent because of long illness, police were told. Leslie H. Warren. 47, railroadman, ended his life early today by drinking poison in his home at 207 North Pershing avenue. Stove Explodes in Doctor's Office Waiting room in the office of Dr. Frank P. Reid at 1203 Madison avenue was damaged to the. extent of S3OO Monday when a stove exploded. Dr. Reid was out of the room.

PACIFIC PACT NOW APPEARS DEAD LETTER Equilibrium of Far East Again Depending on Force, Hoover View. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scrinns-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON. Jan. 17.—The four-power pact of the Pacific safeguarding the Philippines now is a dead letter, for all practical purposes. and that the equilibrium of the far east once more depends upon force, it clearly is indicated by administration spokesmen. This was revealed as. one by one, President Hoover, State Secretary Henry L. Stimson and War Secretary Patrick Hurley intimated that America's withdrawal from the Philippines might lead to the annexation of the islands by another power. The 1921 four-power pact, with the nine-power treaty, was one oi

the foundation stones of the Washington naval conference. Japan, Britain, France and the United States mutually agreed to respect each other's insular posssessions in the Pacific, just as the nine-power treaty pledged the signatories to respect Chinese territory. In effect. Japan already has repudiated the nine-power treaty. After virtually annexing Manchuria, she claimed that "conditions had changed" in China, and the treaty no longer applied. Without saying so in so many words, the position of the administration now is that if the ninepower pact thus can be scrapped by unilateral action and without warning, the four-power pact could go the same way. “Section II” (of the Philippine in- j dependence bill), said Secretary Hurley, "proposes an effort on the part of the United States to obtain international neutralization of the; Philippines for safeguarding the new. weak and isolated state. "This seems hardly more than a hope, under present, conditions, and certainly, in the light of history. I even recent history, it does not ap- ! pear to be a practical means of | safeguarding the future liberties and independence of the Philippines." President Hoover, in his veto message, warned that "the spirit of

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imperialism and the exploitation of people's by other races” had not departed from the earth,” Secretary Stimson added his warning, saying "our presence in the Philippines already has contributed to the development of a new base of political equilibrium throughout the area of the western Pacific and eastern Asia.” and our withdrawal "would tend profoundly to disturb that equilibrium.'*

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