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ARMY OF BOY WANDERERS IN SOUTH GROWING Hospitable Population Is Able to Offer Little to Outcast Youths. Rriradirr-firnrral Prlham D. Glaasford. fornirr Washington police chief, whoae humane handling of fbe bonus rm lid aummer hrourht him Into conflict with the administration, has been studvinr the problem created be hundreds of thousands of wandering boss in this countr.r. At present he Is visiting the southeastern stales, to which large numbers of the wanderers have flocked during the cold weather. Bv GEN. PELHAM I). GLASSFORD GREENSBORO, N. C., Jan. 21. Heading south, the American army of outcast youth finds at best a little more sunshine to cheer it on its hopeless way. , And that is about all the hospitable southland can afford this year to the stranger at its door. A close-up study of conditions in

the small mill towns and cities of Virginia and the Carolinas convinces me that these states and communities are doing their utmost with funds at their disposal to handle the transient situation. What they are doing is far from adequate, but that is not their fault. c>ur economic and political

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blundering has thrust out upon the road, to wander in search of a job, of food, of shelter, fully a million mm and boys. A large proportion of these drift through the south Atlantic states at this time. The states, already overburdened, can do little or nothing to salvage this tragic waste of youth and manpower. For the destitute transient, however pathetic his plight, the best they can do is “a night’s flop, a plate of beans, and shove him on to the next stop.” Flop Houses Jammed It Is difficult to get an estimate cf the actual number of transients passing through a town. Rarely do the authorities make a tabulation. They will tell you that the missions are overcrowded, the flop-houses jammed, that numbers sleep on floors, in the railroad station, in the jail. But, they all repeat, and this emphatically, that the percentage of boys in enforced vagabondage is rapidly increasing. In a later article I shall try to give some figures on this question. I made my way through a gloomy alley to find the entrance to the - Greensboro Salvation Army Rest. A slim Boy with a shock of black hair opened the door-anft PHU'ud. into the darkness at nao: “Want. a. bed for the night?” he asked. “Did you work today?” Never Tell Real Truth He was Walter Scott Browning, age, 16, and evidently of a litprary - lineage. D. A. Shelley, in charge of the rest, had employed young Browning for a few days in the hope of finding out something definite about him. "I never have yet known one of them to tell the real truth about himself,” Shelley said. The two floors wore crowded with boys and men in their early twenties. I immediately was struck by the scarcity of older men and by the complete absence of that type readily recognized as habitual hobo; both are more marked proportionately in our metropolitan missions. The average age of the one night lodgers in the Greensboro Mission, Mr. Shelley informed me, was 18 years. One of the reasons for the youthfulness of his charges may be due to Shelley himself. He knows how to handle boys, and word of him probably has traveled far and wide on the grape-vine telegraph of the wanderers. His Ruddy Was “Trapped” A knock at the office door, and in came a diminutive, cocky youngster. He said he was Harry Pi-ice, 16, but Shelley recognized him as Robert Farmer, 14. who had been given lodging for two nights during the December blizzard. In one month this lad had aged two years, and learned the use of an alias. On the road youth develops rapidly. Robert told a story of his buddy. Jack Long, who had been arrested in Spartanburg. It was a confused tale with many characters in the plot. "But what did he do?” I asked The youngster eyed me sharply: "Nothin’,” he said, "they jes’ tapped him.” I shall try to find out why Jack Long was "tapped." DOG SAVES LIVES OF 2 Rescues Year-Old Baby, Maid from Death by Gas. By I'nital Pms CEDAR RAPIDS. Ia„ Jan. 21. Bingo, a Boston bull terrier, saved a year-old child and its maid from possible death by poisonous gas here rccent’y when it rushed into the maid’s room while she was sleeping and tore the covers from her bed. She awoke, followed the dog downstairs, and found the entire lower floor filed with the gas fumes. HARDWARE DEALER DIES Homer O. Rettig, 43. Served Brightwood for Many Years. Funeral services for Homer C. Rettig. 43, Brightwood hardware dealer many years, who died at his home, 2402 North LaSalle street. Friday after an illness of a week, will be held in the Veritas Masonic Temple, 3316 Roosevelt avenue, at 2 Monday. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. He was a member of the Methodist church and Veritas lodge No. 08. F. and A. M.

Back to Barter — No. 6 SHORT LIFE SEEN FOR BARTER

System to Vanish When Depression Lifts, Say Experts

Thl i the lat of a nerie* of nix storio* on the “Back to Barter'* movement. * BY ROBERT TALLEY NEA Service Writer A LTHOUGH they recognize it as a valuable relief measure in a period of distress, experts who have studied the “Back to Barter” movement have no fear that it holds any real threat for business or banking as now established. Such eminent economists as Professor Irving Fisher of Yale and Colonel Leonard P. Ayres of Cleveland may disagree as to the wisdom of fiat money that certain cities are issuing to meet their pay rolis, but as to barter's menace to business —or rather, the lack of such a menace—there seems to be unanimity of opinion. Taking the current estimate that a million persons in America now are getting a living through barter of labor or goods, Bradford B. Smith, chief statistical assistant to Colonel Ayres, presents these figures: “If we assume that this number represents 200,000 families and that each family by this method is maintaining a living standard of about 51,500 a year, then the total amount represented by barter in a year is about $300,000,000. This is a surprisingly large figure, but it shrinks when compared with a national trade in the neighborhood of 1,200 billion dollars. This comparison suggests that barter plays a very small part in the trade life of the nation, although it may play an important part as a relief measure.’ It is very unlikely, he continued, that barter ever will play a major part in American business. tt tt a BARTER cscs reasonable proximity of those engaged in such trades. Productive specialization, upon which all modern high standards of living rest, presupposes that people in various and widely separated areas confine their activities to the kind of production in which they are most effective, and exchange their surpluses through a money mechanism. Thus, shoes are made in New England, cotton raised in the south, wheat in the northwest, automobiles are manufactured in Detroit, tires in Akron, etc. Without a money mechanism, trading for shoe and tires would be geographically impossible. “When we vision widespread growth of barter trade in this

Harm in Moderate Use of Alcohol Denied

This is the second of twn timely artirlcs hy Dr. Fishbein on the effects *of alcohol on the human body. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN, Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and- ot Uygeia, the Health Magazine. ' I ''HE effects of alcohol on the activity of the brain and the mind vary according to the individual concerned. Everybody knows that some get silent, others get noisy, some seem happy, and others weep. • The individual response is usually constant so that to some extent intoxication is a test of character. A weeping, melancholy person will regularly weep when drunk, and a talkative man is more talkative with liquor. In a review of the effects of alcohol on the human body, Dr. Harold T. Hyman has summarized the evidence as to what alcohol does when taken by healthy persons. It has been thought that various alcoholic drinks have an effect on the kidneys, increasing .their output. Dr. Hvman points out that the increased output when beer is drunk is almost wholly due to the increased water intake. ran IN the stomach, as has been pointed out, alconol serves to NEW PHONE BUILDING WILL OPEN MONDAY Former Home Is Connected by Corridor. Now’ building of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company. New’ York and Meridian streets, will be opened for business Monday morning, it has been announced. Since last July portions of the building have been occupied as rapidly as construction w r ork permitted. A feature of the new business offices is that all business is transacted at the desks of company’s representatives instead of at counters, as in the past. New building and the former home of the company are connected by a corridor. Change of the old building from its former location on Meridian street to its present site fronting New York street without delay in service is regarded as one of the outstanding feats of engineering in this section of the country, officials said. NORTH SIDE PHARMACY IS HELD UP: LOOT $53 Bandits Snip Telephone Wires, Escape in Automobile. Three bandits Friday night robbed the Rccd pharmacy, Nineteenth strete and Central avenue, of $53. clipped wires on two telephones and escaped in an auto. Charles Reed. 1817 Central avenue. proprietor, told police that a few minutes before the robbery one of the bandits entered the store asking for change for a ten-dollar bill. He returned with two companions and the trio drew’ revolvers, threatening Reed, Louis Keller, 611 East Twentieth street, clerk, and a customer, Ray Rosenmeycr, 1432 Central avenue. Loot was removed Irom a cash register.

country, we must remember that we are supposing not merely a different form of exchange, but also an entirely different form of civilization,” he continued. “Business in the United States today is suffering from a contraction in the volume and, more especially, the effective use of its money. Bank deposits, which represent the chief money of the nation, have shrunk some 25 per cent and their use has suffered a corresponding shrinkage. “Barter has sprung up as a means of meeting this temporary condition. It is entirely reasonable to suppose that with the arrival of business recovery, barter methods will vanish as magically as they have appeared.” tt tt tt AN interesting picture of the business side of barter is given by Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, president of Ohio’s Antioch college

stimulate the secretion both of mucus and of gastric juice; as well as of saliva. Much depends on the nature of the contents of the drink in which • the alcohol’is taken. 1 ifi there, al e bitters, these serve to Stimulate the appetite. Taken after a meal in the form of a liqueur, there usually are such substances as peppermint or

4 Kiss of Death’ Girl’s Spell Again Is Over Hospital Cot Eighth Sweetheart Fears His Doom Is Sealed; His Seven Predecessors All Were Killed. . . i BY SAM KNOTT United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Jan. 21.—The spell of “kiss of death” Mary Collins hovered over a hospital cot where gangster Sol Feldman lay fighting fpr his life today.

Feldman is Mary Collins’ eighth sweetheart. Ilis seven predecessors died of bullet wounds. Most of them were killed in the gang wars. Feldman got his wounds last Nov. 29, when he tried to escape after he was caught robbing a fur shop. Gangdom gave him up then as lost. Sol didn't fear superstition, however. He fought to recover, and did. "Kiss of Death” Mary cared for him. except for a few days when police dragged her away on a larceny charge, which was dropped. Sent Home as Well Several weeks ago, physicians sent Feldman home to gain back strength and await trial on the robbery charge. Reports are that after he went home gangster friends taunted him with reminders that any one who : kissed Mary was sure to die. Feldman laughed, but after the friends left, he recalled details of : his sweetheart's career. While "Kiss of Death” Mary sat beside him. quietly awaiting any opportunity to help him, the gangster recalled t’*it probably she was just as attentive once to Johnny Sheehy, j her first sweetheart, who was shot to death in 1923. "Sweetheart of O’Banion After Johnny's death. Mary became the sweetheart of Dion O’Banion. a gangster, who owned a flower shop on North State street near Notre Dame cathedral. With her encouragement, Feldman remembered, O Banion made slot machines and beer peddling pay him “big” .money. One night in 1924 • O’Banion’s enemies left him a corpse among his flowers. History records .that slaying as the real start of Chicago’s gang wars. Mary wept over O Banion's coffin and rode in a limousine to his funeral as roses showered from airplanes soaring overhead. She promptly became the sweetheart of Johnny Phillips. The same year he, too, became a victim of the gang wars. In 1925, Gene McLaughlin was her sweetheart. He, too, was killed by gang bullets. She went to Jerus (Jew) Bates, dark-haired gangster who could not resist the allure of her blond hair and bewitching smile. He was shot and killed in 1926,' 1 Irving Schiig was her next lover.

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at Yellow Springs. His Antioch faculty is making an interesting experiment there. The well-stocked Yellow Springs Exchange, resembling a general store, swaps not only farm products for manufactured goods, but also will swap anything from a cord of firewood cut by jobless men to piano lessons given by a jobless music teacher. Scrip is the medium. Dr. Morgan, the engineer who bossed the job of building Dayton’s flood prevention system, admits the limitations and difficulties of barter, but views it as “economic insurance.” “Nobody knous what the future will bring,” he said. “England has been on the dole for ten years now and may be on it for another ten. We are entering on the fourth year of our depression, and the end is not in sight. “Even if industry got back to 1929 production tomorrow, technological improvements still would

various aromatics which have a carminative effect. a an THE effects of alcohol on the sex reactions are rot direct, but have to do wholly with the effect of alcohol on the mind. Since it breaks down the higher inhibitions m the brain, it sweeps aside barriers to extraordinary sex conduct.

In 1928 he was killed. Next was Sam Katz. He kissed Mary and was shot to death in 1932. By that time Mary had become known as the "Kiss of Death” girl. Gangsters shunned her, until Feldman defied superstition and became her lover. Feldman was pronounced practically well several weeks ago. Today he was back in the hospital. Rumors said he was suffering from fear. Hospital authorities said he would recover again. Rumors said gangdom doubted he could. DUVALL HITS UTILITIES G. O. P. Mayor Candidate Addresses Workers at Musicians’ Hall. Advocating municipal ownership of utilities and opposing repeal of the direct primary law, John L. Duvall, candidate for the mayoralty nomination on the Republican ticket, addressed ward workers at Musicians’ hall, 143 East Ohio street, Friday night. He urged passage of an old age pension law by the legislature, declaring "the present system of administering poor relief Is inadequate.” A resolution opposing any change in the primary law or its repeal was adopted at the meeting.

BERMUDA Where Summer Lasts All Year Round If you are planning a vacation this winter we suggest Bermuda, where summer lasts twelve months out of each year. There are sights aplenty, including the Magic Cave, the world-hoted Aquarium, Spanish Rock. Devil’s Hole, and the choicest beauty spots of the south shore, Harrington sound or St. George's parish. Or perhaps you would prefer a round of golf, a game of tennis or a dip in the ocean. Details on Various Bermuda Cruises May Be Obtained From RICHARD A. KURTZ, Manager Travel Bureau The Leading Travel Bureau of Indianapolis HIJNION TRUSTS 120 E. Market St. ’ Riley 5341 ,

leave from six to eight millions unemployed. “Our production scale Is exceeding our needs. We may be in for anew kind of hard times. If our country is in for this kind of trouble, an exchange policy may save us from a disastrous collapse. ‘•I do not say this is coming. I do not believe my home .will burn down tonight, but I have fire insurance on it. The same comparison might be made with barter and business.” u tt u DR. MORGAN’S Midwest Exchange is designed as a credit clearing house to enable manufacturers and others to exchange their products largely without use of money. Politicians view barter and exchange in varying lights, as shown by opinions at Washington. “The barter and exchange system will continue to spread unless a financial readjustment program can be worked out,” said Representative Matwin Jones of Texas, chairman of the house agriculture committee. “We must readjusc our system to make money more truly a measure of value. Debts contracted before the deflation of the dollar can not be paid in today’s dollars, which so unfairly represent commodity values. “Meanwhile, the barter and exchange method, with the use of scrip, is a very valuable step pending restoration of deflated values.” tt tt a SENATOR CHAR LES L. M’NARY, chairman of the senate agriculture committee, calls the method “too crude to last.” Likewise, there is conflict between the economists as to the wisdom of fiat money which has arisen in certain cities as an adjunct of the barter movement. Professor Fisher of Yale is a strong supporter of the scrip plan like that employed in Hawarden, la., in which the city pays employes in scrip and raises the money for its redemption by means of a stamp tax on each transaction in which the scrip figures. The city governments of Dayton and Toledo now are considering the adoption of such a plan to meet their pay rolls. Colonel Ayres, equally well known as an economist, recently made a study of such scrip systems and concluded that they were unsound. One of the reasons for his conclusion was that this sort of money would drive real money into hoarding. (THE END)

Doctor Hyman says, "There is no pharmacologic evidence to confirm the belief that moderate, non-toxic doses of alcohol, taken daily by the normal individuals, are. deleterious either to him or to his progeny.” In other words, there is no scientific evidence to 1 prove that alcohol taken in moderation ever appreciably shortened anybody’s life. The, fact that millions of people throughout the world are accustomed, both in their religious and social habits, to drink wine with their meals should prove this to any one. n u n THERE is, furthermore, little if any evidence that such drinking leads to chronic alcoholism. Doctor Hyman feels that the ranks of the chronic drinkers are commonly recruited from inferior and psychopathic persons. On the other hand, Dr. Horatio M. Pollock found, in examining a considerable number of mental defectives who also were alcoholics, 'that? the habits of drinking were formed very early in life and that in only a small percentage of the cases did an abnormal mental condition precede the excessive use of alcoholic beverages. The vast majority of people do not have any real knowledge of the effects of alcohol on the body, but do have a tremendous number of superstitions. Practically all of the widely advertised remedies for female complaints contain considerable amounts of alcohol. The alcohol does not have any direct effect on the organs concerned, but acts wholly on the mind of the person who takes the remedy.

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SAVE 22 FROM/ SINKING SHIP IN MID-OCEAN Battered Hulk Slips Under Gale-Tossed Waves as Men Leave Vessel. By United Pretti NEW YORK, Jan. 21.—Twentytwo men, hauled from the shattered decks of the sinking British freighter, Exeter City, were safe today aboard the S. S. American Merchant, after one of the most thrilling mid-Atlantic rescues of recent years. Battered by a gale and torn by waves that washed away her bridge and drowned her captain, another officer and two men, the little British ship rapidly was sinking. The rescue was effected in a dramatic battle against storm and time. Hardly had the rescued crew been brought, exhausted, to the decks of the rescue ship, than the hulk they had abandoned began slipping beneath the pounding waves. Rescue in Mid-Atlantic The scene of the grim fight was 650 miles off Newfoundland. Its progress was announced in terse messages from the master of the American Merchant, Captain Gyles C. Stedman, hero of a sea rescue eight years ago, to his company ashore. Captain E. D. Legge, in command of the freighter, which was bound for Portland, Me., from England, was one of the storm’s victims, presumably washed away together with his third officer, an apprentice, and a seaman, when the waves tore his bridge from beneath him. At 5:30 a. m. Friday, Legge had signed an sds signal, sweeping the seas for some nearby, friendly ship. The American Merchant responded. Bound for New York, Captain Stedman—who was once first officer of the Leviathan—altered his course and proceeded into the furious storm to the side of the stricken vessel. Lifeboats Are Smashed Over mountainous waves, a line was shot to the Exeter City. Her decks were awash, and she was wallowing helplessly, every lifeboat smashed. By means of the line, the American Merchant succeeded in sending over her No. 3 lifeboat to the side of the sinking ship, and after prodigious labor, the twenty-two remaining members of the crew were brought to safety^ The Exeter City had been pounded for nearly twenty-four hours while her crew attempted to keep her afloat. Not until he saw she was doomed did Captain Legge send out his appeal, and then only because his last lifeboat had been crushed, and the hatches stove in under the thunderous hammering of the water.

APARTMENT or MOUSE You can make your selection now from your arm chair. Just turn to The Times Rental columns on the Want Ad page. There you will find a fine selection of the available rental vacancies. HERE IS A PARTIAL LIST—OF THE AVAILABLE VACANCIES AS OFFERED , TODAY IN THE WANT ADS APARTMENTS 4 rooms. 1932 Ruckle $27.00 5 rooms, 1429 N. New Jersey 35.00 4 bedrooms, Washington Bird. 42 W. Eleventh St 22 00 2 rooms. Tenth and Alabama 25.00 4 rooms. 1214 Ashland 25.00 4 rooms. 811 N. Delaware 25.00 3606 Balsam 35.00 1244 N. Illinois 28.50 7 rooms, 2715 N. Meridian. 5 rooms. Meriidan at Thirty-fourth. 5 rooms, 1708 N. Talbot. 5 rooms. 1310 Raymond.... 30 00 42 W. Eleventh 2a.00 4 rooms. 3529 Balsam 35.00 HOUSES 6 rooms, 637 N. Gray *25.00 6 rooms, 1202 Edgemont 20.00 5 rooms, 807 Villa }i'22 3 rooms, 1410 E. Raymond 14 00 3 rooms. 904 Goodlet 11 00 4 rooms 4514 E. Tenth St 30.00 6 rooms, 226 N. Sheffield 2 0 8 rooms. 455 N. State 1? 00 4 rooms. 813 N. Denny 2d 00 5 rooms. 4741 English I*-00 8 rooms. 58 Whittier PI 20.00 5 rooms, 2859 Adams 22.50 5 rooms, 17 S. Denny 21.00 5 rooms. 1035 Dawson 00 6 rooms. 3001 E. Nineteenth St 2 * 00 3 rooms. 1954 Arrow * 00 4 rooms, 1516 Kennington if. 50 4 rooms, 1340 W’. Thirty-first 25.00 t —-T.W.A. - EASY TO READ

NOVELIST IS DEAD

George Moore By United rrr*s LONDON. Jan. 21. George Moore. 80, the famous Irish novelist, died today. Moore had lived quietly in London for several years in contrast with the days when his novels shocked the Victorians and he was known as the “enfant terrible” of British letters. Among the novelist’s beet known works were “Confessions of a Young Man,” '‘Esther Waters,” “Hail and Farewell,” “A Storyteller's Holiday” and “Heloise and Abelard.” Moore’s books, though widely acclaimed by critics, were not best sellers, and his income was limited. He was not married. STUDIES SEXTON SUIT Judge Kern Takes Tax Delinquency Case Under Advisement. Suit of Timothy P. Sexton, county treasurer, to set .aside tax laws reducing delinquent fees collected by the treasurer was taken under advisement today by Superior Judge John W. Kern. A petition requesting Warren and Benton county farmers be named parties to the action to protect their interests in delinquent property tax sales was presented by Otto Gresham, attorney. Arguments on a demurrer filed by Charles A. Grossart, county auditor, a defendant, were held Friday.

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19 MEETINGS ON WEEK'S LEISURE HOURTORAM Three Clubs Will Gather Tuesday, Four on Wednesday. I.EISIRF. HOUR CALENDAR TUESDAY Garflrld Park community house. Oak Hill Woman's Club. 2:30. Oak Hill Mon's flub. 7:30. WEDNESDAY Prospect-Shorman Drive Club Brooksidr Park community home. Rhodius Park community house. J. T. V, Hill community house. THlßsn\Y Crispin Attacks high school. Oak Hill Woman's Club. FRIDAY Christian Park community house. Fletcher Place community renter. Ft. Wayne and Walnut Club. Municipal Gardens School !! teo-operatins with Michigan and Noble. School If>. School 22. School 3d. School SI. School 38 (co-operating with Oak Hill). Although day-time meetings will be held in the same club houses at the Oak Hill and Michigan and Noble Leisure Hour clubs, night meetings in the future will be held in the schools in the neighborhood. Oak Hill club will hold night meetings in School 38. at 2030 Winter avenue. Michigan and Noble club will hold night meetings in School 9 at 740 East Vermont. These arrangements have been made to accommodate the size of the crowds. Two rural clubs, patterned on the Leisure Hour plan, have been organized. One is at Oaklandon and meets each Sunday afternoon. The other is at Brownsburg. Dwight Ritter, director of the Leisure Hour programs, will address the club at Brownsburg Tuesday night. The Boy Scout band will give the second of three Leisure Hour programs Tuesday night at the Garfield park community house. The band will give eight special numbers, featuring George Losey Jr., xylophone music; piano numbers by Theodore Feucht, and accordion music by James Westover.