Occupying almost a city block, row on row of closely packed shanties house some 300 unemployed. Old boards, tar paper, burlap, are neatly carpentered. Here Father Cox was made Honorary Mayor last year, a job that pointed him, through relief fame, leadership of the March of the Jobless to Washington, his Blue Shirt followers fondly believe, straight to the Presidency on the Jobless Party ticket. There he was introduced to President Hoover. This will eventually eliminate interest and all taxes.
Interest is a modern conception.
If you read history you know that interest used to be despised, called usury. They weren't compensated. Money is only a medium of exchange. It was never intended to be power. Expenditure of five billion dollars by the Federal Government in public works.