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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-12
BACK TO BARTER

Time, tide and hunger wait for no man. While
tlmld banks and government sit on their money
bags, some Of Americas mora enterprising jobless
are contriying to help themselves.
In Los Angeles county doctor who gave up his
practice because of illness has helped to put more
men to work than has the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation with all its millions.
He organized the Unemployed Cooperative Re-
lief Association" with thirty-eght Locals. More
than 100000 jobless have found work and food bv
trading their labor to farmers for food
In Seattle young Polish congressman-elect
named Marion Zioncheck has helped to care for
10000 jobess throughs the Federated Unemployed I"
They clear stump land in exchange for frewood;
harvest berries, potatoes, wheat and apples on
shares; swap barber. dental and other services
among themselves.
In Minneapolis, DR.. George Meckenburg. a
preacher, has founded the Organized Unemployed,
Inc" which serves 10000 families. 1t has bank
with scrip for currency, wood lots sauerraut fac.
tory, a big supply warehouse, and an old school,
house, where food is dispensed and men and women
barter possessions with one another
In Salt Lake City jobess are operating saw
mill, tannery, sugar refinery and shoe factory They
use scrip, and do a $4,000 monthly business
In New York and Chicago, downs out artists
stage open-air exhibits trading their paintings for
food and clothing
Colleges barter tuition and student board for
farm truck. Old car dealers trade fivvers for po-
tatoes and wood From every corner of the nation
come stories of barter. Even nations are resorting
to barter with one another.
OF course when barter replaces money values go
askew, they did when early Americans snapped
with the Indians $24 worth of trinkets and rum for
Manhattan island.
The spirit of these battered but dauntess citizens
who banding together for meager minimum
of living should shame the custodans of our billions
of private and public wealth into evolving something
better by way of relief and security for the people,
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A LIFE LINE

The measure introduced into the senate Friday
by Senator Cutting of New Mexico to provide fed
eral grant of $4,000 coo from "R F. c." funds to the
states to feed shelter, employ, and train the mil
lion so homeless and boys now wandering
over the country comes none too soon.
1t is lifeline thrown to group of depression
victims more shockngly in need than the other
millions knocking at the nations door for Succor.
The Cutting bill introduces two principles of re-
lief. One is that of direct federal grants to the
states The other is their administration by an ex-
pert board at Washington.
Both, we consider essentially sound in this in
stance The states can not and should not be ex-
pected to for these wanderers. Relief for them
is as much an interstate function is relief for
the railroads upon which they daily risk life and
limb
And if federal aid is given, it should be granted
under accepted and standardized conditions that
only board of socially trained men and women
effectively enforce
For four winters now this ragged, footsore horde
has been waxing in numbers It's ranks are recruited
from some of the country's best families. Many
at least 2000o0-are mere boys.
Further neglect will cost the nation dear in new
problems of disease delinquency, degeneracy, and
crime. scant $15OOOOOO is cheap price to pay to
salvage even portion of them.
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REPEAL IN INDIANA

Let it be hoped that there will be delay on the
part Of the legislature in repeating the Wright bone
dry law under which physicians are barred from
using whisky medicine.
At the present time there are thousands of cases
Of flu in this city.
During the wartime epidemic of this disease. the
doctors discovered that whisky the medicine
which could combat it.
In this city today there are hundreds who might
find the road to recovery little easier If it were
possible for the physicians to use this medicine.
In this city, there are many whose sickness has
passed from the flu to pneumonia. There will be
some deaths raceabe to the fanaticism of this law
The Wright law was never more than gesture and
operated only against the physician 1t checked
The sale of liquor by bootegger and the keeper of the
speakeasy.
The law was passed by the Ant-Saloon League
ard the khan in order to pacify the membership in
those organizations It's passage was celebrated by
g. drunken orgy participated in by many legislators
who voted for the law. 1t was born in hypocrisy
and has been perpetuated by deceit. 1t has been
effective only instrument of revenge.
one of the first acts of the incoming legislature
Should be the repeal of this law, and the enactment
of law reasonable enough to oe enforceable if
there should be any modification of the Volstead act
or repeal of the eighteenth amendment.
1t is not unreasonable to demand that the ply
sican be permitted to use whatever medicine he be-
Eeves necessary to curb disease.
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FEDERAL REORGANIZATION

Congressional opposition is piling up against the
Hoover plan for reorganization of federal govern
ment departments. Reorganization is long
due. The issue is two-fold-effciency and economy.
In fairness to the present session of congress-
1t must be said that neither the lame ducks
hungry Democrats, waiting for patronage jobs in
the administration, are chiefly to blame for
the initial hostility to the Hoover plan
The Presidents failure to estimate the amount
OF cash saving involved in his proposals has
ated bad impression. After ALL economy is about
the only justification for attempting to rush
plicated subject such as wholesale reorganization
through a crowded short session.
Since Mr. Hoover was unable to claim specific
economies for his bureau shuffling congress natur
ally is inclined to doubt that appreciate savings
would result. Indeed, some profess to cash in
creases resulting.
Without attempting to pass judgment on plan
extensive enough to scramble afty-eight bureaus,
commissions and agencies, we are impressed by the
Presidents omission of the two items usually in
cluded in reorganization plans
One is abolition Of the farm board, the Inflated
and costly experiment in price control which retains
few friends even among the farm politicians The
other is consolidation of the expensive and navy
departments in a department of national defense.
Far from being a radical pacifst proposal
sometimes supposed, this merger was recommended
by the very conservative reorganization commission
appointed by President Harding The saving is est-
mated from $500OOOOO up TO 2OOOOOOOO, depending
upon how much deadwood and red tape were cut out
Of the fighting services.
In these times of federal deficits running upward
of $2OOOOOO,OOO year, and threat of additional tax
alton of an overtaxed and representation people,
the President should be able to propose major and
definite economies through merger of necessary bu-
reaus and abolition of useless ones.
Congress either should send back the Hoover
plan, requesting that the President do that, it
should do the job itself.
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Peoples Voice

Editor Times
T SEE where the farm board has
a recommended four items for
taxation. Tt seems to me it is time
to cut expenses for government,
along with salaries and graft, which
some of these birds are getting.
1t looks like our law-making bod
les can't think Of anything but more
taxes from the people. People
should be getting relief from taxa
ton instead of an increase, as they
haven't any work to make enough
money to meet present taxes.
1 guess the legislature couldn't
make law to give the people a
three-year exemption from taxes
like the United States government
gives the foreign countries on their
debts. Why can't we people at home
get a cancellation or extension to
save our homes? I figure they want
to take away what homes are left
from the people.
I can take you to a family on my
street where the man holds a poll
tical job and this mans wife goes
around telling the people they do
not know what depression means.
They too, should be given taste of
it, to see how they like the flavor.
A TIMES READER.
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What Do You Mean Hasty?

Ao1Y Not at all AS matter of fact Joe
10 Greta Green and Hda years the age of
0oes romantic pattern Circumstances of his
ness IN marriage only with young woman having blue ewes
ana particular shade of brown precise shape of her
$500 ~ "O-' " O40O1i7
midas romantic image particular conformation of
ue shoulders and certain drawing quality And these obi
's we're SET IN her mind at the
given you any accurate picture of his
1ey ceo 1t love at first sight"
S Impossible as 1t sounds But that
sense the
t1uoa twenty before finding specifications
I'm not saying that they
SOOO year instead of $4,000 difference
rehgouS 1ah made certain difficulties might have waited
1 N' AN'O'"N VI lone
Every consideration Of pointed to this par
cua experiment. but 1t would have
qeed 1t would have been doomed years before when
Joe had just turned ~ 0 "-e4
It's the Way to Bet
RO1 said Fddas mother, was: How on earth
can you tell that love this young man? You've known him
only week That isn't what
got TO be more than that before you get married"
II tlda had asked there isn't
- w ~ O' "Neie 1'"'
ana oont Tor the life of
contenptuousy OF What they call
IL Is among the truest of
Sloi ana II everybody married his
be elegant - - ~ ~ "iSN'
copyright 1892
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CUES tiOns and
Answers .

OWL a vessel of water weigh
more with a live fish in it than
without the fish?
Ayes, the weight Of the fish
will be added to that Of the water
and vessel.
Off hot and cold water of the
same quantity are placed under
identical conditions in a freezing
temperature, which will freeze
first?
A-The cold water.
Q-What is the address of Ed
gar A. Guest?
A-17471 Hamilton drive, De-
troit.
GLOW many presidents of the
United States were members of
the Masonic order?
AsTen. washington, Jackson,
Polk, Buchanan, Johnson, Gar
field, Mckinley, Roosevelt, Taft
and Harding. Fillmore was a
Mason at one time, but recanted.
Q-Can widow, who is de-
pendend on a son and a daugh-
ter, be compelled to help sup
port brother who is i'll without
funds in another county?
No, unless by court order.
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MRS FERGUSON star. 1t all depends upon how
the experience reacts upon the emotions and the
intellect, if any.
Motherhood means great deal more than mere
ly having baby nor does it end in the maternity
ward With it goes travail Of soul over long years,
as well as brief travail of body 1t is spirit
ual than physical experience
NMILLIONS of women have babies every year. Of
Iva that number only minority understand the
deeper significance of the event. And only the
rare few are able to grasp its profoundest meanings
Only they see earth Illuminated by a flashing
miracle and are swept from their mental moorings
by a knowledge that they are a part of the great
life procession that moves forever through the
starry spaces of the universe endless and eternal
The most intelgently excited mother I ever
knew was Mary MacDougal Axelson, who, after the
birth of her child, seemed afame with ecstasy. And
she wrote Life Begins" of the great dramas of
the decade that expresses the soul-stirrng tender
beautiful thing that motherhood should mean to
women.
II it had for us all this glowing, vivid transhgur-
inr quality, there would be unwanted babies on
earth For we would teach and practice birth con-
troll nteIIIgently and regard the giving Of life
great responsibility. as well as a great privilege.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-12
THE TOP HAT AND THE LIMOUSINE

Get ready for the ironic shafts that will be
hurled in congress and the press about Walter Brown
and his top hat, and the limousine the government
just had to purchase so that the necessary head
clearance might be secured and the dignity of the
Office maintained.
I'VE were disturbed greatly" testified the post
naster-general
But the crisis was met as usually the tax
payers.
The incident is more significant than merely as
subject Tor the ironically inclined for it typifies
an era that is gone. So suddenly gone that few of
yet able fully to realize that ticker tape and
playboy mayors, channel swimmers and yachting
parties Wall Street brokers and holding companies
are no longer the elements that make up America.
The government limousine is a symbol 1t is one
of those two which, are told should be in
every garage. Yesterday it the thing, and
so bold as to challenge it. Today it is matter for
national criticism.
And none so rich as to do it reverence
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Every Day Religion
BY DIR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

OAN religion, or anything else,
" ever help us to get over it?
Why do we have to have what
the other man has, by fair means
or foul? Why can we not be con-
tent without it? Because we COM
pare ourselves with some one else.
We even get comfort out of the
fact that somebody else is worse
off than we are. Somebody else
suffers more, or is handicapped
more heavily, and it helps us to
be happy. 1t is a cold, cruel,
futile comfort, and only mean
soul can enjoy the misery of his
fellow men.
If only we would compare our
selves with ourselves, it would put
us in the path of wisdom and
cleanse us Of envy. Let man
honestly put himself alongside
what he was year, or five years
ago, and see how he stands.
If he truly can report progress
in insight and understanding, a
finer poise and a wider sympathy,
he has right to hope that he
may yet learn to live in a man.
ner worthy Of the gift of life.
Copyright. 1882, United Feature Syndicate
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-12
WE WORRY ABOUT A SPIDER IN
A TRAP AND FORGET JOBLESS

tongues have wagged, and human
imagination has tortured itself.
Some scientists would like to
watch the proceeding through, but
that is asking too much. We can
not tolerate the attitude of mind
which it implies. They will be
allowed just one more week for
observation. If the spider lives,
she must be freed.
If some ambitious youth only
would mount fagpole, or estab-
lish new barrel piling record,
we might forget to note the fate
full hour and thus permit science
to go on with its investigation by
default.
Barring such interruption, we
shall be alert, even though it calls
for inattention to the war debt
issue and modification Of the Vol
stead act.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-12

This is the third Of six special articles
by Dr., Fishbein on the nature and treat
ment of measles and precautions to curb
its spread.
IRON the time when the child
II first comes in contact with a
case of measles, and thereby de-
velops the likelihood of catching
the disease, until the disease ap-
pears, usually is thirteen or four
teen days. This is known as the
incubation period.
Authorities give the shortest
incubation period as eight days
and the longest as seventeen days.
During this period, the patient
does not have symptoms.
However, he does develop early
three definite signs which per-
NIT a physician to diagnose the
disease in its earliest stages. These
signs include fever, running nose
and watering of the eyes and an
eruption on the mucous membranes
of the mouth.
The Inflammation of the eyes
differentiates measles from other
infectious diseases in which this
symptom is not common. The
child avoids the light and, as has
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1t Tortures Imagination

My friend Burris jenkins of
1V1 Kansas City has a saying
which explains many things, the
more one thinks about it: Com
parison is the root of all evil"
Some one else has something that
we do not have, something we
want and we can not be content
without it.
There is the basis of envy, en-
nifty, hatred, and the beginning
of bitterness between men. On a
vaster scale, it is the secret breed
er Of war between nations, and
that is what is the matter with
the barbarous old world.
We ride in our f1ivver and along
comes a man with naughty air,
driving a Rolls Royce, and right
there war begins in our hearts.
We would take his car away from
him if we could. We pass the
home of another man, look at its
classic archway entrance and its
wide-spreading lawns, and our
hearts burn within us because it
is not ours.
History is just our envy writ
large in the tragic affairs Of the
race, with its greed and grab.
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Eyes Are Affected in Measles Case

likely to be sicker than at any
other time in the course Of the
disease.
He may have lack of appetite, a
coated tongue, even looseness of
the bowels; there may be slight
cough and ether disturbances re-
lated to the lungs.
The child with measles should
be placed in a room alone and not
permitted to come in contact with
other children.
Particular attention must be
given to the prevention Of chilling,
because this is especially harmful
in measles.
The secondary complications af-
fecting the lungs are far more
serious than the disease itself.
The room should be well venti-
lated. but care must be taken to
avoid drafts by placing screens
properly before open windows.
This does not mean that the
room is to be kept stuffy or hot. It
is the draft that should be avoided
NEXT: Care Of the measles
patient.
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about As per cent of the present
total. N-AS
Great Britain proposes a new
pan Oh employment insurance
unoer which every worker and
every employer of labor will make
payments into an unemployment
insurance fund.
This fund will be used to paw
benefits to workers Who find
themselves unemployed. However.
worker to benefit from this in
surance will have had to make
payments into it while employed.
In addition, relief system is
being set up to help those who bv
reason of long unemployment
can not benefit from the insur-
ance system.
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the nronosed

VIEWING the proposed action
' OF the British government.
and remembering that at even the
height Of American prosperity
there were about 10 per cent of
the American workers unemployed.
one can not help but think of
technocracy's pronouncement that
we could get along with four
hour day in a four-day week in
a ten-month year.
1t seems logical that the world
must work out a system under
which the work which must be
done is parceled out among the
workers available to do it.
Just how this is to be done is a
difficult problem. But If we are
to accept the findings of technoc-
racy, we must undertake intelH-
gent national planning in that
direction.
Some ten years ago DR.. E. E.
SloSson predicted that science
would solve the labor problem by
abolishing labor.
But neither he nor any one
else at that time seemed to sense
that the elimination Of labor would
result in the creation Of the un-
employment problem.
Slosson felt that science was
doing something commendable in
freeing man from hard labor. In
this he was right. Then, what is
the trobule?
Let me quote from scientist,
the greatest in the world, Profess
sor Albert Einstein. Addressing
the students Of the California IN
stitute of Technology a year ago,
he said:
Why does this magnificent ap-
piled science which saves work
and makes life easier, bring to us
so little happiness? The simple
answer is: because we have not
yet learned TO make sensible use
of it.
Concern for the man himself
and his fate always must form the
chief interest Of all yorr technical
endeayors. Never forget this in
the midst of your diagrams and
equations"
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and down the street, begging for
work, willing to pay their way if
given chance.
The energy and emotion squan-
dered on this spider would be
sufficient to help more tran one
of them if properly directed. So
would the energy and emotion
squandered on many other I'M
important incidents.
Diversion of interest is playing
no small part in our lack of
ability to accomplish more. To a
perceptible degree, we are trying to
evade problems, rather than meet
them, trying to forget what the
situation demands through all
kinds of trumped-up excitement.
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IN spider webs and
slowly were be-
ing strangled to
death. The coun-
try found itself
quite unable to
e n d u + e the
thought of what
they must be suf-
fering.
Such a cry of
horror and indig-
nation went up as
left the author
tiles little choice.
w i t h sharpened
scissors and high
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
BY. DR.. MORRIS FIsHBE1N
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

been mentioned, the eyes are
moist and full Of tears.
Particularly interesting are the
little spots which appear on the
sides Of the mouth and on the
palate and which resemble the
rash that is later to appear on
the skin.
These little blush white spots,
surrounded with an area of red
inflammation, we're described by
a New York physician named
Koplik and are commonly called
Koplik's spots.
y
THREE or four days after the
l. running nose and the slight
fever appear, comes the rash. The
child breaks out on the face, the
mouth and chin, and then over
the trunk, arms, thighs and legs
with red spots, which enlarge and
join together. The color is pur-
pliSh red.
During this period the child is
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SCIENCE
Many to Stay Jobless
BY DAVID DIETz

TINE news from Europe is an
L echo to the announcements
of democracy. Howard Scott,
director of this interesting group,
which is associated with Colum-
bia university, says that two
things will happen in the future:
First-Engineering and techno-
logical advances will become
greater and greater.
Second-This increase in ma
chine efficiency will make unem-
ployment greater and greater.
AS an echo to the first claim
comes the news from Italy. Sen
ator Guglielmo Marconi, the
father of the radio" reports to
Mussolini on the successful opera
ton of Italy's National Research
Council"
He shows how this council, CO.
ordinating the efforts Of Italy's
research laboratories, has brought.
about many advances in techni-
cal and industrial processes.
Industrial research is nothing
new. Neither are research coun-
ellis. The United States has had
one ever since the war. But our
own research council is a volun-
tary organization doing what it
can to coordinate scientific re-
search.
The italian council, apparently
derives it's authority froms that
nations dictator and functions
with his authority. 1t represents
a Capitalization Of authority in
the field of scientific investigation
which has been duplicated only in
Russia.
Unemployment Problem
THE echo to technocracy's sec
l. ond point comes from Eng
land, where the government is
working out a new system to deal
with unemployment.
The thing about this situation
which will seem astounding to
many readers is that Great
Britain is proceeding on the basis
that unemployment is a perma-
nent ching.
The British authorities, appar-
emily, are taking cognizance of
the advance of chronological un-
employment. For example, their
figures show that whereas the
output of British mines and
uuarries in 1880 was a little
higher than it was in 1924, the
number Of men employed in min
ing and quarrying had decreased
20 per cent.
Similarly, that while sbipbuiId-
ing showed a Is per cent increase
from 1924 to 1880, employment in
that industry showed a z per cent
+ decrease.
This is, of course, the story in
this country as well as England.
Certain authorities calculate that
if industry could be restored to
the high peak of 1929, there still
would be unemployment equal to