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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17
BY ROBERT TALLEY
NEA Service Writer

NEA Service Writer
IN Omaha, George Redding,
4 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 little more
desperate.
In Minneapolis, the Rev. George
Mecklenburg, pastor of Wesley
Methodist church, saw the relief
work 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 opera
tor, saw the daily increasing num-
Der of jobless men who sat on the
benches in a downtown park, with
nothing to offer but their I'M
wanted 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 rail-
road man, the overburdened pas
tor, 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 40 such eX-
changes now operating in twenty
nine states which are supporting
100000 persons without the aid
of money.
7 ET'S tell the Stringhams
IL story first, since his Ma
tural 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 Salt Lake Of
flee 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 tannery.
The N. d. A. S scrip serves as Z
medium of exchange for food,
clothing, auto tires, fuel, furni-
ture, barbering, medical and dem
tai services, disqualification, 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 bust
ness turnover of the Salt Lake
activities represents about $4,000
a day-if figured in money values.
Beyond Salt Lake the N. D. A.
spreads among the farmers.
Farmers swap sheep for coal, job
less N. d. A. members shear the
sheep, make clothing Of the wool,
butcher the carcasses for food,
tan the hides in their own tan
merry. So it is with many other
forms of exchange.
Behind all this lies Stringham's
idea, which visions a rather ITO
plan, idealistic and moneyless eX-
istence of the unemployed that he
calls Natural Government"
He began in August, 1881, in
small way by sending jobless men
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17
scrIp money in Minneapois links tobIess and Jobs.

In Omaha, one of the city's big
gest depression time businesses
is the Unemployed Married Mems
Council, founded by Jobless
Railroader Redding with the as
Sistance 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.
TT all began when Redding gath
Il cred a group of other jobless
men around him and tried to OBJ
tain 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 cafe
terra. The old manual training
department became a workshop.
Mr.. and Mrs. Redding are presi-
dent and vice-president, respec-
lively, Of the organization. Only
individuals eligible to vote in
Omaha and responsible for chill
dren may belong.
A widow with children has the
same status as a married man.
An oath of allegiance to the Con-
stitution Of the United States is
required.
The organization collects the
pay from employers in old
clothes, old furniture, anything
that may be of use to some one.
Workers-and nearly every trade
is represented-collect their pay
in scrip, redeemable at the coun-
ellis stores.
With this scrip, workers can
buy almost anything-they can
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17
PACIFIC PACT
NOW APPEARS
DEAD LETTER
Equilibrium of Far East
Again Depending on
Force, Hoover View.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor


WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE
four power pact of the Pacific safe
guarding the Philippines now is a
dead letter, for all practical pur-
poses, and that the equilibrium of
the far east once more depends
upon force, it clearly is indicated by
administration spokesman.
This was revealed as, one by one,
President Hoover, State Secretary
Henry L. StimSon and War Sec
Rotary Patrick Hurley intimated that
Americas withdrawal from the
Philippines might lead to the an
neXation of the islands by another
power.
The 1921 four-power pact, with
the nine-poWer treaty, was one or
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17
-Back to Barter-No. 9

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-Feeding 100000 in and
around Los Angeles with the la
Dor of jobleSs men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17
Stove EXpIOdes

Stove ExplOdes in Doctors Office
Waiting room in the Office of DR..
Frank P. Reid at 1903 Madison ave-
nue. was damaged to the extent Of
$500 Monday when a stove exploded.
DR.. Reid was out of the room.
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PAGE 5

and the exploitation of
peoples by other races had not
departed from the earth
Secretary Stimson added his
warning, saying our presence in
the Philippines already has con-
tributed TO the development OF a
new base of political equilibrium
throughout the area of the west
ern Pacific and eastern Asia" and
our withdrawal would tend pro-
foundly to disturb that equilibrium"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17
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. Oil
soaked rags and waste were found
on the rear porch, flremen reported.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17
Cottage Burns; Loss $500

Fire late Monday afternoon de-
stroyed the summer cottage of I. L.
Land at Washington boulevard and
Eighty second street, with damage
estimated by firemen at $500.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17

This is the second story in series of
six describing the growth of the Back
TO Barter movement which is fast gain
ing Roadway throughout the United
States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17
ENDS LIFE BY POISON
RaiIroadman DespOnden! Because
of Long Illness, Police Told.

Despondent because Of long IL
ness, police were told, Leslie H.
Warren, At, railroadman, ended his
life early today by drinking poison
in his home at 207 North Pershing
avenue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17

10 harvest crops Tor farmers IN
return for potatoes, butter, eggs,
etc. In January, 1882, he formed
his Natural Development AssOcia-
ton to expand his system of eX-
change and barter leaped toward
big business"
CTRINGHAM, a studiouS sort of
~ man, tells you that doctors, in
curing a patient, remove the cause
of the disorder. Money, he con-
tinues, has fallen down on the job
as a medium of exchange, so he
proposes to remove money from
the economic order.
Natural government, the the-
DRY upon which the N. D. A. is
based, is a plan of operation set
up and ready to function in har-
mony with human needs" he ex-
plains.
There is no price system, no
medium of exchange, but a syS-
tenn of distribution to all accord
ing to their news, provided they
will contribute according to their
ability"
In Minneapolis, Mr.. Mecklen-
burg saw his church-one of the
citys largest-breaking down UNI
der the load of mounting relief
demands. Faced by this predica-
ment, he founded unique CO.
operative society known as Or
ganized Unemployment, Inc"
which now serves 1900 persons
daily, not including dependents,
while upward of 1000 families
have availed themselves of its
services.
Typical of the movement, Mr..
Mecklenburg began by supplying
harvest labor to farmers near
Minneapolis. Farmers paid for
the labor with surplus crops,
which we're 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 10000 cans of
foodstuff.
Also, the workers painted and
repaired numerous farm buildings
and painted fourteen churches.
Il II
CENSING a big operation, Rev.
- Mecklenburg printed 100000
in scrip in denominations rang
ing from cents to $40. To date,
slightly over $4,000 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 build
ing donated by the Minneapolis
board of education, the Organ
lied Unemployed is growing
rapidly. 1t has a huge store
house for food, a department
store" where many articles can
be obtained for scrip, clothing
factory, a shoe repair shop, a
restaurant that serves 1900 meals
a day and in which good meal
can be had Tor a dime.
The outfit also operates a 100
bed hotel, and a series of wood
cutting camps just outside of the
city, where 1000 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 OPP
portunity to earn an honest liv-
ing through productive, creative,
respectable work"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17
Five Children Cough
S. B. Helps All

Il have 5 children,
from l year TO Is
years of age. I've
been using every
kind of cough syrup.
Last winter when
they had bad coughs.
l bought a bottle of
Smith Brothers
Cough Syrup 80.
Their colds and
coughs disappeared
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17

like magic. They like the taste of it,
too" Mrs. M. Robilliard, 9O3 Home
Street, New York, N. Y.
(Sn1ith Bros. Syrup costs only $50
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17
DAYTON'S PLAN
OF HOMESTEADS
GIVEN APPROVAL
JobIeSS Groups viii Take
Second Step on Way
to Security.
BY RALPH BORSODI
Copyright. 1873. by United Press
Associations

DAYTON, o.. Jan. 17.-Dayton
promises to make social history.
Something really new is emerging
from it's struggle with the problem
of relief.
The Dayton production units, Of
which there now are ten, are IN
doubtedly one of the most interest
ing economic and educational ex-
periments 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 home
stead unit is of high Importance
to those interested in the perman-
ent contribution which this move
ment may make to social and edu-
cational progress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17
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 anu workshop on it's
own homestead; cultivate it's gar
dens, lay out orchard and berry
patches as the pioneers did hun
dred years ago.
Larger farming operations may be
carried on by the group as 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 home
steaders, under supervision of a
committee of three outstanding
business men. The hOmesteadevs
are to repay these advances for
building material, machinery, tools,
and livestock over a long term of
years.
III lily bpllllOil, lIIt OuloJdlINIilS
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 ed
ucation, are again once to become
part of the American home.
They are coming back to perform
the same function which they per-
formed in the past-to furnish
economic independence, security, and
self sufTiCiency.
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.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17

to harvest crops for farmers in
return for potatoes, butter, eggs,
etc. In January, 1882, he formed
his Natural Development Associa-
ton to expand his system of eX-
change and barter leaped toward
big business"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17
On Permanent Basis

The Dayton movement is differ
ent from the many new self-help
movements. 1t is not merely trying
to tide over the unemployed until
business picks up again. 1t is try
ing to furnish permanent employ
ment in the production of things
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 depen-
dent upon outside employment only
for the money which they would
want for luXuries and for things
which they can not produce them
selves.
The new experiment to which
the Dayton Council of Social Agen-
Cies has committed itself, if suit
able tracts of land can be secured
and necessary funds raised, is to
move as many families as possible
to homestead communities near
Dayton, on which they would raise
their own agricultural products and
build their own homes, in addition
to the group activities in which
they now are engaged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17

wn and lu e
jumper styles with
blouses W it h puff
sleeves of contrasting
colors. Pastel colors
and wool prints in
Guided. Sizes IA to 20.
Evening star., 1933-01-16
Uneedu Bakers
SNOWFLAKE WATERS p. p; 12c
-. these are the waters you read about in
Fridays "Family Circle"

Land O'Lakes Butter. ;. ;. D lbs. sc
Sanitary Butter r..............B B. 29c
Jumbo Butter ..:........... n. Z9c
Sanico Fresh Eggs. ..... do- .38c
Sanico Bread .......... lb. loaf Sc
Ford's Preserves ............ jar 15c
College Inn Spaghetti ..... can 10c
College Inn Rice Dinner -. can 10c
Tripo1i Chick. & Noodle Dinner jar 29c
Tripo1i Chicken Croquettes. jar 15c
Triple Potato Salad. Jar 1sc
Blue Label Boned Chicken. :. 39c
NUCOA MARGARINE, 2 n. 23c
Priced at a Saving .....".... B. IZc
Evening star., 1933-01-16

9,o37 wage earners and employees In
paper mills, with an annual payroll
of Sl4 ,266, 900. Today, because of the
foreign competition, the. pulp and pa
per mills of Maine are operating at q
reduction Of approximately go per cent.
National imports of woodpulp and
pulpwood, especially from deprecated
currency countries" states the Maine
Development Commission. "are OF such
Importance as to be a governing factor
in domestic prices Of wood and pulp,
mill wages, mill employment, woods
wages, woods employment and land
values, and to them can be traced the
critical condition in which Maine and
other forest industry States now find
themselves"
Another significant factor Is, that
stocks Of pulp in warehouses at the
principal Atlantic and gulf ports show
steady increase in foreign stocks in
storage, while domestic stocks remain
practically constant. On January !,
1880, foreign stocks in warehouses to-
tailed $4,000 tons, whereas domestic
stocks totaled 10.763 tons. On February
l, 1882, however, foreign stored stocks
had climbed to 150,l33 tons, while do
mestic stocks totaled but 10,744 tons.
American pulp mills, meanwhile, have
shown a constant falling off in pro-
duction, dropping from 4,630,3 ,3o8 tons
in 1880, to 4,000,00 tons in 1881, a
drop Of IA per cent Imports from all
foreign countries totaled 149,499 tons
between January and September, 1880
The imports during a similar period in
1881 followed the world trade trend,
and fell of to 125,755 tons. When the
chief European exporting countries de-
based their currencies, however, the
imports to the United States, between
October, 1881, and March, 1892, in
creased to 159,913 tons.
Imports Drop Slightly.
Domestic manufacturers estimate
that the use of foreign woodpulp dis
places the use Of pulpwood at the ratio
of from three to five cars of pulpwood
to one car OF woodpulp, and that the
cost Of the foreign pulp laid down at
the mill is less than even the cost to
the producers Of pulp to manufacture
pulp from wood. This Is true, they de-
clare, even at inland points, where q
rail haul Is necessary to bring the pulp
from the ports to the mills.
(Copyrieht, 1893, bv North American News
DaDpr Alliance. Inc
Evening star., 1933-01-16
RADIOS CENSORSHIP
is SERIOUS PROBLEM
Industry Fights Constantly to
Keep Improper Stories and
Songs Off Programs.

The overwhelming trend In radio
toward stage comedians and other
theoretical lunlinaries has introduced
q new problem for program makers
that Of keeping off the air the risque
Jokes and border line stories borrowed
from the stage and screen. 1t is now
being dealt with by rather drastic blue
perciling of continuities.
z Radio always has claimed that 1t Is
the cleanest form of entertainment.
Programs have been built, by the more
important stations at least, to appeal
to the entire family and rigid censor
ship of programs has been maintained.
But the stage performer. accustomed
to relating stories TO his visible audi
ence with telling effect, has difficulty
in learning that broadcasting involves
a different technique. =
How jealously radio has guarded its
reputation for clean entertainment Is
related by Leo j. Fitzpatrick. vice pres
ident OF the National Association of
Broadcasters and general manager of
Station WJR. Detroit. Censorship
over programs extends beyond the
spoken Word, he revealed. Many musical
compositions, the titles or words of
which are believed to be risque or TO
invade controversial subjects, are
banned from the air. At present more
than 100 songs are posted on bull
1etin board at WJR as improper for
broadcasting, Including outstanding hits
Of current musical shows.
"Broadcasters realize that their pro-
fession has progressed through its
cleanliness and wholesomeness," Mr..
Fitzpatrick said. This careful censor
ship Is through no central agency, since
the Radio Commission has no power
Of censorship whatsoever over programs.
The broadcaster, however, realizing that
the radio listeners are both Judge and
jury. have used every precaution TO see
that they shall be pleased"
Evening star., 1933-01-16
SLUMP CONTINUES
in marital MARTS
Census Data Reveal Effects
Of Money on Weddings
and Divorces.

The marriage and divorce mart dur
Ing 1882 failed to rally out of its slump
started In 1880, the Census Bureau said
to[ay as workers started assembling
stasiSti.s gathered from every county
in the United States.
e win be SC ct-eral months before fig
urss es to the actual number of mar
r.ageS and divorces for the year will
h. completed. Veteran clerks, how
e"s7-. say that after preliminary
e:;;.1s.ination of the cards received from
cou-t clerks and other sources the 1892
figures will fall short Of the 1881 mark
Off l,060,554 marriages and 182,2 ,203 di
VOICES.
Hhe reason given is the depression.
Cupid f1ourishes only in boom periods.
He is more active during war days
than in days of prosperity although
the aH-tirne marriage peak was reached
intthis country in 1929. But the pros
perity period was short lived, while
Cupid ran amuck during the days of
1917 and 1919.
Money Affects Divorces.
Divorces also flourish when money
uoWS, the records Snow. a tOGal OF
1924 less DEGREES were granted in 1881
than in 1929. With three years of de-
preston completed, no longer are those
who married in haste repenting before
the divorce court bar. but persons with
years of experience in nlatrinony be-
hind them are leading the way into the
divorce courts
The bureau said that in 1891 the
largest number of divorces was granted
to those wed 10 to IA years. In that
group there were 29,246 and the next
largest totals were found among those
who walked down the aisle 90 or more
years ago.
Fewer Newlywed Divorces.
The newlyweds, those married less
than year, ranked at the bottom,
with only 1882 OF that class ending
their relationship in court. But in the
one-year group there we're 13,405 di-
vorces and even more, 14,862. among
those married two years. Evidence that
the first few years may be the most
quarreIsome was seen in the drop to
7,7o0 divorces for the nine-year group.
The records show that husbands OBJ
tanned 1881 of the divorces and
wives 1882. Cruelty was the pre-
dominating cause with desertion next
In line.