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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-21
BY ROBERT TALLEY
NEA Service Writer


A LTHOUGH they recognize it
4 n as a valuable relief measure
in period of distress, experts who
have studied the Back to Bar
ter" movement have no fear that
it holds any real threat for bust
ness or banking as now estab-
hshed.
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 rolls, 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 100000 families and
that each family by this method
is maintaining a living standard
of about $1,000 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 COM
pared with a national trade in the
neighborhood Of 1900 billion
dollars.
This comparison suggests that
barter plays a very small part in
the trade life of the nation,
although it may play an i'm
portant part as a relief measure .
1t is very unlikely, he continued.
that barter ever will play a major
part in American business.
II
DARTER, v-'--------c 3es reasonable
ID proximity of those engaged in
such trades. Productive speciali-
cation, upon which all modern
high standards of living rest, pre-
supposes that people in various
and widely separated areas con-
fine their activities to the kind of
production in which they are most
effective, and exchange their sur
pluses through a money mechan-
ism.
Thus, shoes are made in New
England, cotton raised in the south,
wheat in the northwest, automo-
biles 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
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-21
Kiss ofDeaM' Girls Spell
Again Is OUer Hospital Cot
Eighth Sweetheart Fears His Doom Is Sealed; His Seven
Predecessors All Were Killed.
BY SAM KNOTT
limited Press Staff Cnrresnnndnnf

CHICAGO, Jan. 21-The spell of kiss of death" Mary
Collins lowered hospital cot where gangster Sol Field
man lay fighting for his life today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-21


bluncering has thrust out upon
the road, to wander in search of
job, OF food, Of shelter, fully a mil
lion men and boys. A large pro-
portion 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 man
power For the destitute transient,
however pathetic his plight, the best
they can do is "a nights flop, a
plate Of beans, and shove him on to
the next stop"
Flop Houses damned
1t is difficult to get an estimate
Of the actual number Of transients
passing through town. Rarely do
the authorities make a tabulation.
They will tell you that the missions
are overcrowded, the houses
jammed that numbers sleep on
floors, in the railroad station, in the
Jail.
But, they all repeat, and this en-
phatically, that the percentage Of
boys in enforced vagabondage is
rapidly increasing. In a later article
shall try to give some figures on
this question.
I made my way through a gloomy
alley to find the entrance to the
f-raay1chopO C,aIVo4io,, Artov, T)oet a
slim boy with shock of black hair
opened the dooRoanet Ieered into the
darkness at, nae: want q bed for
the night?" he asked, Did you
work today?"
Never Tell Real Truth
He was Walter Scott Browning,
age, 16, and evidently of literary
lineage. D. A. Shelley, in charge
of the rest, had employed young
Browning for few days in the hope
of finding out something definite
about him.
II never have yet known one of
them to tell the real truth about
IlIIlSell, Ollelley SdlQ.
The two floors were 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 pro-
portionately in our metropolitan
missions, The average age of the
one night dodgers in the Greensboro
Mission Mr. Shelley informed me,
was IS years.
One of the reasons for the youth
fulnesS of his charges may be due to
Shelley himself He knows how to
handle boys, and word of him prob
ably has travelled far and wide on
the grapevine telegraph of the
wanderers.
His Buddy Was Trapped"
A knock at the office door, and
in came a diminutive, cocky young
ster. He said he was Harry Price,
10, but Shelley recognized him as
Robert Farmer, a. 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 story of his buddy.
Jack Long, who had been arrested
in Spartanburg. 1t 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.
shall try to find out why Jack
Long was tapped"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-21

This is the second of two timely arti-
clcs by Dr. Fishbein on the effects 'Of
alcohol on the human body.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-21

This is the last Of a series Of six
stories on the Back to Barter" move
ment
The Bismarck tribune., 1933-08-22
AT THE MOVIES
Enact Double
Romance During
Emergency CALI

Two love stories, one idealistic and
the other of heart-throbbing power
intersperse the story enacted by Bill
Boyd and William Gargan In "Emer-
gency CALL" coming to the Capitol
theater, 'RKO-Radio Pictures fast
stepping drama Of the hospital am
bulanoe service.
Boyd Is teamed with Betty Furness,
who enacts the daughter Of his hos
pital chief. Even when he discovers
his superior involved in an endless
chain Of graft and corruption within
the institution, he continues, willing
to sacrifice love to smash the rack
eteering.
Gargan and Wynne Gibson, as an
ambulance driver and hospital nurse,
respectively, form a comely team
with dramatic opportunities. When
Boyd operates on Gargan, who has
been stabbed by gangster, the driv-
er dies Of defective ether, where
upon Miss Gibson turns into a tig-
ress and sails In to avenge her lover
against the gangsters.
Edward Calm directed Emergency
Call" whose cast includes Edwin
Maxwell, Reginald Mason, George e.
Stone, Alberta Vaughn and Merna
Kennedy. Houston Branch and
Joseph Mankiewicz wrote the adapta-
ton OF the story by James Ewens
and John B. Clymer.
The Bismarck tribune., 1933-08-22

Horned toads are not toads: they
nre lizards.
The Bismarck tribune., 1933-08-22

First to sign application papers for
IA government contract under the
wheat plan was Thomas Peterson, of
Harwood in Cass county. Mr.. Peter
son has raised wheat for 40 years in
the Red River Valley. This year he
has about 200 acres in wheat.
The Bismarck tribune., 1933-08-22

The United States Potters' Associa-
tion was the first employers associa-
ton of national Importance in this
country; it was organized in 1875.
The Bismarck tribune., 1933-08-22

A trapdoor spider has been known
to lie In wait at its door three months,
waiting for q victim
The Bismarck tribune., 1933-08-22

II a foreigner becomes naturalized
In the United States after his chill
dren have reached their majority, the
children do not become citizens by
virtue Of their fathers naturalization:
they must take out their own papers.
The Bismarck tribune., 1933-08-22

The main cultivated perennial
grasses used In North Dakota are
smooth bronze grass, slender wheat
grass and timothy. New grasses
which deserve further use are crest
"a wheat grass and reed canary grass
Hyder weekly herald., 1933-03-04

creased cost of production i'll the gold-standard countries as the purchasing power of gold increases. If wages and pro- duction costs increased in sill yer using and depreciated cur rency countries inversely as their currency depreciated, and if wages and production costs decreased in gold-stand- ard countries inver3ely as the commodity purchasing power of gold increased, this would tend to neutralize the advan- ages of lower production costs enjoyed by countries with a de. preciated currency, but fl would in no wise enable those who live in gold-standarG countries to pay their debts, nor would it restore the price of real estate, city property, and
 tccks and bonds.
 All schemes for inflating the currency of the United States, Nhethe Tit be by the purchase of government bonds by the Federal Reserve banks or the printing of several billions of additional paper money, unless it is to the extent of going off the gold standard, will not .aise the price of wheat, cotton and manufactured articles ot which we have surplus, be. ;ause of the fact that such in ilation will not raise the worlG commodity price level, nor will
 uch imitation take from nat
 ons whc3e currency is now de ,reciated, the advantage they low enjoy of low production costs, while the enactment O.
 he Wheeler bill would immed
 ately increase the price of sill yer from about 25 cents ar ounce to S1.29 and 29-100 pel ounce, with the result that the 1.endency would be to raise the living standards of the silver using nations up to our stand. ard of living instead of lower ng our standards to the level of theirs.
 The fear of some gold mono .netallists that the enactment of the Wheeler bill would cause China and the Oriental nations to dump their silver on he market of the United States and that they would voluntar- ly surrender their only med ium of exchange with which
 hey conduct their domestic and foreign commerce, is not worthy of serious consideration oy any well-informed person.
 In the first place there is no .uch flood of silver in the world, and China is a buyer and not a seller of silver. The -otal world production of silver according to official reports from the United States Bureau # the Mint covering a period # 436 years, or since the dis :overy of America, down to 1000 ..,oa oa1,, 1d 7On zoo cor
Hyder weekly herald., 1933-03-04

produced in the world figured at $20.67 per ounce of fine gold which is it's present coinage V a u e, is $21,525,005,673 while the value of all the silver produced in the world during thsi same period and figured at $1,29 and 29-100 as provid- ed in the Wheeler bill would be only $19,044,329,616. At the present bullion price of silver, the value of all the silver pro- duced in all the world since the discovery of America is only about $3,70O,OOO,O00.
 The free coinage of both gold and silver in the United States vas authorized by Congress in L792 and was in force down to he year 1873. At first the rat Q was 15 to 1 but this was changed to 16 to 1 in 1884 and 70 15.988 in 1887, continuing to 1873.
 The gold-silver ratio of pro- 1uction throughout the world from 1851 to 1875 was only G. to one, yet during this period
 he average gold-silver price 'atio was 15.5 to 1. From 1901
 1850 the gold-silver price
 atio was 15.7 to 1 while the world production ratio was 28
 l, yet this did net overthrow
 he price ratio because the United States had fixed min mum price for silver and gold,
 reating an unlimited demand 'or silver and gold, the pro- duction of which is limited by ts scarcity throughout the world.
 History has demonstrated hat bimetallism, the monetary ]ystem adopted by our fore fathers, and which the Wheel er bill would restore to the United States, is sound money md honest money, and there fore a money system to which he Gresham law does not ap- ply, for the reason that neither metal would be cheaper or 1earer under the free coinage of both metals as provided for n the Wheeler bill.
 To those who hold that an in- .ernational agreement on a fixed ratio is necessary and
 hat the United States could not maintain a fixed ratio inde- jendent of other nations, will ,all attention to the fact that in 1916 Great Britain adopted gold monometallism; France continued o n a bimetallic tandard for several decades; Germany did not demonetize ilveruntil 1871 and the United 'tates continued or a bimetallic
 tandard until 1878, which clearly demonstrates that unit ed International agreement is unnecessary. These historical facts should outweigh the mere assumptions of those who as- 3ert that the United States ,bonIJ pnE toLo ;ndannnJ mi
Hyder weekly herald., 1933-03-04
MONEY AND THE
 PRIC LIE VIE L
Continued from Page 1

Continued from Page 1
 each dollar were identical as long as it operated within its own country. It was only when the dollar crosses from one country to the other that the difference became apparent. The factory cost of production in the Toronto factory and in the Boston factory was S2 per pair of shoes measured in the dollars respectively of each country But see what happens when trade crosses from one of these countries to the other. An American merchant goes to the Canadian factory and finds that one American dollar will purchase one pair of $2 Canad- ian shoes. This seems like a good bargain to the American; so he imports his shoes from Canada. But let us suppose that a Canadian merchant comes to the Boston shoe fact ory to purchase American made shoes valued at S2 a pair in United States money. He finds that it will cost him S4 of his Canadian money to buy one pair of $2 American shoes, and the chances are he will not purchase them.
 Now if you will multiply that simple illustration by many thousands you will understand the great commercial advan- tage enjoyed by countries with a depreciated currency and why Japan is able to flood this country with her products at a cost delivered here in the Unit ed States of less than one-half our cost of producing them.
 As the price of silver decreas- es in commodity purchasing power in silver countries the cost of production in silver countries must also decrease but as the commodity purchas- ing power of gold increases in gold standard countries the cost of production on the farms and in the factories of gold standard countries will in- crease accordingly The Unit ed States is therefore handi- capped in the production of raw materials as we'll as in manufactured products where a surplus exists, by the de- creased cost of production in the silver-using countries as sill yer declines in purchasing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
Japan's Plans for Attack on Soviet Union Now
Complete - Provocations Grow Daily

PEELED the Soviet Vice-Commlssar OF
Foreign Affairs, Sokolnikov, to send
his sharp note to Japan, wherein the
Toxic Government was told: mot
Manchukuo, which Is powerleSs and
unable to answer for the events in
Manchuria, but the japanese Gov
eminent, the actual master in Man
churia, must bear the direct respon-
sibility of all violations Of agree
ments Of the Chinese Eastern Rail-
way, and also the seizure Of the rail-
way which is being prepared" This
note was followed by the publication
in Moscow Of four secret documents
showing clearly that the Japanese
Government is responsible for the
provocations in Manchuria.
The secret documents consist OF
three confidential reports sent by the
japanese General Hisikari, who is
the ambassador" of Japan in Man
churia and Commander-in-C Chief OF
the Japanese army there, to the Min
lister of Foreign Affairs in Toxic, and
of one confidential report Of the jap
anese Consul General Morisima in
Hardin to the aforesaid Hisikari.
These documents spoke of plans laid
out at secret conferences between
these and other Japanese military
representatives and officials of the
puppet Manchukuoan Government,
for raiding residences and clubs Of
Soviet workers and officials OF the
Chinese Eastern Railway, for arrest
ing a number of these officials, etc.
The plans of these conferences which
took place in September were exec
uted during that month and the be-
ginning of October. Numerous Soviet
officials have been arrested, homes
and clubs have been searched, and
various other indignities have been
committed against U.S.SR. officials.
White Cuardists Modified
The answer Of the Japanese Gov
eminent to these revelations (the
Soviet Government, according to the
Moscow Pravda, Is in possession OF
more documents which 1t threatens
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
US, Anti>War League to
Send Delegate to Cuba
Trade Union Unity League Calls for Support of
All Unions for Anti-Imperialist Delegation

yesterday appealed to all militant
unions throughout the country to
help make it possible to include two
active members of revolutionary
trade unions, George Powers and
Henry Shepard, in the delegation to
Cuba, by raising funds and sending
them to Room 238, 80 E. 18th St.,
New York.
To help cover the expenses of
sending Joe Thomas, delegate of the
youth section of the Trade Union
Unity Council, Cuban dance will
be held tonight at the Anti-Imperial-
list League headquarters, 33 E. goth
St., for which many entertaining
features have been arranged. The
address was given as 33 E. 10th St.
by error in yesterdays Daily
Worker.
Tomorrow is Red Sunday for OBJ
tanning signatures to petition to
President Roosevelt, demanding
hands off Cuba. and notification of
the Plat Amendment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
Cuban Capitalists
Strive to Unite
Against Workers
BombsExplodeasGrau
Confers With
Opposition

HAVANA, Nov. 3.-The frantic
efforts of the Grau San Martin
government and representatives of
the other reactionary groups in
Cuba to unite on policy in the
face of the increasingly militant
upsurge of the Cuban masses were
punctuated by shots and bomb ex-
plosions in Havana today.
The government named a COM
mission of four to work out pro-
gram of Cancellation with the most
reactionary elements Of the Cuban
capitalist-landlord groups, who are
demanding an intensifcation of
Grau's methods of bloody suppress
sion of the working class.
Terroristic reactionary groups
continued their provocations, in
tended to force Grau to make polit-
ical concessions to them, by ex-
ploding bombs in various parts Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04

Amur River right opposite the i'm
portant Soviet city of Blagoveschensk.
In the language Of the capitalist
journalists, this line points like a
dagger in the direction Of the Trans
Siberian Railway, which the Japanese
militarists hope to cut Immediately
upon starting their anti-Soviet drive.
2. In conjunction with this new
strategic line it has been revealed
that the Japanese militarists have
completed four "well-protected
routes" for carrying men and am
munition across Manchuria and
Korea to the Soviet Far East: (a)
from the port of Seishin, Korea, via
Changchung and Hardin to Taheiho;
(b) from the port of Fusan, Korea,
to Seishin and along the same route;
Co from the same port via the Muk-
den line; Cd from Port Arthur, Man
churia, along the South Manchurian
line towards Hardin and the new line.
With the aid of all these means Of
communication, Japanese militarism
can easily mass an army Of one mil
lion soldiers along the SoVleC lrOnCler.
Secret Japanese Forts
3. Japanese militarisn is building,
or has already completed, airdromes
In Hardin, Tsitsihar, Ninguta and
other points in Northern Manchuria.
On the Sungari River a river fleet
has been established. Forts are be-
ing built, or have already been COM
pleted, along the Chinese Eastern
Railway.
4. A most recent provocation is
the arrest of Soviet officials of the
Chinese Eastern Railway in the be-
ginning of the past month. On Oc-
tober II, dispatches told Of 300 Soviet
employees engaged in the construc-
ton of new railroad at Peianchang
Northern Manchuria, who were dis
charged by Manchukuoan authorities
and replaced by Russian White
Guardists.
These are but few Of the most
important acts of provocation and OF
preparation for war which have COM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
After Sixteen Years

NOTHING worries the Roosevelt regime than the
N expectations of good harvest The logic Of capt.
aIisn is that the greater the prospects for
food, the greater the certainty Of hunger for the
masses.
In the Soviet Union greater harvest, more produc-
ton OF all goods increased housing facilities, evokes
the greatest Joy Socialist economy production
for USE production to improve the conditions of the
masses What cannot be first turned into profit under
capitalism cannot become food and useable goods.
The last harvest in the U.SS.R., one of the most
bosmteous in the history OF the country (due mainly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
US. Ball Bearing Workers Hail Opening of Moscou
Plant Which Ends Soviet Ball Bearing Imports
Court Excludes
DimitrOff Again
From Own Trial
Exiled Communists to
Be Called for
Fire Trial
Especial to the Daily worker)

AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER,
Nov. 8 (Via Zurich, Switzerland)
-Readmitted to today's reading of
his own trial after having been ex-
Guided for day, George Dimitroff,
Bulgarian Communist defendant in
the Reichstag fire trial in Berlin
was again ordered kept from the
hearing today, this time for three
days.
This new effort of the presiding
Judge to silence the fiery Bulgarian
who has consistently exposed the
frame-up character of the evidence
came when Dimitroff showed the
prosecutor up as a wilful falsifier.
Witnesses from Moscow had just
been heard, who testified that Bla-
goi Popoff, another of the Com
munist defendants, had been in
Moscow at a time when he was
alleged to have been in Berlin.
Attempting to refute statement
by Dimitroff, the prosecuting at
torney sarcastically remarked that
he did not believe Dimitroff when
he said that married women were
allowed to retain their maiden
names in the Soviet Union-a uni
versally known fact of Soviet law.
"You still have much to learn"
was Dimitroff's answer.
The prosecutor demanded that
Dimitroff be punished for this re-
mark, and the judge ordered him
excluded from his own trial for the
next three days.
At the opening of today's ses-
sion, the presiding judge announced
that a number of witnesses de-
manded by the defense would be
called, including two Communist
deputies, Kasper and Kerf, who ara
now in concentration camp, Maria
Reese, Communist deputy, who tes-
titled at the London hearing, Otto
Kuehne, secretary of the Commu-
mist Party, who is also abroad, and
others.
Asks Evidence on Van der Lube
Dimitroff demanded that wit
nessnesses be brought to prove that
Van der Lubbe was not member
or in the service of the Dutch Com
munist Party. The witnesses he
asked for were De Wiser, of the
Dutch Party, and Albada and Wink,
Dutch renegades from the Commu-
mist Party whose dispositions were
falsified by Detective Heisig.
Mrs. Weiss, a political refugee
from Bulgaria in Moscow and her
mother, Mrs. Angora, came from
Moscow to testify that Popoff was
in the Soviet Union at time when
Nazi witnesses had said they had
seen him in Berlin. Popoff had
further evidence consisting of re-
ceipted bills from his boarding
house and the university he attend
ed in Moscow.
Maxi Witness Falters
A man named Mischalsky, owner
of restaurant opposite the Soviet
embassy in Berlin, was brought to
the stand to testify that he had
seen Dimitroff and Vassil Taneff,
the other Bulgarian Communist de-
PENDANT, at the Soviet embassy in
1882. Taneff took the stand and
declared he was in Bulgaria until
October, 1882, and then in Moscow
until February Of 1888, and de-
manded that the court call for his
passport and verify the visa stamps.
A waiter employed by Mischalski
tried to support his employers evil
dence, but confused Taneff with
Popoff.