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

4 THOUGH they recognize it
4 n as a valuable relief measure
in a 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-
lished.
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 S300,000000.
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 relief measure"
1t is very unlikely, he continued,
that barter ever will play a major
part in American business.
H -
ID proximity of those engaged in
such trades. Productive Speciali-
zation, 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 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
System to Vanish When Depression Lifts, Say Experts

leave from six to eight millions
unemployed.
Our production scale is ex-
ceeding our needs. We may be
in for a new kind of hard times.
If our country is in for this kind
of trouble, an exchange policy
may save us from a disastrous
collapse.
Il do not say this is coming. I
do not believe my home will burn
down tonight, but I have fire in
Surance on it. The same COMPARE
son might be made with barter
and business"
DR. MORGAN'S Midwest Ex-
- change is designed as credit
clearing house to enable manufac-
turers and others to exchange
their products largely without use
of money.
Politicians view barter and ex-
change in varying lights, as shown
by opinions at Washington.
THE barter and exchange sys-
tenn will continue to spread unless
financial readjustment program
can be worked out" said Repre-
sentative Marvin Jones of Texas,
chairman Of the house agriculture
committee.
1--WE must readjust our sys-
tenn to make money more truly a
measure of value. Debts con-
tracted before the deflation of the
dollar can not be paid in today's
dollars, which SO unfairly repre-
sent commodity values.
Meanwhile, the barter and ex-
change method, with the use of
scrip, is a very valuable step pend
ing restoration of Debated values"
CENATOR CHAR LES L..
- M'NARY, chairman of the
senate agriculture committee, calls
the method too crude to last"
Likewise, there is conflict be-
tween the economists as to the
wisdom of fiat money which has
arisen in certain cities as an adj
junct of the barter movement.
Professor Fisher of Yale Is a
strong supporter of the scrip plan
like that employed in Hawarden,
Ia, in which the city pays en-
ployes in scrip and raises the
money for it's redemption by
means of a stamp tax on each
transaction in which the scrip
figures.
The city governments of Day.
ton and Toledo now are consider
ing 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 sys-
TENS and concluded that they
were unsound.
One of the reasons for his con-
clusion was that this sort of
money would drive real money
into boarding.
(THE END
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-21

After a stormy five-hour ses-
sion. Calvin FentresS, previously
elected by the creditors for trus-
tee in the receivership of the In
sull interests, was ruled disquan-
fed by a federal referee.
Investors in the S250,OO0,Q00 In
sull Utility Investments, Inc, now
bankrupt, plan to sue officers and
directors of that corporation for
$50, 100000, they revealed. Nearly
200 investors we're present at the
session, and stormily voiced dis
approval of FentreSS.
Attorney Samuel E telson
charged Fentress was hand
picked" by insult and banking in
tereStS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-21
BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN,
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.


THE effects of alcohol on the
= activity of the brain and the
mind vary according to the indi-
vidual concerned. Everybody
knows that some get silent, others
get noisy, some seem happy, and
others weep.
The individual response is usu-
ally constant so that to some ex-
tent intoXication is a test of char
acter. A weeping, melancholy per-
son 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. Lyman has summarized
the evidence as to what alcohol
does when taken by healthy per-
sons.
1t has been thought that various
alcoholic drinks have an effect on
the kidneys, increasing their out
put.
DR.. Hyman points out that the
increased output when beer is
drunk is almost wholly due to the
increased water intake.
TN the stomach, as has been
l. pointed out, alconol serves to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-21
IMPRISONED 10 YEARS;
SENDS FAMILY ST SOP

Massachusetts LITER Contributes
Regularly to Wife, Children.
BIZ Times Special
BOSTON, Jan. 21.-Though Albert
L. Harvey ST, is serving life SEN
tence in state prison, he contributes
regularly to the support of his wife
and six children.
During the ten years he has
served he has devoted all his spare
time to making dolls and toy boats.
Prison authorities have sold his
handiwork and Harvey has earned
enough to give his family $1,50215
within the decade.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-21
ARMY OF BOY
WANDERERS IN
SOUTH GROWING
HoSpltabIe Population Is
Able to Offer Little to
0utCaSt Youths.

BriEadier-GeneraI Delham d. Glass
ford, former Washington police chief
whose humane handling of the bonus
army last summer brought him into con-
hict with the administration, has been
studying the problem created by hun
dreds Of thousands Of wandering boys in
this country. At present he Ia visiting
the southeastern states, TO which large
numbers of the wanderers have focked
during the cold weather.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-21
NAB CAP GUN BANDIT

Youth RObs Merchant of S5.25 With
Toy Pistol.
By United Press
COLFAX, Wash, Jan. 21.-Police
captured Alfred Moore, Is, who
robbed merchant of $5.25 with a
toy cap pistol.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-21

the small mill
towns and cities
of Virginia and
the Carolinas con-
vinces me that
these states and
communities are
doing their ut
most with funds
at their disposal
to handle the
transient situa-
ton. What they
are doing is far
+ ON adequate,
but that is not
their fault.
o u r economic
a u d nolitical
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-21
BY GEN. PELHAM d. GLAssFoRD

GREENSBORO, N. c., Jan. 2l-
Heading south, the American army
of outcast youth finds at best a lit
tie more sunshine to cheer it on its
hopeless way.
And that is about all the hos
pitable southland can afford this
year to the stranger at its door.
A closeup study of conditions in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-21

Received splendid results from my
house for rent ad in The Times,
says H. r. Mathews, it cost less
than want ad in any other In
dianapolis newspaper.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-21

laundering has thrust out upon
the road, to wander in search of a
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
It 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 lighthouses
damned, 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 later article
I shall try to give some figures on
this question.
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 and peered into the
darkness at me: Want a bed for
the night?" he asked. Did you
work today?" i,,'a S'''', '''+'''' 20
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 a 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
himself" Shelley said.
The two floors were crowded with
j boys and men in their early twentieS.
l 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
fitness 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, IA, 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."
I shall try to find out why Jack
Long was tapped"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-21
ST. LOUIS TOY CENTER
100000 Playthings a Year Manu-
featured in Missouri City.

BIZ United Press
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 21.-Children
throughout the world are playing
with toys manufactured in St. Louis.
The city is claimed as the toy man
ufacturing center of the United
States.
Last year more than 1000 per-
sons were employed daily here in
making more than 100000 toys.
These were shipped to every state
in the Union and to almost every
nation in the world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-21
Just i'm Case

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Washington 1881
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Popular Women o. Bridge Parties.
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Limitation Arnaments and Their Meanings
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Food for he Child. Silver
The States the Union Writing Stage and Screen
History of Parties Political Party Conventions
Travel Etiquette. Increasing weight
Religions of the World Care of Babies
Preserving
Feeding the Family Jelly Making
Popular Men of Education Children.
Taking Care of the Skim Homemade Beverages
Amateur Photography. Perfumes and Cosmetics
Democratic
Republican Party Candidates. Choosing a Career.
Candidates. Presidential Elections Since 1889
of the United States States Votes in Presidential Elec
of the States tions.
Government in the s. Veterans Relief Legislation
Growing Plants New Rules of Contract Bridge
State Motor Laws. Club Womans Manual
Foreign Government Debts. Graphoogy.
Care of Gold Fish Quick Breads.
Origin of Cake Baking
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-21
Beauty, and Brains, Too
Clerk of House Helps New Congressman in
Hunt for Secretaries

Alliance
WASHINGTON 21South Trmbe the venerable clerk Of the
representatives
accord with lines laid down beauty
applicants
cations he insists that male female secretaries submit photographs
Since the secretaries of about 100 lame looking
positions Trmbes file cabinets beginning like the collections
puchtude the late Flo zegfed his
sL ;I id
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 Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-21
Harm in Moderate Use of Alcohol Denied

cles by DIR. Fishbein on the effects of
alcohol on the human body.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-21

Al hTSt, ITlmbIe explained Jhat
this entirely new method of select
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-21

of the offers of bulletins on all
separately offered in this
paper during the 1882 following
+loc
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-20
The Budget Director.
(Boston News Bureau.l

It may well be that the real key man of the forthcoming Administration was named in the se- lection of the youthful Representative Douglas of Arizona as Director of the Budget To him may fall the biggest chance to make or break" that Administration
 There is no special glitter of glamor about that job It has none of the large possibilities of survey and decision which to invest the major Cabinet portfolios particularly in these uneasy times It just means holding straight in one given furrow Yet, as the President-Elect has observed, that budget drectorship happens in effect to rank now with a Cabinet seat. It is the peculiar imperative need of these times that makes it thus stand out even beyond most of those seats
 Carrying on and extending under the crcum- stances the work well begun by Dawes and Lord and Roop will mean sweep of performance going in fact beyond and across all the departments, meet ing no doubt a most reluctant compliance For the one indicated task ahead of the new director is to cut the Governments financial cloth very closely The spending functionaries of the Govern ment must be given far less, and perhaps some of them be themselves curtailed or even elino mated
 Semi-dictatorial power to achieve these drastic results is to be conferred on the new Executive, it is proposed. But the eye and hand which must measure and manage all that performance directly must be those of the budgeteer. And here is where the 38-year-o old Westerner of Eastern antecedents may serve greatly there is much confident hope that he will His Anherst-Tech background his personal career record, all attest such promise An overseas veteran, he has been anti-bonus and right there waits the largest single avenue of achievement. He has enunciated in Congress his firm belief that Government must not degenerate into an instrument of gratuites for special groups l-perhaps now the greatest threat to Federal Treasury and credit. Yesterday in the Senate Com mittee stock trading hearing it was Federal budget and credit which finally came most into discussion Ihose Will be the special items also in the new directors ken
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-20
Electric World Communication.
(New York Times )

survey by Captain Hooper, in Naval Institute Proceedings shows that while Great Britain con- trols 187584 nautical miles of cable service and the United States 83,012 miles, the latter has a lead Ing place in world rapid communication because of radio" When the World War ended, Great Brit am was planning monopoly of radio. beginning had been made in constructing chain of stations. Except of the competition of the United States, Great Britain would have dominated both cable and radlo communication. There were Amercan- owned rado patents, and the United States was able to form powerful company and outstrip Great Brit am ln spite of her early start Last year the Amer- can company operated twenty-seven circuits con- meeting New York City with Europe Asia Minor, Africa South America, the West Indies Panama and Canada In addition, there are relay extensions in Africa and Asia. The United States is now taking the leading part in this method of communication. In radio-telephone communication the United States is also in the van But here Great Britain sees an opportunity to forge to the front merger organized includes international systems of cable and wireless the British Marconi and it's subsidiaries and the Governments beam wireless stations In the unlted States a holding and management com pany has been working on similar combination It has entered the foreign field of wireless tele- phone systems fixed radio-telephone and telegraph systems, and mobile radio systems The tendency everywhere is toward consolidation Radio" says Captain Hooper, has done much to improve rapid communication because it brought real competition into the field Rates have been reduced an average of 25 per cent. and general has been greatly improved"
 Captain Hooper recognizes as a broadcastng triumph, incomparabe at the time, the communca- 1ion between Admiral Byrds expedition in An tarctica and The Times in New York City Tn oroadcastng he sees factor for world peace:
 Radio broadcasting cannot but promote understand ing He estimates that thirty thousand seagong vessels are equipped with radioteegraph sets with a range of from one hundred to three thousand miles
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-20
ST. ANN'S NEW BUILDING.

St. Anns Hospital is of the indispensable institutions of this city It is splendid asset one that has been with since the beginning of the community and has kept pace with its growth in population and permanency The new unit that is to be constructed marks not only another milestone in the history of the institution but as well in the life of Juneau It will be modern in every respect and give to the city facilities equal to those of any city the coast The Sisters of St. Ann are to be felcitated upon the great humanitarian service they have always rendered here and upon their enterprise and civic spirit in the erection of the fine addition for which plans have just been announced.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-20
VALIANT DUST
 xxx Aptho, O
 RY PcTciYIL (lhrISfOOhRT WrIn .REAII GESTEs

SYNOPSIS: Otho Beleme. English gentleman, member of the Foreign Legion, has been ac- costed cn sentry duty by an Arab he recognized as a Colonel of the Secret Service. He orders OthO to take a message to Major RiccOli, commander of this For eign Legion post near Kekazzen. RiccOli entertains grandiose am bitiOns fer himself, as Sultan of Sahara empire. His ambitions got him cashiered from the French Army years before when discovered by Col. Le Sage of the Secret Service. Otho scents something mysterious behind the advances of Bombelli, who first offers to desert with Otho, and then invites him to share the favor of Riccoli and his sateI- lites on terms Otho cannot stom- ach.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-20
MARCH.

Spring spells brightness and hope for the world; and the month of March leads the yernal trinity Though snowflakes may yet fly, we are sensitive to mystic change Someone has written:
 Would that men might learn once for all
 that there is change of spheres for man
 except by change of heart Change your
 mind, change your heart, and the world is
 changed. It is changed by the uplifting
 influences in the soul, just as the world
 is changed physically by the necromancy
 and minstrelsy of murmurous March, green
 ing April and blossomy May
 The electric thrill of life is surging through all the ways of Spring and will be painted and fashioned a wondrous glory in the aises of the forest, in the fields on the mountains and in the heavens.
 AS pr. Conway long ago so beautifully revealed there diamonds in the good earth of gardens; and these soon will be with us inviting wholesome toll So we welcome and love this month of March which comes to us with its vital promises already tendery evident in gleam of sunbeam, the sensed odor of flowers now germinating and sweet music of winged minstrelsy.
 x And with the right change in the heart, we may put behind us eyn fortune. tears and fears, error
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-20

Congress may give beer back to the people of the country. But not if the paid Prohibtionists can prevent it. The latter are now preparing to seek court injunction to prevent the sale of beer Eventually they may hear that the people have something to say about matters of this kind
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-20

and anxiety, looking confidently for bright tomor- row, with March paving the way happily to be followed by all who have experienced that change in mind and heart which fits them to be comrade with beauty in the world
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-20

China may be only third among the worlds cotton producers, as statisticians claim, but she certainly ranks first in the production of cannon fodder
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-20

Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription re- stored me to perfect health, which l have enjoyed since" said Mrs. Ellen Frost of 2l5 C St. For tired and worn-out woman I know there is nothl ing so strengthening as Dr. Pierce's Prescription" Sold by druggists.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-20

What this country needs is release for it's aspirantS for public office from the requirement. that they stand up and submit to measurement by the wet-dry yardstick.-(Buffalo Courier -Express)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-20

MT Farley says he is the mailman now If he can bring home the mail with the same facility he has shown with the bacon he will be very popular gentleman.-tB Boston Globe)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-20

The future may be full of opportnty for vouth but just now the youngsters can't get near the fig saw puzzle for the grown-ups crowded around Louisville Herald d-Post)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-20

Representative Arthur G. Shoup introduced a bill in the legislature authorizing the incorporation of cities of the second class in Alaska. The bill gave the inhabitants of any town having fifty or more in habitants the right to incorporate as a city of this class.
 
 Mrs. Robert Semple was visitor in Juneau from Sheep Greek.