Money Lacking, Farmers Turn To Barter
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Considering Organization
Of Exchanges For Barter
In North Carolina, A Certair
Amount Of Barter Exchange
Has Been^Done By Farmers
—Organization At Dur
ham Perfected
(By Shelden L. Clement, Researcl
Assistant, Department of Agricul
tural Economics, 'North Carolin;
State College.)
During these days when mone;
is lacking, much discussion is hearc
concerning the revival of barter
which is designed to facilitate the
exchange of commodities and ser
vices without the use of regulai
money. A writer in The New Yorl
Times recently stated that a mil
lion persons in more than 300 com
inunities in almost 40 states ar<
engaged in some form of Barter.
At first this barter was accom
plished without the aid of any or
ganization—two persons chancing
to learn that each had something
to spare which the other needed
made an exchange. Later it wai
found that the organization of bar
ter exchanges, with places wher<
farmers and others might bring
produce or services to offer for ex
change, made possible many more
exchanges. Consequently such ex
changes have been organized in
many communities throughout th<
United States. '
In North Carolina there has been
comparatively little organized bar
ic: although the question of or
ganizing barter exchanges in the
state is being given consideration,
\ certain amount of direct exchan
ge has been accomplished by coun
t\ agents of the College Extensior
service and through the advertising
columns of the Agricultural Re
view, published by the State De
partment of Agriculture. In Dur
ham, there was recently organized
the Labor and Materials Exchange
an organization for the unemploy
ed under the direction of Dr. N. I
White. In its advertisement, this
exchange offers services of- an em
ployment bureau, a barter exchan
ge, a sewing room, a registered
nurse.and a public reading room,
Membership in the employment
bureau is reported to number over
'00, "covering practically every
branch of skill.”
Barter, in the strict sense, means
the exchange of one article for an
other without the use of any me
dium of exchange. Such transac
tions are necessarily cumbersome
and awkward, and1 subject to 2
number of difficulties. If the or
ganization sponsoring the barter ol
goods attempts to find two persons
each having what the other wants
it faces the double difficulty o:
finding, for example, a man with ;
cow who wants a plow and a mar
'• ■in a pivyw u i ivy n aiiu a wit)
then trying to determine the exac
ratio of exchange between the two
If it is agreed that two cows shoulc
exchange for three plows, no tradi
will be possible except in these
numbers, or multiples of them
since it is not practicable to dividi
a cow into two parts and a plov
into three. It is also difficult t<
keep in mind exchange ratios for i
large number of articles in terms o:
a large number of other articles.
Most of the well organized bart
«r exchanges have attempted t<
eliminate these difficulties by intro
ducing a medium of exchange usu
ahy referred to as scrip. This scri)
consists simply of certificates o:
credit issued by the exchange, usu
ally in denominations of 5c, 10c
25c. 50c, $1, and $5, to members
of the group in return for goods o
services. As a rule it is not back
«- by gold or other securities that
the labor and products of thi
group.
PRIZE BIRD HOUSE VACAN1
Dallas, Taxes.—Mrs. Banks Up
snaw, of Dallas, won a $100 priz'
iar a tomato-can bird house sub
r itted in a national contest. Af
ter winning the prize, she put Uj
'1n identical bird house in her yar<
here. A year has passed and not ,
single bird has entered it.
PROTECT BOND HOLDERS
Amsterdam, Holland.—Authori
ties decided to establish a commit
lee to protect holders of bonds con
taming a clause for payment it
Jtoid. The action was taken
vaew 0f tj,e faj] 0£ tjje dollar.
3 RULED AT CROSSING
A westbound Southern train a
• lorganton completely demolishet
om William’s car on a grad'
crossing an(j killed Williams
-aade Nice and Roy Ramsey.
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^ Important Bank Job
Walter J. Cummings, of Chicago,
is the man selected by President
Roosevelt to become executive assist
ant to Secretary Woodin of the
Treasury and whose job, it is re
ported, will be that directing the
liquidation of closed banks which
Cannot open.
71 Seek Beer
Licenses
Continued from page one
E. Spencer Service Station.
E. W. Pallings.
R. L. Clodfelter, Cafe.
J. W. Kepley, Cafe.
China Grove
R. L. Misenheimer.
. The Sanitary Cafe.
China Grove Hotel.
Frank’s Barbecue Place, China
Grove Road.
W. J. Adams.
Phillip’s Drug Company.
The Great Atlantic & Pacific
Tea Company.
Kannapolis
G. N. Novill Cafe.
Super Service Station.
Perry’s Service Station.
Triple X Lunch Room.
Gold Hill
Midway Service Station.
Leonard’s Service Station.
Granite Quarry
H. B. Lyerly.
T. E. Lyerly, Service Station.
D. G. Russell.
Cleveland
Jack Chandler, Filling Station.
Fairview Service Station.
W. E. Griffin, Woodleaf.
J. R. Bame, Barber.
A. B. Martin, Yadkin.
Merchants To
Meet Tonight
At Pres. Hut
'
The annual meeting and ban
quet of the Salisbury-Spencer Mer
chants’ association will be held to
night at 7 o’clock in the Presby
terian hut.
( Mr. David Owens, manager ol
: the J. B. Ivey and company anc
president of the Charlotte Merch
ants’ association, will speak on af
fairs of interest to merchants. Ir
’ addition to his address there wil
be a musical entertainment.
; ASK PRAYERS FOR
' ROOSEVELT.
New Orleans.—Declaring that
’ "the happiness of our countr)
, must be founded upon spiritual a:
well as temporal ideals,” Arch
: bishop Shaw of New Orleans urger
all Catholic in the city to join ir
prayer for the welfare of President
| Roosevelt and other officials of th<
nation .
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POSTMASTER TO GET JOB
AS MAIL CARRIER
Glouster, Ohio.—Postmaster H
• F. Hambel, of Glouster, who i;
■ serving his third term, will escape
loss of employment when the De
1 mocratic .appointments are made
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NEAR BEER QUITS MARKE1
Memphis, Tenn.—Breweries whc
have been producing all the neai
; beer consumed in Arkansas and
t Mississippi have ceased manufac
: turing the prohibition beverage
, altogether, now that, real beer ha«
returned, distributors said here.
Miss Perkins j
• Finds Scarcity
Of Bathrooms
Tells Reporters That Report Has
"Somewhat Shocked” Her
&he Urges Installation Of Seu/er
Systems
Labor Secretary Believes T hat
Would provide Work For
Many
"I have a report which some
what shocked me. It shows that
thirty per cent, of city families
have no bathrooms, sixty per cent,
of people in towns and villages
have no sewer systems—and. there
fore, no bathrooms, and ninety per
cent, of the rural population have
no bathrooms.
"My informant says it would
take all the plumbing supply fac
tories working steadily for ten
years to supply all these missing
bathrooms.
"The installation of water and
sewer systems is one kind of public
work which would increase. the
standard of living permanently and
put a great number of people at
work immediately.”
Miss Frances Perkins, Secretary
of Labor, sat behind her desk dress
ed all in black, an alert, bright
eyed, highly intelligent person,
and answered all the questions fif
ty reporters, nearly half of them
women, could shoot at her.
"It is highly important that in
our program of public works we
select projects which both raise the
standard of living permanently and
which put as many people possible
directly and indirectly to work.
"That is the one great problem
before the country today—to get
people to work as quickly as possi
ble.
"I suppose I have received 2,000
plans for meeting the economic
emergency.
"These plans arrange themselves
into seven classes:
"1. Proposals that the Govern
ment take over all kinds of indus
try and operate them for the bene
fit of the people.
"2. Proposals that the Govrn
ment pay some kind of subsidy or
give financial aid to private indus
try, the Government to fix wages
and limit profits.
"3. The Government to distri
bute production equally among all
the plants in each industry, fix
wages, fix working hours and limit
profits.
"4. The Government to set up
industrial 'boards, something' like
the old War Industries Board,
these- boards to determine the a
mount of production necessary in
each line, establish the quota to be
produced by each plant and also
fix wages, hours of labor and pro
fits. This plan has been suggested
by a good many thoughtful and
practical people, including, < think,
Mr. Baruch, who outlined such an
idea a year ago.
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J. XI JXldJl IV/i turn
bining industry and agriculture.
People to move out into the coun
try onto land which is now almost
waste land, but on which gardens
might be grown and the small fac
tories to be established in each in
dustry, so that the people might
combine farm living and eating
with a certain amount of cash
wages gained by working in the
factories. That is a long-distance
plan, which would not help much
in the next few- months.
"6: An enormous plan of public
works of all kind, some of these
suggestions also including the regi
mentation of the whole popula
tion.
"7. 'The establishment of the old
fashioned barter plan on a national
scale.
"I think most people with ex
perience of the barter plan think
it useful only in small communities
and in the neighborhood of farms.”
"Would you mind telling us,”
Miss Perkins was asked, “which of
these plans you favor?”
"I would mind very much,” she
replied with a quick smile.
"I am one of those who think
no single panacea exists. The ene
my must be attacked on many
fronts at the same time.
"If we start a big public works
program that should create a de
mand for what economists call
capital goods—steel, cement, brick
etc., and1 the people who are em
ployed on these public works
should create a demand for what
are called consumers’ goods—
bread and meat, dishpans, hats, etc.
"The virtue of the Black thirty
hour week bill is that it will put
many more people to work imme
diately.
"I think it highly important also
that a bottom limit be put on
wages which are to be paid. Two
States, New York and Utah, have
just recently passed minimum
wage laws. A good many sugges
tions have been made to the House
Committee on Labor, which is now
considering the fiv/ej-dlay, thirty
hour week bill, looking to the es
tablishment of minimum wages in
the various industries. I have made
some myself.
"It is true that many of us have
come to recognize that, after all,
the really important: thing is to
get as many people as possible to
work in their normal occupations.
The public works program will
put bookkeepers and all sorts of
tradesmen and skilled workmen
into common labor work. We want
to get them back into mills, fac
tories, mines and railroads, where
they work in normal times.”
MR. ROOSEVELT wants to re
duce the interest on farm mortga
ges. However, we dare say they
can find other ways of avoiding
the income tax.
EGG LAYERS IN CONTEST
International Competition at A Century of Progress
Courtesy. American Poultry Journal
An aerial view of Chicago Century of Progress which will include
an International Egg Laying Contest. The artist’s sketch in the right
foreground shows the detail of the Poultry Exhibit. Here 3,000 of the
best birds of the laying breeds, specially fed and housed, will compete
for individual and pen honors every week for 5 months—May 28th to
October 29th, 1933.
Millions of city folks along with
millions of their country cousins
will have the opportunity to see at
first hand the operation of modern
poultry plants at the Century of
Progress Exposition at Chicago, May
28t.h to October 2!)th.
More than 3,000 of the best pro
ducing hens in the country will be
entered In an International Egg
Paying Contest under the auspices
of the National Poultry Council.
The American public is not con
suming ttie number of eggs annually
that our Canadian neighbors are, ac
cording to the poultry officials. Har
vey G Wooit, Manager of the Interna
tional Egg haying Contest at the
Century of Progress, states that
Canadians eat 86 more eggs per cap
ita than do U. S. citizens.
"One of the purposes In conduct
ing this exhibit,” says Mr. Wood,
"is to make millions of new friends
for the poultry industry. Also we
want to demonstrate in a practical
way what good quality in eggs really
means.”
in this effort to prove the produc
ing ability of hens kept under
proper conditions and fed according
to proper feeding methods the Offi
cial Rules (3ommittee of the Contest
has decided upon an Official Egg
haying Mash and Scratch Grain
which must be fed to all birds en
tered. After an exhaustive search
for a feed that would meet all re
quirements the committee selected
Purina Breeder Egg Chowder and
Purina Hen Chow.
Thus the exhibition of the poul
try people will not only be recrea
tional but Informative, and as such
will be one of the most valuable of
exhibitions at the Fair.
One of the best spaces on the
ground has been reserved for the
exclusive use of the poultry men.
Over 100 modern poultry houses
each divided Into two pens, housing
a total of 26 females and 2 males
each will form the Poultry Exhibit.
At the very entrance to the Poul
try Colony will be exhibition pens
in which will be housed unusual
breeds of chickens so that every
visitor can become acquainted with
the many varieties and breeds of
barnyard biddies.
Every week a model hatchery will
produce more than 5,000 baby
chicks on regular schedule. These
will be packed and shipped to any
point in the United States via Uncle
Sam’s Parcel Post Service. The
wisdom of getting offspring from
known producers at the Contest will
be apparent.
A Broiler Plant where chickens are
fattened for market will produce
special fries to be sold to visitors.
It is more than a Poultry Show
that is getting under way now at
top speed for the Century of Prog
ress. It Is a demonstration of the
value of accumulated research head
ed by our Agricultural Schools and
turned into practical commercial
service under the untiring direction
of the research division of commer
cial feed milts.
The same feeds that will be avail
able to the country’s best hens at
the Century of Progress Interna
tional Egg Laying Contest are avail
able In exactly the same form to
poultry raisers in every part of the
country.
Scientist Describes
Drunken Butterflies
Washington.—Butterflies with a
regular bar-by’s appetite for alco
hol, as well as others with a crav
ing for other narcotics, are describ
ed by Austin Clark, of the Smith
sonian Institution. Piles of decay
ing fruit, in an advanced state of
fementation, are much frequented
by certain butterfly species he says.
They ■ feed until thyey are quite
stupefied.
Less understandable appetites,
from the human point nf view, are
displayed by butterflies that appar
ently like to get drunk on, carrion.
A dead snake, hung up a few feet
above the ground and left to its
own malodorous devices, will at
tract swarms of woodland butter
flies. The Indian pipe, a curious
plant of the woods, has a strong
attraction for the active little skip
per butterfly, which seems to get
a powerful "jolt” of some kind of
uarcotic substance from it.
Butterflies, says Mr. Clark, have
astonishing powers of chemical
discrimination. Many species lav
their eggs only on the leaves of
certain species of plants, many of
which have no odor at all to hu
man noses. „
Moreover, they seem to be able
to find the chemical stuffs they
want even in unfamiliar planes.
Mr. Clark cites the case of the
common cabbage butterfly, intro
duced from Europe, which in this
country lays its eggs on nasturi
tum leaves as well as on plants of
the cabbage tribe., This is remark
able because while the nasturtium
is quite remote from the cabbage
in its botanical affinities, it hap
pens to contain chemical substances
| closely similiar to those found in
cabbage leaves.
FIND MISSING AVIATRIX
Rangoon, Burma—Mrs. Harry
Bonney, who had been missing
since she left Altor Star, Malady
States, on a flight from Australia
to England, was found 30 miles
south of Victoria Point, Burma.
She was not hurt, but her plane
had been damaged1 in landing.
Honored Abroad
LOUIS DAPPLES, internationally
famous banker and philan
thropist, who was the recipient of
an honorary Doctor of Medicine
Degree from the University of
Lausanne in Switzerland in recog
I nition of his services to science
and industry. The presentation
took place recently at the Lausanne
Palace during a dinner given in his
honor by his business associates.
Dapples’ career has been closely
identified with large scale financ
ing. One of his most ^notable
achievements in this field was the
task of completely organizing the
Banque Francais et Italienne, in
South America, one of the most
important in the New World.
Pie is well known in this coun
try, especially in financial cireles
and among the leaders of the milk
industry. The American affiliation
of the Nestle and Anglo-Swiss Con
densed Milk Company, of which he
is head, is the Nestle’s Milk Pro
ducts, inc„ with headquarters in
New York.
CARLOADINGS INCREASE
Chicago.—H. A. Seandrett, pre
sident of the Chicago, Milwaukee,
St. Pauf and Pacific railroad, an
nounced that loadings for the week
ended. April 21 totaled 60,734 cars
compared with 52,311 cars for the
same week in March.
ONE-SENTENCE WILL
LEAVES $9,000 CASH v
Pittsburgh.—In a one-sentence
will, written in German, Karolina
Albrecht, of Pittsburgh, left $9,
000 to a sister, Anna Bromann, of
Chicago.
Let us inspect your brakes today-without obliga
tion. Adjusting or relining recommended only if
you really need it. Phone 299
Salisbury Ignition & Battery Co.
122 W. Fisher St.
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