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...bent on becoming a confiscationalist. How It Started. More than a year ago Upton Sinclair sat down in his study to write a pamphlet called I, Governor of California And How I Ended Poverty. In it he presented his EPIC Plan. In substance it carried the far-flung Western barter-group idea one step further by making it an agency of the state. He proposed : 1) A public body called California Authority for Land (CAL), which would appropriate land which was idle, foreclosed, or to be sold for taxes, turn it over to colonies of unemployed for cultivation...
Prominent in the small group of educators present at the inauguration of Tyler Dennett as president of Williams College today will be James Phinney Barter III, associate professor of History, and Master of Adams House. Professor Baxter has a leave of absence for the first half year, which he will spend in research work in Wahsington...
...left much to be desired they were certainly compensated for by the taxi regulations. It seems that there is an unfortunate taboo on escorting ladies home in taxis after midnight. So the procedure was to send the poor girls home alone...At least the taxi fares were reasonable. The barter system is in full force and you try one fellow after another until you get the best buy. It all averages about 25 miles for $.75...All the members of the Keio University nine knew the words to the Maine "Stein Song" (poor things) and so the Harvard team returned...
...well nigh every State in the union." 3) Congress alone has power to say what shall be used as money. Concluded Judge Faris: "[The Gold Clause] is a promise to pay in gold, not as money, but as a mere commodity. . . . In short, it is a mere agreement of barter or swapping of commodities. If in 1903 the contract had been that 30 years later the maker would pay to the holder of each bond 100 piculs of Chinese opium, how would the case stand? Since 1903 the Congress, having the power to do so, has forbidden the importation...
Professor Wilson is trying all three possibilities, with variations. His work tied in with self-help co-operatives which sprang up during Depression for barter of goods and exchange of services between unemployed. There are today some 340 of these organizations in the U. S. Since last summer Federal Emergency Relief Corp. has made grants of working capital to more than half of the total, has helped them to establish co-operative industries. As such industries were needed to supplement the incomes of Director Wilson's subsistence homesteaders, the two movements interlock...