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Show Official National Organ of Natural Development Assn., A New Economic System FOR HUMAN VOL. 2 iK: NO. 1 PRICE 5c. 2.00 A YEAR ABOVE MONEY SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. DECEMBER 17. 1932 FROM N. D. A- - RECLAIMS VALUES CAPITALISM DISCARDS Applies Scientific Method To Economic Problem (By P. W. Volts in collaboration SCRIP BECOMES POPULAR IN vim W1U Dobson) The other day a friendly critic of the N. D. . said, After all, the N. D. A. Is only a gigantic Junk heap." IOWA TOWNS The association not only admits It la the greatest compliment onr plan has yet received. It is the mission of the N. D. A. to salvage human junk. We find In this Jnnk" all the highest human values. Steel scrap from the city Junk heap, mixed with the right percentage of pig iron and treated in an open hearth furnace makes the finest strongest steel denes can produce. The rust ed scraps of steel give me mixture Just the right percentage of ferrous oxide. Linen rags from the Jnnk heap make the vhltest strongest and most durable paper that can be produced. Old tires from me same Junk pile are melted over to produce the modern balloon, the best tire the industry knovs how to create. From the tailings of old mining camps scientists are now recovering vim modern methods more values than the original owners took out from me virgin ore. What Ignorance or carelessness discards, science has taught us to reclaim. The salvaging of Jnnk is now a gigantic industry capitalised In the millions. In Hay of this year local Jnnk man sold his business to a big corporation for $100,000. This shows what wealth mare Is in items the human race discards. The crisis of 1838 forced me capitalistic world to choose between man and money. Clinging frantically to their vanishing profits, they threw men on me Junk heap by the millions. Twelve million human machines thrown out of the mills and factories. Natural Development Is now reclaiming Increasing thousands from capitalisms Junk heap. The greatest waste of all Is me waste of human labor caused by unemployment. A day's labor lost can never be reclaimed. Our twelve million unemployed today constitute the most colossal Junk heap me world has ever known. Human beings have been thrown Into Industrys garbage can like they were so many rotting potatoes. A conservative estimate would place me money value of their collective earning capacity for me duration of the depression at not less than three billion dollars, and possibly ten billion dol lars. A sum that staggers human comprehension a waste that must be eliminated. Thin vast human Junk heap me N. D. A. has begun to work over. Its formula Is recovering the values. It Is substituting construction for uction-cooperation for chaos. Unless our present civilisation salvages all or ms greater part of the twelve million human machines now unemployed and on me Junk heap" It is sunk. There is no hope for any of us. We may be teeing a future similar to the dark age. One great thinker said the future Is a race between cooperation and catastrophe. Another said in subout of me chaotic condistance tion we are now in, due largely to me private ownership of the machine, may come a new and finer era whldh we may term the "flowering of me machine age. The N. D. A. is pioneering me way to this new era. Out of capitalisms Junk heap it Is building the beautiful structure of cooperation. Out of Industrys tailings It Is refining humanity's gold. Through mis refining process the Association leaders firmly believe they can reduce relief expenditures fifty per cent in every town, city and date of America, and remove the Stigma of charity. but boasts of the fact destr- RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION SUBSCRIBES. The Progressive Independent has this week redeved a subscription from Leon Henderson of me Russel Sage Foundation In New York, and It is with a goodly degree of satisfaction that we enter this name upon our list. The paper has also found Its way to 11 Wall Street, New York, home of the great stock exchange. It has been definitely proved mat If we could send 85,000 or more we copies throughout the nation would shortly have subscriptions coming from all Quarters of the country. We are planning to get edition in out a large, All those who feel to assist us please turn in what spare dollars you can afford to help put over this Mid-Janua- Issue. OLD BARTER SYSTEM WORKS OUT IN IOWA Des Koines, Iowa In Iowa nowa- days yon can rent a cqw for $1. a week, provided you feed her. Wim a cord of wood you esa obtain, groceries. With a load of corn you oan buy coal or lumber and wim I cents and a piece of scrip money you can purchase a dollar's worth of merchandise. The ancient art of barter seems to be In favor in scattered sections. Two municipalities have embarked upon a scrip money experiment, and others are watching wim interest. The Hswarden city eounell started with an issue of $00 trale coupons, worm $1 each, to pay workers on a paving project In using the coupons a $ cent tamp, purchased from the county clerk, must be afllxed for each transaction. When 86 stamps have been pasted, the city redeems rim coupon for $1 each, realising $1.08 per coupon $1 for redeeming the paper and S cents for printing. West Liberty has announced employes on relief projects mis week will be paid In scrip. Sioux county officials are debating whether to issue possibly $10,000 in scrip or to borrow $ZS,000. Merchants of Correctionvllle, near are accepting corded Sioux City, wood for merchandise. Workers cn the municipal woodpile at Boone are paid In food and doming. Bather than feed their cows, fanners near Muscatine are renting mem to dairymen and town dwellers with large families for $1.15 weekly. Waterloo has an unemployed dub with 1800 members who events their own shoe repair department and barber, carpentry and tailor shops. Crestons fire department owns a kitchen. The hungry earn their food at the woodpile, and farmers and bakers donate the food. Three college youths do ms cooking for board and room at me fire station. An elevator company In Lawler will give 1000 pounds of coal for ons of corn. wagon-loa- d In Page County, termers are dickering wim four Louisiana lumber Lumber is cheap in the companies. soom, the farmers say, and grains are comparatively high. The Iowa formers want to trade part of their born eorp tor lumber needed on their terms. WARNING! Deal only wim authorised N. D. A. representatives. Our coupons are not transferable BACK TO THE SYMBOL OF LIGHT THE HUMAN JUNK HEAP 15 N EDITED BY C. W. LUND. 62 POST OFFICE PLACE Which Shall It Be, Cooperation or Chaos? SALVAGING SCRAP V WELFARE-MA- as well as "not These are good If detached be pon checks and each cheek must same. cou- endorsed by person spending We reserve me right; and will exercise It, by refusing to take coupons that have been transferred from person to person without being properly endorsed and registered with the N. D. A. cashier. It has come to our attention that certain people are undermining peopurchasing ples confidence in the to buy power of coupons In order them at a discount. These same peotaken the ple have in many cases have goods coupons to. people who to sell and deliberately exaggerated the purchasing power of coupons. Protect yourself by dealing only with those who have coupons Issued to mem in their own name, or people who are authorised representativesof the Natural Development Assoclation. ' 0WEN WOODRUFF ' -- D. A. The business carried on by Mr. Bherrtck Just across the iway from N. D. A. Headquarters Is entirely alien to Natural Development. There Is no connection whatever between the two and never can be. Do not be deceived. Be fair to your scrip and to yourself. The Judean world was looking for a stem king, a warrior, who could lead mem against me enemies who had ravaged their homes and their cities. But lo, there was sent unto them a little child! And because of that little Child we keep Christmas. And when the child was grown to be a man ha did lead them against their enemies. But not by force. He would have th on overcome their enemies by love. If we have not felt that love r. s have not known Him. In every soul mere Is a perpetual struggle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness. His love Is a force of light and Christmas Is a symbol of that day light. Until we make every Uke unto Christmas day we shall not have peace and security. PRIMITIVE STYLE Because of the depression people everywhere are being forced into cooperation and in many ways they are going back to the primitive ways which were in vogue before civilisation took such a hold on us- - There are places in this great, prosperous, wealthy country where they, are now using the ox team on the farm. And they have gone back to the Lincoln type of lag cabin in many places where city dwellers, forced out of the centers, are trying to get bade to the landIn places they are even living in dugouts, covered wag- LONDON TRIES PEACE DISCOVERED The road to pesos was not discovered by diplomats, statesmen, financiers or philosophers. It was revealed through the liet tile hem babe grown np. Christ- mas has been trying tor two thousand years to reveal to men the path to world peace. But we would not liaton. It has seemed mockery to slug in the warring world, Peace on earth, good will to men. But aoon the volos of the Man of Borrows, hall overcome the hypocrites and the cynics and the scoffers, and command the peace that was promised to the wondering shepherds so long ago. The star of Bethlehem and the singing angels shall again return to earth. And toward that good day we are building, little by little, the Commonwealth. CONDITIONS CANNOT LONGER BE LEFT TO CHANCE MUST ADOPT DIFFERENT METHODS OR BE PLUNGED INTO CHAOS CALIFORNIA No Use In Further Deceiving Ourselves LADIES PLAN A state of economic war exists and ACTIVE PART it la little short of Insanity to longer leave the solution to chance. Real conditions, not theories, confront ne la Idle to mince words or pussy foot while civilisation la trembTo ling on the brink of collapse. THE LADIES DEPARThow how miserably we have been MENT INSTRUCTS falling during the paat four years ons, leantoos, etc. CALIFORNIA LADIES let us present the commanding facts is so And evolution which are apparent to everyone. Let running ua The following letter le an answer take an Inventory of the wraek-ag- e. its course to produce the cooperto an Inquiry received from Oakland ative commonwealth. The birth ae to the organisation of the ladle: Appraisal of Fonr Yean pangs of the new system are seIn the four yean ending with Noand gives a brief history and synopwill all soon be sis of the work dona by them since vember, Industrial production bay vere, but meji the beginning of their department. converted to it- dropped by 48 per cent; building by 77 per eent; factory employment by Natural Development Assn. 41 per eent; factory payrolls by 85 Oakland, California, per eent; freight ear loadings by 4 Dear Cooperatora. RESTAURANT OPENS In answer to your inquiry will per eent; commodity prices by The Square Meal Restaurant op- THE OLD give you a brief synopsis or history per eent. ORDER Borne Items have advanced. Bank CHANGETH of onr activities. In order that yon ened Its doors to all N. D. A. memfailure!, for Instance, which mounted bers and the general public Friunderstand how may we juat started - Benjamin It was decided that one of the first from 491 In 1988, to 848 In 1199, It la a fins, neat and B. Strlngham ?81,Mrday noon. several truck feasible In 1930 and to 3,808 clean and modern eating place at 58 In projects would be what we to 1,845 from Shelley, Idaho then weat 4th South St. Go and try it to 2B.?,.potatoes a gift shop. termed Two 1981, were 1,098 In the first nine 8alt Lake City. With these he beand prove what we say. The man- gan Commercial how eases were obtained, and tha months of this year. trading first iwlth announcement was made that wo- failures have likewise climbed. They agement Is offering a free $1.00 meal Stevens for haircuts andMr. B. shaves. about 8,000 monthly In men who were ticket eaeh week for the best slogan When Mr. Stevens had might averaged second po- bring In varloua Interested about the N. D. A. Send them to tatoes handi- 1988 according to Dunns figures of pieces for his enough an use, annual total of 83,848. In 1981, Manager, Square Deal Restaurant, a third party was called winters In and three work, novelties, etc. and exchange mounted to 89,184. The low04 West 4th South. cornered trading became the order of their work for the coupons which they would purohaee for them the vege- est months in 1938 hae bean 3,800. mi vL'!7continued, with the tables, fruits, and services obtainable Foreign trade hae fallen off. Exaddition of othen November at the N. D. A. res- porta totaled $5,188,000,000 In 1188 ladles Many and December. Allduring -In the time, those 1981, they were 83,484,000,000 trading wen talking and educating ponded to tha oalL Two of the lady and 1938 promisee a level not over people to the successful use of the directors had been assigned to the $1,400,000,000. Imjorti have likebarter system, until January 87, task of conducting thla gift shop wise declined. They were lu 1888 two afternoons a week. The first the Natural Development Associaafternoon they proved their willing- $4,091,000,000; in 1981 $3,011.- tion was incorporated. ness to cooperate by Industriously 000,000 and in 1983 will probably not exceed $1,800,000,000. During January only $55.77 worth of trading was done. During Febr- scrubbing the show cases and getThe fanner haa especially BufferIn order for business. ed. The ting them uary It Increased to $814.(8. In That average of the prices of same afternoon pillows, hand- his Miareh, $1480.87, crops hae fallen 60 per eent April, 40(0.58, May, $8548.85 June $8896.(7, July kerchiefs, caps, etc. appeared In tbe much more than the general downwindows of the eases, and THE $80,888.08, August swing of the retnrna of other pro$84,689.45, while in September over $88,000 LADIES DEPARTMENT was begin- ducing groups. ning to function. was traded. Corporate Interest and dividend Business proved to he so success- payments At the close of September, the are the exception. They WILKINSON RETURNS ful the that Into shop gift expanded boasted have held up well despite the conof 5000 members, FROM OAKLAND company with a like number of trade mem-be- n sort of a miniature department store tinued depression. Industrial stock who wen living almost entirely which Included house dresses, and prices have slumped about a third of M. W. Wilkinson, who has been at on the N. D. A., from safety-pin- s the 1988 level, however, due to the 'many of them wen well, tonearly everything Oakland approximately a month or- paying their house nnt and buying sponge cake. It wasnt many uncertainty that the prevailing high ganising a unit of tha N. D. A., re- food, elothlng, etc. with N. D. A. days until it became necessary to em- level of Interest and dividends ean turned to Salt Lake Wednesday. Coupons. In fact, most of them wen ploy a bookkeeper and several be indefinitely maintained. The California articles of incor- living well thnugh their own efforts clerks. From that small beginning The shock of depression has been poration were filed Tuesday, Novem- by bartering their surpluses either the ladlee activities have grown to especially felt in some Industries. Include several departments. ber SSnd and tha permit granted on In labor, services or commodities The worst Is the locomotive A dressmaking feature was an Im- building whichperhaps the 8Sth. The elgnon were A. H. to their neighbor for his surpluses In boasts of one locoTwo addition. W. dressmakers H. portant Savage, Oakland, Spencer, motive order nturn. 1988. Shiphad been working In conjunction building Is at 7during H. F. Greenfield and A. D. Erickson Up to this time 11,880 work per eent of 1938-3even before the or- plg-lro- n N. D. A. the with of Berkeley, Don. J. Allphin, Leo had been supplied to members, atdays 17 at per eent. au H. CrandaU and M. W. Wilkinson actual cash outlay of only $8,084 or ganisation of the ladles, hut theirs Worst of all, the banking situaan M. ere: trustees had been Oakland. The no means cleared. The of Independent project. tion has by about ton cents per day. Besides W. Wilkinson, Pres., Don J. Allphin this over 8000 days labor bad been They Joined hands with the others Reconstruction Finance Corporation Leo H. Cran- furnished to First to 5.589 and over and formed a department working has lost $1,189,000, A. D. 15,000 temllles had been benelltted. under the general supervision. At borrowers (including 4,884 banks). dall, Beeond Span-ea- r, several the A. time H. and Tha postal 8svlnga Banks have provpresent they employ Erickson, Secretary By this the N. D. A. had become the be en a haven for $845,000,000, plaeed Treasurer. greatest charitable institution In the workers and have what might We termed a rushing business." The California State headquarters state; and yet not one was there by wary lnd Intelligent depoe-ltorskill would are loeated at 811 Harrison St, Oak- alms. Each one worked for receiving Money In circulation haa riswhat he might mention that thalr land, a strategic location convenient received. The sting of charity was Justly entitle them to much more en by $1,300,000,000 from the level to Alamede snd ell parts of Oak- lacking. Eaeh held np his head and profit than they are making for of two years ego, dne to the pnhlle land and Berkeley. It can be reach- looked the world In the face a new themselves, bnt they have willingly distrust of hanks. Bank deposits ou consented to receive a very low wage June 80, 1838, were 13 billions beed by street ear without transfer system in vogue. from almost all parts of the Bay AU this happened in the open light until It la possible for them to draw low the level of 1988. One Is .altogether, tempted to argeltlee. of dm y in s elty of only 140,000 peo- more without being a drain on thv ue with the editor of the eonserva-lv- e Asked how he found the Califor- ple with Rhree detfly department. newspapers depart-mela tha Commercial and Financial ChronThen there quilting nia peoples attitude toward cooper- which boast of publishing all tha which has succeeded in supply- icle. who stated (Oct. 15. 1188): I found the people newi when it happens, and yet not ation, he said: Industrial paralysis Is now so nearvery mnoh intonated In the N. D. one line of mention of the greatest ing many beautiful qullta to people. A. They showed the finest spirit of thing that has happened In aU the This has also been a very profitable ly complete and business so nearly at standstill, that greater activity cooperation I have found anywhere. iAm ericas, looking to the emancipa- project, for the workers hive drawn amust ensue In the near future no We had meetings from three to four tion of a people straggling for exis- only what their department Justified. times a week during the entire time tence In a world of plenty. And yet Obtaining material for the qullta has matter what happens." for some I was then. with poverty on every hand, hew ean been the greatest problem, eaeh baa-lCOUPONS WANTED one aeeount for aneh a thing? Had of It Is only obtainable on a la one item as and that you know, in' one Every day people with good Ideas, the occurred It winter time, Efforts an under way for starting elimthat we have pnetleally had to who desire to start some productive an N. D. A. Grocery store, when might lay It to the heavy smoke inate. business, eome to the office of tha N. enveloping the elty (which alstaples may be purchased ou a fifty-fif- ty screen The fact that hats are almost a D. A. to get eonpons. Tbe policy of so may ha easily prevented If selfishbaste. not make the organisation does ness were eradicated from tha hearts necessity to make a ladys life coma small mil- quests, even thonffh they may offer of some people), hut as It occurred plete earned us to start which has made most attractive possibilities. We CHRISTMAS mostly during eloudless skis of s linery department trim hats for N. D. A. urge that people desiring to borrow splendid spring, summer snd aut- many very coupons consult with Mr. Bdnap, umn, one must look for an answer people. (By Christie Lund) It was very plain that a second- manager of the Credit Pool. Wo You honor Him today; you take from some other source. Can It he possible that all three hand department, which would make also suggest that people who have gnat pride the distribution of a great coupons for which they do not have In giving costly gifts this Christmas newspaper! are owned and operated possible system many wearable things was quits Immediate need, plaee them In the by tha capitalistic price-fixin- g time; one has been establish- Credit Pool where they can he workevery civilisation necessary, so Forgotten an the days when you which has wreckedwhich has so mis- ed on the second door of the N. D. ing, creating and increasing. sines Adam, and denied with a A. capable lady It haa been a cause of sorrow to Drink to the fainting, who, He said erably failed in the midst of the In building who haavery made the state- see how many of onr friends have charge In abundance every worlds greatest Mine! An ment that she actually la thrilled parted with their eonpons carelessYou hang a star upon a tinseled tree. department of life? The Scrip? y when aha la able to fill needs from ly. They have brought them the also ehaln of bendnewspapers on eome Him your You befon no value as compared with of that source. work considers the Press United ed knee; to give Returning to the project, which their real worth. Tha same dsns Yon think these words an yours: the N. D. A. valuable enough In Its Infancy was labeled the "girt who lived by their wits In the finanIn article all its a publicalengthy It Is for Mo In hop, we might mention that It now cial world are active destroying peoSlues ye have done It to the least tions, and even a paper published of hae the dignified title of retail dethat so desirous la Holland ples confidence In eonpons away far of these! official buyers and they may buy them Dor a song with partment news,' all one the Important Not giving Christmas Is not enough! s. Quito a variety only to make a rich profit for that It devotes part of a recent Issue clerks In charge. brief day; his couare man distributed sella The through A. of who To things D. N. the of to the Is doings hut blaspheTo His pun sight It pons belbw par la not only telling what extremes soma people will go this department my. Another important work that has to get value for them, hut Is making Bines you, thnughout the year have to win a lost eanse. of life easy tor the scalpers and sharks. Can prosperity return under inch gone on under the supervision paved no way haa labor a been ladles tha Department he to Deposit your eonpons In th Credit We have you a for died system? Toward the brotherhood He J I on PooL 6) (Continued page i Judge. ou the tree, and It MUST WE GO ABROAD FOR OUT SCRIP RECOGNITMN SYSTEM jl USE OF SCRIP AND TRADE TOKENS GROWS FAST Fro in all quarters of the world comes me news of the spread of the Idea of taking scrip for services and products in lieu of money, and of adopting trade mediums and tokens to make business thrive without money. All me schemes are similar to this N. D. A. idea but do not go quite as far and therefore are not, like It, me real solution. From Yellow Springs, Ohio, comes me following Associated Press item: Yellow Springs, Ohio. Scrip is In successful operation In the terming area and business is thriving on It Dr. Irving Fisher of Yale university visited Yellow Springs to study the system. He Indorsed It. It works mis way: A farmer possessing 100 bushels of potatoes but no cash, wants a carpenter to repair his barn. The carpenter, perhaps otherwise unemployed, Is willing to Uke his pay In commodities, rather man oash, but does not want exclusively potatoes. So the farmer sells his potatoes to me exchange which pays him In scrip; me farmer .then hires the carpenter, paying him wim mis scrip, and the carpenter spends the scrip at the exchange buying potatoes or other things he needs. If either the carpenter or the farmer has some scrip left he can keep R indefinitely and apend It any time he wants to. Theoretically at least, mis scrip might by common consent be used Instead of money In all ordinary business dealings In mis or a mnCh larger territory. 'What the limit of practicability may be has not been determined. Scrip of me Yellow Springs exchange la issued on parchment bond paper in denominations of 10 cents, 85 cents, 50 cents, $1 and $5, and so popular has the store become mat It has had to enlarge its space twice within the last two months, it now has abont $1000 worth of. scrip In circulation and Is doing about $1000 worth of business weekly. About one-thiof this business is In regular cash. From Far Off London From ter off London, the heart of the great British empire, comes the news mat a trade token,, backed by tbe Chamber of Commerce, has been adopted to help business. The system there Is called Bartex and Is a modern version of me worlds oldest form of merchandising, simple bartering. It has its own unit of currency and Is based on goods rather m.ii gold and silver. It can be used as exchange between countries but the chief criticism Is that bartex would be negotiable only between the two countries concerned In a particular trading transaction. One nation would have to buy as much from the second as she sold to that country, else Che could not convert her accumulated bartex into cash. rd NM OF CALIFORNIA ORGANIZED 5; Vice-Preside-nt, s. nt a, . prao-tleall- them-selve- I |