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Show "Lets Swap" Revived As Aid To Trade Between Men, Nations Above, the Jobless Exchange in IOS Angeles where unemployed may swap labor for necessities. Barter System Pressed Into Service Barter, a system of trade, which economists have traced back to the customs of the savages, rapidly is becoming popular in the United States again. .. The idea of swapping what one has- for what one desires to have, without exchange of money, is gaining favor nationally. Work in I exchange for food, at present is , ; the commanding issue in the pres- I ent barter centers, but it is by no J ; means the only barter in use. I Among the more prominent bar-1 ter marts are: The Natural Development Aaso-' ciation in Salt Lake City. The association as-sociation was organized to "take in all the activities of life and put into operation a system of distribution." distri-bution." The association operates a saw mill, refinery, tannery and is building a shoe factory. Professional Profes-sional and business men as well as laborers are members. Scrip is used for exchange. A $30,000 business in one month has been the record of the association. In Los Angeles a Jobless Ex- C; shop soon became more of a conglomeration con-glomeration than the old rural store. Oklahoma City, Minneapolis and some of the northwest Pacific states have started jobless exchanges ex-changes where unemployed are given labor and the employers pay in goods. The exchanges then transfer the goods into commodities commodi-ties and unemployed needs. Proposals arose recently that Russia exchange petroleum for Canadian aluminum. This probably prob-ably will never go through owing to recent trade agreements established estab-lished at the imperial conference at Ottawa. Bartering also has extended to education. In any number of instances in-stances this fall students have exchanged ex-changed farm products for tuition and administration fees. Elena Percy drove nine head of cattle to Louisiana State university -in exchange ex-change for tuition. Illinois Wes-: leyan university at Bloomington announced it would accept farm products in lieu of tuition fees. Marshall college at Huntington, W. : Va., ha3 also swapped educational facilities for farm products. Recently in Port Royal, Va., a college was opened where students would pay on a minimum tuition and other school expenses would be taken care of by the chores they did about the school. Professors Pro-fessors were given their board and lodging. I change has been opened. There unemployed un-employed may swap their labor for food. Hundreds have been accommodated accom-modated by the exchange. At Suffern, N. Y., a -Darter mart was established in the public square. Farmers brought in their produce and traded for necessities. The United States government went into the barter business and exchanged 25,000,000 bushels of North American wheat for 150,000,-000 150,000,-000 pounds of Brazilian coffee. . Soviet Russia for many years has conducted a barter with Persia and Turkey, exchanging manufactured manufac-tured goods for raw products. Cotton Cot-ton cloth was one of the .main media of exchange. At Knoxville, Tenn.. Colonel Claude S. Heeder, an automobile dealer, found himself overloaded with used cars. He started a barter bar-ter system and has exchanged motor mo-tor cars for everything from sweet potatoes to carnival monkeys. A Broadway habercasner in New York City found business slackening slacken-ing and started bartering. His |