6 JANUARY 1933, Page 10

Mr. Borah said on Wednesday that in great regions of

the United States they were approaching a state of barter. In some regions they have actually got to it: An opportune letter from an English friend fruit-growing in South California brings me details. In the district in question the people of at least two thousand town- ships and rural communities have organized themselves for barter. Every man with a farm or holding is setting out to make his family as far as possible self-supporting, and producing his surplus for barter, not for sale. So the country that has carried its mechanical civilization farthest is the first to go back to primitive conditions.