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Show PEOPLE'S CORNE-R L Letter Malted to Set words. Preferenee la pekltca-Uea pekltca-Uea Is gtvea where tree aease and address are ased. X. Write legibly ea eae side f taper ealy. 1. Rellgleas, racial aad tartieaa dleeaasleae barred) personal aepersteaa are Bet desired. de-sired. 4. Writer mast elga tree aemee aad residential addressee, ad-dressee, bat wbea desired tkeee wUI net be prtsted. s. PellU. sal eeatrikatlea are aet eea etdered. e. Views expressed la this department are theea ef the eeatrlkater aad de net aeeeeeartly reflect the view ef thai aewsaeaer. 1. The depart. meat may aet be aeed aa aa advertising seedless, s. The Peeplee Corner deee aet la-vtae la-vtae aser tkaa eae eeatrlba-tiea eeatrlba-tiea a week free the same writer. effort to avoid nd elimlnste all abuses arising from th use of scrip end a It gains power will provide more end more commodities snd ser vice, thus giving the scrip more fexl billty. Thousands are glad to get II and know how to mak use of it Just as It I today. WILL DOBSON. Dcfcndt Scrip Coupon And Explain Purpoteg Editor of Th Telegram: Critics of N. D. A. scrip ar asked to read what is printed on th fsce of the scrip: "Coupon check. Re-deemable Re-deemable only In merchandise or service. ser-vice. Not trensfersbl. Not good If ijetached." Thus scrip maicas no attempt to masquerade as money and there la no excuse for confusing It with money. It cennot be expected to buy everything every-thing money will buy, nor to be re-deemeble re-deemeble in money. It was never issued aa t counterfeit of money, but only e a commodity-service coupon to operate in a field wher money refuses to clrculste. It wss Issued primarily for the use of association members, who eccept it knowing exactly what It will buy. It I doing the work it wa intended to do, and needs no other Justlflcstion for its existence. Any men of ordinary ordi-nary Intelligence Is competent to decide de-cide before sccepting It whether or not he can find a place to use It and thus conserve to that extent his mesger store of cash. Unless someone wilfully misrepresents misrepre-sents Its buying power to him. the men who Is offered scrip Is not being Injured in any way. Before any tears are shed tor him, It should be remembered remem-bered that he did not accept It In lieu of cesh, but in lieu of nothing. Scrip represents businees that would not hsv been transscted otherwise. The sssoclstion Is making strenuous |