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Show COUNTY BACKS SCRIP FOR PAY i Commission To Memorialize Congress Con-gress For The Adoption Og "Gesell" Plan. . The county commission Monday added its approval to that of the city in seeking to further the so-called so-called "gesell" plan to issue scrip and put all the unemployed to work. The plan has been sponsored spon-sored locally by J. Parley White, former city treasurer. The commission authorized a memorial to the United States congress, stating its approval. The idea, conceived by Silvio Gesell, is for the United States to issue scrip in payment for projected pro-jected - public works at $3 a day. The denomination of each. "Gesell" "Ges-ell" is $1, and each week the cur rent holder must place a two-cent stamp on the scrip. A.t the end of 60 weeks the scrip would be redeemed. re-deemed. As $1.20 in. stamps would have been placed on each $1 paper, pa-per, the government would derive a profit of 20 cents on each "Gesell.'' |