Show BIRTER IN PRACTICE AGAIN ALL ON ER tile the country people are arc learning 9 how low to jive without money that Is tile way may our primitive ancestors it lived red by barter it Is of course tile the direct and simplest way may of doing business but its it handicap Is that it does not provide any ally way may of st storing oring up values or of making change if e eiery cry yuan alio w ho had services or goods tl sell could always find someone who mho would make an eien trade with him giving such goods or labor as he required in exchange for his own would mould need any money but it Is difficult for the lie mail inan mho to dispose of 0 a days dayal work mork for a pair of boots to find the precise person who ulio wants arants that eliat work mork at that time or alio is willing milling to swap small groceries for toots time that Is labor Is a perishable commodity if it amit used now it net neier er ca can it be used the i value alue of mono money consists in Us its power police to enable the lie worker 1 who mho cin can d dispose poe of its ills labor for cash to store up atiat eliat days work against the time ahen lie he needs need to spend it for other oilier commodities to get around this dl community after community lias has adopted one form or another of temporary money called scrip we lave read of a dozen or so different kinds hinds of scrip but they all work on tile the same principle the man mail who lie does a days work mork receives what Is in effect a promissory note which the glier giver a agrees grees to redeem in such corn commodities modi as lie deals in no matter who mho presents it it if enough merchants and manufacturers rs in can it tie be brought together in a scrip plin plan of tills this kind the serl scrip p Is just as good money as it if it u were ere issued be the government so far as local use Is cancer concerned ned we anderst un understand derst and there Is a mox movement ement on oil loot foot to nationalize this scrip barter plan I 1 we dont see any reason why it work mork provided that all ail the scrip issued was mils based ba sedon oil actual haium in services performed or commodities delle delivered r ed the main trouble would mould be in determining the value mch each unit of scrip the early vir virginia inia colont colonists ts used paper money based on tobacco but they found a good many planters working off inferior grades of tobacco and they had plenty of trouble with mith their currency tor for a good many years As a temporary relief measure however tho the scrip barter plan seems to us to hav haie e decided merit |