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Robert Morriss Browning correspondence to Mabel C. Williams, 1920

1920-12-04 Robert M. Browning to Dr. Mabel C. Williams Page 5 - Clipping

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This is from an "Infantry Journal" Read a copy in the library some time. It would be more interesting to a civilian than the "Army & Navy Journal." Though both should be read by every voter. It looks this way over here, all right. There is some unemployment but apparently not much. Ex-soldiers have their jobs or better ones. There is an excess of school teachers, owing to the return of the troops and the replacement of the women by the men. I have school teachers as clerks in my commissary, and give them higher pay - same as at home in that respect at least. Speaking of strike [cartoon by Chapin showing blacksmith labeled "Germany" forging a plow. The map of Germany is labeled "Economic Revival." "England" and "U.S." stand in the background scratching their heads.
 
World War I Diaries and Letters