Tuesday, January 29, 2019

N.D. Representatives Suggests Teaching Illiterate Soldiers to Read and Write Now That Fighting's Over, Jan. 29, 1919

From the University of North Carolina News Letter, Jan. 29, 1919

Reconstruction Measure

During the first week in November Representative Young of North Dakota introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives a concurrent resolution providing that illiterate American soldiers should be demobilized last. He called it the first reconstruction measure. The purpose back of it is to give such soldiers an elementary education before they are returned to private life.

To what extent is the penurious public pocket responsible for the fact that there are 750,000 illiterate soldiers in our army?

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