Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...problem seems to be, how to have a professional military, without incurring the odium attached to it. It certainly is a big problem and it certainly is a big problem and it certainly is an enormous odium. Even a professional soldier wishes to avoid the odium of militarism, and so our army is to be that fine institution, a school! This certainly is a notable transformation...
That the Yankee doughboy is not the best paid soldier in the world is settled definitely by Mr. Flinn's articles in Tuesday's CRIMSON; unfortunately, many of us have entertained contrary illusions in regard to this matter...
Some of Mr. Flinn's other points fall to exhibit the convincing power of his first statements. He says that a lack of common sense was shown in suggesting that our obligation to the American soldier ceased at the signing of the peace ternls. If we pay a man a fair salary while he works for us, give him a bonus when he leaves, and then hunt up a job for him, we certainly are treating him squarely...
...Help the soldier and his dependents by getting work for him, but do not lavish gifts. A dollar spent in hunting him a job is worth ten given gratis. A. B. NICHOLS...
Such a bonus would insure a subsistence for the newly discharged solider; would be an incentive for the newly established man to save, and for the more fortunate one an opportunity to put into practice his philanthropic ideas regarding the care of a soldier's dependents. R. S. FLINN...