Paid Back

October 31, 1969, Neenah-Menasha Daily Northwestern

This is the fifth in a series of articles that covers the effects of the Great Depression on the Twin Cities.   The interesting takeaway from this installment isn't so much that most people kept their jobs or that the mills kept things going by reducing capacity to 50 or 60 percent.  What is surprising is that what was remembered some forty years later was that many of those who took assistance from the local government ended up paying it back.  I guess that sums up one of the good qualities of our hard working citizens, or maybe it's just indicative of that generation's work ethic.