The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-01-10
WORLD NEEDS FOOD
Demand Makes Opportunity for
Returning Soldiers.
Thousands VIII See Glorious POSI-
biIities In Settlement Of Avail
able Farm Land In This Coun-
try and II Canada.


sheathed their swords, and the day Of
reconstruction has come.
What of it?
Hundreds Of thousands of men
taken from the fields of husbandry
from the ranks Of labor, from the four
walls Of the counting house, and the
confines of the workshop, taken from
them to do their part, their large part,
In the prevention of the spoliation of
the world, and in the meantime re-
moved from the gear Of common every
day life, will be returning, only to find
In many cases old positions filled, the
machinery with which they were for
merly attached dlslocated.
Are they to become aimless wander
ers, with the ultimate possibility of
augmenting an army Of menacing
loafers? If they do 1t is because their
ability to assist In laying new founda-
lions, in building up much-required
structures, is underestlmated. Men
who fought as they fought, who risked
and faced dangers as they did, are not
of the caliber likely to finch when 1t
comes to the restoration of what the
enemy partially destroyed, when it
comes to the reconstruction of the
world, the ideals of which they had in
view when they took part In the great
struggle whose divine purpose was to
bring about this reconstruction.
Injured to toll, thoughtless of fatigue,
trained in initiative and hardened by
their outdoor existence, they will re-
turn better and stronger men, boys will
have matured and young men will have
developed.
They will decide for themselves
lines of action and thought, and what |
their future should and will be. On
the field of battle they developed |
alertness and wisdom, and they will |
return with both shedding from every
pore.
Action was their watchword, and 1t |
the din of the battle no longer rings
in their ears, or the zero hour signals
them to the fray, and 1t will continue
during their entire existence.
But If they return to find their old
avocations gone, their places filled,
the institutions with which they were
no longer existing, new
walks Of life and employment must be
opened to them. 1t may be that the
house, the factory, the
will have lost their attrac-
hon. The returned soldier will look
elsewhere for employment; within his
reach there is always the Forward .
he remedy that will not only take care
If a multitude of those who may not
De able to return to their former occu- c
)ationS, whose desires are not to do so, !
whose. health prohibits them from in .
loor life or whose outdoor habits from !
he past one, two, three or four years !
AVE given them such a taste and de- /
ire for it that confinement would be
Inbearable. Farm life will thus ap- '
zeal to them, and the indications are 7
hat 1t will be taken advantage of by /
thousands. 1t means much to them as n
yell as to the continent of America i
hat provides the opportunity to the y
Olih At SCy anu W tuC dUu
amished nations of Europe, who, notl S
My today but for years to come, will [
equire the sustenance that can only e
,rgely be supplied by the United 1
tates and Canada. By following the ="
ursuit of agriculture the returned sol
Ter will continue the cause he so
realty advanced when fighting on the -
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areas yet open to settle :,
ent. N
There is little need here to direct :,
ttention to the wealth that has come .,
the farmers of Canada within the
asst few years. 1t Is not only in grain >,
rowing that unqualified and almost =,
1equaled success has followed honest
fort, but the raising of horses, cattle, b,
leep and hogs has been large source ~
profit. These are facts that are 81
ell known to the many friends and m
,quaintances of the thousands of
rmers from the United States who
i've acquired wealth on the prairies
Western Canada. Farms Of from til
lie hundred and sixty to six hundred C.
I'd forty acres Of the richest soil may en-
secured on reasonable terms. and OF
It'll an excellent climate, with a
hool system equal to any In the
Drld, and desirable social conditions,
tie else could be asked.
Canadian statesmen are today busily
gagged planning for the future of the WI
turned soldier with view to making LII
m independent of state help after the to
mediate necessary assistance has De
en- granted, the main idea being to ur
ow In the fullest degree the coun- ne
rs appreciation of the services he
s rendered. ro
But now that the war is ended, and wi
e fact apparent that of all avoca-
ms the most profitable and independ- be
t Is that of the farmer, there will be clt
strong desire to secure farm lands
: cultivation. Canada offers the OPP to-
rtunity to those seeking, not as spec OF
ition but as production. The deep
, interest is taken by Federal and
dyincial authorities to further the ma
4 M m ~ tho foru,or md coc,,ro uu