The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1919-01-02
WORLD NEEDS FOOD
Demand Makes Opportunity for
Returning Soldiers.
Thousands Will See Glorious Posi-.
biIities in Settlement Of Avail.
able Farm Land in This Coun.
try and in Canada.

The war Is over, peace will soon be
signed, the fighting nations have
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 s%poliation of
the world, and In the meantime re-
10Y 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 dislocated.
Are they to become aimless wander
ers, with the ultimate possibility of
a~ugmenting an army of menacing
toafers? If they do it is because their
ability to assist in laying new fo>lnda-
tlens, in building up much-required
structures, is underestimated. Men
VINO 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 divinelpurpose 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. Or
the field of battle they developed
alertncSS and wisdom, and they vii
return with both shedding from every
pore.
will stand them in good stead now tina
the din of the battle no longer ring:
In their ears, or the zero hour signal!
them to the fray. and it will continue
during their entire existence.
But if they return to find their OLE
avocations gone, their places filled
the institutions With which they wer
connected no longer existing, new
walks of life and employment must b
opened to them. 1t may be that tn
counting house, the factory, tn
workshop will have lost their attrat
ton. The returned soldier will loo
elsewhere for employment: within hi
reach there is always the FORWARD
to-tle-Land" necessity. In this lie
the remedy that will not only take car
of a multitude of those who may NO
he able to return to their former occu
pations. whose desires are not to do Sc
whose health prohibits them from ir
door life or whose outdoor habits frol
the past one. two. three Or four year
have given them such a taste and d.
sire for it that confinement would b
unbearable. Farm life will thus az
that it will be taken advantage Of b
thousands. 1t means much to them q
we'll as to the continent of Americ
that provides the opportunity to tn
world at large, and to the stricken an
furnished nations Of Europe, who, nc
only today, but for years to come, wi
require the sustenance that can onl
largely be supplied by the Unite
States and Canada. BY following tn
pursuit of agriculture the returned so
der will continue the cause he 8
greatly advanced when fighting on tn
field of battle. Both countries hav
undeveloped areas yet open to settle
ment.