The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-02-27
The MhSh|P Of The
new AMERICAN
Aims and Ideals Of the United
States and Canada VIII
Soon Be Signed.

The war is over, peace will o be
signed, the fighting nations have
sheathed their swords, and the day Of
reconstruction has come.
What Of It'll
Hundreds Of thousands Of men, TAX
en- from the fields Of husbandry. from
the ranks Of labor, from the four walls
Of the counting house, and the con-
fines 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 removed
from the gear Of common everyday
life, will be returning, only to ftnd IN
many cases old positions filled, the
machinery with which they were for
merly attached d~islocated.
Are, they ito become aimless wan
derers, with the ultimate possibility
Of augmenting an army OF menacing
loafers7 II they do It it il because their
ability to assist in laying new founda-
lions. In building up much required
structures, is underestimated. Men
who have fought as they have fought,
who have risked and faced dangers az
they have, are not Of the caliber Likely
to finch when 1t comes to the resto-
rationTof what the enemy partially de-
stroyed, when it comes to the recon
%struction 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 re
construction. -
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 VII
have developed.
They will decide of themselves lines
Of action and thought, and what theil
future should and will be. On thu
field of battle they developed alertnes!
and wisdom, and they will return will
both shedding from every pore.
Action was their by-word and it vii
stand them in good stead now that tn
din of the battle no longer rings IL
their ears, or the zero hour signalJ
them to the fray, and 1t will continue
during their entire existence.
But If they return to find their oil
~avocation gone, their places filled, tn
institutions with which they were con
nected no longer exist, new walks o
life and employment must be opene
to them. It may be that the countin
house, the factory, the workshop wi
have lost their attraction. The return
ed soldier will look elsewhere for en-
ployment; within his reach there Is a
ways the "Forward-to-the-L and" NJ
cessity. In this lies the remedy tbs
will not only take care, Of a multitud
of those who maysno be able to retur
to their former occupations, whose d,
sires are not to do so, whose healt
prohibits them from indoor life q
whose outdoor habits from the pas
Ibne, two, three or four years hav
Egiven them such a taste and desil
for It that confinement would be nj
bearable. Farm life will thus appe.
to them, and the indications r that
will be taken advantage of by tho,
sands. 1t means much to them as we
as to the Continent Of America thu
provides the opportunity to the worl
at large, and to the stricken and fan
ished nations of Europe, who, not onl
today, but for years to come, will r
quire the sustenance- that can onl
largely be supplied by the Unite
States and Canada. BY following II
pursuit Of agriculture the returne
soldier will continue the cause he {
greatly advanced when fighting on Il
Held Of battle. Both countries ha,
undeveloped area yet open to settl
ment.