Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-01-03
WORLD NEEDS FOOD
Demand Makes Opportunity for
Returning Soldiers.
Thousands viii See Glorious Posi-
bilities in Settlement of Avail
able Farm Land in This Coun-
try and in Canada.

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 spoliation of
the world, and in the meantime re-
moved from the gear of common every
day life, will be returned 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
augmenting an army of menacing
loafers? If they do it is because their
ability to assist in laying new founda-
tions, in building up much-required
structures, is underestimated. Men
who fought as they fought, who risked
and faced danger 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 wha1
their future should and will be. Or
the field of battle they developed
alertness and wisdom, and they will
return with both shedding from every
pore.
Action was their watchword, and /
will stand them in good stead now tha
the din of the battle no longer ring
in their ears, or the zero hour signals
them to the fray, and it will continu,
during their entire existence.
But if they return to find their oil
avocations gone, their places filled
the institutions with which they wer
connected no longer existing, new
walks of life and employment must b
| n hn fho+ h
counting house, the factory, tn
workshop will have lost their attrac
ton. The returned soldier will loo
elsewhere for employment; within hi
reach there is always the FORWARD
to-the-Land" necessity. In this lie
the remedy that will not only take car
of multitude of those who may nc
be able to return to their former occr
pations, whose desires are not to do 81
whose health prohibits them from il
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
unbearable. Farm life will thus al
peal to them, and the indications al
that it will be taken advantage of b
thousands. 1t means much to them 6
well as to the continent of Americ
that provides the opportunity to IL
world at large, and to the stricken an
famished nations of Europe, who, N
only today, but for years to come, wi
require the sustenance that can on
, largely be supplied by the Unite
States and Canada. BY following Il
pursuit of agriculture the returned sc
der will continue the cause he
greatly advanced when fighting on IL
field of battle. Both countries ha'
undeveloped areas yet open to settl
ment.
There is little need here to dire
attention to the wealth that has con
to the farmers of Canada within Il
past few years. 1t is not only in gra
growing that unqualified and almo
unequaled success has followed hone
effort, but the raising of horses, catt
, sheep and hogs has been large sour
: of profit. These are facts that a
well known to the many friends a.
acquaintances of the thousands
farmers from the United States w
have acquired wealth on the prairi
of Western Canada. Farms of frC
one hundred and sixty to six hundr
!. and forty acres of the richest soil m
] be secured on reasonable terms, a
| with an excellent climate, with
school system equal to any in t
e world. and desirable social condition
e little else could be asked.
Canadian statesmen are today bus
/ engaged planning for the future of t
e returned soldier with a view to maxi
e him Independent of state help after {
T. immediate necessary assistance h
: been granted, the main idea being
$ show in the fullest degree the cot
t try's appreciation of the services
J. has rendered.
e But now that the war has ended, a