Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-02-13
THE KINsHlP Of The
new AMERICAN
Aims and Ideals Of the United
States and Canada viii
Soon Be Signed.

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, 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 find in.
many cases old positions filed. the
machinery with which they were for
merly attached dislocated.
Are they to become aimless wan
derers, with the ultimate possibility
of augmenting an army of menacng
loafers? Ii they dofit tits because their
ability to ssSist in laying new founda-
tons, in building up much required
structures, is underestimated. Men
who have fought as they have fought,
who have risked and faced dangers MS
they have, are not of the caliber likely
to finch when it comes to the resto-
ration of what the enemy partially de-
stroyed, when it comes to the recon
struction of the world the ideals of
whiclsthey had i'll 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 will
have developed
They will decide of 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 by-w0rd and 1t will
stand them in good stead now that the
| din of the battle no longer rings in
their ears, or the zero hour signals
them to the fray, and it will continue
during their entire existence.
But If they return to find their old
avocation gone. their places filled, the
| institutions with which they were con
| nected no longer exist, new walks OF
4 life and employment must be opened
to them. 1t may be that the counting
house. the factory, the workshop viii
have lost their attraction. The return
ed soldier will look elsewhere for EN-
4 ployment; within his reach there is al
ways the rwnrd-to-the-Land" ne
cessity. In this lies the remedy thai
will not only take care of a multitudt
/ of those who may not be able to return
TO their former occupations, whose de
sires are not to do so, whose healtl
4 prohibits them from indoor life o.
whose outdoor habits from the pas
one, two, three or four years hav'
given them such taste and deslr'
4 for it that confinement would be I'm
bearable. Farm life will thus appea
to them, and the indications are that !
will be taken advantage of by thou
sands 1t means much to them as wei
as to the Continent of America tina
provides the opportunity to the worl
at large and to the stricken and fam
ished nations of Europe, who, not onl
today, but for years to come, will re
quire the sustenance that can Onl
largely be supplied by the Unite
States and Canada. BY following TIL
pursuit of agriculture the returne
soldier will continue the cause he s
greatly advanced when fighting on til
field of battle. Both countries hav
undeveloped areas yet open to settl,
ncnt.
There is little need here to dire,
attention to the wealth that has CON
To the farmers of Canada within tt
past few years 1t is not only in, graz
growing that unqualified and almo
unequaled success has followed no
est effort, but the raising of horse
, cattle. sheep and hogs has been lars
source Of profit. These are facts TIL
are well known to the many frien'
and acguaintances of the thousands
farmers from the United States WI
have acquired wealth on the prairi
of Western Canada. Farms of fro
one hundred and sixty TO six huhdr'
and forty acres of the richest soil m,
be secured on reasonable terms. al
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