The Coconino sun., 1919-02-07
BROTHERS JUST SCARED.

It is hard to find always just where the trouble is. When the soldier boys were being drafted and taken away there was the greatest vail of woe going up because every special indus try was being ruined and their men should not be taken away from them.
 Now we find that there is a great lack of employment for the same men who went away and did as they were told by the government. Where is the great discrepancy? Most em- ployers are willing and glad to get back the boys they were compelled to release.
 The whole country was going to the bad because of the lack of help and the high wages they were com pelled to pay.
 There were some two million of our boys, out of over hundred million people. Now they are out of em- ployment. Prices are higher than ever and help is just as scarce. Yet, what is to be done for the soldier boy" on his return? And the gov ernment is making great to-do about this. In fact the government wants his uniform back before he has gone home and visited his best girl and the rest of his friends. There is room for every soldier boy who comes home. The people will take care of that just as fast as they want to re-adjust themselves.
 The splendid movement" for the putting of the returned soldier boy on a ranch, is not making much more of a hit than the old story of the man who "bet the government of the Unit ed States S23 that he could live on the 160-acre homestead five years with out starving to death" That sort of stuff may sound good to the people back east, but when you have to pack water in a canteen for your horses, and mortgage your soul for the hors- es; wait two years for crop and take chances that it will rain, the soldier boy feels that the politician is wishing something on him and hoping that he don't find it out until after he votes.
 It isn't going to take long for the returned soldier to find out who his friends are and who the bunch is com posed of who are handing out the po- litical stuff-for their own benefit.
 lI IS q Sdu IeliCSliOh Oi lllc SOOu people of the United States when it is intimated that they will not take care of their own soldier boys when they come home. We loved them when they went to the front, or wherever they were sent by competent author ity, and if we can not love them now and take care of them, we are sorry race of people It hurts to think that the people of the United States are now charged with not being willing to take care of our boys who left their all, went where they were sent, an swered their country's call, regardless of the fact that they may not have reached the goal they aimed for.
 The government does not charge that the people are not willing to care for returning soldiers, but there is the inference that the whole country is liable to be in a turmoil when they come home.
 These men went out to fight for America, and, they are. not coming home with an idea that they will have to fight America for a living. This idea seems to have originated with some of the few Special privileged political generals, and merchant princes who are afraid that the work ing man might demand his share of the profiteers' makings during the time they were gone.