Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-01-02
WORLD NEEDS FOOD
Demand Makes Opportunity for
Returning Soldiers.
Thousands viii 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 spoliation Of
the world. and in the meantime re-
moved 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
augmenting an army of menacIng
loafers? II they do 1t is because their
ability to assist in laying new fdunda-
tons, in building up much-required
structures. Is underestimated. Men
who 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 II
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 themselve.
lines Of action and thought. and wha'
their future should and will be. Or
the field Of battle they developed
alertness and wisdom. and they will
return with both shedding from ever!
pore
Action was their watchword, and 1
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 oil,
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 attrae
ton. The returned soldier will loo
elsewhere for employment: within hi
I reach there is always the "FOrwari
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 II
door life or whose outdoor habits fror
the past one. two, three or four year
have given them such taste and dt
sire for it that confinement would b
unbearable. Farm life will thus ~
peal to them. and the Indications ar
that 1t 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
famished nations of Europe. who, NO
only today, but for years to come, VII
require the sustenance that can onl
largely be supplied by the Unite
States and Canada. BY following tn
pursuit of agriculture the returned sol
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.