The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-02-13
the NNSA|P Of The
new AMERICAN
Aims and Ideals Of the United
States and Canada Win
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 1t! I
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 speliation 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 filled, the
machinery with which they were for
merly attached dislocated.
Are they to become aimless wan
derers, with the ultimate possibility
of a%ugmenting an army Of menaclng
loafers? If they do it 1t is because their
ability to assist 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 as
they have, are not Of the caliber likely
to finch when it m to the resto-
ration of what the enemy partially de-
stroyed. when it comes to the recon
structlon 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, t%houghtless of fatigue,
trained in initiative and hardened by
their outdoor existence they will re-
turn better and stronger men; boys
will have mQtured 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-word and it will
stand them In good stead now that the
din Of the battle nc 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 filed, the
institutions with which they were con,
nected no longer exist, new walks of
life and employment must be opened
to them. 1t may be that the counting
house, the factory, the workshop will
have lost their attraction. The return
ed soldier will look elsewhere for en-
ployment; within his reach there is nj
ways the "Forward-to-the-Land" ne
cessity. In this lies the remedy tina
of those who may not be able to return
to their former occupations, whose de
sires are not to do so, whose healtl
prohibits them from indoor life O.
whose outdoor habits from the pas
one, two, three or four years hav,
given them such a taste and desire
for 1t that confinement would be un
be, rable. Farm life. will thus appca
to them, and the indications are that !
VIII 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'
MT large, and TO the stricken aud fam
ished nations of Europe, who. not onl,
today, but for years to colne will re
luire the S~ustpnanre that can onl,
largely be supplied by the Unite'
States and Canada. BY following I'll
pursuit OF agriculture the returne,
soldier will continue the cause he S
greatly advanced when fighting on til
field of battle. Both countries hav
undevcloped areas yet open to settle
mont.
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