The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1919-01-30
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.


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The war Is over, pence will soon be
signed, the fighting nations have
sheathed their swords. and the day Of
reconstruction has come.
What of Il?
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 coinmo every
dry 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 aimiess wander
ers, with the ultimate possibility OF
nugmenting nm army Of menacing
lonfers? If they do II IL because their
ability to assist In laying new founda-
tlons, In building up much-requlred
structures, Is undereStimntcd. Men
NV ipuSHl Us iH's l''lSnlt WV IiSh'u
and faced dangers ms they did, are not
OF the callber likely to finch when II
comes to the restoration of what the
enemy partially destroyed, when II
ON 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, ~thoughtlese of fatigue.
trained In initiative and hardened by
their outdoor existence, they will re-
turn better and stronger men, boys will
have matured md young men will have
developed.
They will decide for 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 WINS their watchword, and II
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 1t will continue
their entire existence.
But II they return to find their old
avocations gone. their places filed.
the institutions with which they were
connected no longer existing. 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 attrac.
ton. The returned soldier will look
elsewhere for employment within his
reach there is always the forward,
to-the-Land' necessity. In this lies
the remedy that will not only take care
Of a multitude Of those who may not
be able to return to their former occu.
patlOns, whose desires are not to do so,
whose health prohibits them from In.
door life or whose outdoor habits from
the past one, two, three or four years
have given them such n taste and de-
sire for II that confinement would be
unbearable. Farm life will thus ap-
peal to them, and the indications are
that II will be taken advantage of by
thousands. 1t means much To them as
well as to the continent of America
that provides the opportunity to the
world at large, and to the stricken and
famished nations Of Europe, who. not
only today, but for years to come. will
require the s%ustcnance that can only
largely be supplied by the United
States and Canada. BY following the
pursuit Of agriculture the returned SOL
der will continue the cause he so
greatly advanced when fighting on the
field Of battle. Both countries have
undeveloped areas yet open to settle.
ment.