The Wahpeton times., 1919-01-02
WORLD NEEDS FOOD
Demand Makes Opportunity for
Returning Ssldiers.
Thsusands. will See Glorious Posi-.
bfItties In Settlement Of Avail.
able Farm Land In This coun.
try and In Canada.

0ssS S0ub00Os
The war is over, peace will soon be
signed. the 2ghting nations have
sheathed their swords, and the day Of
reconstruction has come,
What of it3
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
tnem to do their part, their large part.
IN the prevention of the spoliation of
tne'' 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
meEEly attached dislocated.
Are they to become aimless wander.
ers, with the ultimate: possibility Of
'augmenting' an army OF menacing
loafers1 If they do it is because their
ability to assist in laying new founda-
I;tions. 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"flinch. when it
comes to the restoration Of what the
enemy partially destroyed. when It
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 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 watchword, and Il
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
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 multitude of those who may not
be able to return to their former occu'
pations, 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 q taste and de-
sire for 1t that confinement would be
unbearable. Farm life will thus ap
peal to them. and the Indications are
that it will be taken advantage Of by
thousands. It means much to them az
we'll 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 sustenance that can only
largely be supplied by the United
States and Canada. BY following the
pursuit of agriculture the returned col.
der will continue the cause he sc
greatly advanced when fighting on the
leld Of battle. Both countries have
lndeveloped areas yet open to settle.