The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1919-01-23
WORLD NEEDS FOOD
Demand Makes Opportunity for
Returning Soldiers.
Thousands viii See Glorious PossI-
bilitles In Settlement Of Avail.
able Farm Land In This coun-
try and In Canada.

The war Is over. pence will soon he
signed. the fighting nations have
shcnthed their swords. md the dny Of
reconstruction hns come.
What Of II?
Hundreds of thousands Of men
taken from the fields of husbnntlrv
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 spolintlon OF
the world. and In the meantime re-
moved from the gear Of common every.
day life. will he returning. only to find
In many cases old positions filed the
machinery with which they We're for.
merly attached dislocnted.
Are they to become alinless wander
ers. with the ultimate possibility of
nugmenting an army Of menncing
lonfersf II they do 1t Is because their
ability to assist In laying new founda-
tIons. in building up much-requIred
structures. ls underestimated. Men
who fought as they fought. who risked
and fnced dangers MS they did. nre not
OF the cnliber likely to finch when Il
comes to the restoration Of whnt the
enemy partially destroyed. when Il
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 he. On
the field of battle they developed
alertness and wisdom. and they will
return with both shedding from every
pore.
| Action was their wctchword, 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 II will continue
during their entire existence.
But II they return to find their cd
avocations gone. their places filed
the institutions with which they were
connected no longer existing. new
walks of life and employment must bt
opened to them. II may he that ths
counting house. the factory. tn,
workshop will have lost their nttrac
tion. The returned soldier will Iool
elsewhere for employment; within hi
reach there is always the forward
to-the-Lnnd" necessity. In this liel
the remedy that Will not only take car,
Of a multitude Of those who may no
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 year,
have given them such taste and de
sire for II that confinement would b,
unbearnble. Farm life will thus np
peal to them, and the indications mr.,
that II will he taken advantage Of b!
thousands. II means much TO them al
well as to the continent of Amerlc,
that provides the opportunity to tn
world at large. and to the stricken nn'
famished nations Of Europe. who. no
only today. but for years to come. will
require the sustenance that can onl
largely be supplied by the Unite,
States and Canada. BY following tn
pursuit Of agriculture the returned sol
dIer will continue the cause he 8
greatly advanced when fighting on III
field Of battle. Both countries hav