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Show i Hp39 JlL & yrt"" ' LSmS i! . - , ,..-,. 1 9wlkmm The War Is Over Now for Reconstruction - Great WM$': - . f' m jiwJSkv? iSP", li Things Are In Store for Us-Food Problems J Copyright. The International Syndicate. 1 TMWmmll world's history is ust ahead of 6 us. Most momentous have been the happenings of 101S. "What ' 's going to happen during 1010? That t H the question which everybody in the , world is anxious to have answered. The ; questions of 19 IS were answered satis-' satis-' ! fictorlly to most of tho inhabitants of i 'he world. Of course, William Hohcn-I Hohcn-I . zollern, Hlndcnburg and those of their Uk wcro " disappointed at tho turn , , things took; but that'll 'be alright to j 1 'ho rest of us. In tho maze of reconstruction which .; , lies ahead it may be hard to decide in sooio cases which Is tho knottiest Problem to tackle. Thero are a num-i num-i her that will renulre considerable f wrestling before wo put both shoulder:, on tho mat. 13ut thero are big minds now working over most of theso ques-; ques-; i lions. Tho war has developed men to think along bigger lines and to mas-'or mas-'or more apparently Insurmountable - obstacles than would have soemed pos-. pos-. ; Sblc a few years ago. What American business men and American Army and Xavy officers have accomplished In tho Pas' is pretty suro evidence of what ;i 'hey can do in the future. Therefore, K us look ahead with confidence That la tho main thing, for the world : 's built on belief and faith and confidence confi-dence in our fellow men, A World United j No coiiiir."y now can live unto itself. ; The war has shown how closely united I "ro the various nations of the globe and that when one suffers tho others suffer if with It Tho world viewpoint has i como to stay. Never again will the ' nations go back to their narrow way '. of living. And thi3 is particularly truo '. of tho United States. Bcforo the war ' . It had thought little of how tho rest of th. world lived. With Its own vast ! area and resources It had gono along, I'rrMiv wcli yntlsflcri to. look after its j- uonjcMlo affairs and lot those of other if! 1 business and in politics this country did not bother much with what was going on In Europe and In Asia. Now, however, there Is nothing of more Interest to the people of this country than the problems over which the European nations also are struggling. strug-gling. Tho ilrst of these, tho one of most immediately concern Is that re- i latlng to the outcome of tho peace conference. Upon that hangs the answer an-swer to many other questions which aro pressing for answer. Tho signing of tho pcaco treaty will not solve all 'the problems which aro vexing the world, but It will bo lh$ first big step In helping to restore normal and stable conditions. When tho terms on which the world Is tollvo ore known, It will bo possible lo'go ahead intelligently with much of the vast reconstruction work which ha3 to be done. As a matter of fact, It has not boon necessary to wait on this agreement and much is being done looking to tho re-cstabllshmcnt of the world on a peace basis. As President Wilson said In Ills nicssago at tho opening of Congress Con-gress Just bcforo he palled for Europe, referring to what tho business men of the country were doing: "It Is surprising sur-prising how fast the process of return to a peaco basis has movod In the three weoks since the fighting stoppod. It promises to outrun any inquiry that may bo Instituted and any aid that may bo offored. It will not be easy to direct It any better than It will direct Itself. Tho American business man is of quick Initiative." Tho opeed with which tho manufacturers manufac-turers and tho business men of tho United States transformed their plant3 from a peaco to a war basis, will it is confidently believed bo shown In their return to normal Conditions. Tho experience ex-perience which thoy havo gained will bland them In good stead in accomplishing accom-plishing this big task. This will holp to take car.of tho labor problem which has caused somo concern and of Ihe.placiifg of returning soldim ' once moro in gainful occupations. ; Absorbing The Army Ono of the greatest fats of the year which is just opening will bo the return re-turn to these shores of the greater part of tho Amorlcan Army which went to Franco and its melting back into the civil life of tho nation. Thi- j will be a transformation that will be watched everywhere with great interest. inter-est. It will be an accomplishment such as hos never before been performed per-formed in the hlsiory of the world, but it is believed It will be done without with-out upsetting to any great extent economic eco-nomic conditions. What will become of the moro than 3,000,000 men who wcro in the Amcri-can Amcri-can Army at tho tlmo tho armlstico was signed, almost 2,000,000 of whom were in France, while tho rest were in training in camps all over Iho United States? That Is a question which has been on tho llpa of nearly every other person in tho country. It is no wondor that many people havo thought thoro 'would bo troublo in findlns- placca for all theso men: and yet it Is belloved that there will bo occupations open to all of them as fost as thoy can be dismissed from the service. A majority ma-jority of thorn will return to tholr former positions In office nnd shop, on tho farm and In factory, and In various lines of Industry. Others will eeok new fields. In many cases the axperlenco and tho education which thoy havo gained as a result of their military training will fit them for belter positions posi-tions than they ocouplcd previously. Motor And Airplane Men Will Fill A Great Need If thoro Is one thing moro than another an-other in which many of tho American soldiers have had valuable training, it is In driving motor trucks. Transportation Transpor-tation has been one of tho big fActor :Of army preparation. In many cased the delivery of "men, munitions and material meant tho dlfforcnce between the winning or tho losing of a battle. Speed was the essence of proper preparation. On that account tho drlv-ors drlv-ors lu tho army wcro taught to handle tholr motor trucks like a skilled engineer engi-neer handles his train. Thoy had to know all there was about tho caro and tho kcoplng of their machine. Theso men and thero arc thousands ot them will now be ablo to perform a most valuable servlco at home. Moro and moro the transportation problem is becoming an Important one. Tho post offlco department is taking It up on a tilg scalo In establishing mall and parcol post routes all over tho country. Furthermore tho aorlal mall servlco Is being expanded, and It is probablo that tho end of this year will seo hundreds If not thousands of whjtc-wlnged whjtc-wlnged messengers of tho sky speeding speed-ing along the opon airways daily delivering de-livering tons of mall of all sorts. In this service a lot of army men will find a satisfactory field and will delight to continuo tho work which thoy started on Uncle Sam's payroll, simply transferring trans-ferring It to another department. Fn rnicr.! Wauled Farms and tho opening up of now territory no doubt will appeal to tho imagination of thousands of tho mon, and Iho plan which Secretary Lane, of the Interior department, is working out will result lu the reclaiming of millions of acres of arid, cul-ovor and swamp land, which b now lying ldlo In all portions of tho United States. Tho boys havo become accustomed to "doing things." They ure not going to be satisfied with 5ittlng down to a life of dull routine. They havo helped to accomplish things, to put big tasks over. Thoy havo been building roads and dams and bridges and docks and railroads and warehouses and engaging engag-ing in all sorts of other constructive work both hero and abroad. Now thoy aro going to have a big share In tho great reconstruction work of this country and the world. "Watch ui, people!" will bo tholr motto. Bcforo tho year 1019 ends tho face of Buropo will bo changed and tho maps a year henco will show new boundary linos between the different countries. Theso will apply also to possessions in various parts of the I world. In government, tooj many ! changes will have takcn'place; and wo may bo speaking of the President of Germany, the President of Russia and j so on just as now we do of the hcndi5 jgf other ropubllcs. Just what these i I changes will be no ono can" foretell! now; but that they will be of worldwide world-wide significance and importance Is certain. With the opening of a new year the world looks forward eagerly io know what It will bring of good and bad. That thoro will be some ! bad Is certain. The world couJd not have passed for more than four years through tho throes of a devastating conlllc: without some evil conse-j quences. Foud Sliorljijro I Tho greatest of those is tho food j shortage. Empty bins and granaries , cannot be replenished in a week or a ! month. On this account thero will be i suffering and famine. This cannot be , avoided. . How far-reaching it will -bo , depends to no considerable degree j upon America. There must be con-j tinued conservation and production in i j this country In order to keep the mon-'stor mon-'stor Famine from taking too large a I I toll of lives In tho famine-stricken1 i districts of Europe and Asia. Food is tho foundation of nil human activity, activ-ity, and other conditions, political, so-Icial so-Icial and economic, will bo affocted by the prevailing food situation. The' I moro food thero is, therefore, tho less will be the other problems to be ovcr-j come. Pestilence and anarchy are I bred by hunger. . Tho United States Food Administration Administra-tion has forcibly directed the thought j and tho attention of the country to ; the necessity on tho part of the Amorlcan Amor-lcan peoplo of continued conservation of food If starving Belgium and Poland Po-land and Serbia and Armenia are io be fed. There will be conservation, of that thero is no doubt; but In order that there may bo conservation there must also bo production. Tho two go hand In hand. The farmers will do their share, as thoy have in the past, to meet the call, made upon them. But every squaro foot of land In tho United States which is capable ot producing food should bo put to work. This 1? the reason why the National War Garden Gar-den Commlf-sion of Washington has issued is-sued an appeal to the "city farmers." tho war gardeners of 1517 and 191S to' become the "Victory1 Gardeners" of' 1910. With the new millions to be fed In Europe the need for food thi3 comlmryoar will bo groator than during dur-ing tho war and there Is moro need for Victory Gafdons: says the call, thani there was for war gardens. The hopo1 ils expressed that the 5.5S0.000. warl i gardeners of last season will be multi- ' ' v . piled 'by two and that there will bj 10.000,000 homo food plofcs- .la, tho United 'States in 1919. that' th'wru. v. not, pe a vacant lot or hack yard ar..'-where, ar..'-where, no matter how 'large or -how small, no matter whether "It "pfoducis a pound or a ton of food, that will nof bo cultivated io help w: ' : li c wr which Is naw on, "the wor. . v.ar f -r Victory Giu il'ciii-" Many cities and towns throughou1, fl the United Slates surprised themselves In 1D1S when they, camojio Cpjmt up the number of war afumV that had been planted. For instance. Boston sc , out in the spring with the- ltiea.ll could reach a I least 15,000 home gi.-- dens. ' It doubled this llgure avid ma i- it more than 30,000. Slinilarly In ot: - or places. In the same way, man cities and towns if they set about l determinedly can conduct a c.nuipn'cn this year which will reult in the plan'- ing of a far larger number of Vlcto ' Gardens than Is now thought possil-' At any rate, evon if the number C gardens is not increased, there shou'd be greater intensity of dovelopmen- and larger results, for lh experler.:ts which the home food growers. hi gained during the past two years w 11 stand them in good stond and a-I them to raise large crops to help fee I a hungry world. That Hour Of l)nylit:lH Daylight Saving will bo n fono again this year, for tho law whon -t j was passed early last spring provid' d i that on the last Sunday of Man i I "each year" the clocks of the nation should bo pushed forward an hour, 'o remain so until - o'clock A. M. ou iV i last Sunday In October. This mean . ( therefore, that thp gardeners will h.iv. the benefit in 1919 of tho .extra ho of daylight In the afternoons whl h helped them so much during the lait season. ' According to estimates the working of this law added nnywhen from 25 to i"0 per cent, to the oflleien' and Iho productive power of the Iioukv ' food growers. Let ovcry man and woman find h place. The great danger is in Iho "le" ' down." At tho call to war'thft, nation; VM answered. "Peace hath Hs. vlctorlt'i no less renowned than war" sp lot all to Iho great work of construct! a i NOT reconstruct Ion. for wo., will n '11 build ns we were: . wo will. build afir ' a now pattern the corner stone og IH which Is tho brotherhood of man.' I' |