The literary digest . of a bit of soil makes for a stronger, better citizenship, andgives birth to loyalties that are essential to national life and ahealthy home life. The Spokane Spokesman-Review reminds us that there are twoopinions as to whether the returning soldiers will flock to thefarms in largo numbers once they are out of khaki, and adds: One is that the agricultural type of life wiU appeal so stronglyto the mustered-out fighting men that the greatest problem willbe to provide them with land enough on easy enough is pointed out that one of the great features of the r^^constr
The literary digest . of a bit of soil makes for a stronger, better citizenship, andgives birth to loyalties that are essential to national life and ahealthy home life. The Spokane Spokesman-Review reminds us that there are twoopinions as to whether the returning soldiers will flock to thefarms in largo numbers once they are out of khaki, and adds: One is that the agricultural type of life wiU appeal so stronglyto the mustered-out fighting men that the greatest problem willbe to provide them with land enough on easy enough is pointed out that one of the great features of the r^^construc-tion period after the Civil War was the rush of ex-soldiers totake up land in the West, and it is further contended that fol-lowing a period of vigorous outdoor life in camp and in the fieldour men will have no inclination to return to the close andsedentary conditions of office and factory On the other hand, the argument is made that the soldiershave had a great sufficiency of outdoor life, enough to last. them the rest of their lives, and that what they really want isan opportunity to get back to white collars, short hours, and aprevalent atmosphere of polite society. Most of the soldiers,says one overseas investigator, have a well-defined longing to goback to the jobs they left, which look very good to them to his theory, if a soldier was a farmer before heenhsted he will have a back-to-the-farm tendency, while theoffice worker will go back to his desk and the salesman to hissamples. On this basis the farm will receive only about 25 percent, of the Army. Acting on the assumption that neither of the two theoriesis entirely correct, the vocational training branch of the Army educational commission has or-ganized an overseas khaki col-lege, to give scientific agricultur-al training to soldiers who areinterested in farming. Expertsfrom the United States will goover to be teachers, and courseswill be given while our soldiersare marking time in France andGe
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