The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-02
VICTORY LOAN IS To
FIGHT D0lSHEy|SM
DIR. Freeman Tells xVonan's Commit
t~e Its Success Depends Largely
on Them,

The Victory Liberty Joan rs for
the destruction OF boisheviklsrn and
for the assurance of League OF
Nations. with . guarantee OF future
world peace" said DR. Douglas S.
Freeman. vico-pr eaident of the Fifth
Federal Reserve district, last night
at the opening meeting OF the state
conference OF the Woman's Victory
Liberty Loan committee in the audi
Itorium of the Jefferson hotel
About fifty of the chairnen In diff
ferent parts of Virginia were present
at ths meeting. besides q number Of
Richmond people. Mrs John l.
Hagan. state chairman of the com
mittee. opened the conference with q
wcmea OF the state In The other
loans, which were so successfully car
,ried out and said she felt sure they
would do even better this time. Mrs,
iAntoiaette Funk, sice-chaarman of
the National Woman's committee. WAS
unable TO be present, IL was an
nounced. On account of her health.
DR.. Freeman. who was introduced
by MRS. Hasan. said that this was the
first world war In which women had
played as large a part rs men, be-
ing the one conflict of history where
wom&nhood WAS 80 thoroughly
aroused He told how in three days
the women OF England made i.ooo."
Geo gas masks for the soldiers, pre-
by German gas. Now that peace has
come tho loan must DO largely
handled BY the women.
Times have changed he continued,
and there Ia not A. much available
money az there was in the cities as in
the rural dissrirLs where high prices
and good crops have prevailed. The
best people to sell tho bonds 10 the
farmers, he said. were the women.
for they could succeed where bankers
would fail.
TIE best guarantee against Dol
shevikigrn. continued the speaker,
were justice. women and the church
Women have always been the conaerx-
ing factors in The governments If
impet .alisin dominates the peace CON
ference, however. he asserted that IL
would require the mighty efforts OF
IAN three sn~ save America arnsrs tbs
hydra he AIDED red monster which al
ready threatened Europe.
On the success Of tho Joan. con-
Guided DIR. Freeman, depends the
league OF nations. ON which depends
the future peace OF the world.
Oliver J. Sands. state chairman for
the Victory loan drive which starts
ON April 81, urged the necessity of
lgefting the greater possible number
Of people to subscribe TO the loan.
This was the only way of getting n
real and lasting benefit from I'D of
intoxicating In the people "a ., at Of
thrift In. the last loan he said In
some, counties there were only two out
OF every hundred persons who sub
scrihcd.
In this drive, declared Mr.. Sands,
he wanted to see twenty out Of every
ore hundred people In the state be
subscribers to the honda In this way
there would be smaller average per
capita, and yet secure more than the
amount required He Impressed on
The women that they were selling
something which would be a benefis
TO the buyers instead OF charitable
proposition.
Tue regular conference OF the loan
committee viii begin this morning ut
10 o'clock, with Mr.. Hagan presid-,
inx. Mrs.. J. 6rott Parrish district
chairman, ana othr prosnin@mt Mosk-
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