The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-03-28
COMBAT BOLSHEV|SM
WITH FOOD AND WORK
This Ii solution of Rcd Reign OF
Terror, Says Speaker to Credit
Men.
NO PRE-wAR WAGES.
Deplores Lcthargy Which Followed
: 49, " -sa->..aSNI~ A.-.S TT,
Wbolcsonled support of Victory
Loan.

Declaring that the country is not
going to return TO the pre-war basis
OF wages and that il should not. Dr.
douglas Freeman addressed the
/ Richmond Association of Credit Men,
in hi-monthiy meeting. in the rooms
of the Business Mems club last night.
DIR. Freeman dwelt at some length
on what for want of a better name,
we call Bolshevism." Boishevism.
he declared, marks tho end of a social
and historical process which had its
| inception In Russia, and is the result
of throtuing of the press, the sitting
OF free speech and other Russian
misruie-
Il do not fear, Bolshevism in this
country he said. but ! am afraid
of injustice
The speaker deplored The Iethargy'
which has overtaken the country
since the signing of the arnisti~e.
For eighteen months prior To- that
memorable event" he said. I'VE were
=, forgetful of self" Too many of us,
he said. are shutting the eyes of our
minds to the complexities, the doubts,
the misgivinss, the problems which
even now confront us
He urged the united and undivided
support of Richmond for the forth
! coming Victory loan, which he de-
I scrieed as being "a part of our our
individual obligations. The Victory
loan, he said. is being Goated because
It lis necessary at this FINE to restore
the credit Of the nation. which.
Thank Godi" he fcrventIy cried,
still IS solvent"
Federal Reserve a God-Send
In the reconstruction period Of
Ts6f-ls65 he said no man was sure
OF his business because the country,
d ,ltJ he . f~.x4
! reserve system, This, he said would
prove the salvation OF the country
during the present and Immediate fu-
ture period of readjustment.
The federal reserve law" he said,
came as veritahle blessing of God
in our necessity" He asked his
hearers If they could imagine to what
the country could and would come
during the trying time just ahead.
this fearful year of rradjustInen )"
were the credit OF the United States
government impaired.
There are some people, he said,
who are content to let the nationa;
floating debt remain a floating debt
That. he said, would be national
dishonor.
The Victory loan he said. would
combat Bolshevism. Justice, he said.
is immune from Boishevisrn: IL is one
thing for which America has stood ali
these years
The solution OF Boishevisn1. he said,
Is. first, food for Germany and the
other revoiution-swept countries, then
occupation for the world But" he
added, we are MOI going to return to
the old pre-war wages. We are not
going to return, here In Richmond.
70 the time wan our young men ran
the street cars for $40 day, seven
teen cents an hour. Can you i'm
agine that in the present day. No,
That condition should not return;
must not return: will not return"
Idle Threats OF IDLE.
we will put willing men to work :"
he declared, but we won't be threat
idle"
The government in the present crisis
needs the united and undivided sup
port of the whole United States, he
said. The principles for which Presi-
dent Wilson is contending at Paris are
the most vital ever enunciated in all
time, he declared. Wilson. he said,
has tho vision of a Moses and the
courage of a Joshua
'Tdesiism," he declared. ''won the
war. Are we going to sacrifice that
row Tor territorial conduestg OF fs
deplored the territorial chickering's OF
the peace conferees.
called the partisa nship and the mar
row bigotry OF that element In con-
gress that is opposed to the league of
nations
Woe 10 those who oppose the one
man (Wfison) of the world and would
deny America the future that is hers"
American idealisr, he said, is the one
hope OF the world, and must be sus-
tanned.
A. In "A ytt y tr~ n
OF the activities OF his department
and of an order from the war depart
nent countermanding previous in
tstructious to discose of typewriters
and office furniture used by the local
draft boards during the period of the
war
You can place your own construc-
ton on this" he said ~ good many
OF the fellows who have been la
mentinG the fact that they did not
get a chance TO go over may get that
chance yet"
General Stern Disscrtates.
General Stern vigorously denied
report that Virginia had the largest
percentage OF deserters and produced
figures to show that this state ranked
thirty-third in the matter of assertions
and other wiliful evasions of military
duty.
He explained what was meant by
the term f'deserter'' during the world
war and during other emergencies
whereas previously soldier had to
absent himself without leave for a
period of ten days before he was
ciassed as deserter, a man who evad-
ed the draft was placed in this cate
CORY Sixty-one per cent. OF Vir-
ginia's deiinauents were negroes
General Stern believes the state
should do something with those fell
lows who should have fought and did
rot. Hs~ wants 80 see every Stacker
working on the roads
It's going to he hard. next to i'm
possible. to convict them" he said.
Six thousand such cases are now being
Investigated by the United States dis
trict attorneys Office.
General Stern would disfranchise
slackers. He would 90 even further
He would punish a firm or individual
who employed man who was unable
to prove that he did his duty in the
world emergency.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made for
participation by Richmond delega-
ton of twenty-five or thirty members
of the local Credit Mems association
-. n ys..N - e.