The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-27
STATES DUTY TO FIND
JOBS FOR SOLDIERS
Bv f.. G.. FTTZHAMON.

London. Jan. 26.-Summing up
what she learned from prospective
voters during her campaign through
artistic and industrial Chelsea as
candidate for member of parliament
from that district. Miss Emil Phipps.
&. A. says:
Il found discharged soldiers and
sailors have their grievances. They
are indignant because. owing to some
bubble, men of the mercantile marine
are refused pensions. They deeply
rese,.t the posters. Don't pity the dis
abIed soldier--give him a job, their
argument being that men having been
wounded on behalf OF the state, 1t is
the duty of the state to find them
Jobs rather than leave them to the
cold mercy of private employers.
The women blazed when they
,alked of the Boche. They don't
argue. they demand. They insist
that all Germans must be turned out
OF Great Britain: also that Germany
must be made TO pay in fun for the
war.
las for the kaiser, they confess
that they cannot invent punishmenis
bad enough for him and his war
council"
Miss Phipps does not live in or
anywhere near Chelsea, nor had she
any interests there. other than secur-
ing the necessary number OF votes
That Is one OF the peculiarit'es OF
the British parliamentary elective
system The candidate may come
from anywhere.
Miss Phjpps is principal OF the
Gtr,s' Secondary school at Swansea.
which is in Wales. She has been
president of the National Federation
OF Women Teachers and did ten
years of suffrage work for the No-
mems Freedom league. She says she
has been appalled, at some OF the
houses of the poor she visited in
Chelsea.
The question of small houses and
homes for war brides and their re-
turning warrior husbands as well as
for other newlyweds of the expiring
and coming years, is likely to become
most difficult of solution, said MISS
Phipps.
..The government has a plan for
building 100000 small houses THIS
wear. but this program cannot he
carried out unless there is great
increase in the output Of bricks. More
brickyards will have to be opened
"One cannot help wondering why
the material in tho many thousands
of army huts and temporary barracks
could not be used toward building the
innumerable homes needed. In them
IN0 EOVcEHment Has ititttipiic VA 10y
Of lumber, acres of glass, thousands
OF doors and millions of bricks that
could be used again.
also in the governments tenn
porary offices there are miles OF limo
leum, hundreds of carpets and rugs
thousands OF chairs and tables, all Of
which it would be better TO hestow
upon wounded and crippled heroes
than practically give them away to
second hand dealers.
ut IL estimated that during the war
there have been in Great Britain
nearly 1890 more marriages than
during the preceding four years
Hundreds Of thousands Of young fell
lows concluded they might as well go
to IT. before departing to be killed
in the trenches or drowned by SUB
marines. 1t is wonderful what large
percentage Of these young husbands
are returning-some rather unex-
pectedly. perhaps.
During the war there has been no
house building. consequently there is
shortage Of more than 100000
homes. expert Economists say.
I'm addition there are a vast num-
her OF very old houses. with abonrin-
able plumbing and other drawbacks.
that ought to be pulled down.
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