Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-27
WOMEN WORTHY OF
VOTE, LUPT0N SAYS
Corporation Commissioner Thinks
They Will Use Franchise
1nteiligently.
SPEAKS TO WOMAN'S CLUB
He and Mrs. Hubert Talk in
Interest Of National Land
Army Movement.
SPEAKS TO WOMAN's CLUE

Firm conviction that when the time
came for women TO exercise equa!
franchise rights with men they would
do IL intciii6entiy and would use the
privilege TO man" WAS expressed in
speech before the Woman's Club yes
tcrday by s. l.. Lupton, member OF
the State Corporation Commission. and
former State Senator
Since tho membership Of the Wo-
mans Club is largely composed of the
antisuffrage element there was but
slight applause.
Commissioner Lupton was speaking
TO "A meeting Of representatives Of tho
Woman's Land Army in Virginia Of
which Mrs. NJ. c. Patterson is State
chairman Mrs. Patterson presided.
Hubert: national director of the wo-
mans Land Army, and George Inman.
from the employment bureau of the
United States Department of Labor
Mrs. Hubert said that it had been
proved last year that women have q
place in the agricultural activities OF
Virginia; that the Woman's Land Army
ginia as well as in other sections of
the country. She faced the issue OF
the returning soldier squarely. declar-
ing that. in her opinion. he was not
very keen on going back to the land.
and that nobody had any right to keep
women from farming if they wanted
FARMERETTEs MAKE BEST
WIVES FOR FARMER SOLDIERS
With purely feminine logic the ma
tonal director went on to say that.
anyway. the farmcrettes made tho best
OF wives for tho soldiers who did
want 10 go back TO the farm
The paramount question of wages
shc discussed from practical stand
point. declaring that the women who
could harness horse. pitch hay. run
ri mil
more certainly than the one who did
not know a weed from an opion
The United States government had
recognized the value OF the Woman's
Land Army. and had co o-ordina,ed it's
activities with that of the Department
of La Dor. Mrs. Hubert pointed out with
pride.
Commissioner Lupton spoke from
the angle of the employer of woman
labor In the, fruit-growing section of
the State. presenting u brief, resume OF
of the NVoman's Land Army in har-'
vesting his fruit crop and shipping
activities incident thereto.
He confessed that he had capitulated
completely 10 the forces of the Wo-
mans Land Army. declaring himself
prisoner of war captured by them.
NO FEAR THAT SOLDIERS
WILL NOT FIND JOBS
He agreed With Mrs. Hubert that
soldier would ind himself without a
job, since agricultural conditions In
Virginia were peculiar.
This seasonal shortage of labor is
always with u.s." said Mr.. Lupton, ION
account of the special crops raised in
the State. Whether 1t is in the to-
bacco section. or the peanut, or the
truck gardening. or fruit growing.
there is always 4 shortage Of labor
when most needed. The Woman's Land
Army would meet this shortage"
The commissioners address was no.
i. Il Il l,ol iaI al,
point OF view OF the men who had re-
turned from the other side in their
relation TO the girls who were waiting
on this side. and laughter swept the
audience when he referred to the cozy
corner of old as the quiet sector"
The representatives from the Depart
ment of Labor presented the phase
Of the situation from the angle OF
the United States government in striv-
ing to meet the shortage of labor all
over the country and especially here
n virginia