Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-09
ON CAMP
ACTIVITIES ORGANIZED
Work Mt Cantonments
in Virginia.
DIR. MAsT1N MADE CHAIRMAN
Organization Perfected Following
Conference Between Richard Eve.
lyn Byrd, Health Commissioners
and Bishop Collins Denny.

The organization of the Executive
Committee OH camp activities In Nir-
| riuia. which will direct all moral work
at the various army camps located IN
the state was completed yesterday
and plans are under way to begin
work at nee that as great progress as
| possible may be made before the ar
| rival of the bulk of tho troops at the
camps. The action yesterday In or
ganiZinE the committee Is the hrst
important step in carrying out the
plans outlined several weeks ago at n
special conference with Governor
Stuart of numerous social workers.
The organization was perfected at a
conference between Richard Evelyn
BYRD. e-chairman of the virginia
Council of Defcnse: Bishop Collins
Denny and DR.. Ennion G.. Williams.
State Health Commissioner. both OF
whom are members Of the council. DR..
j. r. Mastin. secretary of the state
Board OF Charities and Corrections.
was selected chairman of tho COM
mittee; DR.. Williams. vicc-chairman.
and j. II. Montgomery. Of the Co
operative Education Association. exec
utIvc secretary. Mr.. Byrd. on be-
half of the State Council of Defense,
with the Executive Committee on Camp
Activities.
OTHER MEMBERS
OF COMMITTEE NAMED
, The other of the Executive
Committee are: Basil Gwathmey. Rev.
w Russell Bowie. ID. D.; J. y. Rich
ardson. Father John kelliher, Judge
ID. c. Richardson. Miss Katharine H..
Halves. Professor D.. r. Anderson. Iir.
Beverly X. Tucker Colonel Eugene {.
! MasSie, Albert H.. Hill. Mrs. Il. H..
Potts. Charles l.. Weaver. Miss Car
olinc Holiday. all of Richmond; w. w.
Baker. of IIallsboro; 3. NJ. Tyler. Of
1ta.tar .~l T. L>l-ar - ra ~ IT,
tricks. There Will be added to this
committee two members to represent
Henrico County. Mr.. Byrd. Bishop
Denny. DR.. Williams and Colonel w.
NJ. Hunley, secretary of the council.
were appointed ex-othcio members OF
the committee.
1t was decided to ask Governor
Stuart to call a meeting of all the law
officers of the counties and cities con-
tiEuous to the concentration camps to
be held in the hall of the House of
Delegates on september 10. The Gov
ernor will be requested to preside at
this meeting and Mr.. Byrd will be
asked to deliver an address. The OBJ
jcct OF this meeting will be to bring
the men together who are responsible
FOR the enforcement of the law. so
that there may be complete ~co-opcra-
ton the law officers OF the
different parts of the State where the
camps are located. 1t is planned to
nave Such cooperation In This respect
mat the request of the chief executive
OF any locality for assistance from any
other locality will be immediatel
granted.
There will later be effected a wo-
mans organization to look after the
girls and young women who. for bust
ness or social reasons. will be in the
vicinity of the c~antonments In a
week or two Mrs. Kate Waller Bar
rett, of Alexandria. president of the
National Florence Crittcnden Mission
Association. will address the women
OF and of the counties OF
Henrico and chesterfield. Al th,s
meeting an organization will be ef-
fected similar to that augurate yes
terday for the men.