Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-03
CRQNKH|TE DEFENDS
SHOWS ON SUNDAYS
Commander mt Camp Lee Thinks FL
brts to Prevent Perform
anccs Are Nonsense"
GENERAL is VERY EMPHATIC
Declares That Soldiers Need RcInxu-
tiOi-"Fair and Warmer" Will BE
Produced To-day and Tonight In
Liberty Theater.
Especial to The Thncs-iDspatch.)

Especial to The s-iDspntch.)
CAMP LEE March 2.-"Nonscnso-
Is the opinion of Mnjor-Gencral Adel-
bert CDnkhite OF the efforts that are
being made to prevent Liberty Thea
ter productions at Camp Lee on Sun
day.
VIVA. do you think of the efforts
to stop Sunday productions in the Lib
erty Tteatcr?" he was asked few
hours alter his return from Europe.
who is trying to stop ,hem?" was
the COURIER query.
When IT was explained that y. NJ.
G. a. workers, Protestant chaplains. as
we'll az minister's of Petersburg, Rich
mond and Lynchburg. were opposing
the productions the general remarked
that such talk was nonsense"
do yoI object TO being quoted to
that crec,?" ne was asked.
"Not one Bit" was the emphatic
reply
Continuing he said: 40 man can
work the time ana be good sol
der. y soldier must have relaxation
on Sund;y. There IS no day In the
week as hard on q soldier as IS Sun
day. In ny knowledge Of army affairs
which HIS extended over per iod Of
nifty years. Monday morning 20 off,
GERS Is die hardest day of the week
Tho inactivity Of Sunday. when the
men have been trying 10 XIII time.
has had bad effect on them and on
Monday they show this effect"
Accordingly. tomorrow Sunday
there VIII be matinee aud night per-
formnnc. OF "aFir aad Warmer" The
matinee will begin at o'clock and
a, 1880 ne nivh, show v'ill begin.
MANY ,IENInERS or
LEI: DIVISION IN FRANCE
ThatIo.5o0 members Of the Eightie,h
Division had been transferred to other
divisions Of the American army during
the thc" mouths absence OF Major
General Cronkhite was the discomfort
inr Information that the commanding
genera had TO face upon his return
t. his command This docs not include
tho thousands that were transferred be-
fore tho general left for his tour OF
observation on the European battle
fronts. The majority have in all prob
ability already reached France and are
members OF the divisions nov serving
under General Pcrsh!ug. Among them
were several thousand Eirrinians. who
were nducted into the service by the
draN and received their first military
'sNV'-'l'f'''t a ms ':i0r
II feel that viii have personal re-
sponsbi,ity for the life o. any un-
trained man at the front" said the gen
eral IN referring 20 the fact that 5000
:. the drafted men who were due here
SIX months ago have only arrived at
camp Within the past few weeks, and
tia; additional men on the first draft
ar" siill due The division is now
aeverd thousand men short OF its or
sans2;aion strength. Had these men
been sent here SIX months ago. with
tho training they would have received
they Mould have been IN better cond!-
ton u go TO France on May ! than
any American troops that have yet been
sent overseas. These new men must
now necessarily delay the training Of
the oil men"
MAYOR HANCOCK AND
PARTY RETURN TO PITTSBURGH
Mayer l.. V. Babcock and party. OF
Pittsburgh, returned TO the Smoky
City this morning, after an cvcntful
three gays visit TO the men from Pitts
burghand Eastern Pennsylvania The
Mayor held an informal reception on
the dril field of the Three Hundred
and Twentieth Regiment, where he
shook hands with thousands OF the
men from his home town.
Mrs Taylor Aldcrd!cc, president of
the Motlers of the Regiment Club OF
Pittsburgh. was so overrun with men
sending messages to the people back
home that stenogra phcr was ncces-
Sary TO make memoranda OF the Wis
its she Will make for the men.
;c;, Il IN oh a mi n "
tobacco alter the men once set TO Eu-
rope, 1t has been determined 10 use
large par OF the profits of the post
exchanges In providing tobacco for the
enlisted nen after they leave this
country. On February the exchanges
had made n profit OF $4,000. and OF
this amour only $4,000 has been used
by the various units within the divi-