Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1920 — TO BUILD WOMEN’S AUXILIARY [ARTICLE]

TO BUILD WOMEN’S AUXILIARY

Legion Administrative Machinery to Be Used in Safely Launching the Branch Organization. Assurance that the administrative machinery of the ■- American Legion will be used without stint in an effort to build up the Women’s auxiliary, has been given by National Commander F. W. Galbraith, Jr. It is expected that the auxiliary wil| take charge of its own destinies next spring, with rhe holding of the first national convention of the - women’s units. “Ail doubts and misgivings in regard to the future of the Women’s auxiliary of the American Legion were removed, and a system of orderly expansion in state departments and a national organization was provided for by the Cleveland convention,” announced Mr. Galbraith. ' “We propose to offer the aid' of our organization In building up the auxiliary, but we are not going to meddle with its policies so long as our recognized Ideals and purposes are carried out The Cleveland convention voted to let the women swim without water 3Rdngs. It authorized state executive Committees of the Legion to call state conventions and to establish department organizations of the auxiliary, killing the rule which made necessary the establishment of a total of units equivalent to 50 per cent of the number of posts in the department”