Show I SHALL GIRLS BE ADMITTED Membership Question Looms Before Officials of Legion Some Legion Some Y V Workers Pres Present nt Claims A recurring question before the officials officials officials of ot the American Legion is that of ot eligibility to membership Just where here Is the he line to he drawn Shall 4 I r N y sallie Lou M Massey for Instance those little sisters 1 of the army army the Y V girls b be admitted t to to full full membership Although at present they stand without without without with with- out the pale there ar are tome some who he- he they should bp be taken in Some of ot the g girls themselves themselves' have very modestly presented their claims The following is an excerpt from frolD a toiler letter from Miss Sallie Lou M Massey l s ey oi of Meridian Merl Meri- dian Miss to the national com commander mander wander I MI am Just one of hundreds of Y i girls at home now wearing pretty clothes which dont don't seem quite right after having worn the uniform In Ini France i rance we cooked k kept pt house hom e. e handed and danced out magazines s and aud gapers hundreds hundred of kilometer we ve danced danced- I know hut but all of which t isn't so much the spirit behind It I made U us ns feel that we belonged d to the men I of the A A. E. E F F. F and they hey to fl lots us Ha Ills I all al althis this comradeship com coin been bee shell shed with time the th uniform We have watched with high hopes the development of ot the American Legion and In your splendid achievements those hopes are being Why Is Js the time Y YO girl who was one of ot you yoU in France left out Is n not t affiliation with the American Legion the only way by which we we can cnn carry carryon on and keep the spirit that W was S ours In France Miss MiRa Massey served sen-cd nine months In France She received a citation for courageous work among the tr troops op during the Influenza epidemic in the fall of ot 1918 |