Show SHALL GIRLS BE ADMITTED membership question looms before officials of legion some Y workers present claims A recurring question the boffl ceals of the american legion Is that of eligibility to membership just where Is the line tolie to he drown shelf for instance those little sisters of 0 the army the Y girls be to full membership although at present they stand without tho pole there are sonic somo who lie ile bileve they should be token taken in some of the girls themselves have very modestly presented their claims tho the following Is nn an excerpt from n letter from sallie lou alaskey of merl alert dlan miss to the national com coin ru ander 1 I nm am just one of hundreds of tl 1 girls nt at homo home now wearing pretty clothes which dont seem quite right light after having worn the unI uniform fonn in franco france we cooked kept house lin handed tided out magazines and papers papera nil an I 1 danced bund hundreds reds of kilometers wo we danced nil all of which so much I 1 know but efio ho spirit behind it ando us feel that nye G belonged to the men of tho the A B P find and they to us lias has all this comradeship rade ship been shod shed with the lie uniform wo we have watched with high hopes tho develop development merit of the american legion and in your splendid achievements 1 4 sallie lou massey masey those so hopes are being why Is the at Y girl who was one of you in france left out Is not affiliation adUl atlon with the Amer american amerlean loan legion the only way ay by which we can carry on and keep the spirit that tha was auni ours la in rr france ance miss massey served nine months in prance abe received i a ci citation for ageous work among the troops during the influenza epidemic in aba th tall all of 1018 1016 |