Show LEGION LEGION ACTIVE IN I WELFARE SERVICE Active e work In the setting up of AmerIcan Legion child welfare servIce In various states reaching down from the the- childrens children's welfare division dl of DI an- nn headquarters to the local com com- community community Is being pushed rapidly The first states In which or organization I work Is being completed are arc New Xe Washington and Oregon I State conferences have hae been heen held In Uta and Colorado with Tennessee scheduled uld to go 0 Preliminary confer confer- conferences conferences have been lucid held In Kansas I and Kentucky with Illinois Indiana and Iowa next In line The aim of the division dl according to John W Gorky of or the division shift taJ Is to or organize representative e states In varIous sections of the country which t typify as wId widely I different condItions as possible When then the organization orgal Is completed It will cover coyer the entire na- na nation nation na nation tion The first organization mE meeting was held In New Hampshire with keen leeD In- In Interest interest In Interest terest Eighty per cent of ot the coun- coun counties coun counties ties of ot the state were ere represented two men ID driving OO miles mlles from rom the Canadian border horder to attend New Hampshire Is being organized on a n district plan except In the large cItIes where community chairmen and commIttees will III be chosen Local andI I committees Mr Gorby states will find dependents of veterans and ascertain their condition report on needy children children chil- chil dren find foster homes and aDd take tale other steps to meet their need and with Miss Emma C national field secretary have supervision ot of children who have been placed In fos fos- foster fos- fos foster foster ter homes Under no circumstances circumstance Mr Gor Gor- hy said paid will the Legion duplicate the work of ot worthy existing social agen agen- agencies agen- agen agencies agencies I cies Wherever It Is possible the Le Le- LeIon Legion gion glop Ion will carry on Its work through agencies already set up whether by bythe bythe bytho the state or by private Initiative Arthur Croteau of Marlboro has seen named state chairman for tor New HampshIre Dr H II I K Benson enson head hend or of the chemistry department of ot the University of ot Washington at Seattle has hns accepted the chairmanship In that state Judge Jacob Kanzler Kanzier of ot Port Port- Portland Portland Portland land for 15 years on n the juvenile court bench there Is Oregon Oreon chairman I Richard W Burton urton of the staff taff of or the Columbia Trust company at Salt Lake City Is chairman for tor Utah |