Show SECOND FIDDLE I NEVER SAY SAT 1 womEN De Decline li ine e to Follow v Behind American ican Legion AI x j 4 D. D C. C M March 2 WASHINGTON 27 Leader the legion ars Arere arere- re reported ported t to be unsuccessful in their ef efforts efforts ef- ef efforts forts to organize women into auxiliaries lee ies to each legion post Auxiliaries ries are too old fashioned say the he women women menT men T The e. majority y of those women who in such are eligible t to membership auxiliaries auxiliaries have already organized national themselves e l' l Into Independent bOd such as the American Women's legion the the Service Se Star Women and the War War Mothers GLAD TO AID Alp LEGION While itis It is our pose pu to aid aid in iii ever every every Avay members o of the American legion legion and all 11 service ex-service men says Miss Mis Byrd Byrd Mock founder and executive secretary of ot the American Women's Women s legion we do not want to become mer hang on hangers rs-on rs and to l lose se our iden- iden The organization of which I a am founder was formed on the first anniVersary anniversary anni ann of our entrance into the war war at the University of California and it antedates the formation of the American Ameri Amen can f legion its Itself lf in Paris The fact that our oui name is is similar is merely merel a coincidence Eligibility to membership in gur jur organization is based on relationship relationship relationship rela rela- to service ex-service men and to women who served in the w war r with with our our armies WO WOULD LD BE HAMPERED Mrs H H. R. R Dunlap wife of Colonel Dunlap now Snow residing in Washington I was one one of the organizers of the American American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean Women's legion egi n originally formed with chapters throughout the East Thi organization has lately joined with the one of the same name formed In California alifornia Mrs Dunlap is also opposed op opposed op- op pos posed d to io the formation of auxiliaries WANT ABSOLUTE FREEDOM Membership in an auxiliary organization organization organ organ- would necessitate relationship to tk a member of the the- American legion and not be broad enough to In Include include in- in clude dude mothers wives and sisters is of ot meri who served in the war but who do not happen to be members of ot the American legion n she says I think the auxiliary Idea is II not in keeping with the trend of the times where women are concerned I believe we can ean can do d do bigger things if it we are not hampered by rules and regulations that the American ion legion may set down for us |