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Show LEGION WEN KNOW HER WELL 'Ma" Burdick, Fanou for Doughnuts and Pies, Still Trying to 8orvo World VVar Boys. "As we tried u serve the boys while onder shell fire, so we are trying to meet their need of today," say Mrs. Ensign F. O. Burdick of the Salvation Army, recently elected national chaplain of the American Legion auxiliary. That Mrs. Burdick Bur-dick d i d serve "the boys un tier shell fire," thousands thou-sands of tbe A. E. F. will testify. "Ma" Burdick lo the men, ner dcugh-nuts dcugh-nuts and p'-es were known to the last of Pershing's army. Mrs. Bur'ck, who Is sixty years old but doesn't show It, arrived in France in Deeembv, 1U17, with "Pa," tier husband. hus-band. WitT a stove which Mr. Burdick, Bur-dick, also p.n ensign of the Salvation Army, ri-jed up, and a sewlag machine ma-chine w Irish she found and repaired, "Ma" coc'.ed for the boys as tl-ey came from th lines, mended their clothes and rna'.to new ones out of salvaged material. "Ma" ind "Pa" were jfotrparents of the Firsf division, and from December Decem-ber of 1T17 until the arirtlntice Mrs. Burdick baked her pies and madu her doughnu's in every sector K tha western west-ern frtrf, as close up to the fighting lines ss they would allow her. The war orv, the couple were transferred to Bresi, where they nilulrtered to the soldiers until they sallwl for home in April, 1119. Mrs. Burdick a reelCeflt of Wichita Falls, Tex., it (n charge of hospital relief work fo disable ex-service men fof the Lejjjtiu auxiliary of Texas in addftion to dutle as national chaplaL? and eirrtgn of thr. army hosts. |