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Show i MORE THAN 00 AUXILIARIES Women's Organizations Request Charters Char-ters at Average of More Than Four Per Day. Records on women's auxiliaries In the statistical division of the Amerl- J -or. " n $ fyr 1 can Legion national nation-al headquarters at Indianapolis show there are more than eight hundred hun-dred of these in existence throughout through-out the country at the present time, and requests for temporary charters char-ters from new ones being formed are coming In at the average rate of more U an rour a day. Membership figures have not yet been compiled, but when it is realized that at least ten women are a necessary requisite for the formation of any one auxiliary unit of any American Legion post It is seen thut probably 12,000 or 15,000 women were thus Indirectly associated with the legion through Its auxiliary units before the end of last month. To what proportions this total will have grown In another six months Is for experts ex-perts to say, but an estimate of 4,000 units with a total membership of more than 75,000 is not considered extravagant extrava-gant Minnesota, with an aggregate of 78 such units completely organized, has a substantial lead over all other states In the Union in the matter of arousing its women relatives of former fighters to a realization of their privileges and opportunities for constructive social and economic service through direct liaison with the legion in its avowed "war after the war" for 100 per cent Americanism a pledge which Its 1,-500,000 1,-500,000 members in more than 9,000 posts throughout the land are unqualifiedly unquali-fiedly committed. Massachusetts, with 64 chartered auxiliary units, Is only 14 behind the leading state, while Pennsylvania, with 45 and rapidly organizing new ones, gives promise of giving the other two a hard race for first place before the summer Is many weeks older. The complete list of units chartered on May 5 In the different states follows fol-lows : Alabama, 1; Arizona, 8; Arkansas, 4; California, 20; Colorado, 15; Connecticut, Con-necticut, 2; Cuba, 1; Delaware, 2; District Dis-trict of Columbia, 2; Idaho, 12; Illinois, Illi-nois, 42; Indiana, 27; Iowa, 36; Kansas, Kan-sas, 25; Kentucky, 4; Maine, 19; Massachusetts, Mas-sachusetts, 64; Michigan, 34; Minnesota, Minneso-ta, 78; Missouri, 10; Montana, 17; Nebraska, Ne-braska, 29; Nevada, 7; New Hampshire, Hamp-shire, 11 ; New Jersey, 17 ; New Mexico, Mexi-co, 1; New York, 39; North Carolina, 1; North Dakota, 28; Ohio, 12; Oklahoma, Okla-homa, 13; Oregon, 14; Pennsylvania, 45; Rhode Island, 1; South Dakota, 28; Tennessee, 1; Texas, 9; Utah, 1; Vermont, 5; Virginia, 14; Washington, 30; West Virginia, 1; Wisconsin, 17; Wyoming, 3. Mrs. Frank Moore, a "gold-star mother" whose son, Frank Murchison Moore, lost his life when an American airplane was shot down near Flsmes, France, on September 2, 1918, is the head of the women's auxiliary of Thomas Dismuke post No. 52, at Houston, Hous-ton, Tex., which now has a paid-up membership of more than two hundred. hun-dred. This is said to be almost double the membership of any other auxiliary unit in the state of Texas. |