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Show Arkansas Legion to Aid of City Schools Broadening the scope of the community com-munity service program, members of the American Legion auxiliary In Little Lit-tle Rock, Ark., are co-operating with Affiliated School Improvement association associa-tion to bring about better school conditions con-ditions in that city. Because school funds were low the authorities made a ten per cent reduction reduc-tion In teachers' salaries and planned to close the schools earlier In the year. Not daunted by the action, women workers of the Legion and persons Interested In the city's schools, raised funds with which to complete a thlrty-nine-weeks' term and pay the teachers the full salary provided for In the contracts. Members of the M. M. Ebert unit of the American Legion auxiliary and department officials of the organization Joined In the allied movement. |