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Show RADIO IS USED TO TELL OF WAR WORK The fact that a great many girls and women enlisted in the United States forces during the World war has escaped general attention. A Hair was made at one time about the yeo-manettes, yeo-manettes, but was soon forgotten. Now comes Helen E. Bucking, commander com-mander of Women's Post No. 118, of the American Legion at Norfolk, Va., as the first woman veteran of the war to use the radio in telling what the and her compatriots did towards winning win-ning the war. The speech was delivered de-livered from station WTAR and resulted re-sulted in a wide dissemination of knowledge concerning the part played in the war by the woman. All ' the members of women's post served in the navy as yeo women during dur-ing the war, or as overseas nurses. The post has made a distinct hit with the citizens of Norfolk because of its work in the hospitals, Commander Bucking declared, in her address. Disabled ex-service men, needy veterans, vet-erans, hungry veterans all find succor suc-cor at the women's post regardless of reasons. When other welfare agencies agen-cies turn down the veteran, the women's wom-en's post puts hiin on his feet and has been doing this work for four years, Commander Bucking said. Tuberculous veterans are indeed grateful to the women's post as being 4p Helen E. Bucking. most instrumental in getting immediate care for them. Even the nurses and physicians in hospitals are enthusiastic enthusias-tic in talking about the work done by the women's post which is one of the very, very few in existence in the country. In the three government hospitals located at Norfolk were many men sufficiently suf-ficiently active to make beautiful handmade hand-made goods. The women's post found this out and arranged to dispose of their goods. They rented a store, gathered gath-ered the work from the three hospitals and made attractive their window displays. dis-plays. They spent money on advertising, adver-tising, talked to Rotarians, Kiwanians, Civitans and other bodies; used moving-picture slides and urged men to bring their wives, and women to bring their husbands to the exhibit and sale. Folders were sent out. The newspapers newspa-pers gave much-needed publicity. And then it was 'that Commander Bucking got on the radio and broadcast a story of her post and what it was accomplishing accom-plishing for the disabled veteran. More than five hundred articles were sold, a woman in Florida writing with a check to a friend asking her to buy something. In Wisconsin a woman did the same. The sale of disabled veteran vet-eran products will become a regular feature of the women's post's activities. activi-ties. And Commander Bucking, whose photograph is reproduced, Is entitled to the credit for the go-getting spirit that put the women's post in the forefront of activities for relief of disabled men. |