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Show WAR RECORDS OF GRANDDADS Mrs. Edward W. Burt of North Carolina Caro-lina Working on Hereditary Society Plan. "Granddad, what did you do during the war?" will be the special query of the young Americans Amer-icans of the next generation that Mrs. Edward W. Burt of Salisbury, N. C, has set herself her-self out to answer. an-swer. Mrs. Burt la chairman of the American Legion Le-gion A u x 1 1 1 ary committee to perpetuate per-petuate the organization organ-ization In a hereditary he-reditary society. The Auxiliary, In Its present makeup, make-up, Is composed of mothers, wives, daughters and sisters of the members of the American Legion, and of the women of the same status who lost men In the World war. There Is no junior society to the Auxiliary or to the Legion, such as there is to other patriotic societies for instance, the Sons of the Revolution but when a generation has passed undoubtedly ueh a society will come into existence. It Is to prepare the way for an hereditary heredi-tary society, composed of the daughters daugh-ters and granddaughters of World war veterans, that Mrs. Burt Is working. Her plan will include Incorporation Into the Auxiliary records of the war records of the Legion men, so that future genealogists will have no trouble in locating the war records of their granddads. |