Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-02-09
WOMAN s BRANCH
Of LEGION WILL
Be FORNED SOON
Service Mems Organization
Will Have an Auxiliary
Composed of Members of
the Fair Sex. Announced.

Especial Correspondence to The JOurn1Il
indianapolis, Ind, Feb. S.-The
first committee of the American
legion appointed to develop the
organization of the National Wom-
ems auxiliary of the American le-
Sion will be held in Washington, D..
C., Monday, February 6, The for
nation of this auxiliary was au-
thorized by the national convention
of the legion in Minneapolis which
decided to recognize such an aux
Hilary, the membership of which
would be limited to mothers, wives,
daughters and sisters of the mem
bers of the American legion, and
TO the mothers, wives, daughters
and sisters of all men and women
who were in the military and naval
service of the United States between
April 4, 1917, and November IL,
1920.
E. Lester Jones commander of
the District of Columbia depart
ment of the American legion, is
chairman of the committee APP
pointed by Franklin D'Olier, ma
tional commander, to devise form
of organization and rules and reg
ulations to govern the auXiliaries.
The other members of the commit
tee who will meet with Mr.. Jones
at the Washington meeting are
Miss Wilhelmia +. Weyming of
Michigan, Mrs. B. V. Conner of
Maryland, E. NJ. Marbourg of Col
orado. j. G. Towne of Maine, A. w.
Dobyns of Arkansas and Charles S.
Martin of Kansas.
1t is also intended that a repre-
sentative of the Woman's legion
and the Service Star legion, and
other women's organizations, whose
members are eligible to member
ship in the Women's auxiliary of
the American legion, attend the
meeting or send suggestions for the
organization of the auxiliary to Mr..
Jones.
A temporary constitution and
charter are now being prepared at
national headquarters and will be
issued to local auxiliary organiza-
lions in a few weeks. For the pres
ent, the organizations of the wom-
ems auxiliary will be confined to
local bodies attached to a particu-
lar post of the American legion,
and known as the woman's auxil-
iary unit of that post The state
and national organization of the
auxiliary will not be perfected for
several months,
According to reports from the
state departments of the Amer
lean legion throughout the United
States, many of these auXiliaries
have already been formed and are
now awaiting formal recognition by
the national executive committee.
AS soon as the temporary charter
and constitution are perfected each
of these units will receive a char
ter from the national executive
committee upon the approval of its
application, first by the post to
which it is to be attached, and sec
ond by the commander of the
department, or the department ex-
ecutive committee, under whose
jurisdiction it will operate.
The emblem of the Women's
Auxiliary of the American legion
will be similar to the emblem but
ton of the legion itself. In place of
the discharge button which forms
the center of the American legion
emblem, the emblem of the auxil-
liary will have for its center blue
or gold star surrounded by cir
cular blue band containing the
words american Legion Women's
Auxiliary" in gold letters, the whole
design to be encircled with fluted
gold edge