Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-12-03
Legion and Auxiliary in
Worthy Aid to Veterans
AUXILIARY is DOING HUMANE.
TARTAN WORK AMONG NEEDY
OF WARS VICTIMS


Eagle River is one of the 212 organi-
cations in the state that is working
industriously to increase it's member
ship this year. Minnesota has chal-
lenged five of the big states who lead
in Auxiliary work, to an "Over the
Top Membership Race" Iowa, Illinois
Pennsylvania, New York, Massachus-
etts are the leading states included
in the contest
The American Legion Auxiliary in
Wisconsin has membership of GALL
included in PIP units or societies
throughout the state.
The Auxiliary is organized primar-
lily as an aid to the American Legion
Particularly in the matter of rehabil-
itating the man who fought in the
war has the Auxiliary proved itself
valuable adjunct to the Legion. In
Wisconsin alone over $4,000 was
spent by the Auxiliary rehabilitation
work. This does not take into consid
Grafton the large amounts of local
work by the units.
Uncle Sam is doing his best to give
justice to the ex-seryice man whom
the war has left, sometimes ill and
more often a total and tragic casual
ty. 1t is the American Legion and
it's Auxiliary that have stepped for.
ward to supply the human contact
between the man who is in need of
assistance and the machinery of the
Auxiliary co-operates with the Legion
in securing compensation for the man
who is entitled to it.
At National Home, Milwaukee,
Resthaven, Waukesha, and Psychia-
tric Mendoza, the three great hospit-
ais where the ex-service men are re-
ceiving care, the Legion Auxiliary is
the ministering angel who supplies
the comforts and conveniences which
make hospital life more bearable.
Over 500 bathrobes were distributed
to the men in the hospitals the past
year; 125 reading lamps made it
possible to pass the long, wakeful
hours of the night in reading; Victro
las, records, golf and baseball out
fits, games for indoor amusement,
ferns and lamps to make the lounges
more homelike, and asbestos screen
for the moving picture equipmentl
birthday remembrance and Christ
mas boxes were all purchased by the
Auxiliary for the men in order that
the hours might not be so tedious,
the days little more enjoyable.
The Auxiliary is constantly on the
alert to be of assistance to the ex-
service men who is not hOspitalizd.
1t has started the practice of loaning
money, without interest, to service
men who need money to tide them
over an illness, to get a start in
some new trade or occupation, or to
build shack in the open where he
may regain health.
Membership in the American Lee
gion Auxiliary is limited to mothers
wives, sisters and daughters of men
who were in service during the world
war. In time the Auxiliary, like the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tions, will become an hereditary or
ganization.
Today, the American Legion Auxil-
larry is considered the greatest pat
riotic association of women in the
world. There are no class distinctions
no race barriers, no religious quail
fications within it's boundaries. 1t is
the common meeting ground of think
ing women whose common language
is service, and whose power and force
is just beginning to be realized. In
Americanism work, child welfare,
particularly where it affects the child
of the service man, the Auxiliary is
gradually becoming recognized as an
important factor whose approval or
disapproval of policy or project re-
presents the opinion of nearly 100000
women.