The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-03-10
AUxY UNITS
CIVIC MINDED
Many Community Projects Set
for This Month; Birthday
of the Legion.

Make our community better place
in which to live" is the aim of the
American Legion Auxiliary'S $500 loca
units in their March activities, state:
Mrs. Sue johnson, community service
chairman of the Frank Lozar post
Auxiliary unit. Planning and launch
ing community service projects will &C.
cupy the major interest of Auxiliary
Units everywhere during the month, she
said.
Thousands of projects will be started
by Auxiliary Units during the month
Mrs. Johnson, predicted. Many diff
ferent types of community betterment
work will be undertaken in cooperation
with Legion posts and other organiza-
tons or by the Auxiliary independently.
Identification of the community by
improvement of parks, Fairgrounds and
other public places through planting of
trees, shrubs and flowers is a project
being planned by many Units. Others
will work for improvement of health
conditions by sponsoring clinics, pro-
viding public nurses, drinking fountains,
hospital and ambulance equipment.
Extension of libary facilities is a
community service work engaged in by
many Units, especially in the smaller
towns and rural communities. Through
urging adequate appropriations for pub
lie libraries, donating and collecting
books, aiding in the establishment of
new libraries and of library service for
rural localities, much has been accom-
plished in this field by the Auxiliary.
Safety has been chosen as the activity
in which all Units, large and small,
can take part. All Units are being urged
to give active support to safety cam
paigns in their communities and if no
campaign is being waged locally against
traffic accidents, to take the leadership
in launching one
Birthday Parties.
Thousands of birthday parties given
by American Legion Auxiliary Units
for their Legion Posts will mark the
nineteenth birthday of The American
Legion, March Is to II. The celebra-
ton will commemorate the caucus of
American soldiers in Paris in March,
1919, at which the Legion was formed.
The parties will take the form of dances
and entertainments in Legion homes in
every part of the country.
The celebration will open with a ma
tionwide broadcast March Is on which
the Legion'S National Commander, the
Auxiliary's National President and the
Chef de Chemin de Fer of the Forty
and Eight will be heard, along with
famous Legionnaires of the radio and
screen. The program will begin at II,
midnight, eastern standard time, and
continue a full hour.
Membership
With approximately 5000 members
enrolled for 1888, the American Legion
entered its March activities confident of
reaching another new membership re-
cord this year, according to Mrs. Anna
Leino, membership chairman of the 10
cal unit. This figure was $4,000 larger
than the enrolment on the same date
last year. Nearly 100000 more men,
bers are expected to enroll this year,
which would give the Auxiliary a record
strength approaching ATS, 900. The pre-
vious high record was achieved last
year when "A 200 mothers, wives, sis
tiers and daughters of veterans, and
women eligible through their own war
service enrolled in the Auxiliary.