Evening star., 1946-12-29
Legion Auxiliary
Executive Unit
To Meet Tomorrow

The Executive Committee of the
| District of Columbia Department,
American Legion Auxiliary, will
meet tomorrow night at the Legion
Clubhouse, 2437 Fifteenth street
NV, Mrs. Lillian Judd, department
president, will preside.
The auxiliary's main activity for
January concerns national defense
and all units are requested to en-
phasize this subject at meetings this
month. Plans will be made for par
ticipation in the Women's Patriotic
Conference on National Defense at
the Statler Hotel, January "a, Is and
26, 1947.
Training girls to operate the ma
chinery of democratic government
will be q major activity of the
American Legion Auxiliary this
year. Girls States, in which the
girls practice operating State gov
ernment of their own, was made a
separate national program by the
auxiliarys national convention last
fall.
Mrs. Dorothy B. Harper, District
of Columbia Department chairman
of Girls Nation, American Legion
Auxiliary, has called a luncheon
meeting Of the advisory group at
pm. next Saturday at the
Dragon, 1927 G street NV. to con-
slider a program that will enable
juniors of the auxiliary to study
the particular form of government
we have in the District of Colum-
bia. Extension activities will in
clude congressional tours and study
at the House of Representatives
the Senate, the United States Su-
preme Court and the workings OF
various Federal agencies.
Advisory members are the depart
ment president, department chair
man Of Juniors. Mrs. Edna Wright,
and Girls Nation past presidents,
Mrs. Helen zaruba Stokes, Miss
Allie Belle Wright, Mrs. Patricia
Lipscomb Russo, Miss Mary
Eleanor McCabe and Miss Mary
Catherine Ware.
A meeting of the unit chairmen
of Girls Nation will be held the
latter part of January, with the
national chairman for the Eastern
division, Mrs. F. P. Brault of st.
Albans, VT, as the guest of honor.
Units with meetings. scheduled
for the first Wednesday of the
month, have announced the follow
ing dates for their regular January
meetings: Kenneth H. Nash, jan
uary 8, at the District Building:
Cooley Mccullough, January 8, at
the Legion Clubhouse and Second
Division Unit, January 8, at the New
Colonial Hotel.
Fort Du Pont Unit will hold its
next meeting Thursday at the Jr.
o. A. U. M. Hall, 2407 Minnesota
avenue S. E., at 8 pm. President
Mrs. Golda T. Comann will preside.
Department of Agriculture Unit
will meet at pm. January IA at
the Raleigh Hotel in parlor 109.
Ely III dlu Oltys
Mrs. Ellen Lou Warren, national
director of child welfare, La Bou-
tique Rationale, 8 and 40, accom-
panied by Mrs. Eva Folk of District
of Columbia Salon IA, distributed
between 300 and 400 dolls, toys and
games to children at Gallinger Hos
pital and Glenn Dale Sanitarium
on Christms eve. The toys were
contributed by employees of the Navy
Department at their annual Christ
mas party last Tuesday morning
and turned over to District of Co.
lum Salon.
Little Miss Patricia Irene O'Con-
nor, daughter of Mrs. Irene Shee-
han O'Connor, has been named
mascot of the District of Columbia
Salon.
Mrs. Dorothy B. Harper, distin-
guished guest chairman, has been
appointed public relations chairman
by Mrs. M. Laura Lipscomb, lie
chapeau.
Mrs May Hilleary, Mrs. Marie
Lince and Miss Ina Smathers were
obligated as new members at the
December meeting.
| Families of six needy veterans
were furnished with Christmas bas-
kets of food, toys and clothing last
Tuesday evening, distribution being