The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 31, 1944, Page 18

THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 194 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE —JUNEAU, ALASKA PAGE SIX grown, and is destined to and 3,000 for tuberculosis vewrnns.l to grow and prosper, just| States in which construction of r great nation which we and hospitals is asked are New Hamp- | |great patriots of his day; and so‘:mh p.as |speak the members of the Americantvm Legion—that great organization of | as Amer. Legion Auxiliary AMERICANISM Has Greaf Task Ahead; Utmost Efforts Required AMER. LEGION ke that they have an equal opportun-| | "For God and Country” Is o M o x| MONY I8 s, B {|them to care for and train and the | Presemand Future i task of supervision will require our ! utmost efforts. | But we are the wives, Gaughters {'and sisters of fighting men. We { are the mothers of those stalwart { sons who are auccessfully -waging i democracy’s battles on land, in the air and on the high seas. With their love in our hearts and their crifices before us we, too, will rise to heights unknown; we, too, i will do the seemingly impossible | and accomplish whatever tasks are set before us. | I nave noticed that when all the fine things of this material world are in danger of being taken away from us and we get down to the realities of life, we find that possibly the only thing that really counts in a world where destruc- tion is th eorder of the day, is the| n |ceaseless and everlasting quality of| human friendship and human kindness; and these to me have| been plainly evidenced in the; Ever since the infamous attack American Legion Auxiliary. | on Pearl Harbor, the women Of "y paye noticed. too, that the; America have been beset with un- spirit of the Auxiliary is not a| certainties and worries and have | pocng fancy—a thing here today! had to shoulder responsibilities | gng gone tomorrow—but a very! which in normal times they wouldlwngih]e something that becomes a i iy F In the American Legion Auxil- down in the heart of every mem- stit\vmon.”——l-lenry Clay. jary, however, there has been no ber. - uncertainity about the duties and| With that spirit, with the ideals| f" {*POKE Henry Clay, one of the responsibilities of its members. and principles of our great organ-| They have not inly continued to | ization, and with the example of carry out the program of their fine our fighting men to inspire us, we' organization, but everywhere are ; may safely look to the future with found taking part in and doing aiconrldence. I large share of the war work of the — .- — | communities in which they live. ! | Adam: “What’s wrong? Weren't We have put forth splendid e"iynu told to go forth and multiply?” fort and hgvp obtained splendid re-i Two little snakes (blushing): “We sults; but it appears to me that our We're adders.” | efforts in the past will sink into| PR T 2 | —Hawk's Cry, Tuskegee insignificance as we face the tre- | mendous and staggering cha]]enge1 AR e F, [ of the immediate future. * | It is our special duty and re-| If every soldier could read every | spogsibility to see to it that the|girl's mind, the gasoline consump- | children of veterans who are in|tion would drop off 50 per cent. | need of assistance because of | —Roger, Atlanta, (Ga.) | death, disability or unemployment A.A.B. : of their father, receive the care, | training and protection which their | | birthright entitles them to. We | Daffynition: Skeletons are a | must see to it that these children|bunch of bones with the people have a normal, healthy atmos- |scraped off. By LILLIAN L. KING Department President, America Legion Auxiliary WALTER B. KING Past Depdrtment Commander “Let us go to the altar of our Country and swear, as the oath was taken of old, that we wil | can’t sir. —Depot Scope, Naval Mine Depot, Yorktown, Va. phere in which to develop and grow | into manhood and womanhood and PROMOTED BY service men who are held Logether.!m.r sons and brothers and fathers among other reasons, “to preserve e memories and incidents of our ociation in the great war,” ‘as stated in the Preamble to its Na- tional Constitution. There is such an appeal to the |life in the service, to the cause for which such service was given, and to the general spirit of war times, that it is only natural that the | former service men should feel the | need of some organization to take the place of the old “outfit”. Not only that, but having done his bit, he feels more of a proprietary in- terest in his country than he did before the war, and looks to the American Legion as a means, “to foster and perpetuate a one hun- dred precent Americanism.” Some civilians may not quite un- | derstand it, but it is a fact never- | theless, that regardless of where a Bl \man may have served his country |in time whether in a training camp or naval vessel, | whether ashore, afloat or in the air, whether in sham battle prac- tice or in the hell of actual fight- | ing, each service man cherishes the | memories of his own experiences. It s for this 250N, among ic(h(’:‘.’s equally as important, that | the American Legion was formed [in 1919, and it was for the same | reasons that it has carried on, “For God end Country’ for the past | quarter of a century. It is because of what it has done in the past and of what it is doing now—not only for its own mem- bers, but for all service men regard- less of their membership status— and not only for the service men of the first warld war, but also and more especially for the service |men of this, the second world war, 'that this great organization of! of war, ;ht to preserve, has grown and ;shire. Rhode Island, Delaware, Vir- ginia, Florida, Michigan, Kentucky, | We Extend will continue to grow and pros- per until time shall be no more, R0 “ 16,000 BEDS AREWANTED, SAYS HINES Will Be Needed for Hos- pitals in 20 Differ- ent States Louisiana, Mississippi or Alabama, eastern Kansas or northern Mis-| souri, eastern Montana or western | |North Dakota, and Colorado, Cali-| fornia, Texas, Washington, New; York, Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania | and Tllinois. New Hampshire, Rhode Island | and Delaware are the only states| in the union which do not now| have any veterans' hospitals. | The 94 veterans’ facilities now | have 105,000 beds of which 17,000 | {for neuro-psychiatrics ,are not yét | |fully completed. The 16,000 bed recommendation will raise the over- [all total to 121,000. | | e ———— Sincere Greetings to the LEGION and its AUXILIARY During It's Stay in Juneau! * The Home of Quality Groceries THIBODEAU'S CASH and CARRY GROCERY J. A. THIBODEAU—Proprietor Phone 688 Prospective Bride: “Darling, will jyou love me when my hair is |gray?” Groom-to-be: “I suppose so; I've ‘loved you when it has been every | |other color.” | WASHINGTON, D. C.—Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, administrator of Veterans’ Affairs, has asked the Federal Board of Hospitalization to provide 16,000 additional beds for ' World War TI veterans. ) “I asked her if she was doing Announcement of the request,anything that evening and she said | was made by the Veterans’ Admin- She wasn't, so I took her out, and istration on July 24. sure enough—she wasn't.” The beds will be in new hos- —Wing Tips. pitals to be constructed in 20 dif- By ferent states. The construction in-| volved is the most extensive of this, kind ever undertaken and is in line with the recommendations made last year by President Roose- | velt and provided for in The Am-| erican Legion’s “G. I Bill of| Greetings to Legionnaires o lfby Tl and Guests About 8,000 beds would be for| general medical and surgical cases; 5,000 for neuro-psychiatric patients' —The Howitzer. from the We Extend a Sincere WELCOME to the AMERICAN LEG ALASKA MEAT (0. 000000 ION P. 0. 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