our treatment of our returned soldiers is without excuse

As an Auxiliary we are asked to think of Christian social service not merely as visiting the sick or prisoners, the sending of flowers or clothes and magazines but as a constructive plan for making a better citizenship, for removing the causes leading to crime, poverty, disease and ignorance and helping others to help themselves. In order that we more effectively work for these things I recommend that the Woman’s Auxiliary have a representative on the Legislative Council for Women. Our prisoners call to us, our inter-racial relations are a reproach to our profession as Christians and our treatment of our returned soldiers is without excuse.

[Source: Fannie N. Bickett (Mrs. Thomas W.), Report of the President, 1923 Woman’s Auxiliary Annual Report, 14]