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Show 1 , THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM, UTAH u'r "-v:y- $-v - , . y---- VV u; --.r- -i ' i 'tinto "... ih I uflW ' I , ? titit f IS ii,?l?ivri IRinll1 " 1 Vfrli WlMTrl rPwi Ml 1 1 s --ti 1 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ji 1 HIS is the story of how America acquired a new em-blem that red poppy which you will be wearing on Armistice Day. Its flaming petals are symbols of the American blood that was shed on the battlefields of flL Europe during the war-tor- n years of 1914-1-8. But, Jf more than that, it is a memorial which honors not only the men who died "over there" but also those who came back alive with the scars of that world tragedy engraved deep upon their bodies and minds our disabled veterans. This is also the story of how the American adop-- tion of that emblem for Armistice Day has spread to her countries until the red poppy now has almost as much ternational significance as that other universal symbol the ed Cross. Finally, this is the story of an interesting coincidence, ather, it is the story of two coincidences and one of them is a linintr examole of how "history repeats itself." blems: the flags of the nations, the Red Cross, the Red Triangle, the service flag and pin. Now out of this war should come some symbol perpetually to remind us and unfailingly to teach coming generations the value of the light of liberty and our debt to those who so valiantly saved it for us." She pointed out that it was impossible to have triumphal arches or great memorials in all places from which came men who gave their lives hi the war. But they could be honored by everyone, even the lowliest, by wearing the red poppy. As a result the poppy idea was in-troduced into many of the home-coming celebrations during 1919. Adopted by Lesion On the eve of the Georgia state convention of the American poppy, provided by Miss Michael. Thus the first coincidence in this story a British army off-icers' poem, with its reference to a vivid and striking symbol, com-ing to the attention of an Ameri-can woman just two days before the Armistice was signed; the visit of the war workers to her office at the moment when she Michael first dreamed, it has be. come an international emblem. In Europe, besides the British Isles and France, 19 countries wear the blood-colore- d blossoms in their lapels: Italy, Holland, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Swed-en, Switzerland, Poland, Greece and Rumania. Poppies are even worn in Japan, China, Mexico, Asia Minor and in every coun-try of North and South America. In this country the making of "buddy poppies," as they are called, has become an important factor in the disabled veterans' rehabilitation work. They are made by disabled men in hospitals in the East, at piece-work cost and the 6ttte depart-ments of the Veterans of For-eign Wars all taken certain quo-tas. A small amount is deducted for national and state relief and the .rest goes to the posts that sell the poppies to be U6ed as their relief needs arise. The veterans are paid one and one-quart- er cents for every poppy they make. As for the woman who started all this today the name of Moina Michael means "The Pop-py Lady" throughout the world. She is one of two women who received the Distinguished Serv-ice Medal of the American Le-gion, the other being Mrs. Cal-vin Coolidge. A few years ago the Georgia general assembly by resolution conferred upon her the title of "distinguished citi-zen" for she is a native of the city of Athens in that state. The Second Coincidence And therein lies the second co-incidence in this story. Back in the spring of 1865 when the War Between the States was drawing to a close, the women of Colum-bus, Ga. decorated the graves of their war dead and the following January the members of the Ladies Aid society in that city decided to perpetuate the custom. They picked upon April 26, 1866, the anniversary of the surrender of Gen. Joseph Johnston, the last formal act of the war, as the date for their Memorial day cel-ebration. Since that time April 26 has been observed as Con-federate Memorial day in the states of Alabama, Florida, Mis-sissippi and Georgia and it is also World War Memorial day in the latter state. From the South the idea of an annual Memorial day Legion, August 19 and 20, 1920, in Augusta, Miss Michael went to the Legion headquarters in At-lanta and turned over to them her arguments concerning the adoption of the poppy. Charles M. Galliene of Post No. 1, At-lanta, took charge of the material and presented the movement to the convention. It was adopted and the delegation to the national convention was instructed to pre-sent it at Cleveland, Ohio, and to support the resolutions. The resolutions were presented to the national convention in Septem-ber, 1920, and the poppy became the national American Legion memorial flower. As the idea spread in this coun-try, word of it was carried across the Atlantic. Mme. E. Guerin of Paris read Miss Michael's poem pledging to "keep the faith" and of her plan for wearing poppies to memorialize the sacrifices of the war. She immediately organ-ized the American and French children's league and sold pop-pies for the benefit of war or-phans in France. , An International Emblem In an official report which she issued from Canada early in Feb-ruary she announced: "The World war veterans have sold 1,000,000 small poppies and 200,-00- 0 large ones, clearing $90,000 for their relief work and for the French, $80,000 to go to the poor French children of the battle-fields." In England the poppy program ' ")7 1 jBjtfjttaakdanVatiAatti .,r,W'AW '' MISS MOINA MICHAEL "The Poppy Lady," Who Gave the Nation an Emblem for Armistice Day. was aglow with the inspiration of a great idea, and their gift which made it possible to put her plan into immediate effect. The next morning Miss Michael went to see her friend, rhe day was Saturday, Novem-- r 9, 1913. Throughout America :ople were waiting waiting for ' e news which would free many i home from fear and dread, wo days earlier their hopes been raised to the skies, then dashed to the ground by that in-cident of the "false armistice." gut now they knew the event fas inevitable, that the war was ' most over. I On that November morning a 'toman was sitting at a desk in Hamilton hall on the campus of folumbia university in New York City. She was Miss Moina Michael, a member of the t W. C. A. overseas headquart-ers staff. A soldier entered the loom and placed a copy of a Magazine on her desk. Leafing t rough it, she noticed a poem. Pt started to read : Jin Flanders fields the poppies I blow t h e crosses, row on Between . . ." 1 She read it through, then deep-ly stirred by the lines which had een penned by Col. John Mc-fra- e of the British army, she fad it again and again. Then in jpden inspiration she seized a jpsn and a sheet of paper and Inote this reply to it: Oh! You who sleep in Flanders Fields, Sleep sweet to rise anew! We caught the Torch you threw And holding high, we keep the Faith With all who died. We cherish, too, the Poppy red t grows on fields where valor led: It seems to signal to the skies That blood of heroes never dies. But lends a lustre to the red 01 the flower that blooms above the dead hi Flanders Fields, tod now the Torch and Poppy red Jfe'U wear in honor of our dead. F'ar not that ye have died for naught; We'll teach the lessons that ye wrought " Flanders Fields. When she had finished, she re-nted to herself "the poppy red e H wear in honor of our dead." e would do that herself and "e would ask others to do it too. l that moment three overseas :; C. A. and Y. W. C. A, workers, who had been attending iM?Lerence at Columbia, came the room. They had brought check for $10 in apprecia-- n of her efforts to make a "odel hostess house of their head-luarter- s. The First Coincidence Immediately Miss Michael told em about the poem she had w read and the one she had en in reply to it. Further- - lVue told them tha the $10 fJo, Knaerbferiesnpdesnt to buy poppies to wear In honor eldsSe tJ10 "he Zanders thiKil.i- - ey were 89 en wa i lc about the idea as she Rf,turning to their confer-mor0!u- ey spread the news on( tis' Tha afternoon every-in- e was wearing a red Dean Talcott Williams of the Columbia school of journalism. She explained her idea to him. He was much impressed and of-fered to pass it along to a war workers committee which was meeting that afternoon.' On that committee were Mrs. Preston (the widow of President Cleve-land), Rodman Wanamaker and other notables. Their indorse-ment of the idea would give its adoption a tremendous impetus. They indorsed it enthusiastically so Dean Williams reported to Miss Michael after the meeting. November 11 at last, the news for which everyone had been wait-ing. The Armistice was signedl The war was over! After the first thrill of victory had passed, after the tumult and shouting of the celebrations had subsided, people began to think solemnly, reverently of those who had help-ed win that victory but were de-nied the joy of knowing that the victory was won. .r the Dead. Short days ago P i - i- -' ....UJi m.u m,mi a,t. J,. Mln . Mil ,i.ti..ririr.l.fr,i,f, , Disabled World war veterans making "buddy popples" to be told throughout the country by the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, the proceeds being devoted exclusively to welfare work among dis-abled veterans and men. We lived, felt dawn, saw sun-set glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. America, thinking of them, turned a sympathetic ear to this woman who was givinC all her energies to spreading the Idea of the poppy as a national emblem. innumerable letters fo women's clubs to patr o ic organizations, to educational iu stttutions, to civic bodies. Out event of the world of has come8an emblem." she said, went many em- - "Into this war flourished tremendously. Earl Haig's British Legion adopted the selling and wearing of poppies in 1921 and since that time more than $11,000,000 has been cleared for men. In 1927 alone the British legionnaires sold 00 poppies and made a prof-it of $2,522,000. In 1928 the sales reached the $3,000,000 mark. Instead of the poppy becoming a national emblem, as Miss for decorating the graves of the war dead spread to the North, even though a different day, May 30, was chosen. But it was a group of Georgia women who gave to the nation the idea of Memorial day and it was a Georgia woman who gave to it the idea of the red poppy as a symbol of that other day of memory Armistice Day. O Weatara kw reaper Unioa. Frisky Scotties for Your Tea Towel Set No need for Scottie to teach her puppy new tricks he's up to them already! And what a Joyous set of motifs with which to cheer tha towels that serve for heaviest kitchen duty. There are seven of them, and see what simple cross Pattern 1228 stitch 'tis, with crosses an easy f to the inch I Done all in one coler, they'll make smart silhouettes 'gainst the whiteness of your tea tcwels. Send for the pattern I Pat tern 1223 contains a transfer pat-tern of seven motifs (one for each day of the week) averaging about' 5 by 8 inches; material require-ments; illustrations of all stitchej needed. 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Frank Sdiatz of 3217 South Ora St., Tacema, WaslL, aaid: 'I waa a young girl when I started to take Dr. Pierce'a Favorite Preemption, At that time I vent thru . aronf at periods. I would be In bed tvro and three dava etch lime. I had terere ntadache and m not able to eat. After Ukinf the 'Favorite I had aa appetite and eoon Ut as Bwch better la every tray." Buy now I READ THE ADS Fossil Remains of Man's "Great Uncle" Found in Africa Ape Bones Date Back to Beginning of Ice Age FRAGMENTS of bone from cave, de-scribed in the British science journal, Nature, by Dr. R. Broom of the Transvaal mu-seum, may prove to be some of the most significant fossils thus far turned up by science in its long search for facts bearing on the natural origin of man. For sketches of these bits of bone, sent by their discoverer to Dr. W1V Ham K. Gregory of the American Museum of Natural History, "sug-gest the right characters for the adult of Australopithecus or a nearly allied form." Australopithecus, or "the Ape of the South," was first found In 1925 at Taungs In Bcchuanalnnd, by Prof. Raymond A. Dart of the Witwators-ran- d university, Johannesburg. The two fossils then discovered, a brain-cas- t and part of the bones of the face, were definitely those of an ape, but of an ape with more man-like characters than any previously known subhuman species, living or fossil. Australopithecus was ap-parently a real missing link. Comparisons Possible. Professor Dart's specimens were those of a young specimen. Just cut-ting Its first permanent molar teeth. It was therefore of less value than an adult specimen might have been, because young apes and human children are always more alike than the adult forms become. By an especial stroke of good for-tune, the newly discovered material described by Doctor Broom also in-cludes a brain cast, so that a direct comparison with the juvenile brain cast of the earlier find can be made, and comparisons with the brains of human beings and the brains of apes will also be possible. With this very Important cast were also parts of the skull base and a fragment of the upper jaw. The age of the formation in which the fossils were found may be pliocene, that is, the time just be-fore the beginning of the world's latest great Ice age, more than a million years ago. Since man's an cestry had already been well sep-arated from the ape stock by th late pliocene at least It is not con sldered probable that Australopithe-cus was a direct ancestor. He must be looked upon as a collateral rel-ativea great-uncl- e rather than a grandfather. Keeping Up Selene Samoa. WNU burviua. "Lie Detector" May Explore Minds of Mental Patients Unconscious Emotions May Be Discovered HANOVER, N. II. A new technique for detecting emo-tion through measurement of electric resistance of the skin was reported to the American Psychological association here. Possible use of this new test In exploring the .unconscious minds of the mentally 111 was suggested by the results of experiments reported by Dr. T. W. Forbes, of the New York State Psychiatric institute and hospital. Sometimes known as the "lie de-tector," the psychogalvanometer used to record the physical changes that occur when a person Is ques-tioned about his guilt or when his emotions are aroused In any other way has previously been Incor-rectly used, Dr. Forbes Indicated. The electrodes have customarily been applied to two separate skin areas. By reading potentials from just a (ingle skin area, Dr. Forbes found not one but two waves which were confused or masked in the readings from two areas. Beading the Waves. One wave Is negative and the other positive, and both occur with great regularity in most Individuals. The "a," or negative, wave showed little variation in amplitude and oc-curred whether the subject was ex-cited or not. The positive "b" wave, on the other hand, occurred with increased magnitude whenever the subject was excited. This was true whether the "excit-ing" situation Involved electric shock, the startle of a revolver shot, or words designed to be embar-rassing. The "lie detector" technique would not be equally effective on all Individuals for the purpose of de-tecting their emotional responses. Dr. Forbes experiments Indicated. Some individuals, he reported, failed to show any change of the "b" wave except with very Intense startle. Bigger Sized Brain Needed to Improve Man's Behavior CAMBRIDGE, MASS. If man's life is ever to be lived along entirely rational lines, free from such disturbances as war, crime, and economic booms and depressions, he will have to find a way of increasing the size of his brain. This is the conclusion to be drawn from what Prof. Edgar Douglas Adrian of Cambridge university, English Nobel laureate and one of the pioneers In "brain wave" in-vestigations, told scientists at the . Harvard Tercentenary celebration here of the relation between the nervous system and human be-havior. Scientific delvings Into the mech-anism of the mind and body, by "brain waves" and other techniques, show that the only certain method by which human behavior can be Improved is the apparent impossible feat of breeding men with larger brains. Superhuman Behavior. ' "It is tantalizing," Professor Ad-rian said, "to think of the new re-lations we should see, of the new world of thought we should live in. If our brains were but twice their present sle. Our behavior would then be superhuman!" Not even the most fanciful mind, given to picturing a race of super-men in world to come, could con-ceive of the result, which Professor Adrian described as "beyond tha power of human thought" Eskimo Mummies of Alaska Shed Light on Ancient North WASHINGTON. Discov-ery of important mummy caves, where prehistoric people of the North hid away their dead, is a signal achievement of the Smithsonian institution's expe-dition to Alaska, just returned. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, leader of the anthropological expedition, and his four associates braved fog hazards and rocky barriers to explore two caves which they believed would contain bundled mummies of Alas-ka's early Aleutian Islanders. A first attempt to reach one cave failed due to heavy fog that shut out the island and the two great volcanoes nearby. Find Ancient People. With the aid of the Coast guard, the party returned and, finding that here were indeed buried many an-cient people, both adults and chil-dren, they began to work fast as they could to remove mummy bun-dles from the confusion of fallen rock and debris. Foxes in the cave tomb had added to the damage of time. "We worked with our hands," said Dr. Hrdlicka. "Tools were of no use. We had not time to think of resting or eating, for if fog settled down we would be marooned, per-haps for days." By afternoon, the sea was run-pin- g to a considerable swell, and the workers made haste to get away. All material collected had to be passed by relay in sacks from one man to another for three-quarter- s of a mile to the beach where the boat was waiting. There's Life in the Dead Sea, After All JERUSALEM. Living or-ganisms have been found in Dead Sea water, which has al-ways been supposed to be ut-terly devoid of life of any kind because of its exceedingly high concentration of salt, potash, and other mineral matter. The discovery was made by Dr. B. Wilkansky of the Hebrew uni-versity of Jerusalem. Doctor Wilkansky collected sam-ples of water in the Dead tea, at various depths to 22 feet After suitable laboratory preparation, three microscopic forms of life were found: one consisting of yeast-lik- e cells, one of short, rod-lik- e cells, and the third in the shape of long, fine threads. Your Eye Can See One Millionth of an Inch WASHINGTON. The next time you see a film of oil on a rain puddle in the pavement look for the colored light fringes. Pretty. Yes. But, more Impor-tant, they indicate that your eye can detect a difference of th of an inch. That is the thickness of the oil films which pro-duce those colors by interference. The beautiful coloring of some but-terfly wings is a similar phenome-non of thin films. The best microm-eter gauges now in use will detect differences of only one of an inch. |