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Show MEMORIAL POPPIES TO BE WORN HERE SATURDAY Poppies to Be Sold Made By Disabled Comrades of The Dead In Veterans' Hospital The memorial poppies to be worn here Saturday in honor of the World War dead have been made by the disabled comrades of the dead in the Salt. Lakp Veterans' hospital. Poppy making lias developed into a nation-wide industry for the disabled veterans and puts more than $100,000 each year into the pockets of these men who have no other way of earning earn-ing money. The work of making poppies begins be-gins early in the winter in most of the hospitals, under direction of the state organization of the American Legion Auxiliary and with the cooperation of the hospital hos-pital authority, Olive Miller, local poppy chairman, explained. Materials Ma-terials are supplied by the Auxiliary Auxil-iary and the men are paid regularly regu-larly from Auxiliary funds. Employment is limited to veterans veter-ans receiving little or no government govern-ment compensation, with preference prefer-ence going to those having families fami-lies to support. The number of flowers each man can shape per day is restricted to guard against over-taxing his strength. Many of the men become so expert that they can make several hundred popples in a brief working day. Money is not the only benefit the veterans derive from the poppy pop-py work. Making the bright red flowers lightens dreary hospital hours for them, encourages a healthful state of mind, and as a form of occupational therapy, helps speed their recovery. Approximately 12,000,000 poppies pop-pies have been made by the disabled dis-abled veterans this year in anticipation antici-pation of increased response of the American public to the poppy appeal "Honor the war dead and aid the war's living victime.'' |