Show Show Your Gratitude 5 SI L L. Poppy Dayi Day i Sales Set SetI i I For Tomorrow Tomorrow will be Poppy day In Salt SaIL Lake City Cily and throughout the thena na nation tion Volunteer workers worker's from the Veterans Veterans Veterans Vet Vet- erans of Foreign Wars Vars and American Ameri Ameri- can Legion auxiliary units will beon beon be oe on the streets rain or shine from early morning until night offering poppies to to be worn in honor of the I nations nation's war dead I In exchange for the flowers they i will receive contributions for the welfare of disabled veterans and needy children q of veterans As all workers will be unpaid volunteers the entire amount contributed will go toward these worthy causes The drives of the American Legion Legion Legion Le Le- Le- Le gion and Veterans of Foreign Wars Vars are separate even though conducted conducted conducted con con- ducted on the same came day The American Legion volunteers will sell seIl crepe paper poppIes while the V F FV V will sell Buddy poppies made of cloth Both however are accomplishing the same purpose through their poppy sales the rehabilitation of the disabled veteran veteran vet vet- eran Bran and the welfare of his chil chil- dren Both Buddy poppies and the paper poppies are made by disabled soldiers from World Wars Vars VarsI I aid ad II in veterans' veterans hospitals throughout the nation How the poppy became the memorial flower of Americas America's war dead was described Friday by Mrs S. S J. J Carter American Legion Poppy day chairman for Salt Lake City The idea she said sprang up as naturally as the little wild poppies pop- pop pies grow grO grOin in the fields of France and Belgium where so many men ot of many nations gave their lives in two world wars The poppy was the one touch of natures nature's beauty which survived the devastation of the battlefront and the only flower which grew around the battle graves |