Show poppy day This Saturday May 24 all of us will willbe willbe be asked to wear a little red poppy on our coats or dresses The day will be Poppy Day when once each year we of this naHon nation nation na na- tion Hon pay tribute by wearing the memorial memorial ial flower the poppy to those who gave their lives in Americas America's service during the World Wars The poppies es which we will wear on Poppy Da Day are not of course natural flowers from the battlefields of France and Belgium where the churning tide of war obliterated all touches of beauty except except except ex ex- ex- ex its brave red blooms They are flowers flowers flowers flow flow- ers which have even greater significance than any nature could produce They have been made in hospitals and work rooms where wars war's suffering is still going on They rhey have bloomed bloomed under the hands of men disabled in war the comrades of those in whose honor they will be worn Their petals are only paper and their stems Wire vire yet into them has been breathed the spirit of those days when life itself was not too much to give for America The funds derived from the poppy sales constitute the largest source of revenue revenue revenue re re- re- re venue for the Rehabilitation and Child Welfare work of the American Legion and Auxiliary The dimes quarters and dollars dollars dollars dol dol- lars dropped into the contribution boxes on Poppy Day enable the Legion posts and Auxiliary units to carry o out t a constructive constructive constructive tive program of aid to the disabled and to the dependent families of veterans all through the year Poppy Day is the one day when the public is privileged to contribute contribute contribute con con- tribute toward this great work Poppies will be sold in Moab by members members members mem mem- bers of the American merican Legion Auxiliary unit No 54 64 and the junior members The The women who distribute the poppies unlike the disabled veterans who make them receive nothing for their efforts nothing nothing no no- nothing thing tangi tangible le that is only the satisfaction satisfaction satisfaction tion of having brightened the memory of the dead and of having contributed to the welfare of af the living It is hard unaccustomed unaccustomed unaccustomed tomed work for them but they do it gladly gladly gladly glad glad- ly happy to be able to serve in such a cause When you are asked to buy a poppy this Saturday do it freely and wear it proudly |