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Show "POPPY UT HS THOSE DEAD ON FIELDS OP FR1GEJI BELGIUM Tomorrow will be "Poppy Day" in St. George. Hundreds of people will wear little red poppies in tribute to the men who gave their lives on the poppy-studded battle fields of France and Belgium during the World War. Organizations of volunteer workers to distribute memorial poppies here on "Poppy Day," Friday, April 27th, was completed complet-ed today, Mary McArthur, poppy chairman of Lester Keate Unit of the American Legion Auxiliary, announced. More than 65 will take part in the "Poppy Day" activities through which poppies, to be worn in honor of the World War dead, will be offered throughout the city. The distribution of poppies will be carried out under a systematic plan that will assure everyone in the city of an opportunity op-portunity to wear one of the little red memorial flowers. Teams of workers under captains have been assigned to each section sec-tion of the city. The bulk or the money contributed con-tributed for the poppies will be retained in the city to be used for the relief of needy veterans and their families during the coming year. Part will go to support state and national activities ac-tivities of the American Legion and Auxiliary for the disabled and dependents. The poppy sale is the principal source of support sup-port for the continuous welfare anH rphnhilitntion nroeram car ried out by the Auxiliary. "Even before the curtailment of governmental benefits for the disabled, a vast amount of relief re-lief and rehabilitation work was left for the Legion and Auxiliary to do." "Federal economy measures meas-ures last year increased this greatly. Because of the inflexibility inflexi-bility of laws and the necessary technitealities guarding governmental govern-mental expenditures, the government govern-ment was never able to reach all the needy disabled, and now the number left without government aid is larger than ever before. The Auxiliary workers are hoping that more people than ever before will "honor the dead and serve the living" by wearing a poppy tomorrow. |