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Show LEGION AUXILIARY ASKS ST. GEORGE TO QBSERVE " POPPY OjnFM 27, St. George will be called upon to honor the World War dead and give aid to the war's living victims by wearing memorial popies on April 2 7. This day. the Friday before Memorial Day. will be "Poppy Day" observed by the wearing of the little red flower of Flanders Fields. Observance of "Poppy Day" here will be directed by the American Amer-ican Legion Auxiliary, Eleanor Smith President of the local Auxiliary Unit has announced. Women of the Auxiliary will distribute poppies on the streets and receive contributions for the Auxiliary's welfare and relief work among the disabled veterans and their families. Organization of a corps of volunteer vol-unteer workers to distribute the memorial flowers throughout the city is going forward rapidly under un-der the leadership of Mary Mc-Arthur, Mc-Arthur, chairman of the Auxiliary's Auxil-iary's poppy committee. A large supply of poppies has been ordered order-ed from Utah Veteran Hospital, where disabled veterans have been given employment during the winter and spring making the little paper flowers. "The purpose of "Poppy Day" is to give everyone an opportunity to pay individual tribute to the men who gave their lives in defense de-fense of the nation," said Eleanor Smith. "The little act of wearing wear-ing a poppy touches the individual indivi-dual more closely than large public pub-lic ceremonies in which he is only a spectator and awakens a realization of the individual responsibility re-sponsibility to the nation ,so greatly needed at this time. "Poppy "Pop-py Day" also gives everyone an opportunity to share in the vast work which the American Legion and Auxiliary are doing for the disabled men, their families and the families of the dead. |