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Show NOT TO BE MADE TO ORDER Songs and Emblems That Live In the Heart of a People Must Have Foundation. a To wait for a state flower or a state song to discover itself and make itself appropriate might be an interminable inter-minable and disappointing vigil. Centuries Cen-turies could intervene. It is not mere restlessness that asks for a flower to be chosen or a song to be written ready to hand, declares the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Posterity may find substitutes that are better, the fruit of happy circumstances, but we in our day may have at least our ready-made ready-made symbols to feed the romance in our souls. Ancient people acquired these spiritual spir-itual emblems and patriotic lyrics through a long and at times painful history. Something stirring . has to happen to give them birth. Thus our soldiers who were in the great war find the poppy the all-signitieant floral insignia of their heroic days and have adopted It as the visible reminder of them. Ten million silken poppies are to be worn in America on Decoration day. |