Show Poppy o Day a aex Next ex Saturday Wearing a poppy is a pledge that we will not break faith with those who have died defending America America America A- A merica said Mrs Ardelle Riding of Delta president of the American Legion Auxiliary as the unit prepared prepared prepared pre- pre pared for the annual observance of Poppy Day next Saturday The poppy comes to us from the fields of France where Americans first gave their lives in battle against a- a the dictator powers We wear P is is little red flower lower in honor honorof of o men who fell at Belleau at atCha Cha u u Thierry St. St Mihiel the theMe i iMe Me Meuse-Argonne Meuse e and other battles 0 of or f the first 1 World War We also wear It Jt to honor the brave boys of Pearl Pear Harbor Wake the Philippines and elsewhere in this renewal of ot th the conflict T The poppy continued Mrs Rid- Rid rf you know was inspired by bythe bythe bythe the poem In Flanders' Flanders Fields with Its Us Immortal lines In Flanders' Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row The poppies were the only touch of beauty that survived amid the desolation of the battle front in France They formed the only floral floral noral flor nor al tributes on the groves of the dead and became a symbol of heroic heroic he he- role sacrifice Paper poppies made by disabled by-disabled disabled veterans of the first World War will willbe willbe be distributed throughout the day dayon dayon dayon on Saturday by the women o of oC the Auxiliary Auxiliary- Payment for them will willa willaid a aid d welfare work among the disabled disabled dis dis- and their and families families lies of the dead of both wars them Saturday Buy r. r fi |