Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-14 | Page 14 | Pretty Girls to Sell Poppies

PRETTY GIRLS j TO SELL POPPIES Funds for R'elief of French Children in Devastated Regions Pretty Ogdcn girls Saturday will sqll popples upon the streets of the city to assisl In raising funds for the relief of children In the devastated re glons of France. I The poppy sale is to be conducted as ono feature of the local drive to raise funds for the American and : French Children's league. Mine. B. Guerin of Paris, delegate land lecturer for the United States, Is, here in connection with the drive Mrs. Georgina Marriott Is. head of the I local committee which is taking up ! the work. I I Governor Bamberger is president of j tho state organization and the move I Imont has been indorsed by leading of-' flcinls generally, including G. N. Cihld state superintendent of public instruction, instruc-tion, Mayor Frank Francis and Carl W. Hopkins, superintendent of the dgdM public schools, j Madame Guerin addressed the students stu-dents of the Weber academy and Og-;den Og-;den high school yesterday. She is t addressing the students of other ; school yesterday. She Is addressing the students of other schools today. : The French woman declares the children rescued from the devastated, , regions of France after the Germans ;were pushed back were in a pitiable ! condition. France, she declares, can 'look after the children of the other I sections of the nation, but there is I so much to be done' to relieve condi-j ' lions in the districts which were oc-'cupied oc-'cupied by the Germans that help from j outside sources is invited. I School children are given an pppor-tunlty pppor-tunlty to contribute and certificates J will be issued to schools which pro-j i vide funds. ' I oo I