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Show Poppy Day Is Set for May 28 "In Flanders Fields the poppies blow, Between the crosses row on row " The picture of the poppies blooming above the battle graves, so perfectly painted in the poem, winged its way around the world and in its wake sprang up the custom of wearing a poppy in honor of the war dead. The work of making the artificial ', replicas of the Flanders Fields poppies was given very fittingly to the disabled veterans and the nroceeris from their sale to veteran reliel work. In the thirteen years since the close of the war millions of persons in all parts of the world have worn the poppy annually in tribute to those who made the supreme sacrifice and through, the purchase of poppies have contributed con-tributed to the welfare of the i',a; s living victims. "Poppy Day" will be observed in Mount Pleasant and throughout through-out the United States this year on May 28, the Saturday before Memorial Day. On that day tho women of the American Legion Auxiliary will distribute popples to more than ten million Americans Ameri-cans and in exchange for the fiowcis will receive contributions expected to total more than one million dollars. Disabled veterans working on their hospital beds or at tables in convalescent workrooms work-rooms have made the poppies which the Auxiliary will sell, and all of the money received will go to support the Auxiliary's vast program of mercy and aid for these f:uferlng from the war's awful aftermath. In England thirty million poppies pop-pies are sold each Armistice Day and approximately $2,500,000 raised for relief work. With the American sale and sales in other parts of the world, poppy funds total nearly $5,000,000 annually. |