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Show Poppy Facts Listed As Legion And Aux Plan Poppy Day In case you're wondering about "Poppy Day" which has become traditional with the American Legion and the American Amer-ican Legion Auxiliary, here are a few condensed facts about the poppies that will go on sale May 29. One hundred per cent of the profits from Legion poppy sales are pledged to welfare relief for service men and women and their families. Legion poppies are made of red crepe paper, by hand, by disabled veterans, in hospitals and poppy workrooms in 40 states. These disabled veterans are paid for each poppy made, the material being furnished free by the department in which the hospital hos-pital is located. Actual sale of poppies is by volunteer workers who receive no compensation. The Auxiliary, in order to' protect pro-tect the Memorial Poppy from the inroads of commercialism, adopted a national poppy pro- gram at the St. Paul convention in 1924 which eliminated the I commercial poppy. Nationally, more than 25 million mil-lion poppies made by disabled veterans are sold annually on the streets under supervision of the American Legion Auxiliary, on the Saturday preceding Memorial Memor-ial Day. Approximately 125,000 volunteer workers -sell poppies each year. More than $300,000 is paid annually to disabled veterans vet-erans for making the poppies. Proceeds from poppy sales annually an-nually amount to more than. $2 million, every penny of which is devoted to rehabilitation work by both the Legion and Auxiliary, Auxil-iary, which includes aid to needy veterans and their families. Each Auxiliary Unit in communities com-munities scattered all over the United Stales, its territorial possessions, pos-sessions, and in foreign countries where veterans reside, maintains a Rehabilitation Committee and a Child Welfare Committee. These unit committees are assisted as-sisted by a similar department committee, who in turn work under the guidance and help of a National Rehabilitation Chairman Chair-man and a National Child Welfare Wel-fare Chairman. ' |