Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 18
Marlin, Texas, Friday, May 22, 1931

LEGION AUXILIARY MAKES
POPPY DAY ARRANGEMENTS

Flowers Made by Disabled Veterans
to Aid in Child Welfare
Work.

       Arrangements for observance of Poppy Day Saturday were made by Falls county auxiliary unit No. 31 American Legion at a meeting in the assembly room, second floor of the city hall, Thursday afternoon.
       Appeal for generous response on the part of the public to this movement is made by Mrs. O. E. Curry of Marlin, gold star mother and president of the auxiliary, attention being called to the fact that the poppies are made by disabled veterans of the world war and proceeds are to be used in the child welfare work of the American legion.  Observance of Poppy Day by the legion is nationwide, preceding annual Memorial Day services May 31.
       Recalling the inspiration for these sales, Mrs. V. R. Marek, secretary of the Falls county legion auxiliary, requests everyone to read Arthur Guierman's:

"Rep Poppies."
       You boast of them that faced our
foes
Long since, and shall you grudge
to pay
Your tithe of what we owe to those
Who faced our foes but yesterday?
The blood they gave has equal claims
Or when or where they staunchly
stood
By Marne, or Aisne, or Charles or
James,
At Lexington, or Belleau Wood.
The toil, the grief, the pain were
theirs.
The ease, the joy, the gain are
ours.
Who stints and hoards?  Who gladly
shares?
Come, buy our poppies, buy our flowers!


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