The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-23
MAY % IS POPPY DAY

All over the United States every
loyal American will buy poppy May
2Sth and will pin 1T over his or her
heart on Memorial Daysas a token that
the soldiers who fought and died on
Flanders Fields have not been forgot
ten.
/ This year marks the Union of
France and America in a joint and
solemn observation of that day which
for more than half a century Amer
lea has set aside to honor those who
have died for their country and for
observation-disclosures Day. France has
taken our memorial day as her me-
mortal day--so that over there where
our boys fought and bled SO valiantly
for the freedom of the world, every
where in France they are still remem-
bering, and they are marking this day
with the little red poppy from Elan
ders Fields.
hTe American Franco Children
Lea que of which Mime. Millerand, wife
of the president of France, is the pres
ident, and which is headed in this
country by General Leonard Wood, has
taken this occasion to use the poppy in
a way which will commemorate the
dead and at the same time help the
living. Millions of peoples have been
made by the little Achildren in the
devastated regions of France. These
children crushed under the heel OF
the most ruthless enemy in the his
tory of the world. some of them tu-
bercular thru exposure, diseased thru
lack of nourishment, MANNED and
bruised in body and spirit, have found
hope in their memory of the American
soldier, who came to save them and
whose image still whispers to them OF
the days of reconstruction and of re-
newed life and joy.
In this country the American Legion
has endorsed Poppy Day and has
ttaken the Flanders poppy as the en-
blem to be worn on that day by every
loyal American.
There is no state in the Union which
is more quick in its sympathetic re-
Spouse to tie call of the suffering than
Kansas. In this state the Poppy Day
work began many weeks ago thru the
American Legion, with the very active
assistance of Miss Izetta Mccoy, Sec
rotary of the Woman's Auxiliary OF
the American Legion, women thruout
the state have been actively at work
In order to extend the work to help
pin the poppy over every Kansas
| heart, the American Franco Children's
league has sent a special representa-
tive, Z. Sampson, and state headquar-
| ters have been formally opened at PIC
West Sixth street, American Legion.
! Capital Post No. L.
During the past few days an extern
sive plan of work has been made and
every town in Kansas is rushing in its
| orders for peoples. On the honorary
| committee are: Governor Henry J
Allen, Secretary of State L. ]. Petit
john, Superintendent of Public In
! struction Elizabeth Wooster, F. E
Samuel. A. ]. Stout. T. A. Lee. Mrs
C. A. Wolf, Mrs. Margaret Hill Nc.
| Carter, Mrs. A. NJ. Harvey.
! Mrs. c. J. Evans is chairman of the
state committee and her assistants are
Mrs. T. A. Lee, Mrs. j. F. FARRELL, Miss
Izetta Mccoy, Mrs. r. G. Klein, Mrs
| Silas Porter and Herbert Guild.
| The city chairman is Mrs. Orie S
lines. She is organizing teams of girls
who will appear on the streets of To-
peka Saturday May 2S, and offer ev.
eryone an opportunity to secure the
poppy Assisting Mrs. lines are Mrs
Joe Nickel, Mrs. Leslie Edmonds Mrs
/ Frank Wilson, Mrs. A. NJ. Harvey and
| Mrs. John Mcintyre.
There will be a meeting of the cap
tains-and committees at the Elks clut
at o'clock Mopday afternoon.