New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-06-02
Women Spoiled
Poppy Drive,
LegionCharges
Veterans to Realize Little. If
Any. Profit, Says Deegan,
While League. With Paid
Help, Exceeds $4,000
Mrs. Perry Issues Defense
Declares Dugout Will Bcne-
fit: Girls Hired by Older
Service Mothers. She Says

The American Legion yesterday
Joined Us protest 70 that Of tho Vet
Grams Of Foreign Wars over the poppy
drive" o. the Senior League. The vet
Grams declared that tho activities II
The women had seriously inteffersd
with their sales o. peoples on No
mortal Day. so that very little II any
profit" would result. and they repeated
the charge that tho league had COM
mcrcialized The poppy By employing
paid salcswomen.
The women. on The other hand. de-
clared that they would turn over Ap-
proximatcly $4,000 20 the Dugou; IS
Tcsu., NJ their sales Every cont
realized from tho poppios. after q
minimum for expenses had been de-
Quoted. would ho returned 70 ;hr Dug
ou' Tor lie yocationa. work among dis
a6lcd soldiers. said Mrs Roland Hinton
Perry. chairman % The Senior League.
Says Public VIII BE Satisfied
Mrs. Perry said the financial state
mcnt % the drive was not yet COM
plete. As returns from other towns were
not all in. but that ;he public would
be satisfied that the women had KEEP;
their expenditures down % a minimum
and that the welfare work FOR cx-
soldiers ~ the Dlrol. would nroht
from the drive The Senior League
vas called into existence. she said.
solely % assist tho bugout officials ir
marketing tho peoples made hy the
soldiers DO their workro0ms.
The Senior League did not ray any
wages 20 rs salcEwomcn. who were all
society girls" saii MrE. Perry. "bui
u is true taat the Service Star
Mothers. an allied Organization from
Ho5oken, had an emergency fund from
which 70 was prepared % pay young
women for selling rs peoples.
This fund was Kept separate from
.he main campaign budget. md vas DO
mated privately hy older women ~ho
could not sell on the streets them
selres. but were willing 20 pas substl-
tste1. Tho Service Star Mothers opcr-
atcd just ne the Dugou; did; namely,
they hired veterans and veterans rela-
'iges 70 make the peoples. thereby Civ
ing them n chance % earn little
money: they paid the Dugout five cents
apiece FOR each poppy they sold and re-
tanned the rest FOR the use 81 their or
ganization. which means % DO veteran
relief work In Hoboken'
Can't Understand Fuss
Mrs. Hinton said that the chief dif-
ference between the women's poppy
drive and that conducted by the vet
erans' organizations was that the pop
PICS sold by the women we're the prod
uct o. the work o. disabled soldiers in
the Dugout. while the mems organiza-
lions bought their peoples from COM
mcrcial house
They had millions ~ popples,' she
said. Il cannot understand vhy they
make such a fuss about or POOR little
100000 They had all the advantage
Of a great well organized body, with
political prestige. We had nothing
but the energy o. o hastily organized
group OF women
That the Senior League vendors
were highly successful % certain
periods Of their poppy selling cam
paicn was evident vixen Mrs. Perry
introduced Mrs. James T. Hand. chair
man OF the street vendors Mrs. Hand
and a group Of debutantes took in,
sae said. $3.50 in an hour and a half
on Wall Street the first day Of their
drive, last FRIDAY One man paid $50
for a poppy and there were many sales
OF $40 and SIS.
The Senior League sold appro/
raiely 100 600 peoples The expenses
OF their campaign, Mrs. Perry said.
would probably not exceed $1,000 in.
oluding printing and the salaries Of
Office s,af. II r. expected that this
amount will be covered by the cxeess
prices pad in many cases for the
peoples Ten cents was the nominal
price. and 100000 poppics AZ ten cents
would make $4,000. but the tota. re-
ce.p;s probably will exceed this
amount.