The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-25
Flanders Topples Fo, Decoration
 Day

By JOSEPHINE NIXON HENLEY Tn Flanders fields, the poppies grow
 Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place; and in the sky
 The larks. still bravely singing. fly. Scarce heard amid the guns below.
 We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn. saw sunset glow,
 Loved ~~d were loved. and now we
 lie
 In Flanders fields.
 "Take up our quarrel with the foel
 To you, from falling hands. We
 throw
 The torch. Be yours to lift it highl
 If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though peoples
 grow
 In Flanders fields.
 IT. COL. JOHN MCRAE.
 Tuesday Is National Decoration man. every woman and every child in Birmingham will wear a poppy in memory of those soldiers who fought on Flanders field.
 Every home, from which 6 soldier was sent to the World war should show wreath, in the window. and the graves of the soldiers, dear to the hearts of Birmingham people, should be adorned with them.
 The Veterans of Foreign Wars will supply these poppies. which were mado by the widows and orphans of France. No tribute to the soldiers, who went overseas. could be more Appropriate than the blood red poppy of Flanders fields, and no hands could more fittingly be engaged in their making than those of the WAT widows and orphans of France.
 The veterans will be assisted in selling the poppies, which will come in single flowers, in punches and ar- ranged in wreaths, by the Womens au&ii.ary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars. tue Woman's Relief corps and other Wrmer of the city.
 Every penny that is realized from the sale will go to a worthy cause some to the widows and orphans wno made the IT, some to the American ixation program of the Veterans of IoreIgn Wars. some to the local re- lief work O. the V. F. W.
 The veterans ask Gan you afford not to buy. Can you afford not to buy II nhole-heartedly. with the me- nioty Of those who fought our bat tlee, both living and dead. before you? Then buy in memory-and buy 
 A few pennies and who knows what heavy load you may lighten"
 The following letter, from Pres ident Harding. is addressed to Mir. Reuel W. Elton, adjutant general. Veterans of Foreign Wars, New York: My dear General Elton:
 T find myself heartily in sympathy with the purpose of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American War Motl CTS, in their request that the people at large shall wear on Me- morial Day poppy, the interallied memorial flower. It is a most ap- propriate mode of testifying our re- memBrance and recognition of the great obligation Of the nation 10 those who gave everything in the service during the World war.
 sl trust tLat the suggestion you haNa presented will be generally aaersea throughout the nation. Very slas-Ysiy.
 WARREN J. HARDING" - R. V. Bil.iard's answer to the call from Flanders field is: "Ne.ve learned the lesson that ye
 taught,
 Rest ye in peace, ye Flanders dead, The fight that ye so bravely led We've taken up and we shall keep True faith with you who lie asleep With each a cross to mark his bed, And Poppies blowing overhead Where once his own life blood ran
 red
 So let your rest be sweet and deep In Flanders fields.
 Fear not that ye have died for
 naught--
 The torch ye threw to us we caught; Ten million hands will hold it high,