The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
SOCI E T Y
Ten Thousand Poppies
For All To Buy On
Memorial Day

Ten thosuand peoples are to be sold
on the streets OF Birmingham when
that wonderful time-Decoration Day
rolls over this wonderful city, with
its sad folks and its glad folks-and
all the folks who thrilled to the go
ing away to war or to the coming
back again of the soldiers who wore
the blue or tho gray or the brown.
me sale of these peoples Will go
to glorious cause-that of raising
an endowment fund with which to
care Tor the graves Of those who
went over but did not come back
again-the graves of those who lie In
foreign countries. The fund will in
sure that all these graves shall be
decorated on Memorial Day each sea-
son.
women-who themselves are SO dear
to all our hearts-are TO sell these
peoples; and 1t Is hoped that the lapel
of each mans coat-the fur or the
bodice of each girls gown-be orna-
mented with the blazing sign of the
red bloom, which shall shout SO
loudly:
we have not forgotten! Those we
loved and lost a while still are as
much living part of our world as
these flowers"
And to each one who sees the bios
ly-loudly-loudly.
Two Organizations Serving.
Those who are behind the sale Of
the flowers are the American Leg
we love that organization-and the
Ladies' Auxiliary to that body. And
by the way. they need many more
workers in the drive, and are asking
that those who will donate their serv-
ices for a part or the whole of the
day, get in touch with Mrs. w. S.
Smith Hemlock 335W, who has
bravely assumed the responsibility of
selling the bright blossoms. She
will be assisted by several commit
tees of young women, who will as
semble At the Southern club, May 80,
at $3.50 o'clock a. nr. From there,
they will be assigned certain sections
of the city in which to sell.
Anyone wishing to work also may
get in touch with any one of these
committee chairmen: Miss Mamie
Morrow. Miss Florence Jordan. Miss
Mary Mccarthy, Miss Elizabeth
Perry.
Listen where your money will take
next years Memorial Day flowers If
you buy the peoples. Let Russell F.
Walthour, Jr, adjutant general of the
American Legion tell you.
There are 32,5S7 American SOL
diers buried overseas who are scat
tered throughout France, England,
ireland, Belgium and Scotland and
one lone soldier boy lies in sunny
Spain. In these countries, gathered
in ten United States national Gene
teries, beautifully kept, the ashes of
these brave Americans are hallowing
the soil of far-off lands. There's a
cemetery at Romagne in the Argonne,
where $4,000 comrades are sleeping.
The violets are blooming again over
the graves of 1900 American dead In
Belleau Wood. AT Thiacourt, lie 100
buddies who went out into No Mans
Land, never to return. We must not
permit the people of the countries In
which these American soldiers are
buried to care for the graves of our
buddieS without our assistance or to
feel that America has failed in the
least to properly remember the sac
rifice they have made.
The American Legion invites all
ex-serVice men to take part In Me-
mortal Day parade at o'clock In
the afternoon, it is hoped that every
ex-service man in Birmingham Will
feel it is his duty to, in this way, pay
respect to the memory of his former
comrades