New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
SALE OF POPPlES
 ID START FRIDAY
Two Day Distribution in This
 City for Disabled Warriors

me annual sale or Memorial Pop. pies by Eddy Glover post, American Legion. will be held Friday and Sat- urday of this week. Sale of the flow CT which is the official reminder of the men in the country's services who died during the World War. in the factories of the city. was started last Monday and almost 5000 of them have been purchased.
 Leslie N. Golf. general chairman of the, poppy drive. is being efficient ly aided in the work of distribution by the following members of his committee: American Hosiery. Roger Whitman; P. & F. Corbin. Merwin Peterson: Corbin Cabinet Lock Co.,. Frank Dugan: Corbin Screw Corp. Grace Stowell: Hart & Cooley and Hart & Hutchison. Harold s. Covell: Landers. Frary & Clark. John John son: North & Judd. Fred Ward: New Britain Machine Co.,. R. J. King: Parker Shirt Co.,. M. Sheridan: Rus- sell & Erwin. Edward Johnson: Stanley Rule & Level Co.,, Edward Stack; Stanley Works. Orrin Curtis; Skinner Chuck Co.,. Kenneth Wall thers: City Hall. Dewey Selander: banks. Abbie Dawson.
 The American Legion Auxiliary committee which will have charge of the street sale of the peoples on Friday and Saturday and the women who will carry through the work of vending them. are as follows: Mrs. Roger Whitman. Mrs. Norman Ber- tini. Mrs. Rosalie Bertinin. Mrs. Ma than Avery. Mrs. Fred Tyler. Mrs. Fred Hoffman, Mrs. Fred Ellsworth. Mrs. Douglas Johnson. Mrs. Walter Milkey. Mrs. Elizabeth Case, Mrs. George Mitchell. Mrs. Arthur Petts. Mrs. Edward Ogren. Mrs. Leon Pit ney, Mrs. s. N. Whittemore. Mrs. George Kincaid. Mrs. Leroy Ensmin- ger. Mrs. Marion McGrath. Mrs. Kalin and Mrs. Ball.
 The sale of the poppy by the American Legion serves two pur- poses. First it gives many disabled servicemen chance to make a IN ClIuOOu boA0 uoC dA NlC POPpICo are manufactured by disabled men and they receive one cent each for them. For many this is the first money earned by them since the war and the work is probably the greatest blessing that can befall them. Many of these men are not being compensated and the money derived is the only means of liveli- hood that some of them have.
 The proceeds received from the sale of the flower throughout the country are turned in almost all of the posts into some sort of needy charitable work. In the Eddy Glover post, the money is devoted to a welfare fund with which mem- bers of the post who are i'll or in- jured. are treated to small remem- brances at times, boxes are sent at Christmas time and other days to the New Britain veterans in hospi- tals. floral offerings are sent to funerals and hundreds of other lit- tie services for those in need.
 The poppy is peculiarly adopted to the real memorial of the men who died in France. Tn that country the flower grows in abundance especial ly in Flanders where many of the bloody battles of the war were fought. There at the present day as the white crosses which mark the resting places of American sol- diers. stretch row on row. the pop pies rear their heads above the grass as q perpetual reminder that there lie the mortal remains of noble souls who paid the supreme sacrifice.