The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-05-05
Keep the Fdith"
That We Will Keep the Fdith
For Which They Died

Each year during the week of
Memorial Day the Veterans of Foreign
Wars conduct their annual national
Sale of Buddy Poppies, their crimson
petals a mute, poignant tribute of
memory to Americas soldier-dead a
renewed pledge "that we will keep the
faith for which they died"
All the Buddy Poppies are guaran-
teed by copyrighted green label
which Identifies them as the genuine
handiwork Of disabled and needy ex-
service men, and are made in govern
ment hospitals through an arrange
ment with the United States Veterans
Administration. A national total Of
more than 100000 Buddy Poppies
will be completed in readiness for the
opening of the 1888 Sale.
The endorsement of the President
of the United States is extended to
the Sale each year Other endorse
ments of national significance annual
ly extended include the General Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs; American
Federation of Labor; religious lead
ers; and business and professional as
sociations of outstanding prominence.
The entire proceeds Of the Sale arc
devoted to relief. This year that need
is urgent, when the ranks of those
without work include so many whose
war experiences left them handicapped
for self-support, SO many too, who
after years of effort, find that i'll
health forces them to ask for help.
Brigadier General Frank r. Hines.
Veteran Administrator, points out
that he considers 1898 a "critical" year
for former soldiers. "The average age
of World War veterans already is be-
tween As and 49," he said. "Increas-
ing age with natural physical handi-
caps and resultant unemployment con-
stitutes serious and progressive
problem, especially because of COM
mercial and industrial reluctance to
employ older men,"
The Sale is significant also to the
helpless widows and orphans of the
heroic departed through the allotment
of a portion of it's proceeds to the
Veterans of Foreign Wars National
Home for Widows and Orphans of Ex-
Service Men, in Eaton Rapids, Michi-
gan.
The V. F. w. National Home is a
community composed of individual
cottage units. Each of these is occu-
pied by a family group of children
and each child enjoys the privileges
and the care to which the average
American child is entitled. The Home
provides for their education, religious
training and their physical well being
until they reach the age where they
can properly care for themselves and
their future security. Individual think
ing is encouraged, and the develop
mcnt of individual personalities, by
the absence of dull, drab uniforms
drills and formations, severe restrict
ions or regimentations.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars was
the first veterans organization to un-
dertake and successfully conduct the
Poppy Sale movement on nation
wide scale. The first V. f. w. Matt
onal Poppy Sale was held in 1922
using French poppies made by womel
and children of the devastated areas
The following year, with a greater de-
mand, the organization had to resort
to poppies made commercially. The
present plan of manufacture was de-
veloped in 1924 in order to extend the
relief afforded by the poppies to those
men who were disabled and needy but
still capable of this employment, ant
the V. f. w. Buddy Poppy factory
organized, where only those handi
capped by war disabilities We're EN-