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MAY 18, 1939 Buy One- Or More Next Tuesday,. May 23, is Poppy Day- that is, -if the weather 19, fa-vorable. If flot, it i be Wednésday, May 24. Ail over the United.States thousands o .f disabled veterans of the World .war ar e completing months of arduous work devot-, ed to making these artificial poppies, sym-, bouc oôf those that grow so profusely. in Flanders fields, remninders of the valorous scenes enacted there, of our boys who did,, Formàed 20 years ago :by' a group of war- weary, homnesick members of the Arnerican. Expeditionary Forces.at a caucus ln. Paris,' the Legion emnerged with a declaration of principles and purposes, which read like this: "We, the members of the military' and naval services o! the United States of America in the Great War, desiring to perpetuate the princi- pisof justice, freedom and democracy: for which Wé have fought; to meculcate the dt and obligation o! the citizen to the state; to pre- serve the historyand incidents o! our partici- pation in the war; and to cernent the ties of comradeship formned i'the service, do propose to found and establish an association for the furtherancié of the fnremoine nnrbnses." The House and Garden show which opened at the Coliseum Saturday and wiIl continue foir nine days, is attracting the presence of garden clubs, including those with alliterative and euphonious names. Further deponent sayeth fldt. Vox Poppers often hit the nail squarely onthe head.. One wants to -know if it doesn't seeM strange that the Xing, of England can.,t ake a 4,000-mile trnp to this country While-,the Presi- dent hesitates to run, down to Georgia for, a week-end for. fear the war will br-ea.k out while, heis gone. Elgin, to the west, is evidently aspiring to the. titie of Mecca. for students. of- natur'al history, Recently most of its residents gathered to view a mother squirrel m oving her family, and-now a cat that has added four orphan baby rabbits to her family of kittens is claimmng attention. the brightfaced littie erblems which you will be asked to buy, and which yqu should buy generously. It is upon the funds from this annual sale th at the American Legion and its Woniùn' s Auxiliary çlepend for their humanitarian work among disabled veterans and the widows- and children o! veterans. Our in politics, it has and has steadfastlý The Legion has ciples, and its mý lessly "to perpetuE fre'edom and demo< free from political hfan being a force ýred away from it at sound decision. u is original prin- ve worked cea se- In an Evanston home, an apparition», tbought to be a ghost, is mysteriously stripping house plants of their leaves. Probably. some departed g4rdener. If you are a tax dodger, you'd better 'dig your underground retreat a bit deeper. Twenty- five .sleuths from the County treasurer's office are looking for you. Government association says have the power tn nirifv i;ney tneir cluties, in t, of these is to buy pcl liberal quantities. *eat conflict. One next Tuesday in A Booat for Chicago Judge Cornelius J. Harrii of mehe nierican way, it has fostereti Boy Scout troops, junior, baseball, oratorical contests. It has made the promulgation of Arnericanism one of its. chie! duties, and it has done a remark- able, praiseworthy job. Yes, the tasks performed by the Legion in the last 20 years have been constructive and wor- **lat, irLai4a is u55getctwlien Ua nouse- wife spiashes ammnonia water into the eyes?" the health editor' is asked. [t might depend upon whose eyes she splashed the ammonia into. "Hang your vlothes on a hickory limb but don't go nea r the water," cautioned the fabled mother. It is apropos to the opening of the drowning season, which has already claimned many victims. from TIE PHINTOM-REPORTER