Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1920 — LEGION URGES POPPY AS MEMORIAL FLOWER [ARTICLE]

LEGION URGES POPPY AS MEMORIAL FLOWER

Indianapolis, March' 16.—Franklin D’Olier, national commanderof the American Legion* has received ■ a resolution from the Edward R. Rhodes Post of the American Legion, Tacoma, Wash., ’which, after urging the adoption of the Shirley poppy as the memorial flower of the legion, says, in part: “Lest we forget that 'ln Flanders fields the poppies grow, among the crosses, row on row,’ and that nature seems to have raised in these simple flowers the most eloquent monument —a waving scarlet blessing over their graves; - “Be it resolved that the American Legion urge that eVery public park, cemetery and every private garden, in gratitude to the men who made the supreme sacrifice, det aside a plot for the display of waving red poppies. That a red poppy *be' worn by every member of the American Legion every Memorial Day.” t