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You're all invited, so there's no
leld exercises as far'excuse for anyone with the desire'
my as a wholcjto see rhododendrons in all their?
ma 9 troops taking gorgeousness in their natural state,
qx. Aneuvers will com~ not being able to.
All that one needs do is
annual rhododendron tour
Garden Club
next Sunday. It starts from in
front of Memorial Hall at ten
on o’clock. Persons without transpor-‘
‘e)v A" Corps tation but desiring to go on the
tour should contact Mrs. L. D.
Hack so such arrangements can
,be made, while others with cars
.and room to spare in them are
likewise asked to notify Mrs. Hack
\of that fact.
1e i
Rhododendron tourists should
take along picnic lunches, which
will be eaten at Rainbow Park
on Walker Mountain. Efforts are
being made to have the Port An-
geles tour join up with the Shel—
ton tour at Rainbow Park.
ANNA BOETTIGER
ACCEPTS BID TO
ALDERBROOK lNN
Both To Talk at Chamber’s
President’s Da'ughter, H u s b a n d
Canal Program May 22
Anna R o o s e v c l t Boettiger,
daughter of the president, and her
husband, John Boettiger, publisher
of the Seattle P.-I., have accepted
ton Chamber of Commerce's an-
nual dinner program at Alder-
brook'Inn on Hood Canal May 22,
Program Chairman Walter M. E1-
liott announced yesterday.
Chairman Elliott has asked Mrs.
Boettiger to speak on her impres-J
she believes can be done to at—
tract morc tourists to this area.
Mrs. Boettiger's letter of accept-
iance indicated she would follow
‘ that request, Mr. Elliott said. Mr.
Boettiger’s subject is not known.
The Boettigers indicated they
would make the trip to Alder-
brook Inn in their yacht if the
weather is favorable at that
date, otherwise would drive
around. Acceptance of the invz-
tation to appear at the Alder-
brook Inn program by Mr. and
Mrs. Boettiger climaxes three
years of efforts to bring the dis-
tinguished Seattleites here.
Program Chairman Elliott has
also secured Louis Karl Weinel
to sing on the program. Other
details of the program will be
divulged as they develop, Mr. El-
nant Colonel A”: liott said.
A chicken dinner will be served
v at $1 a plate (the 75¢ price men-
tioned in the last. story being in
error). Reservations should be
made with Chamber President Ed
Faubert or Secretary Harold
Lakeburg.
This year a new system of serv-
ing the dinner for the Chamber
gathering will be tried, with per-
sons attending being served as
soon as they arrive at the Inn
from 5:30 on, Mr. Elliott said.
The entertainment program will
commence about 7:30 or 8 o'clock.
Mrs. Kjome, Agate
Resident, Passes
Mrs. Matilda Kjome, mother of
Mrs. Alma Hurst of Shelton, died
at her home in Seattle Sunday
and her funeral services and in-
terment were held in that city
Wednesday from the Wright cha-
pel. Besides her daughter Alma.
she is survived by four daughters,
Mrs. Florence Bates of San Fran-
cisco, Mrs. Myrtle Girtcn, Mrs. Eva
Sanstrom and Mrs. Miriam Russo,
and son John, all of Seattle.
K. J. Kjome and family came to
Shelton as manager for the,Mason
County Creamery Association in
its early years, and later located
on a farm in the Agate district,
which they sold on removing t0
neighbors and friends will sym-
pathize with the children in the
loss of their mother.
TONIGHT—City council meet~
ing, 8 p. m., city hall.
TONIGHT—Commercial league
bowling, 8 p. m., bowling a1-
leys, final matches of schedule.
TONIGHT—T e n n i s players"
meeting, 8 p. m., courthouse,
to discuss season’s plans.
FRIDAY—V.F.W. post and aux—
iliary meetings, 8 p. m., Mem-
orial Hall. . '
FRIDAY—Moose Lodge business
meeting, 8 p. m., new Moose
quarters.
SATURDAY—Superior court, 10
a. m., courthouse.
SUNDAY’Annual Shelton Gar-
den Club rhododendron tour,
10 a. m., Memorial Hall. Pub-
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join ,
sions of Hood Canal andv'what “
Seattle some 20 years agO. Old,
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SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Thursday, May 15, 19/11,.
BliNNEVlilE
, sun on
:‘F’owcr Line To Serve Bremcr‘ton
Navy Yard To Run Thru
This Area; 14 Men
in Gov’t Crew
, ()ffico quarters were established‘
1today in the former P.I.I.D. No. 3
space in the Labor Temple for a
14-man survey crew which will
survey the route and locate tower
sites for a Bonneville power line
.extension to serve the Bremerton
Navy Yard.
Sixteen miles of lines are to be
constructed between Shelton and
the Cushman power lines with an-
other crew working from Bremer-
ton to Cushman on a 20-mile
section of the extension.
l Alex Blankenvoort is the sur-
lveyman in charge of the survey
‘crew with J. M. Sehon as office
manager.
Whether a sub-station for the
iBonnevillc power administration
iwill be constructed here or near
here, Mr. Sehon was not able to
say today, nor was he able to
say just where the power for the
new lines would come from. There
is a major Bonneville sub-station
at Chehalis and another in Grays
Harbor, either of which probably
could supply the power.
The Bonneville line which will
pass through Mason County will
follow parallel to the
lines as much as possible, Mr.
. Sehon said.
The 14 surveymen in the crew
which will headquarter here are
all civil service men. At times the
force will be increased by from
three to five men, hired locally,
for slashing work when it is nec-
essary. Mr. Sehon said. The work
will require approximately four
months.
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invitations to speak at the Shei-lSanderson,
Flyers For Uncle
, Sam, Arrive Home
Within a few—hdurs of one an-
Sanderson and Ensign Donald
Wiss, two full—fledged contribu-
tions from Shelton to Uncle Sam's
military air might, arrived home
last weekend for brief vacation
visits before returning to active
duty as this country prepares for
the possibility of war.
Major Sanderson has just re-
turned from a strenuous schedule
of activity with the U. S. Marine
Air Corps in its winter war games
and maneuvers in the Caribbean
Sea, covering such points as
Cuba, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and
other defensive bases between the
Gulf of Mexico and South Ameri-
ca.
Major Sanderson came here via
railroad from his home base at
Quantico, Va., and will return
there late next week.
Ensign Wiss arrived by auto
trip from Pensacola, Florida, and
will start back next Tuesday for
a six—week instructors‘ course at
the same training base. He com-
pleted his training for active duty
about ten days ago and now is
commissioned as an ensign in the
U. S. Naval Air Corps. Upon
completion of the instructors'
course he will start upon his
arrival back at Pensacola Ensign
Wiss expects to be assigned to
instructor duty either at Pensa-
cola, Jacksonvillc, Fla., or Cor-
pus Christi, Texas. If the United
States becomes an active par-
ticipant in war his duty will be
scouting for the U. S. Navy fleet,
he said.
Safeway Manager
Makes Debut In
Town With Sale
Introducing a new manager,
Roy Maddux, to Shelton, a giant
New Managers Sale will be con-
ducted by the local Safeway store,
beginning tomorrow.
Mr. Maddux, formerly located
,in Tacoma, comes to Shelton
soundly trained in the principles
,of efficient store management,
with the paramount idea of giv-
mg the people of Shelton the best
possible service.
Mr. Maddux has already pur-
chased a home on Hillcrest and
ihas moved his family down from
l Tacoma.
lic invited to join caravan.
SUNDAY-#Town team baseball,
2 p. m., Loop Field, Shelton vs.
Rochester.
MONDAYWCounty Commission-
ers, 10 a. m., courthouse.
SUNDAY—~Public golf competi-
tion, 10 a. m., Shelton golf
course, blind bogey match.
TUESDAY—Kiwanis club ladies
night and inter—club program,
(tiziio p. m. dinner, Shelton Ho-
e .
TUESDAY~American L e g i o n
Post and Auxiliary meetings, 8
p. m.,vMemorial Hall.
TUESDAY—S. W. prep league
baseball, 3:30 p. m., Loop Field,
Elma vs. Shelton.
Cushman ‘
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other, Major Lawson E. "Woody"
‘welfare entirely up to Mr. Wren.
‘ had done his duty of feeding her}
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Willi SENN
Orphaned Wren Family '
If anyone should ask you, Mr.
and Mrs. Marvin Lenian of 232
San Juan street have done a right
smart job of playing foster-par-
ents to a semi-orphaned family
of house wrens, Mister.
The occasion arose some two
weeks ago when the mother wrcnl
flew into the Lemon hOIISe
through the open back door and
crashed into a window trying to:
get out again. The accident end-
ed fatally for Mrs. Wren.
That happened the day after
the fifth and last blessed event
had occurred in the wren fam-
ily, leaving the featured family’s
He showed his gross inexperience;
at such things right off the bail
and it took him a couple of days!
to get things figured out. . l
During the time Mrs. Wren had
been sitting on the nest Mr. Wren,
nobly. But five hungry little
mouths seemed to baffle him for
a while and he never did bring
himself to sitting on the nest to
keep his babies warm.
Delicate Feeding Job
This was where Mr. and Mrs.
Leman stepped in with their job
of pinch-hitting for the late Mrs.
Wren. During the two or three
days it took Mr. Wren to figure
out his feeding duties and sched-
ule, Mr. and Mrs. Lcman caught
bugs and fed them to the hungry
little wrens with a pair of twoez—i
ers.
Luckily the wren‘nest had been
built on a shingle which happen-
ed to be lying on a shelf on the
Leman back porch, so when night
came Mr. and Mrs. Leman simply
picked up the shingle and took it
into the kitchen.
Mr. Leman suspended an elec-
tric heater from the porch roof
in such a fashion that its
heat kept the nest in warmth
during the days, and so the little
ones didn't miss their mammzi’s
protective wings.
They‘ll Fly Away Soon
Now the little wrens are about
ready to test their tiny wings
and fend for themselves, all but
the runt of the family, that is, for
he died about a week ago.
In the meantime, Mr.
seems to have sensed that
and Mrs. Leman have been trying
.to help him raise his family for
he waits patiently until the nest
is brought outside each morning,
then busily begins fetching feed.
His instincts tell him he has no-
thing to fear from Mr. and Mrs.
Leman so he goes about his feed—
ing duties regardless of how near
they are to the nest and even
flits back and fourth from his
forays with strangers within a
stride or so of the nest.
Wren
So despite the tragedy which.
struck in the early hours of their
lives this little family of house
wrens seems due to reach ma—
turity like any» other bird family,
thanks entirely to the kind hearts
and patience of Mr. and Mrs.
Leman.
Mrs. Smith Attending
'ton school senior band enters its
Mr.
:Mr“ D. B. Davies, reception chain l
Public Health Meet
Mrs. Florence Smith, Mason
County public health nurse, ac-
companied by Miss Florence Fras-
er, Kitsap County public health
nurse, left today to attend the
Washington State Public Health
Convention in Yakima Friday and
Saturday.
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This large group of
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Band To Play in
Regional Music
Meet At Tacoma ,
Bent on adding to their already
numerous laurcls, the crack Shel—i
stiffest competition next Satur-
day when it enters the Northv/esi‘.
Regional High School Music Meet;
at Tacoma against bands with
“Superior” ratings from Wash-i
ington, Oregon, Idaho and Mom,
tana.
The Shelton band is scheduled'
to play at 3:30 o'clock Saturday
afternoon in the Stadium high
school auditorium. A “Superior”
rating at this Regional competi-
tion entitles bands to go to'Chi-
cago for the national meet.
New pants and skirts, complet-
ing the uniforms of the band
which so far have consisted onIV,
0!? sweaters, will be worn by the!
Shelton musicians for hair
coma appearance.
.Shelton also will have a rep-
resentative in the individual in~
Strumental cempctition in the pcr~
Son of Art Biehl, talented clar-
lnet player, who will perform in
solo at 1:56 p. in. Friday in thcl
College of Puget Sound auditor-
ium. I
LIBRARY SLATES
OPEN HOUSE Filll ’
LAST WEEK lN MAY
Public Invited To Special Funo-i
tion May 28; Mrs. Lewis
General Chairman
Shelton has an enjoyable event,
for which to look forward. This!
is the Open House at the Shelton?
Public Library on Wednesday ove—
ning, May 28th, from 7:30 pm”;
until 10, which will be given by:
the Library Board of Trustees!
and the librarian, Mrs. Plumb. The ,
General Chairman is Mrs. Charles;
R. Lewis, who will be assisted by ‘
man. Dr. Robert E. Brown hasl
charge of the exhibits and Dr,
George A. LeCompte will notifyl
the clubs. Mr. A. C. Bayley will,
give the address of welcome.
The Shelton Garden Club will
decorate the library for the con
casion. Chapter B, P.E.O. will
have charge of the refreshments,
Certainly this promises to be a
fine evening. Residents of Shelton
and Mason County are urged to
attend. There will be many guests
also from afar. The entire pro-
gram will be announced later.
From this brief sketch in this
first announcement no doubt ev-
eryone will jot down on the cal-
ender a. date for this evening.
The public is urged to attend.
The Open House has as one of its
underlying purposes that closer
contact with the library gives us
a clearer idea of its possibilities
as a community center. The pro—
gram against this background of
books will speak for the library as
an ever active cultural center.
Remember the time and the
date. You'really cannot afford to
, 20
miss this. Watch the paper for
the program.
Last. Yeargs-Infants, Mothers Pose On Hospital Day
BACK EN?”
Negotiators (Tailed To “dishing—
ion By Federal ll'lcdiation
Board On l.\V.A. Strike
Action For Hearing
Three tugbouls sent here yes-
toi‘day to low out. logs from
booms in Shelton bay returned
to their home docks without their
tows when they encountered row—
boat picket lines set up by strik-
ing members; of Local 38, I.'\N.A.,
Charla-s Savage, business agent
of the local, reported today.
Savage said there are now over
operations with I.VV.A. con—
tracts under the jurisdiction of
Local 38 which are down because
of tho present strike which has
taken all I.‘W.A. members affiliat-
ed with (11.0., and many with
A. F. of I.., a , off their jobs
throughout W ,. .ri'n W’sshington.
The Federal Mediation Board
is holding a hearing next Monday
in Washington, D. 0., concerning
the. i.“W.A. walkout action with
yo.prosci‘itativcs of the negotiating
committees of both operators and
the I.W.A. being called to the na—
tional capital to sit in on the
hearing. C. H. Kreienbaum, a
member of the operators' com—
mittee and executive vice-presi-
dent of the Simpson Logging Com-
pany was one. of the operators’
repri; cntutives called to \Vashing-
1 ton.
Business Agent Savage said that
the largest meeting Local 38 has
had in years unanimously rejected
the proposal made by the opera-
tors. “Tho proposal would have.
a tendency to split the. member-
ship because of a raise for some
and none for others,” Savage ex-
plained. “There was no vacation
offered for this year, either,” he
added.
All strike committees of‘ all
locals in the Grayr‘wWillapa har-
bor I.W.A. council were called
to Aberdeen last Saturday eve-
ning to a meeting for the purpose
of coordinating the strike policies
of the several locals, Savage re-
ported. Local 38 sent Harry Slici-
ton, its strike committee chair-
man, Lawrence ’White, Archie
Kidd, Lon Bray and Harold Dun-
bar, other members of its strike
committee, to the meeting as its.
official representatives, with most
of its officers and several rank-
and-f‘ile members sis“ attending.
BOOMMEN, RAFTERS
RA'FIFY PROPOSAL
The Olympia—Shelton Boommen
and Rafters Union No. 11-131, in
a special meeting last evening in
Olympia, ratified the employers’
offer of $8.15 per day and an ad-
ditional 16 cents per day in lieu
of vacation witlbpay, H. E. Boone,
recording secretary, reported to
Thu Journal today.
This makes the rate of pay for
Boommen in this area $8.31 per
day, an increase of 96 cents per
day over the previous scale of
$7.35, he said.
“The Boommen are not parti-
Cipating in the present strike in
any way but some booms ave
been shut down by loggers‘ picket
lines," Boone pointed out. “The
boommen. howover, have pledged
support to the loggers in their
strike.”
mothers, holding babies born to them during the past year
at Shelton General Hospital, posed for th eir plcture’in group formation
on the front
steps of the hospital Monday afternoon as one of the features of the
“open house”
program observing National Hospital Day. You probably know many of them,
see if
you can pick them out of the group. Several other mothers and babies
didn’t arrive
in time to be included in this picture but registered during the “open
house program
nevertheless. (Photo by Andrews Studio),
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OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
Commencement
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Be Tuesday, May 2 7
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May 31 Deadline
For 1st Half Tax
Payments, Folks
County Treasurer Omcr L.
Dion 'cautioned Mason County
taxpayers today that unpaid
first half taxes for 1941 become
delinquent after May 31, after
which they are subject to in-
terest penalties.
Payments on real estate tax
contracts also are due by that
same date, he added, so it be—
hooves thrifty property owners
to start stowing away their
loose change in preparation for
this deadline.
If half of one’s real tax bill
for 1941 is paid by May 31 the
second half can ride along un-
til Novombcr 30 without being
subject to the interest penalty,
but after November 30 the sec-
but after November 30 the sec-
latc intereSt, too.
FIVE MORE CALLED;
CLASSIFICATION IS
TO. BE SPEEEEE UP
Questionnaires To Be Sent. All ’
Registrants; 54. Now In
Army, 74 To Be In
By June 30th
Five more Mason County men
have been‘notified to prepare for
induction into Army selective ser-
vice training under the eighth
draft call on June 5, Mrs. Martha
Haines, clerk of the Mason Coun-
ty draft board, announced yes-
terday.
The five whose numbers came
up are Marlin Pearl Harvey, now
of Castle Rock; Robert Nestor
Olund, Gerald Fretz and George
Thomas Sawyer, all of Shelton;
and Adolph Trousil, Route 3, Shei-
ton.
Two others, replacements for
rejected men, will report on May
20, having been deferred from
original orders to report on May
6. They are Harold Moore and
Merlin O. Rickerts.
Allotment Raised
The five men called for the
June 5 induction brings to 54 the
number of men who have been
called into training from Mason
County. Seventy—four are to be
called by June 30, Mrs. Haines
said, a boost from the original 71
allotted this area.
‘ The local draft board has been
instructed to proceed with the
classification of all registered men
as quickly as practicable, so ques-
tionnaires will be sent out at the
rate of about 200 a month from
now on, acc0rding to new orders
received by the local draft board.
from Selective Service headquar-
ters.
All To Receive Forms
Previous orders had been to
send out questionnaires only as
needed to fill quota calls so that
data on the questionnaires would
be as up-to-the-minute as possi-
ble. Although the questionnaires
are sent out now, registrants will
not be sent up for their physical
examinations until there is a quo-
ta call to be filled.
Registrants have five days in
which to fill out and, return their
questionnaires. Assistance in
filling out the forms may be
received gratis by any registrant
from any Mason County lawyer.
SALE AT McCONKEYS
With many fine bargains to be
obtained, McConkey Pharmacy
will conduct a One Cent Sale run-
ning from this weekend to next.
A large advertisement on page
five of today’s Journal carries
further details of the sale.
President Of Bellingham Normal
To Be Graduation Speaker;
Graham Theatre Again
To Hold Exercises
Commencement exercises for
the thirty-second senior class to
graduate from the Shelton school
system will be held. May 27 at
the Graham Theatre starting at
eight o’clock with 109 seniors
scheduled to receive their diplo-
mas, City Schood Supt. H. E.
Loop announced today after com-
pleting final arrangements.
Dr. W. W. Haggard, president
of Western Washington College of
Education (formerly known as
Bellingham Normal), will give
the commencement address.
Student speakers for the pro-
gram include Thelma Turner, Wal-
ter Snelgrove, Maxine Carstairs,
and Phil Palmer, who will use
the theme of “Cooperation” for
their speeches. Cooperation in
the home, in economics, in cultur-
al life, and in government will
be the four'phases discussed by
the student speakers. Snelgrove
and Palmer earned their places
on the' commencement program
t h r o u g h scholastic excellence,
while Miss Carstairs and Miss
Turner were selected by members
of the senior class from the ten
highest seniors in scholastic stand—
ing.
Rev. J. O. Bovee, Baptist pas-
tor, will give the invocation and
Miss Margaret Shumway will play
a piano solo as other parts of the
32nd annual commencement ex-
ercises.
Baccalaureate will be held on
June 1 in the junior high school
vauditorium at p. m., with Rev.
M. C. Muhly, Lutheran pastor, in
charge of the program. School
for the 1940—41 term will close
on June 4, Supt. Loop said to-
day.
Seniors scheduled to receive
their diplomas at the May 27th
exercises, barring last minute
scholastic troubles, are:
Richard Ammerman, Roy An-
derson, Evelyn Arndt.
William Batstone, Elaine Ben-
nett, Frank Berets, Arthur Biehl,
Mary Booth, Bernard Boylan,
Norma Brassfield, Berdina. Buch-
mann.
William Carder, Maxine Car-
stairs, Walter Charlson, Helen
Clark. Maxine Clark, Edgar Cole,
James Cormier, Lynn Crossman,
Janis Cross.
Louise Daniels, Lewie Daugh-
erty, Bonnie Jean Deegan, Verley
Downie, Vivian Downie, Betty
Duffey.
(Continued on Page Eight)
Hedrick Rejoins
Active Aviators,
Has Another Ship
After a couple of years of com-
parative inactivity, Hebert Hed-
rick is back among the active
aviators in these parts and in
possession of a plane of his own
again, _
Hedrick went to Portland last
week to take delivery of a 330-
horsepower, six-cylindered Wright
Whirlwind motored monoplane of
six-passenger capacity. The or-
ange colored ship probably will
be a familiar sight in the skies
above Shelton and Mason Coun-_
ty. Hedrick took it to Olympia
Tuesday evening and will keep
it at the Olympia airport as there ,
is no hangar space available here
at the present time and the Shel-
ton airport’s availability to pub-
lic use now that the Navy has
taken it over probably will be
only of a temporary‘nature.
Hedrick’s new ship was built.
in 1930 and was used on a. com-
mercial passenger service in Ten—
nesec for many years. It is rig-
ged for high altitude flying, emis-
es at 110 to 115 miles an hour
with a top speed of about 140
miles an hour. It’s fuel tanks
hold 100 gallons of gas.
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Disabled veterans of the World
War benefit in many ways from
America's custom of wearing pop—
pies in honor of the war dead on
the Friday and Saturday before
Memorial Day, point out Mrs.
Eula Martin and Fred Hickson,
respective poppy sales chairmen
for the American Legion Auxil-
will once more hold their annual
poppy sales on the same days, Fri-
day and Saturday, May 23 and
24, in Shelton . ,
Many hundreds of veterans in
government hospitals and Aux-
iliary work-rooms throughout the
country are given employment
making poppies each year.
year more than 12,000,000 of the
little red flowers have been pro—
duced by the disabled men and
their earnings have amounted to
approximately $120,000 .
V.F.W. rehabilitation programs,
which poppy funds help finance.
The aid which the veterans re-
l
DisABiEn VETERANS AIDED
THROUGH SALESflOF PUPPIES
iary and the V.F.W. post, who.
This
ceive extends from postage stamps
with which to write home to their
families from the hospitals to
technical and legal services in
proving their claims for com-
pensation, and includes every va<
riety of help possible for the Le-
gion and V.F.W. to extend.
“Although the war is now more
than 22 years in the past, the'
number of disabled veterans is
still increasing," said Mrs. Mar-
tin. "Injuries and exposure of
war service are adding more vet-
erans to the ranks of the dis-
abled each year, as advancing
age makes it more difficult for
these men to carry on under their.
handicaps. Results of wounds and
illnesses which could be camed‘
in youth, become disabling when
A vastly larger number of dis-
abled veterans benefit from the
poppies through the Legion and
the burden of age is added. Diffi-
culties of proving the war origin
of these disabilities at this late
date bar a great number of theta
men from, government compen-
sation. They look to the Legion
and V.F.W. for aid, and the Le-
gion and V.F.W. look to the pop-
py for necessary funds."
