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12 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tuesday, October 24, 1961 History Of Poppy Dates Away Back To Antiquity: A FRIEND OF THE LEGION Col. R. S. McLaughlin is shown during a visit to Branch 43 of The Royal Cana- dian Legion in bygone days. Ben Jacklin, business nrane- ger of Branch 43, is shown in rear. Congratulations The Poppy has a_ history dating back to antiquity. In the mythology of ancient China it was well-known, by the very potency of the drug distilled from it, as the flower of forget- fulness. And through the ages it kept this meaning until the time of the Napoleonic wars, when a thoughtful and observant writer of the period first recorded the intimate association the scarlet poppy had with the graves of those who had fallen in battle. He remarked that the fields of battle--Waterloo, Dettingen and others--bare wastes before the conflicts, blossomed out after battle and the burying of youth into vast stretches of scarlet-- the scarlet of the Flanders pop- pies. In the First World War mil- lions had the opportunity of ob- serving this singular phenome- non. They saw spring from the earth, where their fallen com- rades lay, great vistas of pop- | pies waving defiantly amidst the shot and shell and all the terror of warfare. A Canadian soldier- poet saw the poppies, too, and immortalized them in a world- famous poem -- "In Flanders Fields". The war ended, the men came back to start life afresh. They expected, and quite rightly too, that they would pick up the threads of civil life as they had put them down to take up arms in the service of their coun- try. Unhappily, disappointment awaited many of them, and soon we saw throughout the country thousands upon thousands of 'ex- service men and their families unable to obtain employment and living in conditions of dire distress. In the United Kingdom the British Legion has been formed to foster the interests of ex-|sources by those in distress. The service men, but it required|late Field-Marshal Earl Haig, funds to cope with the growing | Commander-in-Chief of the Brit- demands made upon its re- (Continued on Page 13) We Send Our Wishes For... Continued Success BRANCH 43 Royal Canadian Legion AND EXTEND yen ES ON YOUR 35th ANNIVERSARY Compliments of The Home of Quality Building Materials Oshawa Wood Products Courtice--Mill and Yard Oshawa Shopping Centre 728-1611 728-1617 The Staff and Management of -- DIXON'S 313 ALBERT STREET OSHAWA 723-4663 We the Management and Staff of Roy W. Nichols are indeed happy to extend our Sincere Congratula- tions to BRANCH 43 (Oshawa) on "their 35th Anniversary and to ail Legionnaires Across Canada. Are Happy Indeed to EXTEND BEST WISHES To The ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION (Oshawa Branch _. 43) ON THE OCCASION OF THEIR 30th ANNIVERSARY For the Best in Fuel Oil and Burners Its DIXON'S "Headquarters In Oshawa For "DELCO HEAT" Made only by GENERAL MOTORS THE BEST VALUES IN NEW & USED CARS IN OSHAWA & DISTRICT ROY W. NICHOLS GARAGE COURTICE