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To Haiti The Triumph Over Polio j
A new kind of celebration is in full swing in this country. This “month thousands of communities in every part of the land ate observing the 20th anniversary of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. It was NationalFounda' don leadership and National Foundation money, provided through Idle annual March of Dimes, that made possible the Salk vaccine and the hope that polio epidemics eventually will be eliminated forever in America.
Thinik what that means! No more mass hnprisonmeiit in iron lungs each summer; no mpre shriveled arms, legs, hands; no more dread in the hearts of millions of parents each time their children come home with “the symptoms.”
iThe best way to celebrate a blessing like this is to show • our gratitude. And the best way to be grateful for the Salk vadctoe is to think about the blighted lives of those for , whom it has come tod late and to do what we can to wipe out dr Relieve their helplessness. There are, in America, some 100,000 boys and girls, young men and women, who have had polio sad who need further rehabilitation. % These people can benefit, some of them tremendously, if modern techniques of rehabilitation are applied to their disability. It is the purpose of the March^of Dimes to finance the care they need. The cost will run to many millions., And the March of Dimes looks to us—to every one of us—to
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