A nationwide march,

A nationwide march, calling for escalation and all-out efforts to win a war, is planned for the week of January 21. Feelings run high in favor of this cause and none will oppose it.

Everyone is a hawk in the battle against crippling birt\ defects which strike a quarter of a million newborn babies every year in the United States.

This year, more than a nyt-^ lion mothers have volunteered

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e heartbreak of birth defects,

arching Mothers know that M^bch of Dimes funds conquered polio in the 1950s and freed them from fear of this childhood crippler.

Now, determined that children handicapped by birth defects be given a better chance in life, and in the hope that unborn generations will be spared, volunteers will march through their neigborhoods on behalf of the 1908 March of Dimes campaign.

They will urge people to contribute to the important work carried on by medical teams at 100 March of Dimes birth defects centers and to support the voluntary health organization’s research and education programs.

For the fifth consecutive year, actress Jane Wyatt is serving as national chairman of the March of Dimes Mothers’ March on birth defects. As in the past, Miss Wyatt will personally lead the drive in her Southern California community, calling on her neighbors to ask them to give to the March of Dimes.

A frequent visitor to birth defects centers around the country. Miss Wyatt is staunch in her belief that the fight can be won if enough support is given to those who are leading th^ way.

March of Dimes-financed Centers conduct a triple attack on birth defects—the Great Destroyer. In addition to diagnosis and treatment, scientists are studying the causes of defects and ways of preventing them.

No birth defect ever touches one person alone. One American family in 10 knows the tragedy of a child with congenital handicap, either mental or physical. For this reason, the March of Dimes pays close