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Show r 1 Nation Plans Birthday Gift for President, An Endowment for W arm Springs Foundation LKi-v " f Jb JL- ru ,v v - f s.., .. ir.. .-i- j. ?-.ll-fU--....v...JiV,x. tv.f. ,. Aswv ,y ... "More than 300,000 people in America . . . are partly op wholly crippled. About half of this number arc victims of infantile paralysis. Most of them could be greatly benefitted if adequate facilities existed." From a statement by President Roosevelt. si. 1 U. 111:1,1 fcMu t $ jLf : "rv" Ti rrniilTii ' A birthday ball in every community in the United States in honor of President Roosevelt on his 52nd anniversary on January 30 is planned by a committee of national leaders headed by Colonel Henry L. Doherty. The proceeds are to go to an endowment for the nation-wide work of the Warm Springs Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the presidency of which was the only outside interest retained by Mr. Roosevelt when he entered the White House. Upper picture, a group of child patients at Warm .:nngs; lower left, President Roosevelt dining with child patients at Warm Springs; right, one of the many child victims of infantile paralysis who are regaining the use of their limbs at Warm Springs. Among nearly 100 leaders on the national committee are General Pershing, Per-shing, Cardinal Hayes, William Green, Owen D. Young, Will Rogers, Will H. Hays and Edsel Ford. |
