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Show Democratic Study Group To Stage Roosevelt Dance Bingham will hold a birthday party for President Franklin . Roosevelt, Thursday evening, Jauu-ary Jauu-ary .!0, at the Legion civic ctuter, with the Democratic Study Group as hosts and sponsors. The ladies are looking forward to a large crowd and a plfcacant evening of dancing in anticipated by thu public. Seventy per cent of the receipts from the birthday ball will remain in the community for welfare aud hospitalisation work, while the remaining re-maining 30 ier cent will be forwarded forward-ed to the Warm Sprints Foundation in Georgia. Members of the local committee are Mrs. Carrie Doyle, Mrs. George Panos and Mrs. Herb Gust. TickeU are now on sale for only CO cents per couple. The third annual Birthday Ball for the President, like its predecessor, is primarily concerned with raising funds to fight infantile paralysis in this country. But despite th immediate im-mediate sympathy which contemplation contempla-tion of the Buffering of infantile paralysis victims evokes, there Is no intention of using an emotioaal appeal ap-peal to swell the fund. The process of rehabiliatioo after jmliomeytlitis is long and the benefits very slow to appear. If the convalescents con-valescents were to take a melancholy attitude toward their plight their chances of overcoming physical handicaps handi-caps would be greatly reduced. For this reason the psychological aspects of after-treatment are estremely important, im-portant, and they are duly stressed by such institutions as Warm Springs. If you notice pictures or tne youngsters undergoing treatment it I will be apparent to you that their attitude is far from meloncholy. Umil-ing Umil-ing and cheerful, they take the whole business of rehabilitation as a game, in which each tedious steo on the road to recovery repeated a thousand thou-sand times is like an individual play in a football contest to he worked uncomplainingly for all it is worth. This is why it is so appropriate o finance the battle against infantile paralysis through a nationwide party where nil who contribute by buying tickets may thoroughly enjoy themselves. them-selves. In the smallest community dance or the great ball at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York it will be the same-laughter will be the symbol of returning happiness to the afflicted. afflict-ed. President Roocvelt. whose birthday is the occasion of this tremendous gathering, has as we all knnow, taken the leadership in this fifiht against infantile paralysis. The one directorship direct-orship he retained after being inaugurated in-augurated as President wa that of the Warm Springs Foundation, and it is only fitting that, in this capacity as a leader of the organized fiuht against infantile paralysis, ho should be so honored on his birthday. j Hundreds of thousands of infantile infan-tile paralysis victims look to him as an inspiring example of what cheerful cheer-ful courasre can do to overcome disability. dis-ability. They look to him alao as a friend who will do all in his power to help in their own cases. AnMr own cuses do need help. ! For there is a yet woefully little that medicine can do to help them.j The cause of infantile paralysis is, still obsecure, and its manner of spreading. Immunization has not progressed pro-gressed far. And there are few hospitals hos-pitals properly equipped to administer adminis-ter after-treatment for rehabilitation. Much money is needed for research snd eQuipment, as well as for the expense of treating particular cases. Last year and the year before something some-thing more than a million dollars was raised at each of the previous birthday birth-day celebrations for the President. Seventy per -ent of thia amount was retained in the communities in which it was raised, to support local hospital hos-pital in earn and research. The remainder re-mainder went to the Warm Springs Foundation, center of the organized attempt to overcome infantile paralysis. paraly-sis. This year, with tho return of progress pro-gress toward normalcy, it is hoped that even more people will he alble to afford the magnificent evening's entertainment en-tertainment offered in each community com-munity by the President's Birthday ' Ball. Newspapers and local business men, as well as members of the local committees, can do a great deal to persuade them to enjoy themselves on the night of January .10. And by so doing, of course, help the fight against infantile paralysis. |
