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Show Support Urged for 'March Of Dimes' Program By County Chairman By WESLEY A. NELSON I County 'Mareh of DLmm' Cliiilnnan The crippler marched again in 1943. The crippler marched, and thou- sands of Americans, mostly innocent inno-cent children, may not walk ai;ain. I For the crippler is infantile paralysis and there is no known i preventive, no cure. But research and treatment sponsored by The National Foundation Found-ation for Infantile Paralysis goes on unceasingly and helps many victims in their often hojKdess, always painful battle against this dread scourge. This cost.s money. The Foundation's Found-ation's annual fund appeal, this year from Jan. 11 to 31, will ( reach its climax as usual in na- , (Continued on page eight) March of Dimes (Continued from first page) tion-wide celebrations of the President's Pres-ident's Birthday. There is one beacon shining brightly and bravely along the dark path to freedom from this mysterious disease. The money contributed generously by a free people, to their National Foundation Found-ation was responsible for the fact that we were better prepared for an epidemic in 1943 than ever before. The crippler will march again in 1944 and especially as long as there is unavoidable war-time crowding and mass movement of people. But the march of the crippler, stalking America's future citizens, sabotaging America's war effor. striking ruthlessly in the dari is himself stalked by the in; orable March of Dimes, a ste of silver "ammunition" fightr the children's enemy on the c tion's healthfront. |