OCR Text |
Show 2 Million Women to Join Mothers March To Support March of Dimes Health Goals The Golden Key of Hope a new symbol for a new decade of medical progress against crippling diseases is the badge some two million mil-lion volunteers will proudly wear in the 1961 Mothers' March climaxing the New March of Dimes. Symbolizing the need for research re-search to unlock the mysteries of such major cripplers as birth defects and arthritis, the Golden Gold-en Key also represents the vaccine vac-cine "keys" to polio prevention nerffvtpH through research ' -. : I -if'- , , , ;r- 4 - -' . v ' 'i , - i f . - i j x Glimpsed through a keyhole, three small victims of dread crippling diseases hold the Golden Key of Hope, 1961 Mothers' March symbol of March of Dimes-supported efforts to unlock the mysteries of their afflictions. They are, left to right, Gail Berg, Vi years, arthritis patient; Allen Markowitz, 5, polio victim; and Rosalie Porretto, 7, born with a birth defect, all of New York City. yww.wy m ade possible : '1 by the March of i ' i Dimes. xr-1 in most com-WW; com-WW; munities, the (.-,-.' Mothers' March f" will take place 1 the evening or .ft'ifijL ' afternoon of .4VMJ4 : Tuesday, Jan. ; if'tlTdi'i 31. Volunteers : uUv,' i identified by the " ; Golden Key badge will call on their neigh-' neigh-' : bors for support s-. in the cam-V cam-V , - ' it- r paign against l!Ar tragedies which Mothers' March affect one in Volunteer Badg every four American families. Each of the estimated 40 million mil-lion households visited in the Mothers' March will receive valuable health information cards including Do's and Don'ts for expectant mothers, Arthritis Arthri-tis Warnings, and Vaccination Alerts for the almost 85,000,000 Americans still not protected against polio. Beclouded by centuries Of superstition, birth defects are considered by medical authorities authori-ties to be the nation's most serious child health problem. Yet the fields of cause and prevention pre-vention were largely unexplored unex-plored until funds from the March of Dimes began to make intensive research possible. Pointers derived from early research re-search are included on the cards to be distributed by Mothers' March volunteers. The cards are also designed to bring home the realization that more than 1 1,000,000 Amer- icans suffer from some form of crippling arthritis. Many victims, vic-tims, grasping at straws, pay out a total of more than $250,-000,000 $250,-000,000 annually on quack "cures." The fact is that the causes of arthritis are largely unknown. There is no known cure, no known preventive. But research to find the key is being be-ing rapidly advanced through March of Dimes support. To improve treatment and rehabilitation of those crippled by birth defects and arthritis, a network of clinical study centers is being established by means of March of Dimes funds. Techniques developed by The National Foundation in aiding polio sufferers are applied ap-plied to children suffering from birth defects and arthritis. All of this research and patient pa-tient care would be impossible without health manpower and womanpower to put it to use. To help meet this drastic problem, prob-lem, March of Dimes funds support a health scholarship program in every state each year. Thus the Marching Mothers Moth-ers also seek support for an increase in-crease in the critical supply of doctors, nurses, physical therapists ther-apists and others dedicated to the improvement and protection protec-tion of the nation's health. |