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Show Three Million Join Mothers' March oh Polic I iMpp, ' mm ! Three million women in over 60,000 American communities will provide a stirring climax to the month-long March of Dimes this week by staging a Mothers' March on Polio. The Motheri' March is the biggest single 60urce of funds for the March of Dimes. In many communities, it has be- come the event of the year with I almost everyone participating. I The Post Office motto about "snow, nor rain, nor sleet," etc. could well apply to these women. wom-en. The annals of the Mothers' I March ore filled with examples I of how they have used dog I sleds, skis, anowshoes, hip boots and sou'westers to make their "appointed rounds." I They have gone out In billiards, bill-iards, sleet storms, hurricanes ! and cloudbursts, to visit evy homo where A porchllght fijr-i fijr-i naled a waiting contribution for the March of Dimes. The desire to give is strong, as the following incident shows: In a Wyoming city, Mothers' , March headquarters received a j call late one night from a wld-l wld-l ow with seven small children. I Somehow, she said, the family had been missed. I When the marching mother got there she found tlie seven ' children dressed in their best, waiting to donate their pennies to help "protect children against polio. t The 1955 March of Dimes continues con-tinues to January 31. |
