Show on with the dance several million americans will join with the president and his family in a happy celebration of his fifty fifth birthday on january 30 A at the same time they will vill give perhaps as much as a million dollars toward the alleviation of suffering lfering su and the attack of science on infantile paralysis this year colonel henry L doherty chairman of the national committee for tho the presidents birthday ball for the fourth time estimates that no fewer than five thousand parties will be given throughout the nation americans in tail coats sunday suits wind breakers pierrot costumes sweaters and overalls le beardless ardless boys men in the prime of life war veterans bewhiskered granddads grand dads the high school basketball team fifth avenue sophisticate and midwestern mid western farm hand alike will twirl the ladles ladies in a waltz entrance them with a rumba or on stomp their way elegantly through a virginia reel but this year when the industrialist and the cotton picker agree times are better things are going ahead this year when there Is a once again a chance for everyone to earn a 21 good living and look forward to a future for himself and his own people peo le there is the more cause for festivity it is a time for thanks thanksgiving givin and a time for further strengthening and consolidating the national Kial well being that is why the tha national comm committie commit itt tre pe is not surprised at the early and e enthusiastic n re for the 1937 parties thirty per cent of the funds obtained will be used to forward the work of the men of science who are courageously and persistently seeking methods to strike at the heart of poliomyelitis to stamp out this enemy of children and to help those who have been its victims but seventy cents out of every dollar collected win will be spent locally fot for the relief of infantile paralysis sufferers the celebrations will thus depre represent the spirit of the good neighbor and good american first benefiting friends and acquaintances and aften afterward vard contris contrib contributing toward the general genera I 1 good the presidents birthday ball this january as in past years will be an american gesture national in scope alt altruistic in purpose and gay with the spirit of a young and generous people |