Show NOPE HOPE FOR handicapped easter seal sale will AM nation I 1 11 13 s crippled features help crippled children is the message of the 1947 easter seal soon to be distributed throughout the nation by national society for crippled children and adults through its 44 state and 2000 odd local member societies for the crippled the drive opens march 6 and will continue until easter sunday april 6 for 26 years the national society has served the handicapped seeking to fulfill the unmet needs of the hundreds of thousands ol of persons who are affected by more than kinds of crippling diseases and conditions dit ions state and local units provide direct services determined by specific needs in each community the wide range of services includes camping nursery centers homebound employment placement equipment training clinics hospitalization convalescent care transportation por tation curative and sheltered workshops and special education services are designed to supplement not to duplicate the work of other agencies for the handicapped since 1934 the society has sought public support tor for the work through the annual dist trib r I 1 b ution u alon of HELP easter seals copies of the first seal designed by J H donahey D 0 n a h e y ft V cleveland cartoonist to onist now CRIPPLED are rated as CHILDREN c collectors 0 I 1 I 1 e c t 0 rs items first easter seal eight states participated in the first easter seal sale which marked the beginning 0 of unprecedented expansion on the part not only of the national society but also of the entire movement in behalf of 0 crippled children in 1930 there were hospital beds available for crippled children in 1940 the number had increased to hospital admissions almost doubled as did the number of teachers in special schools and classes sales of easter seals have zoomed from 22 million in 1931 1934 to more than a billion seal sales now BOW net more than three million dollars annually for aid of the handicapped more blore than 90 per cent of the funds remains in the states where contributions are made less than 10 per cent being allocated to national headquarters in chicago tor for its services to member societies and projects of a national scope the national staff directs cerebral palsy professional field informational administrative extension and easter easte r seal services A contest tor for the best easter seal design has been conducted annually since 1943 among high school students throughout the nation the winner receives the michael dowling memorial award of the 1947 seal which pictures a tiny boy with his crutch under his arm walking up a ray of light to a distant star symbolic sy in of hope for all crippled children was designed by frank gross a janesville J a n e s v I 1 I 1 I 1 e W I 1 s h high 1 9 h school student 1917 eter easter seal school chil dren throughout the nation will assist in conducting the month long seal campaign |