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Show Gsia.missi Ofaesen For President's P&rty As in the two previous cam- paigns, the funds raised will be ; divided on a 50-50 basis. One half j of the proceeds will be turned over . I" the cummiilee for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in its national fight against "the disease. The other half will be retained in the community? where j raised, to be expended by the chapter for local aid for children and others who are suffering from Infantile Paralysis. Latest U. S. public health service ser-vice reports show the greater need for funds. This year ranks fifth in the history of the number of cases of nfantile Paralysis. Epidemics Epi-demics have swept over a dozen states. For the week ending November No-vember 9, 1940, the total cases this year are 8, 989 compared with 6,630 for the same period in 1939. This is an alarming increase when it is considered that the number of cases last year was four times greater than that of 1938. NEW YORK As evidence of the enthusiastic and wide-spread support of the "Fight Infantile paralysis" campaign, 411 state chairmen have accepted appointment appoint-ment on the commit tee fur the celebration of the President's birthday, birth-day, Keith Morgan, National Chairman Chair-man made known Wednesday. Since announcement of the campaign cam-paign and the appointment of Mr. Morgan as National Chairman by President Roosevelt several days ago. a stream of acceptances from leaders in the fight have been pouring into National headquarters. headquart-ers. It. is now believed that the organization or-ganization division of the committee, com-mittee, under Col. D. Walker Wear, Assistant chairman, will have all of the 48 states set up and ready to go by December 15. As headquarters head-quarters hummed with a rush of activity, Mr. Morgan said: "This is another good sign that America is united solidly in building build-ing up its national defense. As the President said, "The health of -our boys and girls, and young men . and women is one of the front . lines of our national defense.' We will see that that front line is . not weakened. "Thus far, 42 state chairmen have volunteered for duty. Of this total, 30 were on our team last year. We will have chair- ..men in every state in a very short tims." C. Clarence Neslen of Salt Lake City, Commissioner of Insurance of the state, a veteran of three campaigns has again ' -" -.sen ted to accept the chairmanship' for 1941. Under the plan of organization, each state chairman will appoint the various county, city and community com-munity rhairmen in ; his stte. These chairmen in turn will appoint ap-point the various campaign committees com-mittees covering every activity of the campaign such as the "March of Difes," the various sports events and the multitude of celebrations and parties which will reach theij climax on January 30, President Eoosevelt'6 59th birthday. Thus, there will be 3,000 counties organized and the total of county, coun-ty, city and community chairmen will be in the neighborhood of 10,000, Mr. Morgan said. Closely allied with the campaign workers will be the members of the more than 1,000 chapters of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, already set up in the various states. In a number of cases ca-ses the chapter chairman will also be the chairman in charge of the activities in his particular district. |