Show Our Hearts and Our Economic Welfare Business and industry has a avital avital avital vital stake In the conquest of the tho heart and blood vessel diseases diseases diseases di di- which exacts a terrific waste of oC human talent upon us each year WE LOSE more than 69 million million million mil mil- milI I lion man man days days of or production each cacti year because of oC the cardiovascular cardiovascular cardiovascular car car- e a s. s E x x x- pressed in dollars tJ this s is more than a billion dollars a year Equally significant to all aU of oC us is this fact the heart and blood vessel diseases cause 50 percent of or all deaths among Americans 45 to 64 destroying destroy destroy- ing executives and craftsmen at the peak of their skills andin and andin andin I in the most productive years of or life The Heart i ion o n which counts among its members members members mem mem- bers virtually all of oC the nations nation's nations nation's na na- tion's lions leading heart s special special- pecia 1 I offers the tho most compre compre- comprehensive program for fighting of heart and the many types blood vessel diseases These include heart attack stroke high blood pressure rheumatic ic is fever and many other ailments ail ments afflicting the heart and d blood vessels W WITH MORE funds th the thc e Heart Association can expand d it attack on these diseases diseases- particularly through its pro program pro program gram of or research Medical research research research re re- search has already sav saved ed many thousands of hearts and an d lives and eventually will b bethe be bethe e the means of finding ways t to o prevent the cardiovascular di die With more funds th the e Heart Association can also expand expand expand ex ex- its important educational education education- al and community service activities activities ac ac- which bring the benefit benefi t of oC research to all of us It is the responsibility of oC every every ev ev- ery cry citizen whose welfare depends depends depends de de- upon the economic security security security se se- of oC the community to t 0 provide these funds The tim time timeto e to do it is now during th the e Heart Fund drive How w we e give is not important That Tha t I we give and give generously is is for our gifts will provide provid e the research and programs s we need to solve the heart hear t problem There is no doubt more will live the more w we c give to the Heart Fund |