Show I. I I I I A Decade Of Service Again the March of Dimes Is swinging along and again Americans are being asked to give their dimes and dollars to help the fight on Infantile Paralysis This year ear It Is the tenth birthday of the National NaU nal Foundation Foundation for Infantile Paralysis that gives special emphasis to the annual for funds fundS' to help polio patients and to wipe out this treacherous disease The campaign which hI la now how now In progress also emphasizes the fact that for tor the tho last five years polio Incidence e In the United States has been the highest for any similar period In inthe the tho nations nation's history Approximately ly 80 Americans mostly mo children have been stricken with the disease In the last five live years alone There has been no letup by the disease There must be no letup in the fight against It No one knows knows' what lies Hes ahead or where and for tor how long polio pallo may strike in years to come Last summer drove home one sad but un un- undeniable undeniable un- un undeniable deniable fact that fact that polio knows knows' no boundaries Our troops Stationed In Europe and the Pacific were stricken as were children and adults in Boise I Akron Los Angeles and other centers of the 1947 outbreaks For some areas the 1947 epidemic was the first in years for others It was consecutive I I I After ten years the National Foundation Foundation Foundation tion for Infantile Paralysis has won the tho heart of every American by its cham chain championing of the cause of polio victims i Without considering age creed color or orrace orrace race the National Foundation has earn- earn earned earnI earned earned I ed the confidence of or all all' by its Us help for j I patients afflicted by this wide spread I disease I IThe I I The National Foundation helps pay the j ji i i bills that pile up for the families of I I Infantile paralysis par patients It sees to j jit i it that the best available medical and J I I hospital care caro Is 15 provided And And so so i In the long view vIew vIew-It it Is 15 sponsor- sponsor sponsorIng I Ing lag extensive programs for research and I technical education Research is gradually gradually I ally filly narrowing the field in the the hunt for forth forthe I the tho complete answers to Infantile Pass Para Paralysis lysis mind and It will be simply a matter of I I time before thoSe thos-e tho e answers are at hand I All those activities are expensive the expensive the cost for example of caring for patients of the 1946 epidemic will total excluding this years year's toll Polio paU- paU paUI eats I need your dimes and dollars You need the satisfaction of giving So lets let's give generously and Join the MARCH OF DIMES I j Great strides are a being made In polio I research and andia in ia the Isolation of the polio virus Clarence Bamberger of dation of or Infantile Paralysis announced i I Mr MI Bamberger returned today from a aI meeting meeting of trustees for the National I Foundation In New York City The Tho National Foundation Is very proud and deeply appreciative of the Job the tho State of Utah is doing In raising funds to combat Infantile Paralysis Mr Bamberger said Though the need this year Is greater than ever we ore are quite I confident that Utah will go all out In raising quota In 1048 l 8 J T a |