| Show FIGHT INFANTILE PARALYSIS commenting on the fight against infantile paralysis a cause for which president fr franklin anklin D roosevelt has given his birthday as an occasion for the holding of the annual presidents ball throughout the united states to raise funds dr thomas parran states that infantile paralysis quite evidently is challenging us to establish new methods of prevention and cure through the establishment this year of a new national foundation for infantile paralysis the project to fight the disease has been placed on a strictly national basis with all funds going into the national fund at the same time provision is made whereby these national resources may be called into play in localities where needed writing in the medical news of tho the day dr parran who is surgeon general of the united states and a leading public health authority further comments the problem of infantile paralysis is a problem concerning every far reaching citizen the plan to use the celebration of the presidents birthday for the purpose of r raising funds to support th the e new foundation puts the key for its solution directly in the hands of the entire country at large there should be no hesitancy in the matter of response for there can logically be no reason for any such hesitancy one of the chief aims of this new foundation is to determine how the hundreds of thousands already crippled can be made economically independent in their home communities even to determine this without the added difficult difficulty ty of putting the findings into practice will take exhaustive investigations and study if every medical and social possibility is to be probed and sifted such an activity will take must take a charif cn ci tion of ideas a common zoll and the erader eradicating abing of duplication and waste always attendant on a multiple approach to a single end there is no intent it should be pointed out for this national foundation to control the attack infantile paralysis rather it will stand as a main source of aid as a coordinating co factor for the of the voluntary agencies has been and is today of inestimable value and as a great stimulant t of citizen interest which no such drive can hope success that the plans of president as outlined in his september statement will obtain of both the medical profession and the public should already I have become a conclusion |
