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Show Courage of FDR Accents Plea In Dime Drive In August of 1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt went on a hunting and 1 fishing trip near Lake Glen Severn. Sev-ern. He was not feeling very well, but, nevertheless, he decided decid-ed to take a cold dip in a small land-locked pond. He ran a mile home, and sat on the porch to read the mail. A chill came over him, and he went to bed. Several days later found Mr. Roosevelt with paralyzed legs and a high fever. Mrs. Roosevelt Roose-velt was panic-stricken when she found it to be infantile paralysis. Because no nurse was available, she nursed him day and night. At Christmas time, F. D. R. was feeling well enough to sit in a wheel chair, and read to the tenement children his abridged version of Dickens' "Christmas Carol" Franklin D. Roosevelt's mother wanted her son to retire from politics, and rest in a wheel chair at Hyde Park. However, his wife wanted him to resume his interest in public life as soon as he could. By spring, he was able to get around on crutches, and he . carried on most of his daily activities ac-tivities as before. In the spring of 1922, Governor Smith asked Mr. Roosevelt to manage his pre- convention campaign for the ) presidential nomination. I Everyone makes sacrifices. So did Franklin D. Roosevelt. While - '- he was in Warm Springs taking treatments that might have restored re-stored the full use of his legs, he was asked to run for Governor Govern-or of the state of New York. Today, President Roosevelt is leading a fight against many foes.- One of them is infantile paralysis. Help him fight this menace by giving that dime, that quarter, or that dollar. Give yourself that peace of mind by safeguarding yourself against that disease. You can make a Jap run By the point of a gun. But this disease will live If you do not GIVE. |
