Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27

best can, but cannot get enough
money to pay for treatment
Frank Is three now. but he's standing
and walking now rs well as any little
man. So his mother writes, and sends
picture, and tells OF her gratitude and
| OF Gods kindness, and the other things
that mothers think when their child is
made like unto other children.
And Minnie, now in her teens, sends
| a picture, Just snapshot of herself,
standing upright. unsupported, and
solidly as you please. holding IN her
and sisters And she wrote:
"All my friends came down TO the
depot to meet me and everybody thinks
it's wonderful am walking fine.
am very proud because never realized
would ever walk like any one else, and
now can walk and wear shoes as other
girls do"
/ might go On indefinitely telling of
the wonderful things that doctors and
surgeons and nurses have done for Grip
pied children. But It seems to me more
important 10 emphasize how much more
they could do II given the opportunity.
There are great surgeons giving freely
of their time, but of course they can't
give all their time. And there are thou
sands of children waiting on hospital
lists for the chance to be made like
other children-but there aren't enough
hospitals or other facilities There are
crippled children at home who ought to
be in school, and who want TO be there,
and who are crying their eyes out be-
cause they have no means Of getting
back and forth, and who will grow up
not only physically but mentally handi-
capped in the struggle for existence.
There was survey made in my own
State, Kansas, which showed that three
sNF 1aA s-N~fR NeT~F4m IA
years Of age when they became such.
Many-too many. the best doctors say
were injured at birth. Some have
tuberculosis Of the bones: some were
crippled by irfantile paralysis; some by
accident. Nearly 10000 were found in
this one State in what was, Of course,
an incS Z, survey s. And ts, the sad ,ds
10 per cent needed immediate treat
ment, there win be thousands who
must go without it-ar1d grow up help
less or almost fopelessiy Handicapped.
$4,000 in New York.
In New York City alone there are
probably $4,000 crippled children. Dr..
John c, FAIRIES, director Of the Institute
for for, the s,. Crippled and Ts .I Disabled IN New
vey in Philadelphia showed that of 800
crippled boys and girls who had been
graduated from the public schools In
the last five years. only % were EN-
ployed. Not one out Of 10 had found
work he could do.
These facts form the dark. background
Of the picture Of the .40o,e 900 crippled
children of the United States.
There are much brighter figures in
There is the fact that several Of the
States have adopted the policy Of Ger
many, Sweden and other enlightened
countries, in making the problem Of the
crippled the problem Of the nation and
the State, so that the crippled child
Of poor parents will not lack the factli-
ties available to the child Of the. we'll
to-do to be made sound In limb. There
are State hospitals going up devoted
in whole or part to the treatment Of
boys and girls with bad" backs and
legs and feet. There are special schools
in Chicago, Dies Moines, Battle Greek
and other places combining physical
and mental education, with ratings
around the blackboards 50 that the
normal child.
The interest in the crippled Is being
constantly. propagated by the ever ac-
tive Daddy Edgar FL Allen, founder
Of the international Society OF Grip
pied Children.
There is research work being done
at the great university medical schools
causes deforrnitg In the child.
At the James Whitcomb Riley Memo
rial Hospital in indianapolis service
organization has given $40, 900 to en-
dow a special ward for crippled chill
dren, In Washington, D. c., the XII
wants Club during the last eight years
has given surgical and monetary aid
to more. than $50 crippled. underpriv-
LEGGED children. In Kansas City and
other places the Shriners, Rotarians,
Elks and similar organizations are
either maintaining institutions for
crippled boys or girls or contributing
to their physical regeneration.
Wisconsin Provides.
In wisconsin the State has COM
pleted an orthopedic hospital which
one time. In nearly q hundred cities
special classes for crippled children
have been organized, in the. public
schools. In Michigan the $iHOO0OO
cflildrefl's fund established by my
friend and colleague, Senator James
Couzens, is aiding 10000 children;
many Of them crippled.
But there is not community nor
a locality anywhere that Is not in need
of even more humanity, more aid for
the AFFLICTED little ones.
1t is q work which the President Of
the United States has found worthy
Of his time and thought and effort.
It IS work in which even the hum
blest of us can aid.
A list of orthopedic clinics In
Greater New York where crippled chill
dren may receive treatment free or
for small admittance fee fas been
complied bv the (shildreyf,e vgnlfara
Federation. Send stamped envelopes
to the Herald Tribune Institute, at 230
West Forty-f1rst street, New York, and
it will send the list to YOU.