Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-01-20
10. Morgan Heads
Birthday Committee
For This State
F. Byrne Austin Is MOntgOm-
cry County Leader; Dance
Slated January 20

With practically every county of
Maryland organized or being organ
lied to hold dances and parties to
raise funds to fight infantile paraly-
sis, on the occasion of the President
Birthday, January 20, the prospect is
that more money will be raised in
the state this year to combat the
dread disease than during any other
previous year according to Senator
/ George L. Radcliffe, chairman of the
| celebrations.
: 10. V. Morgan, representing the
, Birthday Celebration Committee for
Maryland will contact every chairman
of the various counties during the
week to coordinate the work and for
mulate plans for the parties.
The chairmen who have already
been appointed and who are already
at work with plans for their functions
are: F. Byrne Austin, Montgomery
County;sJ. Robert Sherwood, Prince
Georges County; John Morsell, Cal
vert County; VIM. Aleck Loker, St.
Mary's1a County; Mayor Thos. w.
Koon, sAllegany County; Calvert A.
Hartle, Washington County; VIM. W.
Tcwnshend, Jr., Annapolis and vicin-
ity; Wilmer N. johnson, Glen Burnie
and vicinity; J. Wilmer Cronin, Har-
ford County; DR.. E. L. Baumgartner,
GARRETT County; Harold T. Perkins,
Cecil County.
The Birthday Ball for the President
here in Montgomery County will be
held Saturday evening, January 20, at
the Congressional Club. A long list
of patrons and patronesses has been
named by Mr.. Austin.
All funds raised by this and other
celebrations will be turned over to a
non-partisan foundation to be admin
istered by nationally known doctors
and business men to accomplish four
major detectives. The money will be
used to carry on research work to find
preventative for the disease, make
available to all doctors and others the
known facts about care of infantile
paralysis victims and disseminate i'm
mediately any new facts uncovered by
the research, provide for additional
equipment and facilities of institutions
caring for victims of the malady and
make available doctors, nurses and
equipment such as the Iron Lung, for
areas where and when an epidemic
breaks out.
| This method of handling the funds
has been endorsed by the leading or
thopedic authorities Of the country
and it is agreed that under this plan
the greatest possible good can be ac-
,complished.
| Senator George L. Radcliffe, State
Chairman, said "The first considera-
ton of the local chairmen planning
parties for the Birthday Celebration
is to provide a good evening of enter
! tainment for those who attend. This
will insure large attendance at these
parties and all can rest assured that
while they are having good time
they are contributing to a cause which
will accomplish an untold amount of
good after the parties are over.
In proclamation, Governor Harry
w. Nice called upon all citizens of the
state to cooperate for the success of
these parties without thought to po-
litical or secretarian prejudices".
Because of such nationally known
research institutions as Johns Hopkins
Hospital, Kernans Hospital for Grip
pied Children and the Children's Hos
pital School, Maryland has in the past
and will continue to receive more than
its proportionate share of the nation
al fund as large grants are made to
these institutions to be expended il
research work.