The Omaha guide., 1946-01-05
Negroes Active in
"March of Dimes"
1916 Campaign

New York, Jan. 5-Active par
ticipation of Negroes is already
Indicated as the 1916 March of
Dimes, nationwide appeal of the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, gets under way. The
campaign will be opened officially
on Monday, January IA, by Foun-
dation President Basil O-Connor
Dedicated to the memory of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, great
war president who founded the
National Foundation, the eighteen
day March of Dimes will continue
through January 81. Spearheaded
enthusiastically by National Chap
ters in nearly all of the 3,07O coun-
ties of the nation, the annual fund
raising appeal is supported by men
women and children of all races
and faiths.
This will be the 18th yearly ap-
peal for funds in the war against
infantile paralysis. Negroes in ma
por cities are volunteering their
services in this intensive and ne
cessary campaign for funds to aid
poliomyelitis victims, regardless
of age, race, creed or color. Or
CARNATIONS with which they are
actively affiliated have endorsed
the National Foundation and its
determination that polio shall be
conquered. They will address their
contributions TO their home town
chapters.
New York City and Chicago are
setting the pace for the March of
Dimes at noon-day rallies on jan
uary IA. Here at City Hall, Mayor
ODwyer, City Councilman JOS
eph T Sharkey and Russell Ma
guire, chairman of the Greater
New York Chapter of the Naticn-
al Foundation, will participate i'll
special March of Dimes ceremon-
les. In Chicago, Mayor Kelly and
Mr.. o. Connor will be on hand for
the opening March of Dimes rally
at Madison and State Streets.
The first Mile O. Dimes stand
in this city's Harlem will be Off
cially inaugurated at a noon-day
rally on Tuesday, January 18th, in
front of the Opollo Theatre on w
125th Street, it was announced by
Charles H. Bynum, director of an
terracial Activities for the Nat
ional Foundation. Tie project Will
be directed by an interracial COM
mittee of which Edward T. Ber-
nath, public school principal, and
Mrs. Gertrude A. Robinson, nat
ional president of Phi Delta kap-
pa Sorority, are. o-chairmen. The
Foundations greater New York
Chapter, under whose auspices the
stand will be operated, predicted
that contributions from Upper
Manhattanites win be comparable
to those made at other Mile of
Dimes stands throughout the city
ano nation.
The National Foundation for III
fantile Paralysis, founded in 1888
by the late President Roosevelt to
lead, direct and unity the fight
against I'M antile paralysis, is de-
dicated to the conquest of the dis
ease. President Harry S. Truman
endorsed this fight against this
disease
This year, concert hail will re-
place the traditional ballroom in
observances of January so as hun
dreds of cities and towns rally the
nation in the continuing war. ag-
ainst polimyeiitis, one of the most
dreaded and most expensive dis
eases known to medical science.
That night President Truman will
be one of the speakers on the full
hour four network show to be
broadcast from Washington and
Hollywood
More than 1900 men, women
and children in the United States
were victims of infantile paralysis
in 1945, making it the fourt.. ..gn-