Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-05-03
Where Your Cerebral Palsy Dollars Go
BY RUBEL PHILLIPS
State Campaign Manager
The Dollar For Research

Our goal for Mssissippis United Cerebral Palsy
Drive is 5000 600 The money is badly needed-but mon
ey is not the sole objective of campaign.
PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING of cerebral palsy is
perhaps important and to this end state
wide effort is directed.
In reading this series of articles about where your
dollars for cerebral palsy have been spent and where
they WILL be spent you will obtain also compre-
picture of the cerebral palsy program and what
it means for your children.
The dollars you give to United Cerebral Palsy
spent primarily for the children themselves
1t is estimated that administrative expenses use
less than ten cents of dollar contributed to United
Cerebral Palsy.
Seventy-five cents of every dollar you contribute
will stay in Mississippi to establish day ceners for the
children of your own community
Twenty-Five cents of every dollar you give will go to
the National Foundation where big proportion of it will
finance research This research may make vital contrbu
lions to your general health even If you never have
cerebral palsy personally connected with
cerebral palsy victim. This is true because much of
cerebral pasys research is devoted to exploring the
basic nature of the brain ITSELF about which little is
known
In this connection Gidden L. Brooks, M d. Drec-
tor of the Institute for Research in the Health Sciences
Brown University Providence Rhode Island, and Medical
Director of UCP Research and Educational Foundation
has this to say: "Snce cerebral palsy embraces such
wide group of symptoms and diseases it becomes ines
capable that any research done upon the brain its
diseases is than likely to have significance for
cerebral palsy we'll This is true for cerebral
palsy than any of the commonly recognized neurological
disorders Cerebral palsy, therefore, energies sort
of prototype prime example of brain disorder.
The converse is also true, but to somewhat lesser
degree any research upon cerebral palsy may also be
pertinent to other neurological disorders such as cpl
epsy multiple scerosis, mental retardaton Parkinsons
disease, etc. You from this that the Importance
of cerebral palsy research scarcely be Overempha
sized Even if it affction it's study would
have vital Importance for every one of US.
But it is not rare.
There are now about 100000 cerebral palsy victims
in the United States-sx times more than the number
crippled by polio.
According to the American Journal of Public Health,
child in every ITO live births is cerebral palsy
In America one cerebral palsy child is born every So
minutes.
AS thoughtful citizen you ask Immediately: ARE
my dollars going to help PREVENT cerebral palsy?
Since major ultimate goal of every research pro-
gram of this kind is PREVENTION the answer is YES.
During the first years of it's existence, United
Cerebral Palsy expended nearly three million dollars in
During 1857, United Cerebral Palsy's scientific
studies concentrated C) the basic nature of the
bran (2) prevention of brain damage (3) manage
ment of cerebral palsy through various techniques
In research on the basic nature of the brain, no
name is better known than that of Dr. Albert Scent
Gyorg one of the worlds senior scientists and Nobel
Prize winner. Dr. Gyorgi is now working, with dollars
YOU have contributed, under UCP grant of $4,000.
ne is studying ways in which energy is liberated and
utilized in life NERVES and muscles con-
cerned with many energy mechanisms of which
seriously deranged in cerebral pasy)
The work of DR.. l. L. Chaikoff of the University of
California is example of the very important cOntrbu
lions being made by cerebral palsy research into basic
understanding of the BRAIN During the past several
years. chemical components of cell nuclei the nuceic
acids have emerged important basic determnants of
the nature of living things Nucleic acids therefore
being intensively studied by investigators.
However there comparatively very few studies OF
these substances in the BRAIN partly because OF certain
technical obstacles.
DR.. Chaikoff has succeeded in surmounting these
difficulties and is conducting exhaustive analysis of
nuclec acds-a type of information which has long
been needed in order to understand the brain but has
had to await the development Of MODERN refined scien
tific techniques. Dollars that YOU gave to United
(oroh Dol r%rs1, fho
that is financing DR. Chaikoff's studies.
Here are of the research projects now being