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The Polio Crusaders

From:		Polio Crusader Number One
Creator:		n/a
Date:		April 1933
Publication:		The Polio Chronicle
Source:		Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation Archives
Figures From This Artifact:		Figure 1

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1		"I think most cripples, children or adult, are worth taking an interest in. Economically, restorative work is sound; humanely, it is right." Franklin Roosevelt

2		The Polio Crusaders ask you to give to a Patients' Aid Fund, to help those who could not otherwise receive proper treatment for the after-affects of infantile paralysis.

3		The Patients' Aid Fund is disbursed by the trustees of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, of which Franklin D. Roosevelt himself is head.

4		Aid is granted only to those who are worthy and then for a limited period of time, subject to renewal if the progress of the individual warrants extension.

5		These grants are made as loans, repayable when and if the individual is financially able to do so.

6		The maximum aid extended is one-half the cost rate. The balance must be procured by the individuals' relatives and friends, or the community from which the individual comes. This ruling is necessary because we must serve individuals from all over the country without the benefit of any local Community Chests or charitable funds.

7		All but one dollar of your contribution to the Polio Crusaders goes to this Patients' Aid Fund. That dollar brings you the Polio Chronicle for one year, and helps the Polio Crusaders' general educational campaign against infantile paralysis.

8		Make checks payable to POLIO CRUSADERS, Warm Springs, Georgia.