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Mr. R. DeWitt King, of Atlanta, is shown in the picture above as he presented a check in the amount of $700.00 to Mr. Arthur Carpenter, resident trustee of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. This check was a donation to the $50,000 patients' aid fund recently planned for the Foundation.

An editorial in the Atlanta Constitution for October 30 comments on the event. We heartily second this expression. "Following the meeting of the trustees last Sunday, Governor Roosevelt announced that the only suggestion advanced for the raising of the $50,000 fund sought was for the friends of the Foundation to 'chip in.'

"To the honor of Georgia, two of its citizens were the first to respond to answer the call. Cason Callaway, outstanding figure in the State's textile industry, presented to the Foundation the bale of cotton auctioned off by Governor-designate Talmadge for the Democratic campaign and for which he paid $700. The bale was immediately bought from the Foundation by R. D. King, prominent Atlanta capitalist, for an equal sum.

"The Georgia Division of the Roosevelt Business and Professional League was instrumental in bringing about the double sale of this bale of cotton, and thus adding a large contribution both to the Democratic campaign fund of the Warm Springs Foundation.

"Charles B. Shelton, the Georgia Chairman of the league, and Messrs. Callaway and King are entitled to the appreciation not only of the two funds benefited but of the people of the State generally."

The National Patients' Committee met on October 19 for the regular monthly meeting. T. E. (Bud) Cohalan had offered his resignation as president to devote the short balance of his stay to rest and study. Christine Piper, our popular secretary, was leaving on October 22.

Steve Helburn, of Cambridge, Mass., was elected president, and Robert Wallace, of Waterbury, Vt., became our new secretary. Reports of groups told of real accomplishments. Resolutions expressed deserved commendation of retiring officers. Indians, pirates, witches, ghosts, "just a couple of pansies," and all sorts of queer-looking folk attended the Halloween masquerade party at the Foundation on October 29.

Ducking for apples (believe it or not), a peanut race, and a cracker eating race began the evening of fun. Refreshments were then served, and, needless to mention, taken.

A feature of the party was the election of a popular choice for everything, from the prettiest girl to the greatest lover on the Foundation. The same thing has been done before at a few colleges. One thing about this is very different though -- you don't see any pictures of the "prettiest girl" splashed all over the pages of this publication.

A field (It was really the playhouse floor) meet was also part of the evening's entertainment. It brought out hidden talent among some of our supposedly untalented patients. One discouraged patient, who thought he wasn't good at anything, found out he could crack his mouth wider than anyone else; another found he could whistle the lowest. There were many more instances like these, and many a patient left the party farther along the road to successful rehabilitation because he had discovered a new accomplishment.