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For the nation, this is a year of re-examination. Under the leadership of our President, we are cutting out folderol. We are giving sober, disinterested thought to new ways of meeting our problems. We are following that with fearless action. We are realizing that the way of immediate profit is not always the way of ultimate profit. We even see, in the Tennessee Valley project, planning for our children's children. To use a medical man's term, we are more vitally interested in end results.

For Warm Springs and the National Patients' Committee, publishers of this periodical, also, this is a year of re-examination. We know that the public should be informed on infantile paralysis. We realize that the cost of adequate treatment and muscle training is prohibitive to many victims of the disease. We are convinced, however, that the treatment is justified in plain dollars and cents. Therefore, we believe that every polio should receive the best treatment medical science provides. We further believe that the world should be made a better place, architecturally, mechanically, economically, and socially, for the handicapped to live in. If we tackle this program in the spirit of the day, we can have a large part in a New Deal for the crutch and wheelchair brigade.

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