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Condemned?

Creator: n/a
Date: June 1933
Publication: The Polio Chronicle
Source: Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation Archives
Figures From This Artifact: Figure 2


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THE pious Englishman who said "But for the Grace of God, there go I," on seeing a criminal being led to the gallows, realized that the choice between honor and disgrace was dependent, not on human acts alone, but on something far transcending man.

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The polio, victim of infantile paralysis, bears not even the blame of the criminal for a wrongful deed. Without apparent reason, without a "trial by a jury of his peers," he is condemned. The withering thrust of paralysis may leave him life, but too often only helpless, hopeless, wheelchair life. And you, as you see him go rolling by, may say, "But for the Grace of God, there go I."

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The polio, however, does not ask for pity. He asks only that you provide a fund from which he may have deserved assistance in his fight to the greatest possible degree of recovery. These drafts on the fund he will later repay, if that be humanly possible, so that your money which helped him, may go on to help others.

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A Patients' Aid Fund under the trusteeship of Franklin D. Roosevelt, William H. Woodin, Basil O'Connor, Arthur Carpenter, Jeremiah Milbank, James A. Moffett, George Foster Peabody, Frank C. Root, Leighton McCarthy, Eugene Wilson, Dr. Michael Hoke, Keith Morgan, and Henry Pope, is sponsored by the Polio Crusaders. The Crusaders ask you to set aside a small fraction of your income for this Fund. Your gift will give some polio new hope, new life, and a new usefulness to society. Give now!

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