$1,000,000 Check to Roosevelt.
Cash Goes to Study of   Infantile Paralysis.
By Associated Press.
Washington, May 9.—A million-
dollar check was received by President
Roosevelt tonight and turned over to
the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation for the relief of infantile paral-
The check—totaling $1,003,030.98 to
be exact—represented the proceeds
from the hundreds of Roosevelt birthday parties held throughout the country last January.
Surrounded by trustees of the Warm
Springs Foundation and sponsors of
the parties, in the east room of the
White House, Mr. Roosevelt announced the trustees would set aside
$100,000 for a nation-wide study of
infantile paralysis.
Lion's Share for Research.
,The major portion of the fund—
$650,000—will be labeled for
work and study at the Warm Springs,
Ga., institution which the president
helped to found.
The remaining $253,000 will go for
building and maintenance at the
Georgia institution.
The check was presented to Mr.
Roosevelt by Rear Admiral Cary T.
Grayson, retired, in the absence of
Henry L. Doherty of New York, the
chairman of the national presidential
birthday party committee.
The president said:
"There are no complete statistics
to show just what infantile paralysis
has done to our people, but it seems
conservative to estimate from figures
that we have that there are at least
200,000 people in the United States
who bear the marks of it in degrees
ranging from the impairment of a
few muscles to being reduced to total
physical helplessness.
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"A large proportion of this great
number, to which new victims are
added annually, need after-treatment
and care for long periods of time.
Treatment can not be measured in
terms of days and weeks, but must
be computed in months and years.
"Modern medical science has advanced so far that a very large proportion of those who for one reason
or another have become crippled can
be restored to useful citizenship. It
remains, therefore, only to spread the
gospel in every part of the nation to
enable us to make the same relative
progress that we have already made
in the field of tuberculosis."