University of Michigan Hospital Polio Patients, January 1936

Published In
Ann Arbor News, January 28, 1936
Caption
For Such As These Is The President's Ball - These three gallant little soldiers at University hospital are among those making the tedious fight against infantile paralysis. Ordinary joys of childhood are not for them and they will have to battle hard to win back for themselves an active place in the world -- as the President did when stricken in manhood with the same disease. It is for such as these that the President's birthday ball is held. The expense of their treatment at the hospital -- including the use of a new warm pool -- is borne from other sources, funds from the President's ball will go to give them little comforts, little pleasures to sustain them, to cheer them, to encourage them in the long, long struggle to bring their stricken muscles back to life and action. Seventy per cent of the proceeds from the President's Ball next Thursday night at the Intramural building remain here for local use; 30 per cent go to the Warm Springs Foundation to be used in research seeking ways to prevent and to cure infantile paralysis. It is a cause so worthy that the simple statement of fact to a warm-hearted community would seem enough to sell the quota of tickets at $1 per couple far beyond the capacity of the great ball room.