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Hello this is George Murphy with this story for all of you because all of your concerned half a million cerebral palsy of America need your help the situation is a grave one and only you can remedy your contributions in the past I've helped to establish new treatment centers and educational facilities but because of the increasing number of C.P.S. We need your help again United Cerebral Palsy is privileged this year to have as its national campaign chairman a man whose background in the terminations will give this year's drive great impetus I would like you to meet our national campaign chairman tonight Dean fifty four Mr Wynn play for Bill thank you George and thank you for a very great help to you C P It is indeed heartwarming to have a man with us like George Murphy a man who devote so much time and so much energy to the needs of those less fortunate but even with all of George's devotion to use C.P. We must have your cooperation as well please send your contribution to your local United Cerebral Palsy affiliate this is Walter Pigeon with an important message for all of you I just came from the United Cerebral Palsy center every fifty three minutes a baby is born with cerebral palsy a staggering figure isn't it and not all of the five hundred thousand sufferers are children an accident or a severe illness may cause this tragic malady many wonderful things are being accomplished through the generosity of you out there but much more is needed because of the increasing number of those afflicted I would like our national campaign chairman for nine hundred fifty four to explain how you can help William Clay Ford Well we're very grateful for the fine work Walter is done and he's right we do need help this you can do by sending your donation to your local U.C. P. affiliate protect yourself and your family help America's cerebral palsy to a brighter tomorrow. LOL this is Lionel Barrymore I have just purged myself to do all in my power to aid United Cerebral Palsy in this nineteen fifty four campaign and with ten thousand babies born with cerebral palsy every year the need for your help is very great I am privileged to have with me today the national campaign chairman of U.C. people a nineteen fifty four a man whose great art and determination have stimulated this year's Dr is William Clay forward Bill thank you Mr Barrymore for your heart warming appeal we need help desperately so that the half million sufferers from cerebral palsy can lead active useful self sustaining lives our nine hundred fifty four campaign is well underway and you can make it a success protect your family and yourself please send your contribution to your local United Cerebral Palsy affiliate today hello this is Janet Leigh I am gravely concerned about the HAVE TO million people in this country afflicted with cerebral palsy a lot has been done to lessen their suffering but there is so much more to do your contributions will help them to leave more active independent lives I would like our national campaign chairman to explain how you can help a man whose background and determination will give great impetus to this years Dr William Clay Ford Mr Ford thank you Janet and allow everyone were very grateful for the fine work Janet has done and she's right we do need your help if you can do by sending a contribution to your local United Cerebral Palsy affiliate protect yourself and your family help America cerebral palsy to a brighter tomorrow this is Deborah cause I have always thought that the most beautiful word in the language is hope and so my interest picked up when I saw a poster that said Your help is there hope. The poster showed three dogs and children two girls and a boy with confident eager smiles that gave your heart unmoved but there was something else both goes war braces and the boy was in a wheelchair all three children have cerebral palsy for them and for half a million other children and adults it is a daily struggle to walk to speak to do the simplest things yet they have hope and that hope is your help your gift to United Cerebral Palsy so maybe your contribution right away to United Cerebral Palsy in care of your local postmaster I didn't gentleman this Jimmy Stuart you know the pilot of an era plan is always sure that if he's ever in trouble he can send out the distress signal it goes like that mayday mayday mayday Now a lot call has gone out to all of us form a forced child health day this is the day when half a million cerebral palsy children and adults look to was for a helping hand they look to us for help so they can learn to walk to talk to escape a life of bondage to remember the meaning of May Day the signal in the air to rush to the help of those in need your signal to help the palsied by giving generously to United Cerebral Palsy don't ignore the call for help the address simply and care of your local postmaster and all this is Bob Hope you know it's a standard belief that all comedians want to play Hamlet Well I have no such protection. But I do want to get serious for a moment for this affects the lives of five hundred fifty thousand fellow Americans yesterday that many children men and women are afflicted with cerebral palsy and every fifty three minutes that number is increased the child is born with cerebral palsy but the picture needn't be all gloom United Cerebral Palsy and working to solve the mysteries of cerebral palsy research one day will provide the cure but until then I was stricken I write it every day through psychological and physical therapy we look forward to the time when the dread of cerebral palsy will be a thing of the past you can help bring that day closer by supporting and I team fifty four campaign of United Cerebral Palsy So send your contributions to your local chapter do it now we need to thank you. This is being caused by folks maybe you never thought about it very much but many many thousands of American kids you can't say even home at the cerebral post at youngsters who have to be taught to walk talk even taught to. You know I can help give them the proper treatment by contributing to United Cerebral Palsy as Dr lets put a song on their lips and I'll bet you'll find it'll put a song in your heart to send your contribution today to United Cerebral Palsy and your local postmaster. Hello this is Phil so I like to be serious for a moment and tell you a story it's a story for all of you because all of you are concerned and half million Griebel palsied of America need your help the situation is a grave one and only you can remedy it your contributions in the past have helped to establish new treatment centers and educational facilities but because of the increasing number of C.P.S. We need help again. This is George Murphy I would like to enlist your aid in the rehabilitation of the half million sufferers of cerebral palsy great strides have been made but there is a grave need for more treatment more education and more research United Cerebral Palsy cannot do it alone they need your help this is Walter Pigeon there is such a great deal to be done to help the half million sufferers of cerebral palsy and the United serial posy need your help in their rehabilitation may we count on you send your contribution to your local use C.P. affiliate and do it today alone this is Lionel Barrymore do you know that ten thousand babies are born with cerebral palsy every year staggering figure I know and there's a staggering amount of work to be done to aid those afflicted they need your help this is Jeff Chandler there's a staggering amount of work to be done to aid the half million sufferers of cerebral palsy United Cerebral Palsy is doing all they can but they can't do it alone please won't you help Hello everyone this is Jack Palance do you know that ten thousand babies are born with cerebral palsy every year a staggering thing I know and as a staggering amount of work to be done to aid those afflicted they need your help Hi this is Tony Curtis with a story for all of you because all of you are concerned the half a million cerebral palsy of America need your help the situation is a great one and only you can remedy it your contributions in the past have helped to establish new treatment centers and educational facilities but because of the increasing number of C.P.S. We need help again it is those who see and remember it is to those who know and feel compassion. But this is for those who suffer and hope for those who know cerebral palsy The sixty five boys of Cornell College Choir of Mount Vernon Iowa under the direction of Joan McConnell log and let their voices so own like hear You'll Never Walk Alone. Whoa whoa this is going to last a lot longer if you know this is a loaded gun loaded getting out again all OK All right let me say the following going oh. God all right out with a solo dog loaded the a. Girl the. Day the day. Old. Oh oh oh. Oh. Oh. Oh oh the. Day. The of the. The the old fold. I walk alone I'm twisted by. I have words on I cannot be. I have muscles. I cannot you. I am and I am and I have cerebral palsy. I walk alone. I am a man I'm a woman I'm a little boy I'm a little girl I have several palsy I walk alone this is my right. Or is it. One with the it. And then PROVE IT IS NOT listen man woman only listen to you who are winked at by cerebral palsy listen we all Americans we know you know we have not forgotten you in truth we have not and truth it is time for us to step forward and be counted on and we do step forward and willingly one thing leave with open hand is it not true Americans we will not let them walk alone they'll never walk alone. All our little like little girls is the end goal of the reg the. The the. Follow the yellow the the to. Follow the. The. A. Road that. The. Old. Bootlace. The. The. The old fold.