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And our friends of the March of Dimes it's time to bring on the master of ceremonies of the spectacular show a man who will introduce you to such famous showbusiness personalities as Helen Hayes. Eartha Kitt Joy Brown and the Ames Brothers you know him well as the master of ceremonies of his own network programme the country's most famous editor of News on television the star of today Dave Galloway. Those of you who are here standing with their open heads in the fresh air of City Hall Plaza. But. I think almost everybody has. Such a novel cause. For the first coming out here and that probably surprised people that you. Don't have any. At this moment and. I was kind of thinking of the words first and then and then you had in mind by the time you're ready with a new. AD And there's a great. International contest. Kind of. Stuff we know that. They. Are. Any. Possible. I had. To. Read. The. If you don't hear. Overwhelming of everybody. All right. Here today. I'm a half of the March of Dimes they were. All right and. They're. Very much the campaign goes on in. New York today and. I have. The next guest on our program all the. Way. Every. Now and. Go. Everything. That. Polio is an enemy that strikes without warning an enemy that has no regard for race creed color climate or community. If you followed the onslaught of polio through the years as I have you know that last year this nation suffered its worst epidemic more than fifty five thousand cases were reported in all regions of the country and of course as always most of the victims were little children but last year more adults were stricken than ever before. Thousands of paralysis patients are still receiving help from the March of Dimes they are your neighbors and mine they must have care and guidance toward final recovery thank God most of these neighbors of ours will regain a firm hold on a normal life for many of them though the road will be long and hard and costly. Today we must dedicate ourselves to their final victory. Undoubtedly know you've read about the encouraging advances that science is making in this war against polio after years of research medical specialists were able to tell us last year that they have discovered a temporary preventive against the disease now now we are waiting hopefully and prayerfully for a permanent vaccine to be developed. For this research must go on. Friends because for us to repair the ravages of the past and to prepare for any emergencies of the future it is for us to give our full support to the forces who are gaining ground in this battle. Our National Foundation for infantile paralysis is the leader in this crusade our dimes and dollars have been the bang God in the steady steady march toward defeating The Crippler like many of you. I have felt the tragedy of polio in my own family as an American mother I appeal to you today let us all re dedicate ourselves to victory in this fight because of the thousands of polio patients who still must have care because of vital medical research that must go on the need today as part of greater than ever before let us not wait until tomorrow to join the nineteen fifty three March of Dimes today. And. By the end of this month. There are two little girls who will have the most familiar faces in America there on the famous March of Dimes poster Patricia and Pamela O'Neill. These are the girls who are still everybody's heart they have polio the hard way and one I want to say hello. How do you feel Pamela. Pamela feels very quiet. Here from their. Family. How do you feel pressure. That's a good way to feel better the petition which has been bought and wonders but thank you for a look at a pretty intimate look at a time before about. The Lego building girls will say and many faces many places where those two heads are faces all over the country on the March of Dimes poster the one that becomes a part of the scene every year about this time. That she's here I just turned my head around to save her and she's not very far away I was available same as a kid a new faces or some of the Morbleu. From like the Angel in New York I've discovered a genuinely electrified young lady I discovered I thought I by myself about three years ago in Paris I thought this was a great friend singer and I bade her age and bring it to New York and let their Merican public discover her it took me an hour or half an hour to find out that she comes from North Carolina I knew all about that and all about people discovering or more people discover every day I mean somebody for the first time hear from monotonous funny faces rather she going to do the strange and wonderful things she does to a tune called monotonous I think it. Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen fifty three is just beginning but I don't think anything. Appearing here today. Nine hundred fifty three is going to be a different year for the much of Dan Rather a difficult year because of last year's terrible polio epidemic thousands and thousands of victims are looking. To be more dollars this year this year we have. A better chance. If we contribute generously in joining the one nine hundred fifty three. Thank you very much like. The A. You get. It if you don't get a chance to change the see. Me. Coming. Right. Through. With. Me. Can. I do. It. Again. I was a kid will not be surprised at all if it saves your down there are. Some of the records. The next man to appear for the March of Dimes on the campaign coming here from City Hall Square for your comment but Claire it's a juror a craftsman by trade and he has a sideline going now appearing on the television that's a pretty prevalent sideline that was a time. Those of us who love them for many years and that's an old but show business cliche but in my case it's accurate didn't think that maybe he was going to get the rewards he so justly deserve but the public thought so I thank goodness that all the happening really did happen by overwhelming demand the celebration show is on every week and try my golf but the people I was open say everything to those are the folks I want to talk about when you say you have a spawning and his name is A the Mr papers are Wiley Cox. It's when we're. Doing my youth. My most candid fan with a lead name before I felt the cue of him in the manner of another childhood friend Johnny for the last four years listening convenient. Estab friend Bill for what a crazy guy always makes us laugh you know we keep going. ANGLE that edge of roofline board for the day we got a good deal for hanging over the age of roofline boy and that we've seen abroad it was a little thin blood and we thought I was an elf. So he's going to do it anyway but if. We supply a. Roof peg everybody has to run over the roofs. And. Everybody has to run under the wire for. Ratty or something mine and so anyway everybody runs under the wire but who for gets him right in the next. Day the guy. You know the guy can't shimmy trauma water he gets scared. We've seen this guy consume we strung him in a war and he's getting really scared so I was sent to do for pay pour money you know is Johnny's turn and blow everything so he can just push him in against the politically the guy. We supply a backyard race everybody has to run across a back yard and climb over the fence and across back and climb or defense. And like that. And there where we guessed him for his wins. So this one backyard every time or of course lady comes on toast seems it is you know water and bottles everything and her husband has remained he put up a board with nails in it so we timed Claymore Defensor to jump over nails so when times are climbing over the fence everybody jumps over nails but due for. Sixteen stitches. But agree the guy. We should take different cars and drive it around. Wouldn't keep me. You know some guy selling with his salary anything. We supply them for the police station we used to have them. Well we see this car was. Thirty nine something and the kids in it so we stand around so I said let's go over the falls house so we went over then left it on a friend and when he sighed I say hey before it is my current that I like it so he says Dad ain't your car you know Israel done. So I told him sure he was the king I said go ahead thinking good offer right so he gets in it he just gets around a corner and the cost figure what. He sent to his probation. But you know something that's the only thing he ever done run. Well a Sierra. And that's the saga of that particular character. The world seems to be full of a variety of people I noticed that as I walked down the street last Thursday. They seem to be signal differences between individuals. Kate and me you meet some mean people. Course the gentlemanly thing to do when you meet somebody who is mean. Is to go quietly away I believe. I'll look that up when I get home and I urge you all to do the same. However with the diseases is another matter the thing to do if they mean disease is to pounce upon it and thrash it. The meanest disease on my mind at the moment is infantile paralysis meanness because it does what police do it picks and kids children and youngsters. And succeeds many times in. In hampering their effectiveness throughout life. Fortunately we have a means for beating up this bully disease and I urge you to give as generously if you can to the mark of dimes for nine hundred fifty three thank you. Thank you. They gentleman who speaks to us now that a predecessor isn't in his job who said that the city of New York should never have been allowed to exist a despised too big to wield a two one handy for any possible city to be and yet we do give the job of running that city as great and frantic as it is to a single administrative head who is therefore concerned with our individual welfare in New York and the fact that New York's fall fair concerns the whole nation that's equally true of polio and its effect on everyone in our town and therefore across the nation and to speak to us this morning here is the head of our city ladies and gentleman my honor to present his honor may have answered and commentary thank. You Gary ladies and gentlemen it is my great privilege to be here before you today to officially open the New York rally for the one nine hundred fifty three March of Dimes. This is a serious and a solemn obligation particularly this year. Never before has a March of Dimes been faced with a problem just like the one come from and in one thousand fifty three. We had just come through the worst G.M. and along in distressing history of in from tile paralysis throughout our nation may have then fifty five thousand children teenage boys. And girls. And adults were afflicted with this dread disease and nineteen fifty two. Thousands of these people have not recovered thousands of them are still looking to the March of Dimes for help. Thousands of them are still in need of aid aid that will cost not thousands but millions of dollars because in from tile paralysis. And the cure for it to the very very expensive operation. The National Foundation for infantine paralysis is pledged to support this help. You contributors to the March of Dimes have obligated yourselves because you have set a high standard of humanitarian service which the National Foundation has carried out that standard has been never to turn down a request for aid from any poly are victims. This is the year when medical science has at last come two deaths grips with polio This is the year when our doctors and research workers can make the greatest progress so far towards wiping out partly out in the face of the earth and from time to paralysis epidemics have been getting worse but our ability to deal with them has been getting better and better. Unlimited temporary preventative for polio paralysis has been discovered and will be used this year it is called gamma globulin. It is not the final answer to polio but it represents. An enormous advance a safe and prominent vaccine against polio has been under study for years by some of our most brilliant medical experts and now don't they have the greatest confidence that someday real soon such a vaccine will be available to all of us these projects are heartening they indicate that our National Foundation for in from time paralysis has been making wonderful use up the dimes and dollars that we have entrusted to them here in New York City the problem OBGYN from tile paralysis is especially traumatic here as in no other community in America we have a mixture of racial stocks and religions here as nowhere else we are constantly reminded that polio. Plays not take its With respect to race creed or color up this abominable disease hits everybody and that is why fighting it is everybody's job fifteen years ago the March of Dimes was founded by one of the most illustrious presidents that this nation has ever had Franklin D. Roosevelt. Franklin D. Roosevelt did not know about imprint Teil paralysis merely by hearsay he himself. Was struck down by it in the prime of life he learned the hard way about the tragedy and suffering the polio can cough and what the typical oppressiveness that made him great he did something tangible about his answer to polio was the March of Dimes your answer to Polly out today in nineteen fifty three is still the March of Dimes in opening this nineteen fifty three rally of the March of Dimes I want to plead with you to give this cause your most enthusiastic. And generous support Remember this year Mark Foley all victims need your help but this year we have the best chance. To strike some of the decisive blows that will make this disease obsolete. And I know that thank you very much. And I thank you. For coming down very busy day. But additional shop to the March of Dimes as it begins its nineteen fifty three campaign here in City Hall Square in New York. And then there was that he gave us about gamma globulin and the prominent vaccine which had been promised not too long from now and especially. Given dimes before. That bread come home upon the water so richly. As it has. The collapse are saying is that your head during the first part of the program had been taken in and warmed up and given. To faith and I thank God Gavin the Trinidadians. Head and. Head. They had. The proper people. To. Take. Very. Long. Time. To. Get. To last. Coffee break and back to life again that's what it takes on a day with temperatures well never mind. You don't want to be reminded. You got to meet a very pretty lady now combines. Remarkable talent in the. Seven Year Itch. You know that you've never seen a look at innocent and as well during. Strong words as the lady. Who is our guest this morning but as I was a kid and the famous radio program out of Chicago a while back. And grow up to be one of the most charming ladies in the movies and television and on the stage today and let's talk to her and see what she has to say about the March of Dimes. Thank you Dave. A message to give you of these days on Broadway is my job to get every laugh I can but I'm not after last today I don't have to tell you all that that's probably on and fighting polio is is deadly serious business and I know for instance that many people my age some a little older a lot a little younger will put into lion lungs on account of this awful epidemic we had last year and I also know I was a research scientist so closer to a vaccine. They're not bombing New York yet. The mayor told you that we are very close to having a serum which will cure us Foleo at the moment it's only temporary but the research is improving and we hope in the next two years I think the legacy of research means money at what research to us to you and me generally means Dr statistics and if you think of it in terms of children who are most afflicted by polio then we can understand it and maybe be a little touched and give a little bit more to the March of Dimes we feel for children and to have them come down when they're so young with a disease which sometimes cripples them for life is something even if they're not our own that we can feel for and therefore I'd like you all to feel that the March of Dimes will be of your contribution and give a little more this year and so perhaps in three years from now we won't have to collect money again for polio thank you very much. Every five or ten years ago I think that that is that and an act comes along with become the show business standard Acol whole lot of facts come and go on the last two and there. But about three years ago. Now the radio. All over the country one of the standard actually getting to be one of the who are selling more phonograph records than almost anybody this is a Cortez and you know them not under the names of Eddie and Joe and they can. Change brothers and they're all here this morning they age brother. Thank you very much Dave Good afternoon folks. And I have to say that my brothers and myself very proud to be a part of this great March of Dimes rally. I don't have to tell you folks what a. What a very dread disease infant child paralysis is and I think that you're now realize that we're very close to a solution for this terrible problem however the one thing that remains the one problem is a lack of funds and that's where you come in and that's where we come in. And I know that we're going to do our best and would like to urge you again after all the others on this platform with like the courage to again to get behind the March of Dimes the first thing as we like to kind of offer you a musical invitation to string along with that and that's a musical cue if I ever heard a. String of alright with me I'll just say I love me and saying it all with me oh my darling how i just that you. Just say about me and single mom with me. On. The phone to roam but I will always know where our room. Alone from far away when I'm traveling all alone saying call I may be my bury all. The all wrong with me let's just say it's not me answering on me yeah. But I can't be mad I'm just a man answering all. The big things my love. My Pockets Bojangles. I wanna join you know no one for me lad. And a tough battle they. Are all wrong with me the day and. Thank you it's me you know the sunshine of my life why can't we be man and wife I'm just saying I man and dang i. Sang I thought I'd read marry a. Amos brothers have a great act but they are violating one traditional rulers show business about Brother X. They are brothers and this isn't done in our business but they are really good but they'll overcome that come out I do a great job of overcoming it right now. You've got to make Now one of the great people of our business is a second celebrating his fifteenth second anniversary in show business the Sherry started at the age of nine as one of Acrobat a group called the five Ashton I doubt if anybody is in our audience today who remembers the five Aston's but I make sure that there's nobody who doesn't know the right man to check on I made it known by every G.I. and everything of the recent war and in this war. All the wonderful things they've done for them and for all of us because there isn't a man or a woman living today wasn't derive some happiness from the follow came down here this morning to spread a little more but he's a star now of the N.B.C. circus Darling was up every fourth Tuesday awful party and its name and I got here is Joe a brown. Thank you. Thank you ladies and gentlemen. Y'all we're going to just a little bit there Dave fifty two years look at me as a child. To be told oh no that's way over that's way too much as a matter of fact. It's fifty one and I thought it through that on a level fifty one years and Mrs Brown and I were married over here Minister building just thirty seven years ago glad the twenty fourth of the family and here I am back home again but they were elated then when I didn't come down to try to make you laugh but to call your attention to something that's very close to the hearts of all of you I know I know that each and every want to feel as I do about children who are pro-choice and so they told me that and that's my reason for coming here because they told me that my presence might mean just a few extra dime as electro left for a lot of kids who need it so very very very badly and so here I am doing something that's quite serious and I hope I don't disappoint you too much because my business throughout all those years of my life has been that of trying to make people laugh and there's nothing else that I want to do except that nothing that I feel is so wonderful as the laughter of people I believe that laughter is godly and love what I'm doing so much but this is different all o'er that's the one thing and now I appeal to you because well you know there are a lot of kids a lot of youngsters that should be put in the frame of mind of wanting to laugh and we want to completely happy a world we have to have happy children and to have completely happy children we must have healthy youngsters given the opportunity our kids are all good all children all over the world are good people are good if given the right opportunity just that and so these children have a terrible handicap and by your dimes and by your assistance no more dimes that you give the more assessment you will be given to the getting to these children who need it so badly and we can very easily say There but for the grace of God stands assisted by crutches who supports them braces stand by. Than a person though is healthy and well and I think it's well for us to help those who are completely unable to help themselves children and I'm very happy for this opportunity to come down and just say up you are done hoping and praying that it will mean something to you and lifting for these children I never want to feel that at any time but I am disassociated in any way from those who are unable to help themselves and I know you to feel that way and so if I can just help just a little bit just a teeny weeny bit I received a letter this morning from my youngster on the way down I opened a letter or youngster in Berks will Kentucky a child that I wrote a letter to when he said that I made him get well because of the letter that I wrote and so just a very little thing something that brought me great happiness the fact that I knew that it meant something to that child can be the same to you get that pleasure and happiness out of helping these youngsters lets all not alone help ourselves and don't say just because the guy across the street isn't giving We won't give our look for any sort of an excuse or wait for tomorrow but do it today this is the time to help the march of the dimes March of Dimes is the agency that's going to support it these ladies and gentlemen that appeared here this morning make me feel that I am so very happy and proud to be part of the great business of show business and so thank you ladies and gentlemen for listening to a guy who feels that way deeply down my the bottom line heart thank you thank you. His heart is bigger than not. One of the guys at the Metropolitan Opera here in the afternoon and now there was a time you remember when. Management and the new techniques. For sometime in fact they were about now has been a kind of operatic experimentation of the thing about the power of the many things in an English level I am. Happy with the boys. And part of the radio. Thank. You. And I am like you I want them to. Know just how you. Can in a moment. The title song. The country. Through you. Are you. Do you know. Money in the march of. Children and. So forth. This. WEEK you. I thank Christ and they do you know kind of I was Henry had to tell them who played the chili Steinway for her and they collapse and their diamond City Hall Square. The new is the American a Vista film and it's a call but to repeat a couple of times I guess couldn't be repeated too many times that we're on the verge of a discovery of a permanent vaccine to permanently prevent probably always almost took good to be true and yet there it is that's the kind of thing I guess that most of us hope for kind of vaguely when we gave dimes and nineteen thirty eight and thirty nine and all the other years that the March of Dimes has been coming forward amazing that we can do real good. With such a not ordinary saying anymore but real saying is money we're used to giving money for lots of good causes and we kind of see it go and say Well that'll do somebody good but we don't realize it as a kid play as the good things that have come out of the March of Dimes so far and the fact that we're so close to lay all of a Goal for which President Roosevelt hoped I'm sure when he started the March of Dimes many many years ago the complete whipping of this problem and their allocation of polio to that column of diseases that you don't hear of anymore that have been wiped out by the technical advancements if we have made which don't just happen doctors and scientists don't just happen to study things they have to live and research is expensive and if the prize tremendous investments these investments can come of course from nobody except us who might get it and buy from the most selfish viewpoint we are only insuring our own lives and our own future by investing again this year if we have so many on the March of Dimes So if you just want to be plain selfish about it basically to yourself to give for the March of Dimes thank goodness. Most American films seem to be like that and that's why we've come so far in this campaign the day that we had the jackpot and get the permanent salmon the permanent vaccine will be another bright and last a day for our country and in hopeful celebration of that the first time a band led by one officer Marian Durban plays now God bless America. God I am. God I am was. That. God that I am. That I am God. Right. You've been listening to a special rally program from the steps of New York City with a famous star of the television program today as your Master of Ceremonies thanks very much Dave thanks to all the celebrated stars of your business generously for their time and talent thanks to Helen Hayes. I think. For others to come up so dancers on. This traditional city hall rally program was dedicated to the one nine hundred fifty three March of Dimes your March of Dimes today right now make sure you are in the march against your child's enemy your enemy and paralysis send all the dollars your heart can spare to your local March of Dimes headquarters Don't be late don't wait join the nineteen fifty three March of Dimes today. This is the municipal Broadcasting Service. The preceding program came to you from the steps of city hall in just one minute and fifteen seconds the latest news until then let's hear a recorded interlude of music.