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Nothing in the world, nothing on earth is more important and more treasurable than a child; the growing, active body, the growing active mind. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis is pledged to safeguard youth. Who fails to help in this magnificent mission fails not alone the children of today, but the unborn; fails not in a duty, but in a trust.

Have I no word which will insure you, and them, against failing?

I am afraid that I have not, being mortal, but long, long ago there was One Who spoke such a word, in the cause of childhood throughout all the ages.

"For of such," He said, "is the Kingdom of Heaven."