National Affairs: Erect

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Seven years ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was struck down in his prime (aged 40) by infantile paralysis. He fought back, not only at his own crippled condition but at the effects of the disease upon others. The Georgia Warm Springs Foundation Hospital at Warm Springs in Georgia, is largely his work and his energy encouraged notable developments in restorative therapy.

Last week Mr. Roosevelt squared off at life afresh and made an announcement. He could get along without his crutches now, he said, though he still needs two canes. He resigned from other companies and from the American Construction council—on which he had served since 1923 is a sort of chief morale officer to the building trades—to devote himself fully to his Fidelity & Deposit Co. and his American Bonding Co., to his Manhattan law firm (Roosevelt & O'Connor) and to the presidential candidacy of his friend, Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York, whose pre-convention campaign of 1924 he managed from the confines of a wheel chair.

People congratulated Mr. Roosevelt.