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MAY 18, 1950<br />
A Sense of Hope<br />
Is Imperative for<br />
Cerebral Palsied<br />
(First in a series of<br />
three articles)<br />
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Cerebral<br />
PaJsy, a condition which results<br />
from faulty development or<br />
damage to parts of the brain<br />
which govern control of the<br />
muscles, is one of America's<br />
major cripplers. Current interest<br />
in the problem has been inspired<br />
by recently - formed parents'<br />
groups which seek to combat<br />
cerebral palsy. The following<br />
article is reprinted from the<br />
Cerebral Pa^sy League-of New<br />
Jersey NEWS. It was written<br />
by Leonard Harris, M.D., medical<br />
director of the Treatment<br />
Center of the Cerebral Palsy<br />
League of New Jersey-Essex<br />
County.)<br />
I think you will agree with roe<br />
that hope is man's most priceless<br />
possession. A man needs hope in<br />
ordor to tolerate his miseries and<br />
to enjoy his good fortune. The man<br />
• wiio lacks hope either in misery or<br />
In good fortune is the poorest man<br />
ilive.<br />
The recent surge of nation-wi<br />
interest in Cerebral Palsy and the<br />
organization o£ the United Cerebral<br />
Palsy Association establishes<br />
this sense of hope in the hearts of<br />
the parents, physicians, therapists<br />
ilid eventually in the children<br />
themselves, which in the long run<br />
ii our final aim. Hope is a reflection<br />
of constructive feelings and<br />
attitudes. A child feels personally<br />
hopeful when, as a result of good<br />
human relations, he acquires an<br />
inner certainty about his real<br />
strength and real "weakness. His<br />
hope is augmented by successful<br />
* experiences in selecting and working<br />
towards realistic goals. This,<br />
very broadly, is the overall aim of<br />
any rehabilitation program.<br />
Cerebral Palsy, more than most<br />
medical disorders is a problem in<br />
the relationship of the individual<br />
to society. The basis of any program<br />
is the promotion of an<br />
essentially normal relationship<br />
among the children while meeting;<br />
their many individual training requirements.<br />
The concept of a community<br />
of children learning self<br />
help and mutual assistance, developing<br />
social sense and receiving<br />
at the same time education and the<br />
various types of training they so<br />
badly need, must be primary in any<br />
movement to aid the cerebral palsied<br />
child. -<br />
We have only just begun to<br />
scratch the surface of the potentialities<br />
for handling the cerebral<br />
palsy problem. The parent of a<br />
cerebral palsied child wants that<br />
child to be happy and wants to be<br />
happy with him. The parent must<br />
know what the child -will never be<br />
able to do and what are the possibilities<br />
for each child. Any treatment<br />
p^gram must have, immediate<br />
objectives. Progress will be<br />
in stages, not in jumps. When the<br />
immediate goal is reached, success<br />
is shared by the child and the<br />
parent. VThe parent needs success<br />
as well as the child. k<br />
In the past, parents of cerebral<br />
palsied children were generally advised<br />
to put their children away<br />
in institutions for custodial care,<br />
to be more or less forgotten. Even<br />
today, owing to the lack of proper<br />
training, adequate facilities, and<br />
dissemination of information regarding<br />
cerebral palsy, institutions<br />
for the feeble-minded house many<br />
individuals of normal intelligence,<br />
who because of their motor and<br />
sensory handicaps 1 are thought to<br />
be below normal in intelligence.<br />
tn keeping with medical progress<br />
on all fronts, increasing interest<br />
and experience in cerebral<br />
palsy have made available new<br />
data for more accurate diagnosis<br />
..ind treatment in this field. Each<br />
time that a treatment center is<br />
Mtablished we increase the opportunity<br />
for study and development<br />
of techniques for assisting cerebral<br />
palsied children to make as normal<br />
an adjustment as possible. We<br />
arc also inviting and stimulating<br />
the interest ' of professionals to<br />
train in and explore the field of<br />
cerebral palsy.<br />
Rehabilitation is possible in more<br />
than 75 pet cent of the affected individuals.<br />
Cerebral palsied patients<br />
can be taught to overcome their<br />
handicaps through education and<br />
various techniques - of therapy.<br />
Marked improvements are possible<br />
to the point of enabling them to<br />
function as useful members of society.<br />
Despite their disabilities,<br />
those afflicted can be rehabilitated<br />
BO that they can perform the functions<br />
of average human beings.<br />
Through the use of physio,<br />
therapy, occupational therapy,<br />
speech training, general medical<br />
care, psychological guidance, education,<br />
surgery, braces and certain<br />
drugs, hopelessness has been replaced<br />
with hope as parents watch<br />
their children improve. Without<br />
such treatment and training the<br />
cerebral palsied in the past have<br />
remained helpless bodies removed<br />
from the world.<br />
Thft parent* of these children<br />
need help u well as the patients.<br />
No family should be charged with<br />
the full responsibility of a cerebral<br />
palsied child. Every person in the<br />
community as a whole should share<br />
In this task. There is an ever increasing<br />
case-load of cerebral chilto<br />
Increase available facilities.<br />
Iron was once a rare and pr«ciaut<br />
ntetal, and one of the earllett<br />
known iron relies *ae jewelry—iron<br />
beato found in an Esyptita<br />
tomb dating back to +. 000<br />
Designs Original Pieces of Furniture<br />
In seme of the nation's leading<br />
department stores may be ft>und<br />
original pieces of furniture designed<br />
by a resident of Millburo,<br />
Seth Ben-Ari, Although Ben-Ari<br />
has been producing furniture for<br />
only a .short time, some department<br />
store buyers are reported<br />
as saying that his original rank<br />
with the best they have seen.<br />
Ben-Ari is in an unusual position<br />
among designers. He is<br />
owner of a gmall plant on Highway<br />
29, Scotch Plains, which produces<br />
furniture of his own design,<br />
This combination of producerdesigner<br />
is unique. Most designers<br />
are employed by large<br />
concerns, but few own their own<br />
work shops.<br />
"It gives the designer a chance<br />
to supervise his creation from'<br />
design to finished product," Ben-<br />
Ari says.<br />
Ben-Ari was born in Russia<br />
where'he attended universities in<br />
Moscow acid Odessa. He ,left<br />
his native land in the early lSWs,<br />
first going to South America, then j<br />
to Hollywood where he was employed<br />
as a set designer. A number<br />
of his stage designs were<br />
seen in the early Cecil De Mille<br />
productions.<br />
Later he turned to interior<br />
home design, office and store<br />
design. Among other things, his<br />
work included designs for an exhibit<br />
at the World's Fair and the<br />
Koos Brothers' store, Rahway.<br />
It was while he was designing<br />
interiors that he became particularly<br />
interested in furniture, aod<br />
the possibility of not only designing<br />
it, but also of operating a<br />
small plant which would produce<br />
his designs.<br />
While working on interiors,<br />
etn-Ari often found it necessary<br />
to create special pieces of furniture,<br />
which then had to be produced<br />
by a cabinet maker.<br />
"In the case of period furniture,"<br />
he says, "this was due to<br />
the fact that the required design<br />
could not be found in the proper<br />
SETH BEN-ARI<br />
size or correct finish. And as for<br />
modern design, it was necessary<br />
to design my own or be faced with<br />
a very limited selection."<br />
A fow years ago he accomplished<br />
the ideal of many designers by<br />
opening his own shop where he<br />
could not only design as he wished,<br />
but control the workmanship of<br />
the finished product.<br />
The small, modernistic plant on<br />
Highway 29 now emplosy 10<br />
craftsmen. Much of the work is<br />
done by hand and it may take<br />
severed weeks before a single<br />
piece ia completed.<br />
"But," says BEM Ari, "I am<br />
interested only in quality—not<br />
quantity."<br />
"Design," says Ben-Ari, "is imagination,"<br />
although he points out<br />
that it is usually based on something<br />
which is already in existence.<br />
As an example, the basic<br />
design for his latest piece of furniture<br />
was inspired by the heel of a<br />
Victorian slipper.<br />
Using the curve of the heel as<br />
a foundation, he built up the<br />
basic design which is now used<br />
for his breakfronts, dressers and<br />
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the times at which the Sun crosses<br />
the extension of the earth's equator<br />
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