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Ralph Edwards had raised about two million dollars, or something like that, for the benefit of the Polio Foundation. So, Emerson urged Howell to accept the offer because they could do nothing but get whatever money they got.

And a tremendous audience.

And atremendous audience.

As a result of this recommendation on the part of Emerson Foote and my involving him? with Howell and the Heart Association, the Association was astounded to receive in the spring of '48 over one million five hundred and seventy thousand dollars, as a result of this radio program, in one check. And I was present when they received the check in Chicago.

This put the Association on its feet financially, and made them able to finance a really good heart campaign. However, they really didn't have the skills that were needed, and they could be raising 50 million or 100 million dollars now if they had had Foote and a few really skillful people on the inside in the beginning. But Foote was just playing around the edges, because he finally saw that the doctors and the laymen who were there were not going to be very sympathetic and he was busy with other things.

Why is it that a man like Mr. Howell--who is a banker, I believe?

Yes.