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PAOC 24 CBN«f> CORNER The mousepower that roared by Scott Hessek Eileen Kay is a housewife who lost a baby to "crib death," the tragic disease that strikes apparently healthy, sleeping babies without warning. When she tried to interest people and the medical profession in her cause 10 years ago, they weren't buying. A state medical examiner said, "The babies will die anyway, and there's nothing you can do about it. Why don't you just go home and give up?" But she didn't give up. She had some brochures printed up, kept a handful in her purse, and a stack in her glove com­ partment. She put them in the hands of every medical, quasi- medical and emergency services person she encountered. She put them in doctors' mailboxes on Sunday drives, and spoke to anyone who would listen, singularly or in groups. Today, a volunteer program that has become an example for other cities to follow is functioning in her home city; she has appeared on "The 700 Club;" and a special home monitoring program she helped encourage is saving the lives of some babies at risk to "crib death." Much of the progress in the battle against this disease, also called "Sudden Infant Death Syndrome" or "SIDS," is due to Eileen and volunteers like her. Rosemary is retired and a widow. She could not type, but her handwriting, though not beautiful, was legible, so she volunteered to address envelopes for the opening of a crisis- counseling ministry in a nearby city. Because she addressed, licked and stuffed envelopes, the opening of the center got off to a good start and continued that way. Someone else, or even a computer, might have addressed the envelopes, but Rosemary did. The success that emanated from her kind, personal' gestures was hers, not someone else's. -4# Bill is a night desk clerk at a motel. He began writing letters and sending tracts to prisoners in the U.S. and overseas. His love and gentle humility so touched a prisoner in Nigeria that when he was released, he went to Bible school, became a minister and opened a church called "Prisoners for Christ" in Nigeria. It started with Bill's tract. Think srnaB In a nation of superlatives, where everything is bigger, bet­ ter, newer and relieves pain faster, isn't it refreshing to know you can accomplish things with tools and talents that may be smaller, almost as good and not quite new. The time has come for giving praise and recognition to the incredible value of "mousepower"--the tackling of simple jobs and tasks that lack glamor and sizzle, but form the basis of real progress. Our ancestors didn't cross the Great Plains in jumbo jets. They did it mostly in covered ox-carts. Ox-carts go where horses fear to tred. Not very glamorous, perhaps, but they did the job. Since World War II, the enormous progress in public health overseas has not been due to miracle drugs or vast government programs. There, the greatest boon to public health is the sim­ ple porch-type screen. Hardly dramatic, but very effective. Small, simple, non-heroic things do count. Madison Avenue, sports and television have made cult heroes out of the biggest and the best-est, and this has left all the rest of us out in what we are supposed to perceive as "in- feriorsville." Don't believe it for a minute. Everyone can do something useful and significant with whatever they have in time, money, talent, energy and effort. Everyone. Full-time, part-time, or even just an hour a month. Try it. ,v! Don't give up on tackling the big things, of course, but use your mousepower. It changes things too. And when you see the results five hours, five days or five years down the road, you'll discover it was the mousepower that roared. TV COSWmOS Himctt, INC. 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