the sightless their loss is insurmountable or inconsequential. It
is neither. The sightless confront a situation, not a theory. We ought
to study their problems, and help them to lessen their burdens, to
smooth their path, and to multiply their resources, to enable them to
adapt themselves to a new and sometimes a strange environment; to help
them to adjust themselves to a new set of circumstances, which presents
a different problem, as it presents a different situation from those who
possess the sense of sight." "And," the Senator concludes, "the greatest
service we can render to the blind is to help them to help themselves."
And this is where the public can help, though, as I have said, in its
mistaken kindness, it more often hinders, and encourages the blind to
accept alms, instead of making it possible for them to become
self-supporting, self-respecting men and women.

The constantly increasing number of blinded men in the warring countries
has made it imperative to find work in which they can successfully
engage, and trades and occupations hitherto untried have been found to
be both practicable and lucrative. What Sir Arthur Pearson is doing for
the blinded soldiers at St. Dunstan's is little short of marvelous, and
his success should help the cause in all parts of the world. In Eastern
cities, a large number of the blind are gainfully employed, and new
avenues of usefulness are being opened to them. At Ampere, New Jersey,
Dr. Schuyler S. Wheeler has formed what he calls the Double Duty Finger
Guild. This is composed of some twenty blind people, sixteen men and
four women, and they have been taught to wind coils for armatures used
in electric motors and mill machinery. These people earn from a dollar
and a half to two dollars a day, and their work is done as well as that
of the sighted employees, though, just at first, a little more time is
required. They are making up this discrepancy slowly, but surely, and it
is thought they will soon do the work as fast as the sighted operatives.
Unfortunately, on this coast, we have no factories where this winding is
done, as most of the electric concerns here do repair work, which varies
so that it would be difficult for the blind operative to keep changing
from one kind of work to another. Henry Ford employs a number of blind
men in his factory at Detroit. There the men fit nuts to bolts, wind
armatures, assemble different parts of machinery, and fold paper boxes.
In his fact