unstan's
in London, where the work of re-education, under the direction of Sir
Arthur Pearson, himself a blind man, is meeting with the greatest
success. The Red Cross Institute for the Blind is on the same grounds as
the Hospital School, and is supplementing the work of the government in
a most able manner. Typewriting, dictaphone, switchboard operating,
telegraphy, osteopathy, massage, and salesmanship are to be taught to
those who are fitted for these branches; and trades and occupations,
including piano tuning, winding coils for armatures used in electric
motors, joinery, mat and mattress making, broom and basket making, rug
weaving, and shoe cobbling are to be taught to those who are not fitted
for the professions. The government will send over to France at least
one blind teacher for each base hospital, for his inspirational value to
the men during the first trying months of the readjustment period. Blind
teachers will be employed in this country, too, and the government is
already looking about for those best qualified for such positions. All
blind soldiers will be given an opportunity to learn to read and write
the raised system, and provision is being made for an enlarged
circulation of books, and for newer publications to be embossed in the
universal Braille system. In this work, the volunteers who learn to
write Braille can materially assist, by copying short stories, timely
articles, and nonsense verse to be distributed among the blind of their
communities, and for the pleasure of the returned soldiers.

When the men have been a sufficient time in the hospital school, they
are to be returned to their own cities and towns, and the government,
through its agent empowered to find employment for handicapped soldiers,
will endeavor to secure work for them in existing industrial
institutions and plants in the various states. It is also planned to
place capable blind men in shops with the seeing, whenever possible. I
say whenever possible, for it will take time and much effort to persuade
employers to include blind men among their employees. But the day is not
far distant when the public will see the wisdom of providing work for
its handicapped men and women, and condemn those who fail to co-operate
with the government in securing positions for those qualified to fill
them. The government is generous in its appropriation of funds to carry
on this re-education, but it does not include the civilian blind in this
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