Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1917 . TorkJThis includes subscriptions and pro-ceeds of the food sale only. There area large number of boxes in stores,banks, etc., which are not to becounted for a while. Now that America is in the war andour boys are preparing to take up thefight for freedom, our interest in this,fund for blinded soldiers zHJmW^Wflnibe darkened, asare so many of those across the some of our boys will be blinded inthis -war of high explosives, and) themost practical help we can give themis to teach and train them in some
Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1917 . TorkJThis includes subscriptions and pro-ceeds of the food sale only. There area large number of boxes in stores,banks, etc., which are not to becounted for a while. Now that America is in the war andour boys are preparing to take up thefight for freedom, our interest in this,fund for blinded soldiers zHJmW^Wflnibe darkened, asare so many of those across the some of our boys will be blinded inthis -war of high explosives, and) themost practical help we can give themis to teach and train them in someuseful trade or profession. The fund Is a permanent one torender the blinded ones self-support-.,ing. They have given their eyes thattheir children may never see what1they themselves have witnessed. Any,contribution, however small, will begratefully received and forwarded;through the proper channels tojiead-quarters. Not a penny is ever deduct-ed to pay expense®; al goes directlyto the authorities for care of the blindsWdiertt.***3^ Bos-Cc Sb„ -Rec •• Mabel Boardman By Mabel T. Boardman (President Ameriean National Ked Cross) Charity and kindness must run tjomoot the tragedies of war. We ca) -not afford to wait until they are uponus. 1 do not like to remind all whocome to see me asking for nationalservice under the Red Cross of are thousands of simple tasks,but to some this message must go intime for preparation. War does not. alone kill the youngmen ot the land. It leaves great and broken. For those there must be some sal-vage and export guidance* back intothe semblance of normal Help the Maimed Few r the mutilations of war arewithout their oouster parts in peace—blindness, crippled and amputatedlimns, deafness. The nation that il the unfortunates of piwill have the largest stock of science!.? meet the wreckage of war. it is in the blind asylums of that Winifred Holts first fidtheir work: in the hm<\s foi?hildron tha
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