Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1917 . m happy, really trie balance of the war, and be-yond it, I shall continue this work. Itbings more return to the soul thanwriting, for it is a finer, nobler thing Never pity a blind man. Topity is to humiliate. To the sighttess,no words save, those of hope andcourage for the future should be ut-tered. Here are two photographs ofthe same young man taken an hourapart. In one you see his shriveled,sunken sockets. In the other he hashis new glass eyes in place. He knowsthey look like live eyes, and psychol-ogically is h
Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1917 . m happy, really trie balance of the war, and be-yond it, I shall continue this work. Itbings more return to the soul thanwriting, for it is a finer, nobler thing Never pity a blind man. Topity is to humiliate. To the sighttess,no words save, those of hope andcourage for the future should be ut-tered. Here are two photographs ofthe same young man taken an hourapart. In one you see his shriveled,sunken sockets. In the other he hashis new glass eyes in place. He knowsthey look like live eyes, and psychol-ogically is happier for the make him and his kind happypsychologically or materially is myaim. I never before fully realizedhow pappiness multiplies in the giv-ing. As I rose to so, Brieux deIAcad-cmie Francaise gave me a genue handgrip. And I,took with me, past thequiet winding avenue lined with itspeaceful eighteenth-century houses,oirfc^into populous Montmartre and towhenhH^vrite, a lasting memory. r\ a-ft^O-rcO , jJ>Oy\y\., G O-y^ T \ V- * Maw %3« Lusitania Survivor SailsWith $20,000 for Aid HARTFORD MAN SUB-TREASURER Hoped to Raise $2,000,000for Wounded of Allied later rescued. He then vowed hej would devote his life to some greathumanitarian cause. Thus he j founded the A. B. F. B., retiringfrom business to give up his time,to it. The organization numbersamong its members, many promi-nent men including President Wil-son who has consented to becomehead of the American section. It is planned to raise $2,000,000for the needs of the British, Frenchand Belgian sections which are re-spectively tinder the patronage ofKing George, President Poincareand King Albert, and for the inevi-table requirements of the Americansection, now that the United Stateshas entered the war- A permanent(institution will be established in of Paris where blinded sol-diers and sailors will be receivedwhen convalescent and made to feelthat, far from having been incapaci-tated
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