. Review of reviews and world's work . lhutoi;|,li l>v Ar N>w Wnk VIDART (WHO FINISHED THIRD) FLYING OVER LIEGE IN THE INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT RACE i. THE STORY HOUR AT PENNSYLVANIA STATE SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND (Of these 32 children, 22 are needlessly blind as a result of ophthalmia neonatorum) DOING AWAY WITH BLINDNESS BY OLIVIA HOWARD DUNBAR /^NE-HALF the blindness in the worldis unnecessary. This is a deliberatelyformed estimate, upon which competent au-thorities agree. Yet the average man ofto-day regards blindness as an inevitable anddevouring curse, to whic


. Review of reviews and world's work . lhutoi;|,li l>v Ar N>w Wnk VIDART (WHO FINISHED THIRD) FLYING OVER LIEGE IN THE INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT RACE i. THE STORY HOUR AT PENNSYLVANIA STATE SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND (Of these 32 children, 22 are needlessly blind as a result of ophthalmia neonatorum) DOING AWAY WITH BLINDNESS BY OLIVIA HOWARD DUNBAR /^NE-HALF the blindness in the worldis unnecessary. This is a deliberatelyformed estimate, upon which competent au-thorities agree. Yet the average man ofto-day regards blindness as an inevitable anddevouring curse, to which, as to some insati-able Minotaur, a definite number of martyrshave regularly to be sacrificed. His attitudeis, of course, a superstition, but it is a deeplyimbedded one. To teach him that, on thecontrary, blindness is preventable, and thathe must himself be intelligently alert to pre-vent it, is the object of a movement that isfirmly established in England and France andthat is now spreading rapidly over our owncountry. A case of tuberculosis is not now consideredby the relatively unenlightened man as thedeadly instrument of a purely malevolentfate. He knows that in many ins


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