HELPING THE BLIND

Evening Star, Issue 15513, 8 June 1914, Page 4

HELPING THE BLIND

Mr Galsworthy, the well-known writer, having written to 'The Times' deploring that better means could not be 'evised for helping the blind to become us*fu! members of society, Mr G. M. Campbell, president of the Royal Colleqe at Norwood for Educating the Blind, has put forward this gpirted answer: —" I should like to inquire if Mr Galsworthy has ever been to a school for the blind and seen them cvcle, roller-skate, swim, put the shot, etc., or to a busy workshop and seen them working at various trades, or come in contact with any of the prominent educated blind people of. the present dav? Has he met such blind clergymen as the Rev. HJ. Maxston, who is to preach in June on behalf of the blind in Westminister Abbey, and the Rev. N. P. M'Nei|l; such organists as Alfred Ho'lins or Horace Watiing; such employers of labor as Philip Layfcon, of Montreal, who has the largest music 'store in that eity. and ha« just, on his own initiative, been the means of erecting the Montreal School for the Blind; or JoJm> Bawortft, oi A«wpton, successful pianoforte dealer, employing .'i number of seeing peopie in hi>» establishment; or'' Patrick Kfiily, who acts for weiiM newt- j papers in Lincolnshire? Is it hia onwcn that Mr Arthur Pearson, on Vf]\aie> bphalf j ho is making this appeal, is a perso:i wlujse attitude is that of % "beast of burden," or whoso energy and initiative are those of "an atrophied, mole"? What about' sueh blind men as Captain Tows*, V.C, and Dr Ranger, who direct tfee National Institute'?"