BLIND MEN OF THE WAR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 109, 11 May 1931, Page 8

BLIND MEN OF THE WAR

FIRST TWO FRENCHMEN There was a pathetic scene in France the other day at the funeral of Dr. Racine, the blind man who was killed in the street, in spit of the fact that he carried his white stick. In the funeral procession were the two first Frenchmen to be blinded in the Great War, wounded in the Battle of the Marne, in the street in. spite of the fact, that he “I am not rich,” wrote a man in Belleville, enclosing five, francs for 1 he widow and children of Dr. Racine. “I am only a poor, blind brush maker. But, being the father of a family, I cannot forget that each of us in this life is at the mercy of fate.” Dr. Racine was struck by a car in the street, carrying the white cane which has been adopted as the badge of the blind in the Paris streets. The fact that the stick did not save him ha#» brought forth the proposal that the white canes of the blind should be given official recognition in the traffic code of the French capital.