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Identifier: perkinsschoolfor1703perk (find matches)
Title: Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1917
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Perkins School for the Blind, formerly Perkins Institution
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Contributing Library: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind
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ousgift will be used at once to aid themost urgent cases. Since the be-ginning of this terrible war, theUnited States has given us innumer- ?wLn.Wences of its lonK standingfriendship Americans have not forgotten the services which we ren-dered them when they fought forindependence a hundrd vears ago. .Several of the letters are accom-panied by detailed descriptions ofthe work which the institutions areactually doing to-day. These de-scriptions show with tragic, vivid-ness the apparent insufficiency ofadequately organized effort at pres-ent in France to give permanentpaying work to the blinded heroesafter they have left the trainingschools. There are about twentytraining schools for the blindat present in different parts of fhSf? >-.But altllo»eii several oJthese institutions provide the blind-ed men with tools, materials, and wh^aLhndrPrl frBnos of capital,*nen they graduate, this aid is ap-parently not sufficient ;)lethem to support themselves. A r-en-tral ,n< which will Lwure
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SIGHTLESS FRENCH FIGHTERS ARE KEEN TO LEARN AND EARN. all the blinded men in different partsof France of steady earnings byjmarketing: their products, as well asby financing; them temporarily while!they are making these products, islgreatly needed. Such an institu-ltion is actually to be established by Ithe A. B. F. B. fund within the n«four months near Paris. M. Brieand other members of the Frencommittee are choosing the locatifor this central institution at tpresent time. The helpless situation of manythe blinded soldiers after they haJearned a trade, was strikingly <emplified a few weeks ago whenBrieux cabled to George A. Kessasking for an immediate remittarof $10,000. Forty blinded soldiiwho had received six months traing in blind trades at Reuilly hi pital, according to M. Brieux, w(about to be discharged from the ;stitution because their place v\needed for others. All these foiblinded men lacked money, tooraw materials, and places in whito make and sell their products. Lless

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  • bookyear:1917
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Perkins_School_for_the_Blind__formerly_Perkins_Institution
  • bookcontributor:Samuel_P__Hayes_Research_Library__Perkins_School_for_the_Blind
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