The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-30

,,s AZ Columbia University the day after
.,.no-rov one of the recipients Who viii
ma, welcome ais degree will not So Il,
q. blind student, Benjamin Bsrins,sin.
m. graduating class this year numbers
,bou, rs members. among them being
M BERNSTEIN. Sugars old. who has been
hind from infancy Furthermore, he has
worked b.. say through college. lie IL
the second hind man 10 take he degree
a., Columbia his Predecessor having been
, cassmats OF the Hon. Seth Low. DR.
r.rI seth Low was valsdictOran Oi
t,s class DR. Carl was the sAlutatorian.
Dr Carlls blind successor has also
snished his first year in the law coIFss AZ
columbia and intends completing the
aV course and to make the law HE pro-
fie-sion. In working his way through
college he has for long time read with
hs fingers the prOOfs Of all the plates
n the Matilda Ziegler hagosiss ior Ne
Bind. which is printed in two types. the
American Braille and the New York point,
both Of which he reads. and the uhaza CINE =
manager. Walter g. Holmes. Aays Of hts
work 4 do no, helieve there is any more
correctly printed magazine IN the country
than ours, thanks 70 hrs care
The youthful Mr. BERNSTEIN. a stout
and fail voiced young man. seemed quite
happy and reasonably well satisfied
Yesterday afternoon at the home Of his
father. W. Berinstein. 81 Vest listh
street. AZ he told something ofhis outlook
UPON life and the conditions surrounding
and governing a blind man He is con
vinced Of one thing very clearly. and that
> that the public and the public author
,es make q very real mistake in accepting
The word Of seeing people a. 90 what iz
lest for the blind. Very terrely put, Mr.
Bernstein's view is this: II you want 20
snow what ia best for the blind. Il you
want n know what methods will give
ths best results to them. take the testi-
donv Of intsllEent blind persons not
hhs ideas Of charitable and we'll meaning
seeng people
There r. a serious iniustics Icing
done 10 the blind by these charitable
rsr.ons Il good and kind inclinations.'
no young man said. for through them
mere has gone out by means of the press
ihs .fei that the blind nowadays can
sam their living on terms Of equality
Nth me seeing people. It - not ~. am
no pessimist. am glad h say. but neither
10 ! relieve In minimizing optimiam.
! j. seems 70 me that the unthinkinR Op-
unis' . even a greater msaaoe than the
iess.mis' a gre ter worker e harm. The
Their day a man. a stranger. was gong
20 help ne out u the s1lbgayI ton
use New Works crowded transportation
ne and he had taken this new erroneous
view from public prints.
he was exuhersnt IN his speerh
! Used 70 help blind people q CREST de-l.
10 said 10 me. hut now iFarsly help
hem because they do not need H. lsn't
o glorious n live in such a time? Nov
hey can earn their own living a. well
IS other persons, % many vooations
re opan % them.
I told him that he was wr1nE. that
81" was a victim % unintsntionllly mis-
slding publications, ~ stories and state
rsuts given out by well mesning Chari-
.ts persons who thought themselves
etier able 10 tell what was good for the
hind than intelligent blind persons them
-slve- which Is not the fact For example
! am willing 10 say right here that there
- recently been published an annual
r'prrt II a socisty Interested In the blind
vherein girl 10 pictured A. Opsnting
telephune Now. the implication IL
I hat she isdoing that as q means II live
hfoot whereas the fact Is. I say. that
'hs - merely employed 10 do that for
sIt.hition purposes and IA not 10 engaged
fsa livelihood. told my stranger frisnd
kAt The blind needsd help a. much now
- ever not charity. but help in the way
NJ uTers 4 employment.
another erroneous idea has been al
owed o. ~ forth. that blind people can
accomplish ~ much In q day a. Others
lAs not true ! do not refer ~ much to
20 loss " time In getting about that "
~ incident though II counts but n the
Iiaot hat rl" greater expenditure Of neF-
ToIs force required in the ordinary pur-
suits n lie getting about being ons Of
hen CAUSES such demand on them that
.Aev simply cannot do ell that the seeing
.b'an IN q given time.
IN m" matter Of getting about IL n
i'' 'eo"ssary 10 have a guide. but Il h
''f"dlent n man cannot afford it
% better " course for him % 20 alone.
.'sn Wlth all the nervous expenditure.
| ~ M tho other hand II he can afford q
ida D." - simply a fool not n take one.
mr. s crowded "ity. a. you have heard
am poi !" DO not take care 20 look out
~ whether the man coming or going
m Ne street r. blind A woman pushing
nahy carriaEe, for example, spends her
''ne boxing into the store windows and
I.' ~ trying n - whether the man com
,s h.iHd OF not How do I ahow'
men are som- thing You knc y that
'.' ~ nn' have % b. told. n the woman
40 cooking ahead she would not run into
~" blind man There n nothing for hsr
..'k az 10 Tho middle Of the strnst. 10
ne Is not looking a. her baby ~ n 80
.. 10 coming she must he looking at the
'''Vs ThI'h contain things wlich tho
mon boo Interested in.
30 ." going - college. You kn Nv very
''. 'ha any man Who has 10 y ora his
.' Trough has a hard enough time ~
I '''Iar"i with those around h m Who
.''. more money than they kne y what /
WITH in the case u a hlisa man
r FED. much fI.. Iarftar. go. -. lii. .