The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1916-05-09
THE NORTH CAROLINA
SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF

/ positions of the vocal organs in ut
tering the English alphabet. DR. Lyon
of Rochester, New York, a man of in
| fuence, wealth, and leisure, is also
interested in visible speech and has
given much time to it. DR.. Edward
! Gallaudet who was the founder and
| for many years the President of Gall
audet College for the Deaf, at Wash
| ington, d. c., is another distinguish
| ed man interested in the deaf; and
| Horace Mann of Boston, who when
! he was urging the building of the
| Boston school for the Deaf was ask
| ed, "Why put so much money into
| SchC OIL for so unimportant a class OF
the people as the deaf?" answered,
| "Nct il that deaf boy were yonrs."
Among the women who are giving
time end talent to this interesting and
wcrtl Y class there are a great he ST.
Words Deaf and Dumb
There seems to be in the minds OF
people a kind of association of the
words, asylum" charities ''unfor
tunates,' dummies" C'mutes'D of
all things do not call our school for
the deaf an asylum" The object
of this article is to convince you
that it is not. And Of all the words
in the wide world that is distastefuI
to the instructor of the deaf, is the
word, dummy" Now that dumb is
stricken out of law we trust that it
will be obliterated entirely from
both written and spoken language.
These degrading words, dumb" and
mute are like mill-stones about the
neck of the ambitious deaf.
1t is the stigma of these false words
that often dooms the deaf to minor
positions in poorly paid pursuits. Ii
we will only take the pains to look,
we shall see the deaf filling satisfac-
torily to the employer and to the in
situations that send them out many
of the responsible positions of life.
There are among them teachers,
preachers, painters, printers, sculp-
tors, architects, electricians, and 9TH
ers of whom the State which educat-
ed them has a right to be proud. A
Chicago paper, 1.-The Daily News,
says that 95 per cent of deaf people
in the United States are self-support-
ing, and most of the remaining per
cent are girls living in their own
homes who have no need for self
support. Vocational work, which is
so great feature of the education OF
the deaf, may largely account for this
Great School
The North Carolina School at Nor
canton is not one jot behind in it's
endeavors to do what other parts OF
the world are doing for the deaf
neither is it behind in it's achieve
ments. Visitors from other state
schools have borne testimony to this
1t was gratifying to have that great
National Association in 1905 place
the North Carolina school on the list
OF three of the best schools for thf
deaf in America.
T11e committee1 appointed by theS
General Assembly, to visff the publicly
institutions of the State nave always
expressed a gratffied surprise at what
has been accomplished, as a member
of the committee once said in his re
port. Gin our great school at Morgan
tom.
Rhythm and Tone
It is not the object of this article
to give in any detail the curriculum
of the school, but to speak of some
new features which, during the past
two or three years have been added,
tested and found successful. 1t is
Well-knoWn that the Morganton
School is largely an Oral School;
more than 80 per cent are taught
speech and speech-reading Clip read
ing).
We have heard of people hearing
with their eyes, (reading the ips).
We have also heard of those who
sEsee objects by touch (the blindD
Helen Keller says that no one sees
thing accurately unless he handles
it. There is a more wonderful thing
than either of the above mentioned
talking by touch (vibrations)
Some of Edison's discoveries are no
more wonderful than that which is
being practiced today in the Morgan
ton School-teaching the pupils to
articulate by means of the piano.
About two years ago, Superintend-
ent Goodwin, learning that some Of
the leading schools north were, from
vibrations of the piano, making a
scientific experiment upon the voices
of those being taught to speak-(the