The Nenana daily news., 1918-04-26
BLIND WILL BE EDUCATED AFTER
 1HE WAR |S OVER


 in the country are cooperating with the United States Government in it's plans for the most complete system of reducation for blinded soldiers that has ever been undertaken. Ob- servation of methods used by other governments during the war, gen. erous appropriations, and the most complete equipment are factors in the plan which will follow the sol dier through all the phases of re- education. When that reeducation has been completed, the committee will find employment for the soldier and aid him in filling his old place in the community.
 Maj. James Bordley, of the medi- cal officers reserve, is in charge of the work, which was initiated as soon as the United States entered the war.
 Offers Estate for a School
 Mrs T. Harrison Garrett has offer ed her Baltimore estate of 99 acres to the surgeon general to serve as a complete hospital school for the blinded officers and men. The es- tate has upon it two houses, one of which will accommodate 150 persons. and will be used for enlisted men, and the other, accommodating 25 persons, will serve as officers quar- ters.. In addition there will be home in Baltimore, where the wife, mother, daughter or sister of the blinded man can live while he is re- ceiving instruction. Women rela- tives of the men will be asked 10 participate in the activities of the school, and will be given an insight into the difficulties and the best methods of training the blind.
 A country home where the men may go with their women relatives to spend the week-ends will also be provided.
 Only Trained Paid Instructors.
 The training given by the Govern ment will be the very best obtain able, and only paid professional in- structors will be permitted to give it. The sugeon generals office is receiving the cooperation of the most noted educators of the blinl in Amer ica, who are acting as an advisory committee. Members of the com mittee are: Edward E. Allen, direc- tor, Perkins Institute for the Sind; o. H. Burritt, principal Pennsyl- vania Institution for Instruction of the Blind Charles F. F. Campbell. superintendent, Ohio State School for the Blind: Walter G. Holmes, Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind; Robert B. Irwin, su- pervisor, Classes for the Blind and Partially Blind in the Public Schools Cincinnati, Cleveland and Toledo, Ohio; M. c. Nigel, treasurer of the Commission (nationaD on Uniform Type for the Blind; Frederick +. Mills, superintendent, Pennsylvania Working Home for Blind Men; Mrs. Gertrude T. Rider, librarian in charge reading room for the blind, Library of Congress; and Edward M. Van Cleve, principal, New York City h. stitute for the Blind. .":....*.
 Representatives of the surgeon generals office have been studying the methods used by the French and British government in their work of educating the blind for months past. The United States Govern ment intends not only to reeducate the men but to "place" them after they have been fitted for civil life, and the blind are included in the industrial and professional survey now being made for the employment of handicapped soldiers. The survey will find the job to fit the blind soldier, and the Government will give him the necessary after care in years to come.
 "The aim of the Government" said Maj. Bordley, ''is to see that man is fitted to take care of himself and those dependent upon him. In many cases he may he ahle to command