Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-04-14
AMERICANS WIN THANKS
OF FRENCH PLAYWRIGHT
Eugene Bricux Tells of WorL n,,.
by Permanent Blind Relief
War Fund.
HELPS BLINDED AND ARMIES;
Men injured In Disobeying Orders
Receive No Government Pension.
Sfghtless Officers Offer saddest
Cases for Relief.
BY EUGENE DRIEUx.
Noted Frepsh Playwright and Pr,
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PARIS. March s tby matD.-Eo- 49,
American aid. thanks, In the nam. ~
our blindI
AZ tho moment whom fer tn. ers+
time the Germans have run into ~.
american troops who drove thom off
with Losses. It Is we'll to speak about
tho work done By the Permanent Blind
Relief War Fund for Soldiers and
Sailorn for our blinded heroes. of ho,b
land and sea
Practical and charitable, tho Amer.
leans first cnms to tho assistance OF
our most sorely stricken; those who
wero both blind and had suffered
amputation OF their arms. Among
them, 1t b terrible but true, are thoso
who have no pension from tho GOV
ernnont These arc the men who NAV
have brought back unexploded hand
Erenades from tho front, or attenptsd
to extract tho aluminium fuse from n
shell to mako ring for their svAat.
heartn
The grenade. the Shell. axplodn.e
Both their eyes End hands arc lost
They had hesn warned OF the danger
and in order that discipline DO respoos-
ed. thoy have no right To q pension.
You think that one has no. tho courax,
to carry out tho letter OF tho law, To
refuse them tho hatp thay AJAX. which
amounts TO 900 francs a rear tahov4
s11o3' The others who havs been
MANNED tn lighting reertvS LEGO eranes
year.
But tho Americans are not bound q,
respect any disciplinary measures. 80
each man who has lost his eyes md
arms and who has been 1nobtlized. thov
say. without demanding tho source Of
his inturtea During your lifetime va
win sec that you have LOO franco =
year. The nrnt three tnstallments arc
now At your disposition. Furthermore
II you arc from tho country, We ,urr,
You TO pick out Romo nman house for
sale IN your own pruv1nce- We wiz
gfve you. 10 buy It IN your name. the
sum OF 1000 france Act quickly. W.
want to 300 y0u re-sstabnshed in your
own homo and II money Is lacking to
buy thu furniture M you have to do
Is to toll u.s.
That was tho drst act OF tho Per-
manent Blind Relief Fund and at the
present twenty-ono terribly MANNED
men are receiving their promised in
coma.
Sinos hast year moro than 500
blinded soldiers have In this manner
been restored to their own villages
and people. Many of them are mar
ried and happy. which they would not
have been without tho aid OF our Amer
lean friendB.
must say H WINS with unbounded
admiration that tho Americans learned
these blind soldiers were good clients.
better than como who have tho adj
vantage OF their eyes. and paid with a
punctuafity that was astonishing. But
the committee has not stopped herc
1t has opened school for lace making
and basket weaving.
Among the sightless, perhaps the sad
dest cases are those Of the young on
GERS. arrested IN tho middle OF a bril-
liant career, whose aptitudes or taste.
would III fit in with the future OF 8
cultivator OF the earth or manual labor
Tho untirinG committee established i
school at Neuilly at which Is taught
the Braille system Of shorthand and
typewriting. foreign languages, civil
law. commercial representation, etc
No scholar is asked to conform TO any
course. He selects his own and what
he wants to learn.