Bisbee daily review., 1919-02-23

 l is admitted to the hospital. The first i job is to find out all about the indi- vidual man. A medical man, an eye man, a psychologist and a specialist from the educational department CO., operate in thorough examination, to get the exact facts of his physical and mental state. A great many are ''shell-shock" victims.
 For the first two weeks the men i feel helpless But they are learning to do things for things l they never thought they could do. Re suit: Confidence, optimism, resolve to make good"
 ENTERTAINMENT COMES
 FIRST IN TRAINING
 After that the training Is divided into four periods. The first is mostly entertainment. with very little work Reading classes, concerts. minstrel show games in the gym, swimming bowling, physical exercise take up most of the day.
 i To see these men sporting in the big tank, diving with utmost confi- dence, bowling with the accuracy of i experts, it is difficult to realize that they are blind The first effort is the hard one for all Of them. When a blind man, trembling with fear, has neverless made his first dive into the tank, his fear is gone, his confidence has come. When, by means of a guide rail for his left hand he learns to speed the ball down the alley and to hit he pins squarely in the center he has marked up a peg in his self-confi- dence that means much in future training.
 Preliminary work with braille type writing and basketry accompany the entertainment features.
 These men do not live in
 world of the blind," said the off
 cer who accompanied me, in ex-
 planation. "This is no blind
 community They live in the
 same world as we do, constantly mixing and working and playing
 with sighted people"
 Dancing is a big part of entertain ing the men. Dancing teaches the men agility of movement and sure ness of motion that helps them with walking. And dancing with girls gives the confidence that comes from doing a normal, pleasant thing in normal way
 It gets the man ready to go on with training that will enable him to com pete with the normal men for the rest of his life and beat them at their own game of making a living.
 RESTORING THE LOST
 30 PER CENT OF EFFICIENCY
 That is the whole spirit of Ever green It is figured that a blind man has lost 30 per cen of his efficiency. The work here is to restore that 30 per cent by training and extra eff ctency of body and mind. In the second period the men are given advanced training in various vo- cationRl branches, from which they may later choose an occupation. The third period is one of specialization. They pick their future occupation and learn all there is to learn about it- more in some cases than sighted men working on the outside. 4 bookbinder who learns his trade here is as good a boOkbinder as there is in the United States
 In the fourth period the specializa- tion is carried further, and the mans mother, wife, sister or sweetheart is brought to Evergreen to be taught how to cooperate with the blind man. how to be helpful and sympathetic without spelling his self-cOnfidence. A number of weddings have taken place at Evergreen Some of the first men to be received are approaching the pe- riod of their graduation. All of them are well on the road to happy. normal, useful lives