El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1921-01-03

state which is to say society organized for government
social service and defence spends TO- 20 OF so times as
much per head educate and for its detectives for
those in sound health It is true, large proportion Of
detectives entirely neglected but such institutional care
provided is carried cost per capita many times
wat Is spent on the education and care OF normal persons
Quite the most unreasonable thing about present
state of civilization is the neglect Of education In coun-
Try Is the educational system anywhere near adequate to
the commonly recognized need the United States with
its vast resources and its progressive policy IN many ways
the disparity between what educational system IS and
What it ought to BE- is striking and more disgraoeful
than IN any other country.
II has often been said that has within him power
to use to the highest achievements Of his anoesythat
what has been and has done man can be and can do
II does harm keep before all the time reasonable
ideals the highest human Development Of the ages We
need not be content with anything less It is absurd to
admit that inferior either 70 those who long
dead to those who live somewhere else.
Tie first duty Of the state is to provide equal oppor-
tuuity 10 all Now without n the least degree decryng
the necessity OF the wisdom Of the work that is being done
the best institutions for detectives for the sick the deaf
and dumb and blind the subnormal the weak deformed
II cnnot be denied that the standards set these best
institutions are not reached approached the
average by the educational and other institutions and
provided for the normal If every child were to re-
ceFe special equal that provided in the best ns
tutions should have wonderful world. IF as much
money Per capita were spent the normal children is
spent subnoral and defective, should have Won
darul system Of education and health maintenance.
Just illustrating the remarkable things that done
BY Of lettering the lot Of detectives and restoring them
TO the enjoyment Of social opportunities from which they
might otherwise be barred take the noted college for the
blind England Two blind chiefly responsible
for the great advance that has been made the develop
Of higher education for the blind IN England The
effort st has its limitations but its successes far carry
inspiration abroad.
These men, born blind received the usual limited and
elementary instruction in ther youth They at last found
themselves Of the better schools Of their day, and
Tor than so years they have devoted themselves 70
raising the educational standards for the blind Now says
coming prime minister. For Of his work the prime
minister does not use his eyes II is his brain that counts
nHs-H- n--
that power because he is not distracted by things that catch
the attention Of sighted The prime minister has
digest Of his letters, the routine is taken away from him.
and his replies dictated Provided the brain is there
the sight seems very secondary"
The Worcester college the only Institution IN Europe
for the blind the standards approach those OF uni
versy Il has some 40 students, but II has graduated
Of ho have become noted for their services to
the state in public life and lawyers cersymen business
Inen, r1usioians' authors and teachers
Boys to Il receive ordinary public schooling Prom "A
TO IS they pass 70 the high school and only they 20
forward into the college casses at Worcester but many
ener the eghted universities and make splendid records
N competition with their sighted companions.
The old idea that the blind could be fitted only for
manual labor- This idea stn prevails among the IL IN
formed but there is growing tendency TO educate the
mind since experience has shown that many extraordinary
gifts thus developed AID turned to human service
Students at Worcester have their Latin and Greek
algebra and tgonoetry, and study al the higher college
branches IN the business school there students who
report speta at the rate Of 80 words minute and
trauscbe i accurately the typewriter. And al these
totally blind these who keep books make out
balance sheets, graphs, and charts with ease.
Recreation used to be limited to cricket with belled
BAH n0n-c0mpsttiTe game Now these blind students
beating al competitors at rowing among the sighted
schools having much larger membership And they play
chess, Worcester blind boys playing Oxford university
teams and being captain Of the university championship
team Chess is Of the fzvorfe games With the blind
IN many other recrszu0ual lines they excel
Music is faForite study and recreation and eminent
musicians have been graduated from the school Blindness
does not to hinder them does It prevent them
from becoming able scuptors and in wood and
marble, WHARF technc is illuminated by highly de-
Fel0ped fine art sense.
After the Worcester student leaves school or college he