The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-06
Mother s Eyes Bring Light
 To Him
By SOPHIE IRENE LOEB

MMOST delightful, indeed, is the lVk news that young blind law
 student is the honor man of a thousand university graduates. This youth, George Henry Weinmafn, whose age is 24. blind since birth, was ac- corded tremendous ovation from about 1000 persons when he received his diploma. He has passed the Illinois Bar association examination with a high mark.
 The biggest thing about it all is the young mans statement:
 My mother is my eyes. She read my courses night after night for four years-and before that she read my high school lessons, and before that the grade school books. l had only to do the typewriting for the examina- tions.'
 Most refreshing, indeed, lis this aez knowledgement from the boy to his mother, the real source of his success. How many hundreds of young people seem to take everything that mother Goes for granted They accept all that She gives, not only through her eyes, snt her hands, head and heart, and they take everything as a matter of course.
 Not until she is gone do they realize the great strength of her, be she ever so delicate. cannot help wishing that more young people would give to their mother the credit that is due her while she lives; to express to her their ap- preciation to tell her every day that they love her i; to do the kind thing that will surprise her and give her joy.
 It takes so little to make mother happy when you come right down to it--it is such small things that buoy up her spirits and even in seemingly trifling things make her heart leap with happiness if it is only in the thought that has been erFgendered.
 For she has so much with which to contend, so many sufferings, so many heartaches. that children fail to see. am of the opinion that the curriculum of the future school will contain as n part of the childs educa- tion the great study of appreciating mother.
 I do not want to see the next gener- ation of mothers as tired and wan looking as the present one. Of course I do not place in this category the ex- ceptional mothers that are protected and cared for and have help with which to rear children. I am thinking of the mothers, thousands of fhemi who are constantly confronted with s0rid things, who go through the daily grind in or der t0 bring up their children ln the way they should go.
 Is it too much to hope that the pres ent-day children will have inculcated in them the spirit, of responsibility and appreciation that they must cultivate toward their mothers and that the lines of care will be removed from their faces in coming generations!
 Often, oh, so often after mother is dead the children have wished and wished and wished they had alleviated some of her burdens or at least made her realize their love of her and had given her the happiness that she ought to have had while she lived. An, yes, mothers are not only the eyes, but everything.
 In these graduation days this should be much food for thought on the part of the army of boys and girls who will more than ever lean on their mothers until they brave life's battle alone. There is scarcely any one of them that cannot point as this boy has to the one handspring of their achievement-the mother who first led them to school by the hand and now sits in the audience when the diploma is presented.
 She alone knows all about you and yet is with you, right or wrong, i whether you are up or down.