New Britain herald., 1930-07-01
HELEN KELLER, D,
 PEERS AT FUTURE
Noted Woman Feels Her Life
 Has Only Begun

Washington July 1-Helen Keller, at 50. is looking ahead. More than ever IS she interested in the pleas ant business of living, serenely con- hdent that the total blindness and deafness. which have afflicted her since infancy, in the future are to he less Of a handicap than ever be- fore,
 Helen Keller has work 10 do. and places to go, and new friends 10 make There are books to write, and people 10 help and new expert ences 10 encounter. The day of June 27 means that she has rounded our q half century of sigbtiess, soundless existence. But life for Helen Keller ;s only we'll begun.
 She never will forget the day when. as I young girl she sat with Alexander Graham Bell, genius oG the telcrhona. who also worked 10 aid the deaf. Touching her hand, he spelled out this advice:
 Don't Confna yourself 10 any particular medium of expression. Write. sneak, study-do whatever you possibly can. Remember, Helen, the more you accomplish. the more you will help the deaf and blind everywhere.
 And so. EropinE through an abys- nal void Of silence and darkness, Miss Keller accomplished these things: She became the only deaf Blind person in America able to speak dtstirctN. the most famous person n the world who was so at- fl4cted Admitted to a college with reluctance. and without favor, she won 8 degree with honor in the same time her normal classmates required for graduation.
 She has lac.ured in every state in the union, in many parts of Canada, and in Europe She has acted in the movies. and in vaudeville. She has made addresses over the radio, and has ridden in an airplane.
 Ten books Of more or less literary distinction have been written by Helen Keller. Two Of the best known were books of verse. She maintains wide and regular cores pondence in English, French and German. and keeps herself informed through books and magazines in those languages.
 She has taken an active and of-@n leading part in every major move ment in behalf of the blind, She has been the subject Of endless scientific experiment and philoso- phical speculation. from which she emerged almost as much of q pug gle as before,
 After William James once made psychological study Of her, he said The sum of it is that you are blessing, and I'll kill anyone who says you are not"
 Sustained By Friends
 If there were no life beyond lis earth, some people I have Lrown would gain immortality by the nobility of our memories of them," said Helen Keller. 'Wl,h every friend 1 loved who has been taken into the brown bosom Of the earth, 3 part of me has been buired. But their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and under standing remains 10 sustain me in n altered world'
 That is how she borrowed cOur- age from her friends. and many q celebrated name has been listed among them: Oliver Wendal Holmes. Whittier, Lawrence Hut- ton. Henry Drummed, John Bur roughs. Dr. Bell was her oldest friend. Mark Twain one Of her staunchest. Several times the latter commander her to visit his home, and she always went 10 spend sev- eraI days with the old man. In the evening she would listen" through her fingers, as he talked. and by day would stroll about his estate while he described for her ,he views and coIors and sounds Of nature.
 He often said 10 me" recalled Miss Keller. that rha ordinary tu- man being never scratched the sur face Of his br1in. Helen he would say. the world is full of unseeing eyes -- vacant, staring, soulless eyes"
 But the dearest and truest friend she ever had was the woman who came 10 her on the most import ant day of my life"-her teacher. Anne Mansfield Sullivan, who in 1905 became Mrs John A. Macy. Miss Keller pays constant tribute 10 Mrs, Macy for the patience and sac rifices which have marked her long care of her protega.
 For A years the two have lived and worked and travelad togethhr, with the older woman supplying the eyes and ears for both. Mrs. Macy herself is partially blind now, and