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Va oom eS nN Taney seencemie ae orente arp me etme Menem mNE 9 hE TERE BezeRte, 5 t 7. ae , . x Mo — : . a Miss Gane AY . \ Sx Dear Mr. Hoover: a 3 7 em 4ndeed happy to inform you that my deaf-blind fellows are receiving constructive - ~ help for the first time in the history of America. This work, now nearly nation- : 2) wide in scope, is being carried forward as one of the many services of the Amer- ican Foundation for the Blind with which I have been allied for thirty years. a Ome ee aw ; Now that the problems of the doubly handicapped are being studied and solved, lem .; ~~ ‘S writing to you because it offfrs a wonderful opportunity for your noble im- =. 3g Xe pulees--effective aid to the most appealing and loneliest group of humen beings on earth. ' 7 4 i Try to imagine, if you can, the anguish and horror you would experience bowed down by the twofold weight of blindness and deafness, with no hops of emerging Me from an utter isoletion! Still throbbing with natural emotions and desires, X you would feel through the sense of touch the existence of a living world, \ and desperately but vainly you would seek an escape into its healing light. NC \ All of your pleasures would venish in a dreadful monotony of silent days. Even work, man's Divine heritage--work that can pind up broken hearts--would be lost to you. Family and friends might surround you with love, but consola- tion alone cannot restore usefulness, or bring release from that hardest prison--a8 tomb of the mind and a dungeon of the body. ~. ofa ‘ I doubt if even the most inaginative and tender normal people cpn realize the pecul- i 4ar cruelty of such & situation, ‘The blind who ere vant cen live happily in AE a world of sounds, and the et use their eyes instead of ears, but the deaf- -" t& blind have no substitute fo sight or heering. The keexldst touch cannot break ~ their immobility. More than any other physicelly fettefed group, they must have X right teaching and constructive procedures to recloim the to normal society. ? : Will you not, dear friend, give some thought to the work of the “American Foundation . for the Blind, which labors 80 diligently to restore life's goodness and the ~ -\ Wignity of uséful work to both deaf-blind and blind people. My associates at ~ ° the Foundation may be depended upon to use your gift wisely. I plead for your ~7 financial support, where 60 much needs to be accomplished. Trustingly and cordially yours, a4 at . i {ee if. foe. SD : . pened - Beez? = ZOSLS _ Pp. S. If you have already sent your gift to F tion for this year. will you please accept our renewed thanks and passgtMAY ler tpg long to / a Oe who may-wish to further our work. -