Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1936, Page 11

.S, YOUTH BODY || Blind Student Studies Law + TOMAPPROGRAM Progres§ and Future Plans to Be Outlined Tomorrow and Tuesday. The American Youth Commission will meet in the United States Cham- ber of Commerce Building tomorrow and Tuesday to plan its 1937 program and hear reports of the past year’s work. Owen D. Young, vice chairman, will preside temorrow and Ne D. Baker, chairman, Tuesday. The com- .mission was organized a year ago by the American Council on Education to prepare a program on the care and education of youth. The principal business of the meeting here will be to consider a report on ways and means of bridging the gap between completion of school and successful vocational adjustment. A subcommittee appointed by Young fo present the issues, consisting of Dr. Homer P. Rainey, Virgil Jordon, presi- dent of the National Industrial Con- ference Board, and Spencer Miller, Jr, of the American Federation of Labor, will report tomorrow. During the meeting Dr. Marion R. Trabue, professor of education at the University of North Carolina, will read & report on the occupational adjust- ment of youth, and Dr. Harlan Upde- graff, educational consultant, will discuss a study of more than 23,000 Pennsylvania youths he has just com- pleted. A paper on the social develop- Sightless Since 16, Youth Prebares for Career in Politics. Blind at 16, Albeg T. Gonzales (right), graduated from college to enter the eorgetown Law School as a freshman. At home he studies with a fellow student, Michael Keegan, who reads the lessons aloud, while the blind youth writes his own answers on a typewriter. —>Star Staff Photo. of seven years of blindness to | himself,” he was persuaded to enter graduate from college, Albert | the Roosevelt High School. OvaOMING the handicaps)urged him to “make something of He is T. Gonzales, 23-year-old stu- | proud of that record. dent of Las Cruces, N. Mex,, now is “I was vice president of the first ment of human resources will be pre- | preparing with equal determination for | class,” he recalled yesterday, “and was sented by Prof. Newton E. Edwards of the University of Chicago. & Sp;lin ‘(Continued From First Page.) toward Valentia when Madrid is at- - tacked. Insurgents tonight were reported massed against Escorial, 31 miles northwest of Madrid and south of the Guadarrama Mountains. Gen. Franco moved his military headquarters from Burgos, in North- ern Spain, to Salamanca, about 110 miles west of Madrid, to be nearer the scene of the big drive. The insurgent command here an- | nounced several columns operating between Toledo. south of Madrid; and | Navalperal, west of the capital, had | Joined. In Southern Spain, on the Cordoba front, the Fascists announced, the town of Villa Viciosa was taken in an encounter in which 140 govern- ment soldiers were killed. They said a column to relieve the Fascists in Oviedo was approaching | that northwestern city denying a government assertion it had been vir- | § tually captured by Madrid troops. HUNDREDS SLAIN AT OVIEDO. | OVIEDO, Spain, October 10 (#).— | Besieged insurgents fought grimly to- night to hold a few scattered build- ings as dynamite-tossing Asturian miners blasted their way to the heart | of the city. | The miners, advancing steadily in a pouring rain, dréve the main body of Gen. Aranda’s troops inte their last redoubts—thick-walled buildings in the center of town—in some of | the worst fighting of Spain's civu‘ ‘war. The defenders’ position mmed‘ hopeless as the miners, aided by So- | cialist militiamen, wiped out one ma- | chine-gun nest after anotherin their | drive through streets strewn with | hundreds of dead. | In one charge the assailants took a | wall defended by 35 men armed Wwith | eight machine guns, blowing up the wall and killing the insurgents with bombs. | Aranda, who recently was promoted | from colonel for holding the city | three months in the face of superior | forces, kept his men fighting des- | perately on after a day and night of | merciless combat. i Hundreds of the insurgents took | ‘refuge in the bull ring, which the | miners besieged late in the after-| noon. Others were trapped in the | Pelayo Barracks ‘when the invaders fired the building. { Pire spread through the city at nightfall. Many houses in the San | Juan quarter were ablaze, as was the | Convent of Adora Trices. Relief (Continued From First Page.) or certain other Federal construction. ‘The volume of relief spending was characterized by the review as “dis- appointing” in view of increasing business activity and re-employment. ‘The chamber estimated at least 7,000, 000 men had gone back to work since the low point of the depre.ssi’on. At the present rate of spending, its publication said, total Federal ex- |at & C. M. T. C. camp at Fort Bliss, | against the board as to cause blind- a career in law and politics as a fresh- man at Georgetown University School of Law. In coming to Washington this Fall to seek new flields to conquer, young Gonzales returned to the scenes of his first successful fight against the odds of blindness that threatened, at the age of 16, to end his schooling. To a young blind friend who helped him, Miss Dorothea Jennings, now an employe of the Interior Depart- ment, his success in qualifying for law school is a vindication of the faith she had in his ability to continue his studies at Roosevelt High School. Blinded accidentally while training Tex., in 1929, young Gonzales later was sent to Walter Reed Hospital here in the hope of having his sight re- stored. He had slipped on a wet div- ing board at the camp'’s swimming pool and struck his eyes in such a way ness. For months he remained at Walter Reed Hospital, a discouraged, fright- ened youth, but it proved eventually the beginning of hope. With the aid of the Red Cross nurses and particu- larly Miss Jennings, who constantly THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., OCTOBER 11, 1936—PART ONE. = s member of the first graduating clnl.‘{ cases for the next day, and, serving But 1t .was Miss Jennings, who was only three years my senior, who in- spired me to go through college and to follow a profession that would be opened to usefulness for the blind.” From Washington, Gonzales entered the New Mexico State College, to be] its first blind student as he is the first blind student to study at the George- town Law School. He was graduated in 1935 among the upper half of his class. It was hard work, he said, be- cause he had to study aloud with various students and he had not be- come fully accustomed to his blind- ness. ‘Then followed a year in Los An- geles at the Braille Institute, where he learned that system of reading thoroughly, and taught Spanish. At the law achool here, after two weeks of class work, the professors are amazed at his grit and the readiness with which he mentally absorbs case studies and briefs. Asking no special favors, he entered the full three-year morning course. Since he had a col- lege degree as proof of his ability to study, there was no hesitancy about admitting him. Already he has joined the Edward Douglas White Debating Club. “I want to go in for public speak- ing,” he said shyly, “for it will be good training for me if I'm ever fortunate enough to get into politics.” He is not unmindful of the careers of two. blind Senators, Thomas P, Gore of Okiahoma and the late Thomas D. Schall of Minnesota, whose son graduated brilliantly from Georgetown a year ago. Fellow Student Guide. Gonzales lives at 103 C street southeast with a fellow student, Michael Keegan, graduate of 8t. Thomas’ College, Scranton, Pa., who acts as his companion and studies with him. It is a perfect arrange- ment for they are in the same classes. Each night Keegan reads aloud the ‘The news about this fair and square financing plan is spread- ing like the Sunrise! 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(Main Ploor, Eleetrical Arcade) MANUFACTURERS o FOU ¢ National 5100 20-19-36 NEWTON, | as the “eyes” of his young friend, helps him brief them. There are no Braille books for college or law work, 50 he is entirely dependent on audible study. Before he became blind Gonzales had learned the touch system on the typewriter. When there are written quizzes, he writes out the questions on & Braille printing machine. “I use s silent typewriter in the class room which doesn't interfere with the class work, reading the ques- tions from the Braille system and writing the answers on the type- writer,” he explained. “It's quite easy.” The young man comes and goes from class with scarcely any assist- ance. He likes to walk behind his companion, except in traffic, and ac- customs his pace to any that Keegan sets. His acute hearing and intuition tell him when the person in front is slowing up or is stepping to a curb- stone. Endowed with & sunny disposition inherited from Spanish forebears, he maintains an intense interest in the unseen world about him. For exercise he walks and swims, but it is the radio, more than anything else, that affords him recreation. He likes it much better than the “talkies.” “Then, t00,” he said, “there are the Braille books and records which I can always get from the Library of Con- gress or from New York.” He long ago stopped thinking of himself as blind, and that, perhaps, is the chief reason for his success. e London People Read More. Because of the great number of | books turned in, London’s lost prop- erty bureau argues that people are reading more. Better DEMOCRATIC LAWYERS PLAN TO HOLD RALLY Tydings, Prettyman' and Ex- Senator Wicker of Virginia ‘Will Be Speakers. ‘The Lawyers’ Roosevelt and Garner Club of the District will havc two prominent Marylanders and one Vir- ian as speakers at a meeting to be held at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the May- flower Hotel. 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