Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1940, Page 9

Institute for Blind Will Give Health Pageant June 19 250 Young People to Take Part; Proceeds To Go for Expansion Entering its 41st year of service to the blind and partially sightea of Washington, the Columbia Poly- technic Institute for the Blind is preparing for its first annual Na- tional Health Pageant with the hope that proceeds of the event will make possible expansion of its pro- gram. ‘The pageant, featuring mass calis- thenics with a musical background, will be presented June 19 in River- side Stadium. Since granting of its charter 40 years ago last week, the institute has endeavored to supply employ- ment for persons prevented from earning a living in regular busi- ness fields through absence of nor- mal vision. Provision of work in the headquarters building, 1808 H street N.W., and home instruction have been combined to this end. Thirteen persons with little or no sight are employed at the institute | at present. The financial return is small—the workers average be- tween $10 and $15 per week—but the psychological boost is priceless, according to F. E. Hufty, executive secretary of the institute and him- self a blind man, A popular con- ception against which Mr. Hufty wages a continuous fight is that the lot of the blind encompasses only sidewalk alms-seeking and reliance on public and private charitable organizations. No Despair in Evidence. A visit to the workrooms pro- vides an insight into what it has meant to the afflicted to discover working and being paid for it is not beyond their capacities. No despair is in evidence. Painstaking industry and good humor are. ‘The basement of the building fis | devoted to the chair-caning opera- tions, carried out under supervision of J. B. Triplett. Although he has one glass eve and only 5 per cent vision in the other, Mr. Triplett's demeanor approaches light-hearted- ness, and he is enthusiastic about the workmanship of his associates. Few establishments in the Capital | : ean turn out such jobs of reseating | chairs with genuine rush, he con-| tends. | “Almost like those in which| Moses was found,” he comments. On the main floor, Miss L. V. Posey presides over the telephone | a sighted volunteer worker. switchboard and reads and “writes” in Braille between calls. Miss Fitton in Charge. | Miss Cora A. Fitton, assisted by Mrs. Frances Levy, a sighted volun- | teer worker, has charge of the homs instruction activities. Among the things taught are needlework, mak- | ing of garden dolls and wooly ani- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 19, 1940 —PART ONE. Telephone operator at the institute is Miss L. V. Posey, who operates the switchboard efficiently despite her handicap. Be- tween calls she reads and “writes” Braille—Star Staff Photos. tributes a $3,000 appropriation each [tion of the home teaching staff, | mals, the latter from lamb fleece, | Vear, but, Mr. Hufty says, donations | which now consists to two, to in- | and skin typing, dictaphone opera- | must be counted on heavily to sup- | clude a tolored instructor are the tion and Braille. The institution is a - non-profit port the program. ! Repairs to the building, construc- institute’s current goals. Funds from the pageant are counted on to make institution. Those wh6 work »in |tion of an addition in the rear to | possible realization of some of them. - their homes receive the full pur- permit enlargement and better ar- The production, directed by Den= = chase price of their productive | rangement of working space, provi- | nis M. Landers, will present a cast efforts, less cost of materials which | sion of full-time employment for of more than 250 Baltimore and the institute buys wholesale and provides at cost. Congress con- more persons fated to live in twi- 11ight or darkness and augmenta- ‘Washington young people in gym- { nastics, drills and dances. In addi- BLIND LEARN HANDICRAFTS—A department of the Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind trains sightless and partially sighted persons for productive work in their homes in an effort to provide them with earning capacity. Mrs. Bettina Wright (left) and Mrs. Nora Snow are learning needlework and the making of wooly animals and garden doll§, Mrs. Frances Levy (standing) is & — tion to exhibition of correctional and | recreational exercises, the program | will include folk dances in costume by the Ukrainian group of Balti- more, movements by a fife and drum corps of 40 boys, ballroom dances RENT A BRAND NEW KIMBALL ANY MODERN STYLE With Music Compartment Bench SELECT A STYLE YOU MIGHT LIKE TO KEEP Rental Payments Credited it Porchased Your Own Musical Desires or Talents of the Kiddies City’s Finest Rental Stock W.W.KIMBALL CO. FACTORY BRANCH STORE 721 ELEVENTH ST. N.W. Just North of Palais Royal g %’M‘%‘/ . .in the Peerless Modern Hit Parade! nd a Strauss waltz number with 36 dancers in costume. Acrobatic stunts will be performed by the Weigand troupe of girls. Sponsors for the pageant include: Senator Capper of Kansas, Senator Tydings of Maryland, Representa- tive Randolph of West Virginia and Mrs. Randolph, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Harvey F. Johnson, Comdr. and Mrs. James Pine, Mr. and Mrs, Clark C, Griffith, Mr. and Mrs. Law- rence W. Robert, Mr. and Mrs. Ben- jamin Neal, Mr. and Mrs. Jose Sera, Mrs. J. OD. Moran, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Smith, Dr. and Mrs. Robert Moran and Mrs. T. Sefton Darr Ticket reservations are being ac- cepted at 901 Eighteenth street N.W. ' Old-Time Fair Staged By Children’s House As the culmination of the year’s efforts and activities, the George- town Children’s House staged an old-time fair yesterday in the yard of the house at 3224 N street N.W. Every activity carried on in the house during the year wes repre- sented at the fair from an exhibi- tion of tumbling to the “sale of homemade cakes nad cookies. There were several singing acts varying in type from Indian song to sailors’ chanties. 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