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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1922 INDIA YEARNG FOR MA. HADLEY'S AID Native Student Sends Letter of Gratitude to the School for Blind HELP IS OFFERED Need More Contributions for Budget "I am one of those unfortunate creatures without means who have ambitions. I am a bird that would soar high in the wide-spread sun of literature had not physical defects and financial want clipped my wings Wk I received with great joy the books you sent and have been studying them very carefully." Above are extracts from a letter re- ceived this week by William A. Had- ley, principal of the Hadley Corres- pondence School for the Blind from B. N. Paramar, 26 year old student of Bombay, India, who has been af- flicted with blindness for 20 years. Letter of Gratitude The letter written from the Amer- ican Mission Blind School at Bombay, is one of many that are received at the Winnetka offices of the Hadley school expressing gratitude for the remarkable social service work Mr. Hadley is doing with th assistance of Winnetka friends. "I received with great joy the hooks you sent and have been studying them very carefully," the letter reads. "al- though owing to my scanty knowledge of English I cannot presume to un- dertake any literary work in that tongue. The knowledge these books yield will be very useful to me for such a work in Marathi, a language which I use with even greater ease than my mother tongue, Gujratee. "I am at present 26 and have been blind about 20 years. "I have read only a few books men- tioned at the beginning of your text, nor do I have a reader. Fond of Poetry "I like poetry better than prose, es- pecially such Poems as Paradise Lost and In Memoriam, etc. "I am one of those unfortunate creatures without means who have ambitions. I am a bird that would soar high in the widespread sun of literature had not physical defects and financial want clipped my wings. "Sir, I am very thankful for your desire to be in personal touch with your pupils and I wonder if I shall ever have the luck to meet my teach- ers. I wish I were where you are. "By the time this reaches you I shall have thoroughly mastered all the books and therefore hope you will be pleased to send me some more. "Is it possible to be able to speak and write English without living for a time among English speaking peo- ple?" Magazine Praises Work The work of the Hadley school, now in the midst of a campaign for funds to meet its budget for the ensuing year, has found recognition in every part of the world. Magazines have dwelt at length on the Hadley school system and magazines for the blind are spreading broadcast among their readers the news of this phenomenal- ly successful venture in the service of the blind. Extracts from a letter received on December 2 from the Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind, 250 W. 54th street, New York, indicate the ex- treme interest in Mr. Hadley"s work. They read: "I have just read with considerable interest," writes Walter G. Holmes, of the Ziegler Magazine, "the circular of the new social service which you have just sent out, and, first, I would like to say that I think it is splendidly gotten up in every way. The typo- graphical and printing work is most excellent. "I was just wondering what you would do if some fairy would come to you and say that you could go hack to where you were before you lost vour sight, but not have all this insight which you have gained since, and not render all this help to the blind. I am sure you would tell her you could get along without her. Calied Splendid Enterprise "I can imagine no more splendid work than that which you and the good people of Winnetka have started. What a pity that every community does not take up some such splendid enterprise. 2 "I have been wondering if it might not be possible for you sooner or later to bring your courses out in the Moon type. The Braille is not easy for everyone to learn; some acquire it readily and others with great diffi- culty, and very many cannot learn it at all; but the Moon type is different. In the first place it is quite similar to the ink type, which the adult has read, though, of course, it has many (Continued on Page 8) STANDARD OF T HE YORLD The purchaser of a Type 61 Cadillac profits from the greatest engineering achievement recorded in Cadillac history -- the application to a large pro- duction of that fineness of manufacture which is essentially Cadillac's. 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