Medicine: Work for the Blind

A Nobel Prize winner is blind—Dr. N. Gustaf Dalen of Sweden, inventor of automatic, flashing lighthouse lamps.

A famed advertising manager is blind —George S. Hurst of J. B. Williams Co. (shaving accessories).

A newspaper editor is blind—B. Frank Irvine of the Portland, Ore. Journal. (So was the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer.)

Two U. S. Senators are blind—Thomas David Schall of Minnesota and Thomas Pryor Gore of Oklahoma.

An institutional director is blind— Robert Benjamin Irwin of the American Foundation for the Blind.

Such men were prime examples by which a World Conference on Work for...