I SENATOR T. P. GORE BLINDED IN YOUTH I United States Senator Thomas Pryor Gore of Oklahoma is known as "The man that never Bleeps" and "The man that never forgetg anything." any-thing." He is one of the remarkable men in American history, because from a poor little boy In Mississippi, blind from the time he was eleven years old, he has arisen by his own effort and indomitable will and courage cour-age to become a statesman, a scholar and a foremost citizen. "The blind senator from Oklahoma" Okla-homa" is known all over the country and the people like him because of his amiability, his Intelligence, his high character, his oratory and his success as a statesman. Many persons wonder how he became be-came blind. His sight Is totally destroyed. When he was about eight years old he was struck in the left eye by a stick which a young companion com-panion threw on the ground and which bounded back. The eye was destroyed. And when he was eleven years old he was a page in the Mississippi Missis-sippi state senate. He bought an air gun to take home as a present for a brother, and at the hotel where he wae stopping several children were eager to see how the thing worked. Young Gore was Just as anxious to show them. In endeavoring to manipulate the gun a rod become stuck In the barrel and young Gore "peeked" into the barrel with his good eye to see what waa wrong. In some manner the gun was discharged and the rod destroyed the right eye. For a time he could still distinguish certain objects, but by the time he was fifteen years old his sight was entirely gona, and he has been totally blind ever ilnce. I