Show hii blind D JL JL d man madl Is good gi atod machinist Machin igi operates lathes drill presses grinders and other machines in machine shop 1 university COURSE in shop say he Is a as good at as the deft best and di doi er than many read reads micrometer readily ann arbor midi blind gerald ansing of grand rapids Is working in the engineering shops of the uni dertilly vertilly ver tilly tilty of blich michigan Igan and daily operate lathes drill presses grinders and planers and according to the shop foreman U V 31 sweet he la is doing it ns ail well na as the beit bt nod letter thon thill most of the other students in the tile shop 1 1 I rising has been blind since he was eight years old lie ile Is studying in the on a 11 lied cross scholarship for or tho the blind glun by the tile detroit t chapter of the national orgal orgill latroa lat loa ho lie tins as himself WIt to t eliote himself to teaching other blind people how to be one ome cc t after ho has las ill his work hue imie 1110 past five cars ho 10 has taught the blind the art of basketry which illch he io himself learned in the michigan school for the and has them other trades niso also help for sightless SIght leis 1 I demonstrated to my own batts faction that blind men could work vork on factory machines ho he bald said but I 1 had culty in getting places for tho the blind then came the tile lied cross scholarship offer I 1 will get to know the tile men and they to know roo me and my toy N work ork they will tee what bat a li blind ind mail can do and I 1 bellao ahr they cy I 1 will ill help to open the doors of the tile manufacturing fac turing plants to the tile sightless of course in chops of special production where the tho work ork must be done from a blue print tho the blind roan mail would bo be too gre attly handicapped and in shops where there Is A great deal of noise there Is a great hazard for him losing came to the university about oft months neo ago find was mas led til through rough the shops past ast the tile whirling machinery CIA era and told shiro each palco set and what it was uns and where there nero belts in his ills clothing might get tangled after that ho he threaded his way any among the machines without i help and operated his own machine without accident boino boule of tho the machinery lie ope rafts makes above revolutions a ini infinite nite fusing belles belle bellei cs drill pressure mn inn chinea lend themselves especially well nell to t hind operators opera tore metal working No factories offer greater to the sightless than the woud wood working Nor king Indus trici do the tile greatest possibilities bill for tho the blind operators ho lie bo be will bo be found in the plant of quantity production of email small u sweet bays says mr air Un sings work nork Is not automatically ns all ono one might suppose it can t be done that way uny on pomo some of the tile ran machines machina lie ile reas reason onci and ho he set sets s with his ills sensitive fingers what another binau sofa with his ills caits aa e allow ciery aery n limit of of nn tin inch in tho work ho lie does but mr ansing neer rimer uses up lip that margin I 1 can cant t say the tile same plinio of most of th them c in prove proves hie efficiency the foreman admitted timit ho lie r saw aw mosing e me ine into the shops with dread when he lie wanted to bo be put 01 on tho the planer I 1 rL belled but after the tile first day on oil the klarer I 1 forgot nil about it lie randi a n micrometer as accurately and ad ns Is aa as tiny other student ile has ringed up a little contris contrivance ance that ho be attaches to the tile instrument just two wo rubber bands anti a nee needle dl and with the tho belp of lila his fingers he roads riadh quicker icker thun some of the tile men atho ho anre are thor llo usta aery tiery machine in the tho the dry grinder grI niJer aw and I 1 s jact Z every cry day to hear hira him demand that lie ile opi operates rates the C grinder milling roll ling machines en gine and turret inthe lathes drill pr asca and planers ills work Is a amnel of and he la Is chain lightning for spivie wille while a student in the state school for the blind fusing plowed guard on the schools a football loot ball tram team there 14 1 no reason ou why a blind ronn man u ith till a brain cant work and enjoy hini stif as util na all the man mho he con can te casing r ene a s true ILI e miss the graat fat blessing casing Li of sight gild none of ua us but long for our algat but I 1 sonn vorder if tile blind lime haic not a keener itne of enjoyment I 1 of the things they can and do enjoy thou than liae thone silo can cnn see |