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Show Tennessee's Broom F'lant for Blind a Success Nashville, Tenn. The state of Tennessee Ten-nessee employs seventy blind persons In the manufacture of brooms. The state's broom factory for the blind Is located on property In the .vicinity of the main state prison, at Nashville, and every employee, except ex-cept the truck driver, engaged In this work Is blind. There are about fifteen women among the workers, and some have married blind men who are employed In the factory and reside In the factory settlement. set-tlement. I The Industry has n capacity of 100 dozen brooms a day, Is operated at a profit to the state under the supervision super-vision of the commissioner of Institutions, Institu-tions, and the employees are paid a living wage for their services. The brooms are placed on the market alongside the products of other factories, and find ready sale. The Industry also operates a nig weaving and a mattress-cleaning department, de-partment, all of which affords an opportunity op-portunity for making provision for many who otherwise would become wards of. the state. |