Show RED CROSS volunteers PRINT BOOKS FOR BLIND one ot of the most moat appealing services that to Is carried forward by bomon volunteers under the american red cross Is that of transcribing popular and scientific tillo books into braille for reading by the blind this work was waa started tit at evergreen hospital where blind veterans ot of the world war were s stint aut after the armistice tho the red cross now has 1155 volunteer braille transcribers and last year they produced titles in 1849 volumes umes or pages of braille the majority of the books go to the library of congress and public libraries throughout the country although some ot of the books go to se schools h f for 0 r the blind and in a few instances a text books are transcribed tor for some individual scholar in order to help him complete his course in some ome study the work Is supported from the red cross roll call tor for members which occurs each year from armistice day to thanksgiving day |