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Show TELLS OF WORK DOME .BY DEAF Big Companies Employ Them. This- Ogden Man Explains "Editor Standard-Examiner. Your, , reporter In hi write-up of the 9tory i of the arrest Of UlS two deaf mutes.) find their trials and tribulations seem : I in have a very poor idea of the deal las a rule, especially when he men-1 ! tioned the fact that 'on account ( ! their affliction they could not secure I work ' I "Of course, the deaf nre in a class by them.Hol ves, as far as then- loss of, I hearing goes, and in many cases it Is a blessing to tht-m instead of a handt-Cap. handt-Cap. Those that nr.- deaf ar. divided I Into clas&es Just like normal people; some are ambitious, others are not. in the case of these two boys it must he remembered that they were drlf?-I drlf?-I Ins: around from place to place, not I Caring whether they secured employ -I ment or not. Just s.- they secured j enough to keep body and soul to-p;ether-, and they erred. Just like any-i any-i one else would do The actions of I these two boys need not reflect upon j the deaf as a elaSS The Goodyear Tire and Rubber company of Akron has over 600 deaf men and women in Its employ, and are advertising for more. Records of tllC I Goodye'er company show that in the I phychologlcal of mental alertness ; te.t7 similar to the army s 'nut' test, i jejven recently to all employes, the ; der-if mute men and women In the fnc- , torv attained the hichpst grades. "These deaf mutes have a colony i of their own, and many of them own ! their own homes, many of them are' I members of thp Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, and it i said that anions the company'e (wenty-elghl thousand em-Iployee, em-Iployee, (b It expertpess in tire bulld-' bulld-' ln has demonstrated that their af-tllction af-tllction doeS not constitute a handicap, handi-cap, and that It Increases rather than diminishes mental and physical alertness. alert-ness. The company has recently Btart-: Btart-: ed another Cai toi -v in Los Angeles, and j Is anxious to start another colony. '"Besides, the Firestone company, of ; the same city, is employing all Che deaf it can. And just recently the rlcan Car and Foundry company of Milton i Perin.; the Kxiie Battery company of Philadelphia, nnd many oihi-fs have awakened to the value of I the deaf as exper workmen. 'And the salaries' Which they rc-I rc-I reive w ould put many normal people I to shame. The preat publishing house i of Rand & McVil!y. of Chicago, Is also I advertising for deaf printers, and any I ocieii printer will tell yon that they i are making more thnn they are. and there are hoys seventeen years old. ritrht out of the local school, making I $.". oo per day. 'So what do we deaf care" Tf one of us should en wrore. why let It go ; In the same lluht as if It ".ere a person per-son who can hear. It need not reflect i upon every deaf person In the countrj "And Tom ESdlsop Is deaf. too. "HARRY S. SMITH." |