Show FINDS BLINDNESS IS NOT A disadvantage lawyer just works harder than other fellow chicago sightless eyes are no disadvantage to herbert gelsler lawyer who considers that he got a break when ft lien at the age of seven years a childish accident at the hands bands of a rough playmate left him blind 1 I just work harder than the oth other er fellow sad gelsler the only reason I 1 won honors in school and the only reason I 1 win cases in courts im not afraid of work and I 1 do it more cheerfully than the lawyers who can see gelsler who Is twenty eight years old and has been engaged in a general law practice tor for three years was president ident of his class and made a brilliant record in john marshall high school ile he entered the university of chicago and mido exceptional grades in the three years of pre pro law work and ent entered c red the law school graduating in 1929 1529 with the highest honors of his class he also was president of his class in the law school and was elected to the order of the colf coif an honorary law scholastic fraternity gelsler was chairman of the university of ch chicago I 1 cago editors of the illinois law review and won the wiggin robe prize for or scholarship in his second year 1 I find the fact that I 1 cannot see no disadvantage to me in the courts in examination of witnesses it Is not their facial expression that reveals whether they are telling the truth but their words gelsler has a reader and to in addition Is proficient in reading the braille system he rapidly takes rotes notes for courtroom use on the braille typewriter and in the courtroom takes notes in braille with the stylus ue ile swims dances bowls takes long walks and Is fond of fishing although totally blind he leads an active normal life hes known among fellows who were his classmates in law school as a good sport a keen mind and an excellent c companion |