BLIND PARADE STREETS
SEEK PLACE IN SOCIETY Five thousand men and women children who carried posters they were unab’e to read walked slowly along the main streets of The Hague, in Holland, recently. Wherever they passed, laughter died and people became silent, stopped, and looked as though petrified at the odd parade. Those 5,000 persons were blind. “We, too, want our place in society,” read one of the posters, and another, “Compulsory schooling for the blind child.” The blind members of the “Work for Invalids Association” wanted to stir the public and the Government into action on various Bills that are to provide for blind persons in Holland; a Bill to provide for the education of blind chidren, for vocational schools for blind adolescents, for jobs for blind men and women, so that they might do productive work, and more efficient aid for old and invalid blind persons.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 780, 28 September 1929, Page 6
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148BLIND PARADE STREETS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 780, 28 September 1929, Page 6
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