iVD FOUNDER of the Seeing Eye
nt in the United States?Morris S.
t), a native of Nashville, Tenn., was
il speaker at a meeting of the
Waynesville I.ions Club Thursday night. With
him are two blind residents of Waynesville?
Roy Moseman and his Seeing Eye dog, Lois, and
Fred Vaughn. (Mountaineer Photo).
der Oi Seeing Eye
ment Addresses Lions
rank, vice president
Eye, Inc., discussed
: dog movement at a
? Waynesvtlle Lions
night at Spaldon's.
ild the Lions that he
the age of 16 as the
ixing accident while
?y school. Several
when a student at
iversity, he read an
? Saturday Evening
; the use of dogs in
ies for the blind. So
Mr. Frank wrote a letter to thi
author of the article?the late Mrs
Dorothy H. Eustis, asking how hi
could obtain such a dog.
Mrs. Eustis, an American woman
replied to Mr. Frank's letter fron
her estate, "Fortunate Fields,'
in Vevey, Switzerland, where shi
was conducting a breeding experi
ment to determine the intelligeno
of dogs in relation to their servic
to mankind. She invited Mr. Franl
to visit her in Switzerland, witi
the result that in the spring of
1928, he arrived in New York har
bor aboard the S. S. "Tuscania,"
and was guided down the gang
plank by Buddy Fortunate Fields?
i to become the pioneer Seeing Eye
; dog in America.
e To dispel the skepticism of the
use of such a dog as a guide to a
blind person, particularly in busy
American cities. Mr. Frank travel
? cd many thousand miles, testing
Buddy's efficiency. When thorough
L' Iy convinced of the use and prac
ticability of such a guide, he
c' cabled Mrs. Eustis of his success.
e
k Mrs. Eustis subsequently made
arrangements to settle her affairs
_ abroad and returned to the United
States, where in 1929, she found
ed The Seeing Eye, the school now
located in Morristown, New Jersey.
Since his first experimental use of
Buddy, Mr. Frank has worked ac
tively with The Seeing Eye. He has
traveled thousands of miles about
the country lecturing on the work
of the school and interviewing
blind applicants for Seeing Eye
dogs. During World War II alone
he visited 96 Army and Navy gen
eral hospitals under the auspices
of the Surgeon General of the Uni
ted States Army and the Bureau of
Medicine and Surgery of the Uni
ted States Navy, acquainting their
personnel with The Seeing Eye's
approach to blindness. Mr. Frank is
continuing this activity by meet
ing with ophthalmologists in the
varous cities on his field trips to
discuss the school's experience and
work with the newly blinded.
Buddy Fortunate Fields died in
1938 at the age of twelve and was
succeeded by Buddy II. Buddy II
also died at the age of twelve In
October, 1948, and Mr. Frank is
now being guided about his work
by his third dog guide ? another
Buddy.
Because of the study and work
of a now famous woman and the
courage and belief of a man, See
ing Eye dogs have been trained for
more than 2000 blind men and wo
men who have come to The Seeing
Eye school from every state of the
Union and the territories of Puer
to Rico and Hawaii.
Mr. Frank emphasized that See
ing Eye dogs are the masters of
I people and not the other way
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THE SUBJECT?POLITICS?that is what form
er Comptroller General Lindsey Warren, center,
and State Senator William Medford were discuss
ing, as the former federal executive, and con
gressman, stopped here for lunch while on a
tour of Western North Carolina. On the right is
Carl Goerch, co-publisher and former editor of
The State Magazine, Raleigh. Next to Mr. Warren
(left) is Mrs. Warren. Not shown are Mrs. Goerch,
and Sheriff and Mrs. William Rumley, of Beau
ford. Sheriff Rumley has been in office 23 years
and has never had any opposition. The group were
touring this area to see the color of the foliage.
(Mountaineer Photo).
around.
He illustrated the point by tell
ing about the hostess at a Greens
boro restaurant who told him:
"You can't bring that dog in here!"
"You're right, lady," Mr. Frank
replied, "he's bringing me in."
Three months are required to
train a Seeing Eye dog and anoth
er month is necessary to train a
blind person to follow the dog, he
said.
Dogs are bred at Seeing Eye
headquarters in New Jersey, but
are then "farmed out" to 4-H Club
members who raise them until
they're old enough nt be trained to
assist the blind, Mr. Frank ex
plained.
Female dogs are used because
blind women have difficulty hand
ling male dogs and because male
dogs tend to grow irritable as they
grow older, he said.
Mr. Frank asserted that no,one
can buy a dog for a blind person.
Instead, the blind arc given the
opportunity to getting jobs and
paying for their own dogs on the
installment plan.
Blind persons pay $150 for their
first Seeing Eye dog?which in
cludes room and board at Morris
town for one month?and $50 for
their second dog. Dogs live for 10
to 12 years on the average.
A number of different breeds of
dogs are used as Seeing Eye guides,
but German shepherds are most
popular, the speaker pointed out.
The Seeing Eye program is fi
nanced by individual and organiza
tional donations, Mr. Frank said.
Mr. Frank stressed that blind
people like to be independent, and
don't want pity or Sympathy.
"Blind people are unfortunate,
but they aren't dead," he remarked.
The Seeing Eye official said that
40 per cent of adults or young
people who become blind can be
trained to do some useful job.
Loss of their sight usually sharp
ens their other senses of the blind,
he added.
Mr. Frank, who helped found the
Bridges To Retirement
WARE, Mass. (AP) ? Frank H.
Cheever, 69, a contractor who re
tired to run a filling station, hopes
to get somebody to take over his
gas station some day ? so he can
make a tour of all the covered
bridges in New England. That's
Cheever's hobby, covered bridges,
and he's built 27 models so far.
There's a special reason, he says,
why New Englanders developed
the idea of leaving openings on the
sides. In winter, snow was needed
on the bridges to enable horses to
pull sleighs through. The openings
allowed snow to drift in during
snowstorms. ?
j North Carolina Commission for the
Blind, called the organization one
of the best in the country.
While in Waynesville on his tour
of the United States and Canada,
Mr. Frank visited with two blind
Waynesville men ? Roy Moseman
and Fred Vaughn, both of whom
were guests at the Lions meeting.
White Day
LAS CHUCES. N. M. <AP) ? At
New Mexico A&M College, they
believe In the whitewash system
It took 700 freshmen students all
day to whitewash the college
symbol, the "A" high on the near
by Organ Mountains.
Police Case
JACKSONVILLE, FU. (AP) ?
If somebody flashes Jacksonville
Police badge No. 49 at you, call a
cop. The badge was stolen from
Patrolman Solomon Weston's car
while It was parked in front of his
home.
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