Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1920 — WRONG IDEA OF THE BLIND [ARTICLE]

WRONG IDEA OF THE BLIND

Statesman, Afflicted With Loes of Sight, Tells Good Story Bearing on the Subject.

Representative Schall, member of the house of representatives from is blind, and has been for ten years. During this time he says that he has discovered that the seeing world has strange ideas as to the limitations of the blind; that it seems to think because a man can’t see he can neither hear not feel, and is a strange, detached piece of human mechanism that is not to be reckoned with directly, but through the guiding bond. Not long ago Mr. Schall was returning from his home In Minneapolis to Washington, accompanied only by his small son Douglas. The first morning they appeared in the diner the waiter assigned to their table inquired of young Douglas: “Son, what does your father want?” “Why, ask him," quickly replied the child, “he knows what he wants. As tor me, bring me pancaks and sausage and chocolate!" ’ ’