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Seven years ago, four masked men marched into a roadhouse near Jay. N. Y., robbed Proprietor Kin Hanna of $750 beat his father-in-law so cruelly that he became permanently deaf. One of the four robbers was killed when one of the two cars overturned. Two were given jail sentences. The fourth suspect disappeared. He was La Verne Moore of Syracuse, N. Y., famed for golf, baseball and mean practical jokes...
...Many states do not permit deaf-mutes to drive cars, unless they secure liability insurance. But insurance companies in some cases refuse to issue policies to deaf-mutes. Motioned President Kenner, quoting a National Safety Council decision: "There is no evidence that deaf people cannot drive safely; therefore our only object is to determine whether they know...
...Half the adult deaf-mutes of the U. S. cannot get work. Experience proves them specially capable as farmers, bookbinders, cabinetmakers, carpenters, compositors, Linotype operators, typesetters, electrotypers, seamstresses, milliners, typists, bookkeepers, accountants, machinists, painters, shoemakers, tailors. Testified deaf President Kenner: "As an employer, for the past 20 years, [I have] had occasion to utilize the services of hearing and deaf persons and found the latter equally satisfactory." He announced that the Federal Government will hire deaf operators of office machines, file clerks, copyists, typists...
...Only 10% of the teachers in schools for the deaf are deaf. Others hear and compel their pupils to try to speak. Those who learn, with few exceptions like President Kenner, enunciate in flat, dead tones. Gesticulated Rev. Warren M. Smaltz of Lebanon, Pa.: "One could wish that the thousand and one weird English dialects now imparted to deaf-mutes in school could, by some magic, be transformed into as many vocational skills. Certainly it is more socially desirable for deaf people to write their way through the world, than for them to be without means of livelihood...
...Last week's gloomy N. A. D. convention finally closed on a note of cheer, when all 2,000 delegates waved approval of this lyrical resolution: "Whereas, some of our schools for the deaf, which should lead in the preservation and use of the facile, beautiful, expressive Sign Language of the Deaf have on the contrary attempted to abridge or suppress it in favor of an uncertain awkward method of communication known as 'lipreading' and whereas, the educated deaf bear witness overwhelmingly to the truth that the Sign Language and Manual Alphabet are the most practical, convenient...