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NONE CAN GUESS AT THIS SILENCE
By J. WILKIE
HE resident superio- tendent of an associa- tion for the aid of the adult deaf and dumb tells me that, even after all his experience, he cannot comprehend deafness him self.
Blindners, he points out, la q different story. We DOD feal what perpetual darkryss might be like by bindfolding ourselves, but a world of total, unyielding, uncompromising ellence is world the average parson cannot feel,
But those who do feel it, bo- cause of some congenital abnor mality, or ilirates la childhood or later life, do not want sym- pathy. It help they peed- skilled, understanding, but not sentimento), help,
The doar must not be content to learn to live without sound; they must learn how to suball- tute for it. They must learn 10 adept themselves to a situation which the hoaring person c never really WASH.
The education of the deaf. like RO many Todern minor miracles, hes Lve, the mero categorien series of day-to-day events to those who do not haY WO to undergo it.
Silent Schoolroom
BUT to those
learn
who have to in a silent school- room, to those who teach them, und to thees who help the deaf after their schooldays, it is tot quit so simple.
Present-day rethods of teach- lip-reading --- atư, later. "welfare spraking-may make o
ing
offer for the dent appear un-
newcarry.
But lip-reading
not infallible.
Many groups of
the
sound employ
same lip movements The "listener" must! often guess from the context.
In
Th's to all very well in casua} conversation. In courts of low however, or in hospitals, Or business discussions, guessing will not do. There must be an Interpreter.
on
An up-reading depends good light and tireless сопст tration, whereas social activities are more often than not con- ducted in the evenings Cinemas, thearts, even dancehalls,
not provide do
ter consent. Usually,
Normal people patients
that the mood
become
they
they forget;
-
do
not understand And the deaf are left out; they feel "isolated." Employers are often reluctant
to
accept the responsibility
of
deaf people; but the draf must live. They are generally as cap- able as the normal hearing man or Woman. They must be "sold"
to their jobs through standing. explanation, again, interpretation.
under
ond
An Interpreter THE superintendent whom I
have mentioned told me of these problems when 1 went to moo him at his headquarters. And ho told me how he, tits mother, and his assistent (dent himself, and werking for social welfare diploma) set
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and social
Visitors helpen to
and religious
adults in his area,
deal
The superintendent alone acts
as interpreter when
Necessary.
"Fortunately," he said, "I don't get many cases of interpreting in courts of law. I work for a law-abiding community."
added with a smile,
"In actual
on
fact,
bo
however," ho went.
when
court casts de crop up, i think they are the most interesting
de
my work, although perhaps the most difficult, Deaf people have a limited vocabulary, and you cannot substitute woods in court. You must somehow con- voy the actual word used by counsel."!
Hr showed me over the large, forbidding four-square, rather
looking house which constintes
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PETER TOWNSEND'S PERSONAL STORY
SI sit here in Brussels writing, autumn is already here. It is early this year and in the Avenuo Louise the chestnut trees are already turning colour. A boisterous wind is tearing off their leaves and scatter- ing them in the street.
It is only three weeks or so before I leave this
Group Captain Townsend laaves Brussols this wook on the first stage of his world tour. Watch the China Mall for his articlos describing the journey, the first of whict expected later this month.
I shall, of course, have the association's headquarters. bustling, amiable city which There is nothing forbidding I have come to love. Time is a medicine chest in the car, about it inside; the chapel alore, unexpectedly situated in Blipping by so fast that. I and this I have still to pick drawing-room sometimes fear I shall not up in London from kind Mr
- a largo
To start.1
on the left of the hall, makes get everything ready before it immediately friendly. this chapel deaf people in his diatries flock for Sunday SET- vica every week.
He described the chaper me as four pride and joy.""
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themselves, and only need hest- ladies they it up. For the rest, i kivuli buy food as I go along
and
have an outlook
on life which is philosophical cercne. They have often suffered
in deeply, but now,
10 Water is something more no- their old age, they see how ecesary than food, wawi la some alta into the pattern of lite. desert regions the authorities In
their wisdom anxi their will not let you pass unless you kindness, they have a manner have a given quantity on board. of imparting courage and hope
I shall have a jerry- with to one who is still at grips with
u special lining for
will hold five gallons,
chall have a canvas
It ufe.
andi bag in
which I
can keep
B
smaller
quantily,
owing
to
fairly
cool and
which, evaporation through the canvas, witi remain
drinkable.
One very dear unknown old Indy has sent me a Bible. It is
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beautiful ono and I halk The extra petrol tank has been built into the car, doubling tale it with mw. The Bibbe, L the normal capacity and bring- King James's English, is surely ing it up to twenty gallons. England's
treasurɔ.
Tyg kerry-cans are sited on the Like a poem of a masterpiece fron of the car and these can
furt another ten gallons, or a precious stone, you may Whenever possible shall carry not at first sight appreciate its them inside to case the lood on valus. But go on reading i the front axle, which already and you will discover to what has to bear the extra weight of
wisdom, depths the winch.
beauty may gp.
love #nd
There will, of course, be the usual set of car tools, including I often read the Bible and
CH think of many persages I those plain and rather fearsome
love. But it was not until quite particularly Intely that I was
· objects...tyre-levers. But I shall take with me other tools, which
I am sure to necta fciling struck with one. I don't think lo
ax, a sew, a spade, as well no is
the most beautifiai parengo,
day as I felt
irst air battle
erkt a
1
words
a martin spike and a cold-steal bust, for me, it has the deepest chisel, which may be put to meaning: "And Jesus answering i innumberable usta, and "a"jack said, Have Faith in God." knife to carry on me compass if I am lost, Also, For a Christions, those slowed in the back-will be a have, the real authority. rope, wheel-mate and a lantern, and lots of odd things which have no doubt, wilt Increase in number as I go on my way.
The planning of this journey
PERKET
'you do not need to be a Chria- tian to feel their strength. They have bean altered by suges and prophets of every creed, sinen it first dawned upon m that there was but one God,
in
המים
back their argument on the hos involved me in a gigantic whom he discovered his need for self-defence, but correspondence. I have had to reflection and to whom he knew.
rise early in the morning and his soul, belonged... or no gun, I don't work Jole as night to keep pere gun
with imagine I should be a match with it, while continuing
Have Fall, in God,theso for a band of well-armed my ordinary duties. Besides the simple words are, for 100, 13. brigands. I think the like four fat folders which contain unifaffing light, even in utter letters, diagrama and mape darknem. Only they can inspiro lihood of running into one relating to the journey Half, the humility and the
COUTORS
stand, on our way through life.
is remote, but if I do I shall there is anothe thickest of which are needed to face up have to surrender. The cons all It cuntains hundreda of squarely to all we fear, and all say that you are more like letters from unknown people in we cannot believe or under ly to be attacked if the sil parts of the world, brigands know you have a
The first and one of the nicest
It will not be long before 1 όπο from a Cambridge leave I shall be getting of gun it is the gun, not you, was
undergraduate who sold bis from Brussels round" the world, that interests them.
parents, who lived in Peru, as a "very inexperienced anayele would be pleased to put me up ler, with no more knowledgm when I passed that way. But than that required to" motor they are all nice, in their dif- from her to London. Is rather ferent ways, even those who reminds
I felt in writers argus in the strongest up to meet the other side lo term that I should take them nerial combat for the first time, I had never dece is before, and I had no fer, Curling ∙the outs" come would be.
with mo.
Wrigley of the Wellcome Institute, who is being good enough to pack it full of Moreover, a gun always The main plans are made all the things I may need. raises difficulties when you but there are still heaps of Apart from
have to pass through cus- antiseptics, odd things to do.
bandages and various kinds toms. At the moment, I..
think it better not to take of pills, including some for
n gun. It would be fun, I malaria, there will be some admit, to shoot a buck or A boy from Perth-1 1ke the dose snake serum. I don't know
antelope now and aglin, but scotpointed out the ad- which are worse, snakes or it may well be an invitation vantages of being only, a boy. The doctor and I have spiders. I shrink at the to a lion to come sniffing He would take up les...rooms had quite a business fitting thought of either, but in round, the car when I put up he was or on adventer lard his gamally have in bis programme of inocu- South Africa they laugh at
he would be a kind of mfeguard difens superintendents for this lations with my programme you if you say you're fright for the the night in the il ever I my into any
wilde, and I am not too keen political situatione no one threa
Perhaps I shall feel.
would cover sundet me at ine toes He tells me he never of events, so that I don't ened.
for that
Yvolving one so young"
in politica Ahought he would follow the arrive with a sore arm and a that way by the time I get Tandy tradition; heald not high fever to ride a race or there.
It hoody odourred to me that and to 1 should be lat off. 1 aggage and think he had the patience, S
thu gubation of fopa " is- qi But neverthelone, I have & farewell dinner f
LATER he showed me the re-
creation room with televi
alon et, billiards tables, facill-
been
aavolators
ben ik mid of him that he have been filled with the I have thought a lot about toulary #diacute; ven the midiputad Steland of dead microbes of unthinks taking a gun, and the people, The tinned food, but
hey are ama 21 forduld be little ablesey diseases plague, who have expressed an have to take som
(kihu bond cholera- and -yellow fever, opi
with smallpox, typhold and di
on the subject are rply on the
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