The Archive · 1924

Victory Over Blindness

Great Achievement: Where Hopelermess is Turned 10° Capability riy over B ind nese,"" This u's ray motto,' must have been upper most in the minds of who all listened to Mu. W. Eve Dunstan's, at the Olympic Theatre Monday, where an enteral ment took place Of the four Shs had' established nil him, He had eon headmaster of the school Jor 34 years, a life's work. He found it 'a broken down institution, started it with a. dozen boys, now he-was leaving it ing school with 200 hoys.

He hnd had probefbly about 2,700 pass through his hands, and they were) known in most of the old business Houses of Shanghai as "Moule's Boys." Mr. Moule, joing his ey al be a hand had celled "'stickatability. tional "North the Ra British Women's connexion with a loral con which will regularly remit contributions to St, Dunstan's, Mir. Cowen, in the course of hi vid' Jeoture, amazed showing how, thanks to the opportunities for proper training afforded at St. Dunstan's, hundreds of men wore actually better off in blindness, To seo them ut work on the film vias to believe that they wore or.

Avsist ing ud, to 4 Ts for bear a ho Bishop went on to say BER Movalo, bon pre go. BiteeslE fern jmnater hendmaater when he looked back on Shanghai in the years to come he might: fairly think that he had made more than 2.000 men as well the 11,000 runs ty and that his 13 only child's play compared with thi fine men he had produced character factory. (applause).

archdeacon Moule, in a short Chinese speech, referred to. hit father's interest in the work of the School, and his love for Ching. and to the work of himself in Ningpo and his brother in Shanghai side by side through many years. School had through its established by and gained It Chinese, word unten, centd do 4 real ing work for good, Mr. Moule, in brief se know who presided, "said the St. Dunstan's and its great work for blinded suldiors and sailors needed no intro diction to any British audience, Stil Wess the British community here who for some years past had ited generously to St tan's, through various chan-but was required now wax a reminder that the work of St. Dunstan's, although the war was' over and the men blinded in the war were now aking their places in¢ various of industry thanks to St Dunstan's—had still got fo. go on. The reason for that was that not only did St. Dunstan's feel hound ty look after the welfare those alrendy under its care. "dition to the thousands of blinded the was, there now were now being overtaken hindness, This class were entitled to the same care as the and if was to enable it to arry on these two objects that St. Dunstan's was now making further support Tritons eave in the welfare through Moule also the ce-operation of the national British societies

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