Evening star. [volume], September 26, 1937, Page A-11, Image 11

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Rapid Progress in “Individ
ualized” System Reported
by Director.
Rapid progress in organizing an
Individualized service for the blind in
the District was reported yesterday
by Miss Stella Plants, director of this
work, which was organized by the
Council of Social Agencies and is
financed by the Community Chest.
This experiment, started last Spring,
already has brought Miss Plants and
her two assistants into close personal
contact with more than half the Dis
trict's 600 blind.
The new service is designed to
study the individual problem of each
blind person and to help him read
just himself and become economically
independent. The work is based on
the theory that the physical condition
of blindness is less a handicap than
the mental attitudes that result from
it. If this proves correct, special in
stitutions and schools for the blind
eventually may become unnecessary,
and blind people now dependent on
pensions will be able to support them
selves, Miss Plants points out, add
ing:
"The blind have been aided in the
past by herding them together in
special homes, schools and trades.
They live in a world apart, based
entirely upon a mutual misfortune,
with the result that they develop men
tal problems that are even more han
dicapping than their physical trouble.
The service we are developing here
is based upon the belief that if blind
people have normal attitudes they
Will be able to lead normal lives.”
Miss Plants is an example of her
theory. She has been blind since
childhood, and yet she was educated
at the Carnegie Institute of Tech
nology and the New York School of
Social Work with seeing students and
has asked no odds from any one.
She was a case worker and super
visor in family welfare work among
sighted people before she undertook
this mission to the blind.
She and her aides are helping the
District's blind with their problems
and ambitions, with a view of en
abling them to lead useful and happy
lives.
DALECARLIA RACE
CLEARANCE TO BEGIN
Army Engineers Undertake $5,000
Project at Hydroelectric
Plant.
Clearance of the tail race at the
Dalecarlia hydroelectric plant—clogged
by 1936 and 1937 floods—by United
States Army Engineers starts tomor
row and will cost approximately
$5,000, it was announced yesterday at
the office of Maj. W. D. Luplow, dis- •
trict engineer. Flood damages to '
Washington's conduit have been com- j
pletely repaired.
Two other projects under surveil
lance of Army Engineers are rapidly
progressing—construction of flood con
trol levies at Bolling Field and that
of sea walls in the Anacostia area.
All but 2,000 feet of the levy has
been completed, with only placement
of a movable dam—to permit passage
of airplanes into the river channel—
and flanking concrete levies awaiting
co struction. It is estimated the work
will be finished by December 31.
Over 200 relief workmen are now em
ployed in building the levy, with an I
additional 100 expected on the job j
by the middle of October.
The 20 miles of new Anacostia sea
wall are now three-quarters completed
and the rest due to be finished by
November, engineers said.
TRYOUTS FOR Y. M. C. A.
DEBATING TEAM SET
Candidates Will Be Required to
Deliver Speeches Three Eve
nings This Week.
Initial tryouts for the debating
team to represent the Young Men's
Christian Association during the 1937
38 season will be held at 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in
the Central “Y" Building, 1736 G
street.
All candidates will be required to
deliver 3-to-5-minute extemporaneous
speeches at the tryouts. Those wish
ing to compete will be required to file
applications at the main desk in
the "Y.”
Last year New York University’s
debate team was met here by the “Y"
team and defeated. This year the “Y”
team will meet the New York Univer
sity team in New York. Debate teams
of other leading institutions also are
to be met.
FINAL COAL HEARINGS
Members of Nine District Boards
Summoned Here October 7.
The Bituminous Coal Commission
announced yesterday the 124 members
of its nine producers’ district boards
west of the Mississippi have been sum
moned here October 7 for final hear
ings on minimum prices and classifica
tions of coal.
The board members represent all
the Western area except Iowa.
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subject to a State laundry tax ranging
from $30 to $150 a year, the depart
ment held.
The laundry tax is not applicable to
washerwomen doing a strictly hand
washing business in their own homes
to support their families.
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Goudy9 Noted Designer of Type9
Visits D. C. for Slioiv of Work
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Frederic W. Goudy, noted creator of type, is shown here
mewing some exhibits of his own work in the graphic arts
division of the Smithsonian Institution. —star Staff Photo.
GOUDY turned out yesterday,
after all. to be not merely a
kind of type, as we had al
ways supposed, but a person
—a lively and youthful gentleman
of 72.
The famous designer of "Goudy
bold," "Goudy antique" and 100 other
type fares known to newspaper com
posing rooms and printing offices the
world over, emerged in the flesh at
the Smithsonian Institution, where
a special exhibit of his work is be
ing arranged.
Frederic W. Goudy is another ex
ample of what Walter Pitkin was
thinking of when he wrote "Life Be
gins at 40." Asked how he hap
pened to begin creating type faces,
Goudy said:
"I was a bookkeeper and nearly 40.
I got fired. I had to do something,
so I started working with type.”
It was only after he was 60 that
Goudy started casting his matrices
in his own type foundry. Before!
that he had sent his drawings to
others to be cast into type faces. j
Has Created Many Type Faces.
In his later years he has created j
105 type faces, which have won for
him world-wide acclaim, gold med
als at world's fairs and many other
honors. He has rambled over the
world, drawing inspiration from frag
ments of lettering on tombs sealed
in antiquity and from ancient manu
scripts and sometimes, as he says,
“from nowhere at all.”
While it is Goudy's theory that all
designers of lettering derive from
the past—that there is no complete
originality in type creation—yet he
never has made a fetish of the past:
in fact, his most distinctive designs
have had a freshness and clarity as- !
sociated with the stream-lined pres
ent. The type designers, he feels,
may draw from any source, historic
or present, but. as he once wrote:
"If he is competent for his work,
his designs will possess a personal j
quality and they will, too, reflect the !
conditions of life and environment of
his own times, Just as the early types
reflect those of their designers. The
early types do furnish excellent models
upon which to base new expressions,
but their exact reproduction, except
in specific cases, is not now needed,
nor are revivals of old faces espe
cially called for.”
No art, he adds,, “can live by the
continual revival or reproduction of
the achievements of the past.”
“How Do You Design Type?”
Once a girl student at one of his
lectures in a university, whose atten
tion was straying to her next date
while he expounded at length the in
tricacies of type designing, finally
turned to him and asked naively:
“But. Mr. Goudy, how do you design
type?”
"Oh," he said, “I just think of a
letter and then mark around the
thought.”
But this, he explained yesterday,
•had more truth than irony In it.
He does, first of all, block out the
letters in pencil, quite large. Later
they are reduced and cast in various
sizes at the foundry.
But the mystery of the craft is to
create, not a new sort of letter—that's
not so hard—but a type in which the
entire alphabet, with its various shapes
and incongruities, will emerge into a
smooth, flowing whole, easy to read,
blending into unobtrusive, symmetri
cal lines. It is, Goudy insists, not
so much a creative art as an intellec
tual work, "a reasoned process"—
something that must be thought out.
And, once he has designed a type, it
is as suitable for box-car letters as
for the seven-point types in which the
"reading matter" of your newspaper is
set. The same symmetry governs it,
reduced or enlarged.
Goudy was accompanied to the
Smithsonian by his old friend, J. Hen
ry Holloway, superintendent of the
New York School of Printing. They
were received by C. Allen Sherwin.
scientific aide of the institution. For
many years Goudy designs have been
on exhibit there, but a special display
will be held soon.
Goudy lives and has his studio and
type foundry at Marlborough-on
Hudson, N. Y.
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