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All business is dependent on supply and demand, which in turn governs the regularity of employment. In a shop where blind people are employed, conditions are somewhat different. Primarily, the business is not conducted for profit to the employer, but for profit to the blind employee. It is the wages that he earns that keep him from being a public charge; consequently the supply of work must be regular and the demand for the product must be stimulated to keep pace with the supply.

Selling through the medium of the central salesroom is an excellent one, and from the sales that have been made it has proved its practicability as a means for bringing the public and the products of the blind together. Its value is very great.

From the central salesroom a mail order business could be developed that would reach into all parts of the State, and other salesrooms established in different cities. Why not have a blind girl operating a power machine in the central salesroom?

All outside agencies that can he induced to handle the output of the shops should be utilized to their fullest capacity.

The Commission should see to it that all the State and municipal departments use their products. Much could be done toward providing more work for the blind if all the other State institutions and boards which use brooms and mops, which have chairs to be reseated, linen to be hemmed, etc., would avail themselves of the opportunity to employ the blind.

There should be no question concerning blind canvassers or the use of blind canvassers. If the individual is capable of performing the duties involved in any certain occupation, he should be employed. Blindness should be no barrier.

Personal appearance, education, culture, ability to get about, etc., are details; important ones, to be sure, but applicable to the sighted just as much as to the blind.

Respectfully submitted,
(Signed) EBEN P. MORFORD.