We now know from the examples of increasing numbers of blind men and women who successfully work at a wide variety of occupations ranging from electricians and farmers to businessmen and college professors that every blind person who is sound of body and mind is capable in his productive years of completely normal living and economic usefulness. By revising the Federal law. we not only translate into effective statutory provisions the 1956 enactment of the purposes of selfcare and selfsupport. we can also materially encourage and enable the oneA2589 third of this Nations 350.000 blind persons who are dependent upon public assistance to take their rightful places in the economy as taxpayers rather than as tax consumers. It is high time that the Nations laws providing for aid to the blind catch up with the facts established through a quarter of a century of experience under the Social Security Act. The World Refugee Problem