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The article reports on the National Conference on the Blind Pre-school Child, which being sponsored by the American Foundation for the Blind on March 13 to 15, 1947 at the Russell Sage Foundation hall in the U.S. It provides information on the number of participants attending the conference from various states and foreign countries including Canada, Brazil, and South Africa. The conference received research papers, which being arranged by Berthold Lowenfeld, director of education for the foundation.

American business firms, with a few notable exceptions, have done very little to improve the position of the three least favored groups of people in South Africa¿Indians, Coloreds, and Blacks. General Motors and Polaroid have improved wages and other benefits to their employees. Other American firms should reduce discriminatory practices to effectuate principles applied in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]