"The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Saturday, February 13, 1915 'GOD IS LOVE' - Miss KELLER There is no darkness so deep but that the sunlight of faith can find its hear. --- Helen Keller at the Grand Avenue Temple last night. Color to Miss Helen KELLER, who can neither see nor hear, is a blending of poetic ideas and symbols, she told an audience that packed the Grand Avenue Temple to its doors last night. Red to her, she said, means warmth and strength. Miss KELLER's definition of her conception of color came in a reply to one of a score of questions asked of her at the conclusion of her lecture on "Happiness," the first entertainment of the Temple lyceum course. As each question was asked it was repeated by Mrs. Anne S. MACY, Miss KELLER's lifelong teacher and companion, Miss KELLER reading the query with her hand on Mrs. MACY's lips. And the answers that came readily from Miss KELLER's lips gave those who heard her a glimpse of the brilliancy of that mind which has conquered darkness and silence. LOVING THE ONLY HAPPINESS. "What is your conception of God?" was the first question. "Love," was Miss KELLER's reply, who a few moments before had said in the course of her lecture: "Loving is the only real happiness. I was blind, now I see. I was deaf, now I hear. I was dumb, now I speak. Without my teacher, I should be nothing. Loving is the only way I have of telling that I am happy." MEN SHOULDN'T VOTE FOR WOMEN. "Are you a suffragette," was another question. "Yes," replied Miss KELLER. "And do you really think women know enough to vote?" she was asked again. "I don't think the men know enough to vote for them. Women must pay taxes and I do not believe in taxation without representation. We once fought a great war on that very issue." FLASH OF WIT WON APPLAUSE. In reply to another question, Miss KELLER said her favorite author was Whitman --- and Mark Twain. Could she 'hear' the applause that greeted her? "Yes, indeed. I hear it with my feet," Miss KELLER answered. She had 'heard,' or felt, as well the deep notes and rhythm of the temple organ during a recital given by Powell WEAVER before the lecture. "Does it tire you to talk?" she was asked. "Oh, no," said Miss KELLER, "no more than any other woman," and then as laughter swept through the audience she said she could 'feel' the laughter, for "it is in the air all about me." "Can you distinguish light from darkness," Mrs. MACY repeated to Miss KELLER. "No," was the reply, "but I can distinguish day from night because of the difference in the atmosphere." EDUCATION MADE HER RADIANT. Before Miss KELLER was introduced to the audience to tell her story of happiness, Mrs. MACY told the story of Miss KELLER's life --- of how she was transformed from a terrible self-willed, untaught child, and of how she keeps in touch with the world about her. Miss KELLER was not quite 7 years old when Mrs. MACY, then Miss SULLIVAN, went to her. She had been blind and deaf from her nineteenth month, the result of an illness. Within a few months the child, under her teacher's guidance, had become 'a radiant child,' as Mrs. MACY expressed the transformation last night. DID IMPOSSIBLE IN LEARNING TO TALK. "Language grew with her expanding faculties," continued Mrs. MACY. "By the fourth month she was writing childish letters, and in six months she was reading stories in raised print books and acting out the stories. She learned so rapidly that it was a question of whether the teacher led the pupil or the pupil drove the teacher. And I had to educate myself to keep up with her." For the first three years Miss KELLER spelled on her fingers. Then she insisted she could be taught to speak, and although this seemed impossible, she did learn to talk. "But it has taken Helen KELLER more than twenty years to learn to speak well enough to ask you to come and hear her," said the teacher. "And tonight you are a witness to a modern miracle," continued Mrs. MACY; "a witness to what has been called 'the greatest individual achievement in the whole history of education.' " "MY HAPPINESS DEEP AND REAL" "I cannot see your faces nor hear the sound of your voices, but it makes me happy to be here tonight," said Miss KELLER after she had been guided to the platform. "I like to go among people and to tell them that I am happy," she continued. "My happiness is deep and real. We win happiness by loving." MANY SUCCESSFUL BUT NOT HAPPY. "I am not afraid of the darkness, because there is a great light in my soul. The sun does not go out under the cloud. It is only hidden for the time." "Happiness does not mean possessing. Many are successful but not happy. They achieve something splendid and are applauded, but it is not happiness. Love is the only happiness --- the love that means brotherhood and service. Love and happiness should endure forever. The world shall be saved by the love that is in it, as I was saved by the love that was in the heart of another." ======================================================