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��A Judge Who Has Succeeded Without Arms

OCCASIONALLY one meets men whose determination to succeed re- gardless of obstacles makes those ob- stacles act only as added stimuli to their progress. Such is the case of Judge Quentin D. Corley of Dallas, Texas, who ten years ago lost his entire right

arm and his left arm above the wrist. With this handicap, m any men would sink into a life of help-

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��and put on or take ofif his collar and neck- tie. But this is not all. He can do things which many men with both arms have not learned to do, such as swim, dive, bowl, drive a horse, and run an automobile. The accompanying illus- tration shows Judge Corley seated in his automobile, with his foot on the throttle and his mechanical hand on the wheel. He cranks his machine and, in fact, takes entire care of it.

Judge Corley is a young man who feels keenly the needs of a cripple. His atten- tion is now directed to Europe. His plan is for each government to establish a temporary institution where cripples may be taught a trade or profession and the use of mechanical hands. The ex- pense to the government would be re- markably small in comparison to that

��Judge Corley can run his automobile alone, and does it because he likes to

���Armless Judge Corley can put on his own necktie, as well as dress himself alone. He didn't learn to shave, merely because that hardly seemed worth while with barbers willing to help him

��lessness, however unwillingly. Judge Corley proceeded to study law, in the meantime earning a living for himself as a superintending contractor. At the end of a year he had devised a hook with which he could write and do many things. At the end of the second year he had been admitted to the bar, and in seven years from the date of his accident he was made County Judge of Dallas County.

Judge Corley has now perfected a mechanism with which he has made himself independent of outside assist- ance. He is able to use a telephone, pick up large and small articles with ease, take money from his pockets, turn door- knobs, bathe himself, lace shoes, use a toothbrush, handle a knife and fork,

��of maintaining permanent institutions for the care and support of cripples.

The Allies' Losses

RECENT information, believed to be correct, gives Allied losses in the European War until January as follows: Total British casualties, 549,467, in- cluding 24,122 ofhcers; French total, 2,500,000, of whom 800,000 were killed, 1,400,000 wounded and 300,000 cap- tured. It is estimated that nearly sixty per cent of the wounded return to the trenches. Official figures regarding the Teutonic losses are unobtainable.

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