Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-15
.[EGLESS VETERAN
STILL CARRIES ON
Guy PendIeton Determined to
! Earn Own Living in Spite
of HandiCaps.

Guy Pendleton, youthful victim of
Incompetent or careless treatment in
Army hospitals, where he lost both his
legs, still is carrying on his deter
mined fight to make his own way,
dispite al odds. And. though a new
difficulty confronts him. he still wears
the same winning smile and declares
enthusiastically: Il guess things will
come out all right. somehow
Guy-for that is what all who know
him call hints the proprietor of a
small gift shop, at 1929 Georgia ave
nue.. is trying To solve the problem of
slow Christmas sales. a large stock
uf holiday goods and an out the-way
luCa ton
Haven't done much of late" he
said Yesterday, but a lot other shops
haven't done thing. Business will
pick up toward Christmas"
And II will-Guy is not to be beaten.
Had Many Troubles.
Pvt. Pendleton. it will be remember
ell, was the youth whose series of al
most fatal mishaps started when he
was in training at Camp EuStiS, Va.
His legs were crushed in an automo-
bile accident Physicians placed his
legs in casts which were too small
casts which had been made for an
other soldier. Proper circulation was
prevented and soon gangrene set in.
The result was that Pendleton was
brought to Walter Reed Hospital, his
legs amputated at the hips, and the
two physicians responsible for his
condition were court -martialed in a
sensational trial here.
When at last discharged from Wal
ter Reed. nearly two years ago. Guy
established small gift shop a short
distance from the hospital, where he
had suffered so long, and. with the aid
of his mother. Mrs. Margaret Pendle-
ton. set about to make his own living.
Employing the art training he had
received at Walter Reed. Guy tinted
vases. cups. statues, photographs and
snapshots, and today his shop is very
fairyland of a great variety of gifts,
many of which are partly products
Of fs~s own hand.
Guy greets his patrons with smile
and a firm hand clasp. There is
something infectious about il. He has
won and maintained the friendship of
hundreds of prominent persons of the
Capital and other cities, who first met
him when they We're visiting veter-
ans hospitals following war days.
Determined Optimist.
about this slight youth is his Opt.
mistic philosophy.
NO, the world doesn't owe me any
thing" he said quietly. Some vet
Grams, and some who are not veterans,
are content to live on public favor,
but there is nothing like independ
ence. l prefer to work"
Guy has a strain of the practical
joker in his veins, too.
Several weeks ago he solemnly an,
nounced to his mother, father and
friends that he was going to be mar
ried soon
<"You should have seen them weep
Overt. me. Every one begged me not
to take the leap. They all wanted to
know who she was, and if l was sure
she loved me.
Then when I told them | was not
going to be married, | was accused of
being tickle. Just like a woman"
"Muriel Vanderbilt once told me to
select rich girl when I decided to
marry, that the rich ones were just
as easy TO fall in love with. True
enough-now, l could have fallen in
love with her But the trouble is, the
rich ones don't fall in love with you
Guy smiled goodbye and returned
to his tinting of bluerimmed vase.