The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-04-14
THEY WON'T SAY DIE!
Their Friends May Weep
But Courageous CripPIes
Overcome HandiesPs
and Carve Useful Careers
in World Of Business
By JOSEPH w. LaBINE

Next time you're down on
your luck and your jaw says
like an overloaded clothesline,
try swinging your legs and
arms, or blinking your eyes.
And be thankful you have arms,
legs and eyes.
A lot of people haven't.
But the disasters that robbed
them of these faculties have
usually inspired them to make
the best of it. More often than
not they've achieved outstand-
ing success.
Nineteen year old Jessie
Simpson is an example. A few
months back she was acclaimed
Miss New Jersey, personable
young lady whose beauty and
talent won admiration every
where. Then one day she ran
for train, missed, and woke
up in a hospital a few days later
to find both her legs gone.
Gone, too, were tennis, golf,
dancing and other sports, but
Jessie Simpson didn't weep
about it like her friends. Disas-
ter brought her a new life, and
today she's receptionist at the
New York city telephone office.
Moreover, she's building a ca
reer as a commercial photogra-
piers model, for Jessie's hands are
remarkably beautiful.
Legless Swimmer.
Speaking of legless people, there's
Zibelman of New York who lost
his legs years ago in a Chicago
trolley accident. Since then he has
become famous as a stunt swim
mer. He was photographed drink
ing beer and smoking cigars while
swimming "acrosS the Atlantic
ocean"-in the swimming pool of
the Queen Mary. His most not
able achievement is 144-hour, 145-
mile swim down the Hudson river
from Albany to New York last au-
tunn. Last winter he planned
similar excursion from Miami to
Havana, sharks permitting.
In Provo, Utah, a high school
student named Wilkins Nuttall is a
prize-winnnig lightweight wrestler
even though he has but one leg!
Nuttau used to stand on the side
lines until he said to himself one
day, "What has any other wrestler
got that I haven't got?" and pro-
ceeded to give more experienced
matmen run for their money. Of
course he can't apply Scissors"
hold, but it is equally impossible
for an opponent to apply the "split"
on him.
Success on "Stilts."
In the village of Bellfower, Calf,
lives Ralph Veady, leading bust
ness man and bicycle rider who
nevertheless has no legs. Seven
years ago Ralph was working his
way through Whittier college by
driving tractor. One day the trac-
tor overturned and he regained con-
seriousness to find his legs gone. To-
day, seven years later, Veady con-
ducts his jewelry business, drives
his car and even dances, with the aid
of artificial legs. A star performer
in many amateur races, Veady is
also an expert swimmer and a clev-
er skater with or without his legs.
Only few miles from Bellfower,
in Huntington Park, lives Miss Clo-
yer Kerr, who lost both legs and one
arm in a traffic accident last year.
Like Jessie Simpson, she refused
to be pitied, outlining a new career
before she left her hospital bed.
Today she has found the way to
happiness and usefulness through
service.
Miss Kerr is artist, counselor,
philosopher and fairy godmother
to hundreds of crippled youngsters
in the Far West through her daily