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Evening star., 1946-10-06

were given to the Washington Zoo
but later died), polar bears and any
number of smaller animals and
plants which found their way to
the Academy of Natural Science in
New York, the Cleveland Museum
and the New England Museum OF
Natural History.
The Morrissey sailed within SOC
miles of the North Pole under Capt
Bob,s command, and altogether
carried him and his usual crew OF
II over more than 100000 miles OF
cold, Northern seas. 1t weathered
the worst storms; in one, her boom
was split, and the first mate washed
overheard. He clung to a line for %
minutes, however. and was saved
In 1941 she came up the Potomac
to pay a visit to Washington, which
is probably as far South as she ever
voyaged.
Included in her passenger lists
have been George Palmer Putnam
the publisher, and Admiral Peary's
daughter, Marie. The latter was
taken to Cape York, on the north
Evening star., 1946-10-06
makes dolls.
PORTLAND, Greg.
. HE Chin Up Club Of Oregon
Is awaiting wedding bells
again. Another member Is

getting married.
wedding bells aren't unusual, but
this particular chime is. For the
Chin-Up Club is composed entirely
Of physically handicapped people
spastics, the paralyzed, bedfast in
valids, the blind and the lame.
Members come to meetings in
stretchers and wheel chairs. The
usual master Of ceremonies is boy
so crippled with arthritis he can
no longer bend his joints. He is
carried in on cot and stands rigid,
to direct the party.
The Chin-Up Club has helped to
make invalids self-supporting and
has enabled manned persons who
hadn't left their bedrooms In a
decade to go to a party again.
The club also breeds romance, al
though that isn't its main purpose.
In the four years since Its first
meeting. there have been 10 mar
riages.
"Chin-Up Club. nothing" re-
marked a member as he hobbled out
Evening star., 1946-10-06

assembling information on men and
women who are too handicapped to
leave their homes, but who can do
certain jobs. This is expected to
lead to development Of q home
bound program of unestimated
benefit. Five persons are already
employed part time on this project,
and education among employers
may expand the possibilities Of this
source Of labor.
Goodwill Industries stays 80 per
cent self-supporting through the
collection Of discarded clothing and
household goods In Goodwill bags
and their resale at nominal prices
at Goodwill stores after they have
been remodeled and repaired in the
various workrooms. Every employe
knows that he is earning his own
way by contributing labor on these
items.
During National Employ the
Physically Handicapped Week, an
Evening star., 1946-10-06
By {. B. Long
Associated Press Sfaff Writer

is fairly considered, there can be but
one conclusion, and this is: That
the great Chicago fire of October
$40, 1871. was started In the barn
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick OLeary, 1877
Dekoven street, by one of their cows
kicking over q lighted kerosene lamp
between $50 and 9 pm. of Sunday
October 8; that it was brought about
by an accident and that Mrs.
OLeary was in the barn at the
time" :.,-
Other material continually is be-
ing unearthed and this week on the
18th anniversary of the fire and the
start of National Fire Prevention
Week the Chicago Historical So
ciety is publishing "The Great Chi
cago Fire." q collection of seven
letters by men and women who
witnessed the catastrophe. The
book has an introduction and notes
by Paul M. Angle, director of the
society.
Several severe fires had plagued
the city less than "A hours before
the great fire." A planning mill on
Canal street and four blocks were
destroyed with a loss of $750, GOO.
In letter believed published for
the first time, Samuel Stone, as
sistant librarian of the Historical
Society. whose North Side building
was considered fire resistant, wrote:
AT this moment, a terrible blast
Of wind, fire and smoke filed the
entire Ontario street in front. The
entire easement of the front window
was In a blaze, hanging like feathers
on every inch Of the window. !
Immediately hurried into the recep-
Evening star., 1946-10-06

Sey, WHICH DTVukut poSA
many Arctic specimens for the
Smithsonian Institution, has been
bought by three Navy veterans for
use in the copra trade in the South
Pacific.
The Morrissey is among the last
Of the Artic ships which made
headlines in the early part Of the
century. "Capt. Bob" brought her
back to the United States for the
last time in November, 1945. He
died in April this year.
The Morrissey languished at .
Gloucester pier until late summer,
when the veterans heard she was
for sale. They bought her at q
price understood to be under $50,-
600.
The new owners are s. r. and
M. H. Jackson, brothers. and M.
Wassell, all from New York, and all
amateur yachtsmen. During the
war they commanded various auxil-
|iary naval vessels in the South Pa
cific. 2
We're going to the South Pa
cific," they will tell you, ''to work
the interisland trade. Wen prob
ably sell copra in the Polynesian
group. Mostly, we're doing it for
fun and because we want a vacation
from the insurance and real estate
businesses. Maybe we1l sell the
boat after q few months"
Capt. Bartlett bought the Nor
rissey 20 years ago in Newfound-
land, his birthplace, and made al
most an annual voyage to remote,
icebound regions. He ususally car
ried scientific expeditions and COL
lege students. During the war, the
ship was chartered by the Army
Transport Service to move troops
and set up outpost weather sta
tionS.
Evening star., 1946-10-06
HurdIing Physical Handbags to JOBS

open house viii be conducted ut
Goodwill Industries. 1210-1222 New
Hampshire avenue NV. from noon
/ to 5 pm. Wednesday and from noon
to 8 pm. Thursday In order that
Finterested persons may see the plant
and observe tho clinic and work
rooms.
A national deaf-muts college
was authorised by Congress In
April, 1854, at tho suggestion Of DR..
coward M. Gallaudet, to instruct
the deaf In liberal arts and sciences.
It's original 10 students were ad-
mitted free. and the institution,
publicly endowed, began to grow. In
1857, it became co-educational. BY
1894, the name was changed to Cal
laudet College, honoring the founder
Of public instruction for the deaf In
America, Thomas Hopkins Gallau-
det, bronze statue Of whom stands
on Kendall Green, at the school. DR..
Leonard M. Elstad Is president, and
the student body now numbers 145.
Personality Development
Stressed in Job Holding
About IS per cent Of the deaf. DR..
EIstad says, can distinguish sound
with or without artificial aid. An
other 80 per cent have sound per-
ception but cannot interpret. The
remaining IS per cent are totally
deaf.
with a good educational back
ground" DR.. Elstad says, "the deaf
worker should acquire any skills de-
manded by a new job within rea-
sonably short time. He must learn
early to get along with others, and
this is taught him in the develop
ment OF his personality. Lp-read-
ing and actual speech on their part
are difdcult for the deaf to master,
but this mastery does make for q
better adjustment to the job en-
yironment. These are such impor-
tart assets that all schools for the
deaf are encouraging their students
to acquire them.
MANY Of our students are work.
ing for the Federal Government.
They have unusual powers Of con-
|centration because Of their handi-
cap. and consequently, they make
fine candidates for statistical and
research jobs. They make excellent
printers, too. -
"All that any handicapped worker
asks is a chance to demonstrate that
he or she can I'LL the job. And 7
would like to point out that failure
of any Of them to make good is no
argument against trying another
one. Few employers Use the inabil-
ity of . member of any group to
make good as reason for not en-
ploying another member Of that or
ganization." .-..-
Evening star., 1946-10-06

have been remodeled and redec-
Grated for offices and special work.
shops. It's payroll runs to nearly
$4,000 weekly.
Training and employment have
been provided since the beginning
of the corporation IL years ago, but
additional services for rehabilitation
have been added in the last 10 years.
A newly activated department Is a
therapeutic clinic directed by Miss
Nancy Cole. occupational therapist
with three years experience in Army
institutions. She combines therapy
with knowledge Of manipulatiye
trades. This requires knowledge of
weaving, cabinet work, mechanics
and construction as well as knowl-
edge of the muscles used In each op-
Grafton.
Psychological and aptitude tests
are given to determine the greatest
skills in a handicapped person and
a complete picture of what he can
do most efficiently and satisfac-
factorily. -.
An applicant with leg braces may
operate a bicycle which, in turn,
manipulates q jig-saw blade for cut
ting out puzzles and thus combine
exercise and productivity. Persons
suffering from forms Of cerebral pa
ralysis may take an hour day to
walk slowly around . clinic room
to rhythmic, soothing music and
improve their coordination. Or
they may write at large blackboards,
aiming toward the goal Of small,
legible writing on paper.
The blind, in addition to learning
skills, are taught to get around with
Evening star., 1946-10-06
Examples in Washington
OF Work With Disabled

USES offices In Washington have
taken steps to handle heightened in
terest in placement work during the
coming week, and Mrs. Naomi Mann,
. specialist, has moved into Room
507 in the District Building to act
as co-ordinating officer in promotion
Of the drive for hiring the handi-
capped.
In the forefront of Washington's
efforts to rehabilitate and place men
and women in the ranks Of produc-
tive artisans are 83-year-old Gallau-
det College, an institution of higher
learning for the deaf, and Goodwill
Industries. a corporation employing
los physically handicapped men and
women.
Goodwill Industries, a nonprofit
organization Of 140 persons, has ex-
panded its plant facilities by add
ing two stories to the industrial shop
adjoining its original four-story
plant. Two residences at 1870 and
1922 New Hampshire avenue NV.
Evening star., 1946-10-06
By Ann Reed Burns
Asseeiafsd Press Staff Writer

of the church after the last wheel
chair wedding. "They ought to call
it the hook-up club"
The club is the brain child o1
Beth Sellwood, IS, daughter of q
Salem (Oreg) farmer, withered by
disease and muscular atropfiy.
There must be lot of people
like me-" Beth thought one day
why couldn't we get together and
help each other?" In the spring
OF 1941 she started writing to pa
tients she'd heard of, to addresses
of persons mentioned in newspapers
as wanting a wheel chair. Even
tually, on October IS, 1912, the club
held its first meeting. Eighteen
persons came.
Today the club has 500 members
mothers rearing their children from
a wheelchair; a farmer, whose par
alyzed legs don't stop him from
milking II cows q day and operating
a 40-acre farm; man unable to use
arms or legs, who makes . living
operating a telephone service spe-
cially rugged SO that the receive,
can be lifted and replaced without
hands. The membership includes
watchmakers. a toymaker. business
owner and employees, an editor, ar
attorney and artists.
Bedfast Invalids Helped
To Start Businesses
Some were working before they
Joined the club. But a lot wouldn't
even have dared to try.
"One boy with q hunchback and
q bad leg was so sensitive he could
hardly speak to any one" said Beth.
ct had to drag him to Chin-Up
party. Soon he was talking his head
OF. He went away and started q
vocational training course as q rock
crystal worker. He's been employed
ever since"
Bedfast invalids who never had
earned cent have, through the
clubs help, started businesses Of
tipping, mending hose, selling mag
azine subscriptions, cosmetics. cards,
The club hunts outlets
for their work.
Johnny Kucera, II, q Salem arth-
fits victim who weighs only S.
pounds, has started Q business de-
signing new Christmas cards out
Evening star., 1946-10-06
CHICAGO.
COWBARN, q small dairy
owner, q wornout fire de-

CHICAGO.
A COWBARN, small dairy
~ owner, q wornout fire de-
~ partment, three months of
drought and q tinderbox
city, eliminated Is years ago in
what is generally considered the
most destructive fire In American
history-the great Chicago fire.
From Sunday evening. October 8,
1871, until early Tuesday morning,
October 10, the blaze swept through
the growing city Of 335. 900 inhabi-
tants. The flames left 10000 home
less, consumed property valued at
$500, ,000, 900, burned the original
emancipation proclamation and
took the lives of 300 people.
The many stories and memories Of
the catastrophe are not dead. His
torians still argue whether a COW
owned by Mrs. Patrick OTeary, a
small dairy owner on Chicago's West
Side, kicked over q lantern to start
the conflagration. The consensus
still is in favor of the COW legend
despite efforts to disprove it.
Letters of Seven Witnesses
Ready to Be Published
One little-known piece of evi-
dence is the story of Bohumil
George Kicker of Chicago, who
states positively" that his father,
Hynek Kicker, a butcher. purchased
the carcass of a cow and calf from
Mrs. OLeary shortly after the fire.
Mr.. Kicker says his father had the
hides hanging on the wall of his
shop Tor. years until eventually they
were taken down, stored and lost.
Col. Harry A. Musham, In his
monograph, "T71e Great Chicago
Fire, October $40. 1871" says that
when all the evidence in the case
Evening star., 1946-10-06
. HE second annual observ-
ance Of National Employ
the Physically Handicapped

the Physically Handicapped
Week. starting today, finds
more than 65 groups and agencies
In the District concerned with some
aspect Of the problem Of treating.
educating and employing the seq
ment Of citizenry which is af,licted
with some form Of disability.
The emphasis on hiring Of handt-
capped persons became established
through passage of Public Law 176
by the Seventy ninth Congress, last
year. It designates the first week Of
October for national observance and
has provided a means whereby or
ganizations concerned with the eco
nomic welfare Of disabled veterans
join with groups interested in aiding
handicapped civilians, to reduce the
need for public assistance and re-
habilitate to the limit Of the vast
resources constantly brought to bear
on the problem.
The Veterans Administration and
the United States Employment
Service are outstanding in work for
the physically impaired veteran. In
the Washington Offices of the en-
ployment service, 1900 are listed
as job applicants, Of whom 900 are
veterans. The figure is constantly
being reduced by improved place
ment records.
The Veterans Employment Serv-
ice has a host of representatives
working exclusively for the place
ment of men.with seryice-connected
disability. There are 100000 Of
them in training for skilled and
professional work, while the Re-
training and Unemployment Ad-
ministration of the Labor Depart
ment operates to coordinate activi-
ties Of Federal agencies, prevent
overlapping and scientifically ap-
proach q solution of the common
problems. Ten years experience Of
the Once Of Vocational Rehabilita-
ton Of the USES is behind its ef-
forts, working with States in a Fed
eral aid program, to find employ
ment best suited to the skills and
educational capacity of men and
women striving to make themselves
self-supporting.
War Taught Lesson
In Faithful Service
Manpower shortages during the
war opened the door to the thou
sands Of impaired workers. About
SO per cent of the industries engaged
in filing war contracts tried out
handicapped workers with astonish-
ing results.
The United States Office of Edu-
cation, making inquiry Of hundred
or more of those employers In 1943,
found that there was less absentee
ism, Q smaller labor turnover and
a lower accident ratio among han
dicapped employees.
In the dollar-and-cents category,
1t was estimated that 1t normally
would cost the United States $3,000,-
100000 annually to support these
people who had become self-sup-
porting by getting and holding jobs
instead Of depending on public as
sistance.
Pamphlets issued by the USES
Veterans' Employment service now
stress that It Is good business to
hire Q disabled veteran because Of
Evening star., 1946-10-06
And Still the Cow Is Blamed

ton room to get the record book
and the Lincoln proclamation. Not
finding the record book, I attempted
to break the frame containing the
proclamation to take the proclana-
ton and fold it under my coat, 1t
being stout frame. Not a moment
more to stop. Abandoned the
frame" Thus one of Americas
great historical treasures was lost.
Others wrote of people standing
in the lake, of others running back
into the fire to perish. of shooting
and hanging of looters, of man
racing down a street carrying two
immense turnips" and of the burn
ing wooden sidewalks.
Brokers Wife Described
Swiftness of Destruction
Anna E. Higginson, wife of real
estate broker, wrote of the rapid
destruction: "The flames would dash
themselves against the sides OF
solid block, in one instant passing
out through the other side, and
the whole just melted away and
disappeared. The courthouse burned
in 20 minutes, while that long block
of 40 houses on La Sale street op-
posite Lincoln Park burned in just
seven"
The majority of refugees fed
north, but the fire followed them
across the river clear to the city
limits at Fullerton avenue. Some
spent the night in open graves in
what is now Lincoln Park from
where the city cemetery was being
moved. Others who had friends in
the western suburbs went there,
while thousands of others were
homeless. But not the Patrick
OLeary's-the famous house still
stands.
Evening star., 1946-10-06
Romance at |nvaIids, Club

Iof old ones. Kendall Walker, 80, Gre
ates six or seven crossword puzzles
a day at $6 apiece. His hands too
crippled to type, he works with an
electric typewriter, touching the key
with q rubber-tipped pencil.
When he joined the club, Earl
Paulson Of Portland, was making
fish flies and leaders, and had more
business than he could handle so he
told some fellow-members about it..
Now they're making $3.50 to $500 a
month. Fred Camp did SO well at it
he hired three assistants, bought a
house, and persuaded a girl he met
at the Chin-Up Club to give up her
job as Stayton City treasurer and
marry him. Neither has walked since
accidents at the age of II.
Club Revises Charter
To Expand Nationally
The wheel-chair marriages get
along. Bill and Opal Judd, like the
Camps, met through the Chin Up
Club. They were married in April,
1945. In the Milwaukee (Oreg.) cot
tage they built for their own needs.
Judd carries on an insurance and
greeting card business. His young
wife helps him, acts as notary pub
lie, and does all her own housework.
Behind the cottage is the three
wheeled motorcycle which takes
Judd to call on his customers.
They're awaiting delivery Of an
ther for Opal. In the meantime,
she goes marketing on q tricycle.
like affair built from bicycle parts.
Opal, who's a bit better of than
her husband she has powerful
arms and his fingers won't fiex-
helps him in and out of his wheel
chair. She can hoist herself from
hers.
The Chin-Up Clubs fame has
spread so far that it is revising its
articles Of incorporation,-it was in
corporated in Oregon in 1914 as a
|non-profit institution-to expand
nationally. Handicapped persons
have written from as far away as
the Netherlands.
In the little farmhouse which has
neither phone nor plumbing, Presi-
dent Beth Sellwood spends most Of
her day answering inquiries. She
gets from i've to eight letters day.
Seated in kitchen chair equipped
with rollers and tipping with twisted
fingers, Bsth answers them al.
Evening star., 1946-10-06

modern concepts which regard a
mans abilities rather than his disa-
bilities and fit the job to the man.
It is contended that selective place
ment results in high efficiency rates,
less absenteeism, fewer accidents
and q minimum Of job changes.
In another pamphlet, regarding
the hiring of the handicapped from
a national angle, employers are told
about Bureau of Labor Statistics
findings. Figures from 450 employers
of $500 handicapped workers
showed 81 per cent had better acci-
dent records than average workers;
40 per cent had better-than-aver-
age absence records, and So per cent
stayed on their jobs longer. The un-
used skills and knowledge Of the
handicapped can lead to more eff
cient production, employers are ad-
vised.
Evening star., 1946-10-06
GLOUCESTER. Mass.

APT. ROBERT A. BART
LET'S famed exploration
ship, the Efie M. Morris
sey, which brought back
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-08
One Word Led to Another
BY ARTHUR BUGS BAER'

Quick James, the Rope
yXIHEN New York staggering against the ropes
w everything the hamburger hangs hi gh
For ii Uos Roxy and Radio City Who brought the
UeIUet rope to Manhattan Its appearance meant thar
the ushers sang The Vulgar Boat Song as they las
seed the happy customers and dragged them to the
SIS cent stalls
brand you 1t contented rodeo with
stage show.
Then the E Bstros got the luxurious stampedes in the
high put up plush 10 prevent the
clientele from doing the giant swing on the apes OF
the That is long sentence for me- So will
it, You burns trying to spend your money
for bigger and better insomnia
TINE rope was used the West for acceerating the
vertical departure of hoss thieves and brgands We use
East keep the spectators from joining the parades
In the old days Uhen a bought rope it
usually meant business bad That night he
stepped off a chair. Today Uhen a man buys rope
and chair it means business good and he Is going
to open an annex
Try to get into Square. The rope Endeavor TO
Jack Dempseys Roach Ranch Broadway The
effort purchase groceries The Try to
buy cigar. The rope.
Never before the history of great cities has the rope
been used often without running loop They off
theaters, subways and railroad stations
NEVER before has the population contained so many
people And before have the people been loaded
weight of pro currency per capita appetite
you a shoelace into UeiUet you
perched as pretty as nurses cap. And every
body Broadway has managed to do it.
The result is that doormen and headwaters have de-
veloped muscles from ropestrechng And the team FL
Storko going the Tweny-one in tugofwar.
The will be tied around the of prosperous
and the will pull opposite directions the modulated
music of Going My Way"
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-08
The Romance
Of NewsPapering

and exploits of individuals to
make them famous in the pro-
fsssion, at least.
HENCE in San Francisco, a
HI locally renowned reporter
would be known by reputation
in Denver and a Denver star
would have fame in st. Louis or
in Chicago and. Chicagoan in
New York. II was a matter of
word-of-mouth communication.
The young reporters in the back
country would listen wide-eyed
to the tales of reportorial
prowess of some big Lacquer as
related by a shabby roamer who
had worked in the same office
with the hero.
The roamer generally lied a
little, of course, but you need
those Munchausen touches 10
brighten any tale. ] am sure il
was I h @ tourists who first
conjured up dreams of the ro-
nance and glory of the news
paper business in the minds of
many kids and sent them TO the
big towns 10 become great
newspapermen.
Today, the members of the
newspaper profession are mainly
"homesteaders" or fellows who
are settled down permanently in
one place. The press clubs fell
into the hands of BARRIERS and
plumbers in most cities and
eventually disappeared entirely.
The newspaper owners built new
buildings without reference 10
the proximity of other news
paper buildings. In New York
City. Park Row is just news
paper memory.