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Popular Science Monthly 



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. 



