Show This M Man an n Proves roves That at Loss o of Arm ArmIs I I I Is No Handicap Living Lesson Pointed toI toWar to toWar I War Cripples That They Too Can Succeed i i MILWAUKEE WIS Orville Orvllle I Starke is one fellow who wouldn't let the loss los of his right arm keep him from success in business sports and social life Now hes he's teaching his philosophy to amputees in the army's Thomas M M. England hospital at Atlantic City N. N J J. J and also to discharged Milwaukee servicemen who have lost a leg or an arm Starke Is purchasing agent for lor the Hosiery company He is 51 and looks younger His face is tanned and ruddy from being outdoors His mustache is reddish his hair thinning thin thin- ning Wing He wears rimless glasses His empty right coat sleeve Is tucked neatly into his coat His manner is aggressive and merry says the A Milwaukee Milwaukee Mil Mil- waukee Journal Starke was vas just the man the army was looking for to put a zest for life back into depressed amputees He was a civilian he had no connection with the government he had made madea a success in many fields He was just the kind of a guy to walk into the Thomas M. M England hospital and say Look at nt me lads Im I'm as good as any man with two hands and two legs I can lick em at any game game and and so can you if youve you've got any spunk Seeming Handicap And that's how it happens that Starke has been making week long i trips to the hospital where there are always about 2000 amputees He went there armed with many copies of a letter he had written about him him- self The letter served as an introduction introduction introduction intro intro- and also as a biography It was something to be read thoughtfully thoughtfully thought thought- fully tully by the amputees or to be read by Starke himself In the letter Starke told about the seeming physical handicap of the loss of a leg or arm I 1 say seeming advisedly said Starke because cause as time goes on you like I will find that the loss of a limb is no handicap whatsoever in fact many of you men will find it a thrilling thrillIng thrilling thrill- thrill Ing challenge to better your position in life lite Then he told them about how he lost his arm when he was run over overby overby overby by a streetcar when he was a youth But that didn't stop him from rom being being being be be- ing an around all man His letter told it this way I played baseball pitched and played center field I played two seasons seasons seasons sea sea- sons of semipro ballI banI ball ban I ran the 50 and yard dash and in high school Marquette university and the Wisconsin Athletic club My best performances performances per per- 50 yard dash 52 seconds seconds seconds sec sec- tied the worlds world's indoor record at Northwestern university gym yards 10 tat flat yards seconds 22 feet 3 inches Nothing to write home about you say Well maybe not but I won more first places than I did second and third as you will see from rom my scrap book No Accident Driver I can dive use dive use the crawl or breast stroke also back stroke not too fast but I think I can hold myown my myown myown own with the average swimmer I have played golf for 15 years First with right hand clubs About three years ago I switched to left clubs with ver very satisfactory results My club board average for 1944 was 91 The last game I played was ws 88 As for my personal problems I Idress Idress dress myself tie my tie my shoestrings shoe shoestrings strings well do everything that is necessary to fill a normal mans man's daily duties I drive a car and carry a safe drivers driver's card because I have never had hadan an accident Im married and have ha one son a aswell swell boy a champion golfer now nowa a lieutenant in the air corps Glenn Glenna a a B B 17 17 navigator Today after many years ears of doing doing doing do do- ing things that to most two armed people seem miraculous I still lead leada a normal interesting and full life I meet people dally daily both fellow employees employees em em- and incoming salesmen With them and others I always act natural never am embarrassed or give way wy to an inferiority interiority complex Result they too feel natural and at case in my presence So get yourselves ready for a lifetime lifetime life lle- time of thrills make up your mind right now now like I did that the loss of your arm is going to prove an advantage advantage advantage ad ad- vantage that youre you're going to show your jour family your friends the public that that youve you've just started to fight |