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Show the loss of a .eg at the Wp, Bar mond E. Welch earns his living aa sttion agent in his little vU age In Smming rivers. So far as be is concerned, that is how he has fun. Think of climbing Mount Washington Wash-ington with one leg I But this mar, all it a second time in order to take the more difficult trail. And a few days ago It was a six-mUe swim In record time which got him Into print . Just another example of the invincibility in-vincibility of the human spirit and Its absolute power over physical obstacle ob-stacle and handicap; the power of the human will. Not enough that one handicapped and apparently broken should rehabilitate reha-bilitate himself by turning to new occupations. No, he must win through to victory In the very pursuits pur-suits his handicap would seem to make impossible; the cripple climbing climb-ing mountains. So apparently there Is nothing we cannot do if we want to hard enough, and have the requisite courage cour-age and will. Women have recognized recog-nized the truth of that. That Is why we rarely hear today, as we did in the past, "I am too old to do this" or that At an age when our grandmothers felt it was time to sit back and be old ladies, to stop living except in their children, women wom-en today are going in for learning new things, new occupations, where necessary, new recreations, new ways of life. With activity which a few generations ago would have been spectacular, they find their energies renewed and increased and life better and richer for It all. What are supermen and women after all? "Super" means "over, above." And If this signifies rising above obstacles and handicaps, it would seem the age of supermen and women is upon us. D. 1933. Bell Syndicate. WND Service. THROUGH A Woman's Eyes By JEAN NEWTON SUPERMEN AND WOMEN NE of the most remarkable of endurance stunters, as the newspapers call him, is a man with only one leg. Crippled since the age of ten by |