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and his arm had been crushed in some kind of a machine, so that he had a stiffness all the way up his arm, with no movement in the shoulder girdle. It was comparable to a total loss of the arm. He didn't have any more pain. They'd paid his doctor's bills. The doctor told him that that would be the most progress he'd make. He wouldn't have any more pain. So he said, “They told me to take the papers and go down to the head office. I went down. I asked two or three of the men there if this was right, if this was what I should settle for, if this is what was coming to me. They said, ‘Yes, that's what's coming to you. The doctor's bills are all paid. That's all there is.'”

We said to him, “Why did you settle for that? You've been paid about a $1000 in medical fees and in disability during the period you were in pain. You're entitled to nearly $6000 for the loss of use of an arm. Why did you settle?”

“Why,” he said, looking astonished and looking around the room, “I went to the head office. They're all educated men. I supposed they knew.”

I remember O'Connor saying to him, “Did it ever occur to you they might fool you?”

“Why they were educated men; they wouldn't fool a poor man like me!”

It was faith in the old American idea of the way you