Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-08
Mere Men

nACK in Ohio, just now, they are
Il talking of making Nick Long
Il worth governor. 1t isn't bad
talk, either. Longworth has lot of
things in his favor. In congress he has
insurged a little when insurging was
good and that won't hurt him bit.
Regarding the Roosevelt policies, he
stands, of course. in loco son-in-laW,
and that won't hurt him, either. Per-
sonaly he's healthy, popular and good
mixer Most people even forget to re-
member that he's a millionaire.
Friends of Mr.. Longworth say his
candidacy would win the enthusiastic
support of every baldheaded man in
the state. That's not to be despised,
for Ohio boasts many men who, like
Mr.. Longworth, haven't enough hair
on the top of their eraniums to disturb
an invalid fly out roller skating or to
demonstrate the theory of capillary at
tratcion. This billiard ball buttress,
however, hasn't always been source
of pride with the Ohio statesman.
Once 1t humiliated him dreadfully.
That was when he was trouping around
the world with the Taft party.
one sunny day the captain of the
consort hailed the boss sailor of the
Taft steamer and said:
Repeat that heliograph. The oper-
ator got all balled up"
Haven't been heliographing," was
the reply.
Then" came the request from the
consort. will you kindly ask Mr..
Longworth to put on his cap"
However that's almost forgotten
now and it isn't important in Ohio,
anyway. There are people who will
tell you that Ohio is doubtful state
this year If that's so, Longworth
would seem to be the logical candi-
date of the Republican party-lf he
will run. He's friendly with every
pUdy, ana within the past Iew years
they've begun to take him seriously,
which they never had done before.
However, he wants to stay in politics,
chiefly because that's what his wife
wants, and # Ohio seems a bit too
doubtful" 1t is likely that Mr., Long
worth will continue to represent his
district in congress. That seat is his
as long as he wants it. The Demo-
Gratis couldn't pry him loose, even if
they possessed Archimedes lever and
the fulcrum for which Archy sought.
There's the making of an important
malefactor Of great wealth in 13-year-
old Harry Spindle, who was recently
taken In hand by the New York
Children's society, following his con-
fession that he had kidnapped himself,
terrorized his parents with "Blacl<
Hand" letters and then, when they had
failed to produce the money demanded
had invented a get-rich-quick scheme,
which netted him $100 in less than a
week.
All that is going some for youngster
still in his early teens, and if this re-
markable genius is not nipped in the
bud by the meddlesome society Spindle
may yet make a name for himself as
notorious as John d. Rockefeller's own.
The case really is pathetic Here's a
youth with big day dreams. Perhaps
he's fancied for the future something
like the Spindle foundation" or a
flock of libraries or some trivial little
thing like that, and now steps up the
Children's society, and with hands
piously raised calls:
"stop, rash youth Stop ere it be
too late!"
What's more. the society. lot content
with admonition alone. has adopted
restraint, and for the present at least
the accustomed haunts of Master
Spindle will know him no more.
The boy wanted to come west and
fight Indians. His parents, curiously
enough, couldn't see it that way, so
he tried his BLACK Hand dodge, and
when that failed adopted another ex-
pedient. His plan. as told by himself,
was to call at some neighbor's home
and explain that the head of the fam
lily had Just been elected to an i'm
portant office in his lodge The boy
then would insidiously suggest that it
would be nice to surprise "father" on
his return home with a bunch of
flowers and would politely offer to get
the blooms from the nearest florist.
Once he had been given money with
which to make the purchase, however,
Master Spindle never came back. In
that way he amassed S100 over his
living expenses in single week. Then
the Children's society got him.
F.. A. Torsch, millionaire packer of
Baltimore, has been telling tales out of
school. Before a congressional commit
tee the other day Mr.. Torsch said that
canned oysters can be kept in cold
storage for a little matter of ten years
without affecting their wholesomeness
or nalatability in the least. Mr.. Torsch
said he knew this to be true, because
his company had kept the timed bi-
valves that long and had found no diff
ficuIty in marketing them and no COM
plants afterward. In fact, he said he
had eaten some of the ten-year-old
oysters himself and had enjoyed them,
too.
Torsch is head of the Torsch Pack
ing company, a concern when cans
pretty muh everything in the sea-
food line, shipping its produts all over
the country. He's a candid Gamer. Is
Torsch. for he didn't attempt to dodge
the questions put to him. He spoke
right up like a little man and said
you couldn't always tell by the taste
of n biValVe how many years 1t had
been out of the briny.