South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-01-09
STA TESMEN
REAL AND NEAR
BY FRED c. KELLY.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-It is
doubtful if any member Of congress
except Rep. Samuel +. Winslow of
Worcester Mass, started out in life
as a small boy with the definite ambi
ton of becoming a bartender.
He would nave made delightful
bartender sober, industrious, court
eous, and attractive. and with
genial personality that would have
drawn trade right from the start. But
before he had time to look into the
thing s-riously and equip himself for
tending bar as a life-work, Winslow's
ambitions shifted and ne was in
clined to be a hackdriVer when he
grew up. The bartenders job had
appealed 10 him as a mere youngster
because of the neatness of apparel
that the position carried with II.
Winslow didn't know what a drink
salesman's duties were, bTt he
thought il would be "a great life 70
wear such spotless white coats as he
saw on the men, who, with bright
happy faces stood on the sidewalk in
front of saloons. AS he grew older.
however he began to realize that in
choosing one permanent calling,
mere dress is not the only thing TO
be considered. So he turned to hack
driving as a work that would put him
more on his mettle.
Years afterward when Winslow
came home from Harvard on a vaca-
ton and told his father he desired to
be a lawyer, his father said:
II can remember when you wanted
TO be a bartender, and then a hack
driver. Now you would be lawyer.
1t seems to me you keep losing ground
all the time"
1t was his fathers ambition that
Winslow should succeed him in the
manufacturing business. And he did.
Everybody has seen the name Wins
low in advertisements for skates. This
man that we've just been talking
about who was going TO be a bar
tender, is the WinSlow. Hence, any
one NAV understand what a tempta-
ton it is here to remark merrily that
Winslow realized his ambition to dis
pense skates after all.
Although he had been bit of a col
lege hero, with a place on the foot
ball team. the baseball nine, and what
not, Winslow quickly laid aside his
rah rah jewelry and started in to
learn his fathers business. He would
still have preferred to be "a lawyer
and do spellOinding for a living, but
consented to be captain Of industry
just for the sake Of being agreeable.
He started in at the bottom and de-
NOleQ several Nc6hS ~ DlcASlcIlnS the
operation of a wheelbarrow loaded
with Stag.
In politics, too, Winslow started in
right at the bottom. His first political
task was driving an ola so rGl horse
and surrey when he was ten years
old, to convey able-bodied voters to
the polls. When he grew up he was
rewarded for this devotion to his
eoII
clerk in the voting booth in his pre-
cinct. Since then he has held various
other positions of honor and trust
within the republican party. but un-
til his election TO congress he never
had a public job that carried a sal
airy with it.
No matter what honors may come
TO Winslow, however, he is destined TO
go through life with one great ambi-
ton ungratified. And that is because
he has never been able TO learn to
milk a COW. For some years he has
tOyed with gentleman farming on the
side and. following his usual custom
when taking up any given line of en-
deaVOr, he began with the rudiment-
airy or basic processes of farming. He
learned TO throw hay down from the
NOW. to pillow. to keep his hands out
carry husks to the high-born swine.
Then he undertook TO milk COWS, but
il was no go Winslow has cut little
chubby hand and they are not prop
erly designed for milking. Every COW
he tries to learn on gets all out of pa
thence with him and goes dry. And
SO WinslOw is not happy. His one
great untitled ambition preys on his
mind, he says. He would sooner be
a great mixer, as he looks at il now,
than a great statesman.
Besides various other qualifications
for a place as an all-around Teller, in
the hearts of his countrymen, Wins
low has sense of humor and a pre-
disposition toward philanthropy. He
is a large person, weighing around
275 pounds. with a prosperous-looking
girth. and a rudy countenance adorn-
ed by short whiskers. that have little
horns at each corner and give his
face a jovial. chef-like appearance.
Taking Samuel +. Winslow on the
whole. we should say that, although
he Is a product Of Harvard, he comes
about as close 10 being a person of
parts as any new member that has
entered the congressional latitude in
this long time. He acts like a full
fledged human being and seems TO
speak the human being language, be-
sides having all the passwords and
tepee signs.
Winslow. by the way. has the distinc-
ton of being the man who gave Will
lam Il. Hearst his first newspaper job.
In his college days he was business
manager OF one of the Har' ard pub
locations. and he appointed Hearst to
be assistant business manager
Hearst's job was TO go out after ad-
vertisements. and he got more con-
tracts than the magazine had ever had
before. Afterward il was discovered
that he obtained many OF these by
agreeing TO take them out in trade.
He turned in cash for the ads 10 the
magazine and traded them out on his
own account. thereby making his lob
as advertising solicitor an expensive
honor.
But Winslow was proud OF him
Years afterward when Hearst had es-
tablished his string OF big newspapers,
WinslOw met him and said:
Didn't / tell you you had the stun
IN you? Just keep right on getting
the advertisements and you'll have a
rolltop desk OF your own some day"
Copyright 1914, by Fred c. Kelly.