The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-01-11


BY FRED c.sKELLY -s
II Il doubtful IL any member Of Con-
ress except RepresentaIye Samuel E.
winsiow. OF Worcester. Mass, started
out In life as . smail boy with the den-,
mite ambition Of becoming a bartender.
He would have made = delirhtfui bar. .
tender, sober, industrious, courteous: and
attractive, and with genial Personality
that would have drawn trade Hight
from the start But before he had time
to look into the thing seriously and
equip himself for tending bar as a life
work. Windows ambitions shifted and
he was inclined to be q hackdriver WHEN
he grew up. The bartender's job had
appealed to him asa mere younester be-
cause Of the neatness. Of apparel that the
position carried With II. WINSTON didn't
know what q drink salesman's duties
were, but he thought 1t would be a erear
life to 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, how
ever. he began to realize that in choos-
ing ones permanent calling. mere dress
Is not the only thing to be considered. So
he turned to hackdriying as a work that
would put him more on his mettIe.
Years afterward when Winslow came
home from Harvard on a vacation and
told his father he desired to be a law
yer. his father said:
II can remember when you wanted tn
be bartender. and then hackdriver.
Now you would be a lawyer. It seems to
me you keep losing ground all the time
1t was his fathers ambition that Wins
low should succeed him y the manufac-
turing business. And he did. Every
body has seen the name winslow In adj
vertisements for skates. This man that
we've just been talking about. who was
going to be a bartender, is the winsiow.
Hence, any one may understand what a
temptation it Is here to remark mer-
riiy that Winslow realized his ambition
to dispense skates. after all.
Although he had been a bit Of a COL
lege hero. with a place on the football
team, the baseball nine. and what not,
Winslow quickly laid aside his rah rah
1ewelry and started in to learn his faith
ers business. He would still have pre-
ferred to be lawyer and do spellbind-
ing for living, but consented TO be a
captain OF industry just for the sake OF
being agreeable. He started in at the
bottom and devoted several weeks to
the operation of a wheeIbar-
row loaded with Stag.
In politics, too. winslow started in
right at the bottom. His first political
task was driving an old sorrel 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 partys cause by be-
ing made tally clerk in the voting booth
in his precinct. Since then he has held
various other positions of honor and
trust within the Republican party, but
until his election to Congress he never
had a public job that carried salary
with il.
No matter what honors may come to
Winslow. however. he is destined to go
through life with one great ambition
And that is because he has
never been able to learn to milk a COW.
For some years he has toyed with gen.
tleman farming on the side, and. follow
ng his usual custom when taking up any
given line of endeavor. he began with
the documentary or basic processes of
farming. He learned to throw hay down
rom the NOW. to pillow. TO keep his hands
put of the corn shredder. and even to
larry husks to the high-born swine. Then
ne undertook to milk cows, but IL was no
90. Winslow has cute little chubby
lands. and they are not properly design
d for milking. Every COW he tries to
earn on gets all out of patience with
lin and goes dry And SO Winslow is
Tot happy. His one great untitled ambi-
ion preys on his mind. he says. j, He
would sooner be a great mixer as he
ooks at it now, than a great statesman.
Besides various other qualifications for
| place as an all-around Teller, in the
learts of his countrymen, winslox has
| sense of humor and a predisposition
oward philanthropy. He is a large per
'on. weighing around 90 pounds. with a
girth, and a rudy
adorned by short whiskers
hat have little horns at each corner and
five his face a joviaL. chef-Iike appear
Ince. Taking Samuel E. Winslow on the
whole We should say that, although he is
product of Harvard, he comes about as
lose to being a person of parts as any
lew member that has entered the Con-
'ressional latitude in this long time. He
Icts like a fuIl-hedged human being and
Gems to speak the human being Ian
'uage. besides having all the passwords
md tepee signs.
Winslow. by the way, has the distinc-
ion OF being the man who gave William
:. Hearst his first newspaper job. In his
ollege days he was business manager OF
ne of the Harvard publications. and hs
ppointed Hearst to be assistant BUSH
less manager. Hearst's job was to go
ut after advertisements, and he got
more contracts than the magazine had
yer had before. Afterward il was dis
overed that he obtained many of these
y agreeing to take them out in trade
lie turned in cash for the ads to the
magazine and traded them out on his
wn account. thereby making his job as
dvertising solicitor an expensive honor.
But Winslow was proud of him. Years
fterward when Hearst had established
is string of big newspapers, winslow
net him and said:
Didn't I tell you you had the stun in
gu? Just keep right on getting the ad-
and you'll have a rolltop
esk of your own some day."
(Copyrisht 1914 by Fred c. Kelly. An rights