South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-05-18
STATESMEN
REAL AND NEAR
BY FRED c. KELLY.
BY FIRED C. KELLY.

By FRED c. KELLY.
| WASHINGTON. May 1S.-William
| S. West the new senator from
I Georgia, is man of great determina-
ton and persistence. If he were 10
get up some fine morning with the
idea. let US say, that the ought TO eat
a mess of young onions, and there
\ were no young onions in market, he
would get that mess of onions III IL
/ took him a couple OF years. and
/ onions would never be out of his
7 mind until he got them. No matter
\ what il is that he starts at he goes
\ the whole distance. When he was a
I youngster on the farm. West got an
\ idea into his head that he would
\ never amount TO much unless he first
acquired a rather elaborate educa-
| ton. He had no money but he an
nounced that he was going through
/ college and law school and then
would round out his equipment by
\ taking "A course at some good bus
/ mess college.
Friends and kinfolk told him he
would Overdo the thing and waste a
/ lot of time and that he'd better for
/ get his foolish notions
But West shook his head and said
| that he was going 10 he educated or
know the reason why. BY teaching
school for a while he earned enough
money TO pay his way through col
/ lege. II was slow, tedious work. be-
cause he had to stay out of college
/ every other year to make the money
\ he would spend the following year.
BY the time he had finished college,
/ his brothers who had not paused TO
acquire a higher education were es-
tablshed i'm business and prospecting.
You. too. might be making a lot
/ of money by now" his friends told
him. If yen hadn't fooled away your
time in college"
Yes" retOrted West. but I start
/ cd out to get very thorough educa-
ton and l never start anything that l
don't finish"
He then began the study OF law
and alteTnated between working and
attending law school until he com
pleted that course. BY that time he
was past 80 years of age. and every
body who knew him assumed that at
last he was ready to bid farewell TO
his school days. But they were vastly
mistaken. for there was still the bus
mess college.
Look how old you're getting TO
be-" his brothers said 10 him more
in sadness than in anger.
Il don't fix my age" replied West:
the Almighty does that. But l map
ped out a certain course TO pursue,
and I intend to do what I set out to
do if it takes until I'm sixty"
When he received his diploma from
the business college and started out
at last 10 make his fortune, West
was 33 years of age.
He then started in and made a half
million dollars.
DR.. Domicio da Cana. am bassador
to the United States from Brazil, and
one of the mediatOrs of the Mexican
controversy, is a person who can
keep a great many important things
to himself saying never a word to
gets well under way. one may rest
perfectly easy that the negotiations
will not be upset b.. Ambassador de
Cana talking too freely
Ii was in connection with his mar
riage to a beautiful widow, a member
of a wealthy New York family that
Ambassador de Cana made himself
a reputation for unusual skill at
: keeping things quiet. great many
persons get married without much
being known about il in advance
but as a rule those persons are not
members of a diplomatic corps. The
: Brazilian am bassador is probably the
only person in the diplomatic circle
at Washington who ever accomplish
ed important event with such
complete secrecy Washington con-
tainS a great number of persons who
: aim to know the gossip of everything
that is going on in social way.
Many OF these were greatly vexed
with Am baSSadOr da Cana when he
returned from New York one morn
ing with his wife. Until then not a
= soul. even among his most intimate
associates, had any idea that he was
so much as engaged or that he was
that we'll acquainted in New York.
His little coup caused great mortifica-
ton among those in the diplomatic
set who felt that they had regulations
= TO sustain as professional gossips. To
! this day they wonder how he man
, aged it.
Two members of a Washington
chess club stopped Sen. Shafroth, of
E Colorado, on the street one afternoon
r recently and invited him to drop
e. around 10 their club rooms for an
p informal little series a chess.
"Oh. no. 7 can't do that replied
Shafroth: - can't do il at ALL
really cannot"
His refusal VAS SO positive that he
L seemed almost alarmed lest in a
e weak moment he might he inveigled
into a serious situation
we aim 10 treat everybody right.
b. laughed one Of the club members
Il grant that" said Shafroth. blu
D YOU know 7 have a Hat rule agains
e playing chess. I wouldn't get into
game Of chess for anything"
The explanation is that ever sine
10 the international chess match whicl
was arranged by Tom Reed betweeI
T. the English house Of commons an,
II our house Of Representatives. an,
played by cable. with John Shafrotl
representing out side. Shafroth IA
% avoided playing chess as he woul,
avoid n pestilence. re won the mattel
" AGAINST the best PLAYER an the hous
n ~ commons and as he explains it
Why play again and ruin one
reputation"
a Copyright 1914 by Fred c. KeUs
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