The New York herald., 1921-11-16
+. L. Dawson Passes Bank
ING Up in Favor of Going
Into Legislature.
r. r. LIVINGSTON ACTIVE
Major LOrillard Is Among As
pirants-WOmen Also TAX
ing Up Office Holding.

sufficient to permit him to select a ca
reer and makes public life profes.
sion may succeed in eliminating an
other man who makes public life a
business. For that reason I believe
that more young men should go into
public life.'
Such is one of several philosophical
observations Of j. Griswold Webb, who
was elected to the New York State AS
sembly last Tuesday from the First
district of Dutchess county and who is
himself one of the interesting group
of young men he referred to. 1t did
not remain for the election to give
Assemblyman Webb the inspiration
for his political philosophy, but the
results of last weeks voting did serve
to mark the debuts in public life OF
several young men as we'll as of some
young women whose distinctions be-
fore on election day consisted pri-
marily of their being "of society"
Henry 2. Dawson Of the firm Of J. p
Morgan & Co, attained his ambition of
entering public life. He succeeded in
the State Legislature Assemblyman
| Theodore Roosevelt who resigned to be-
come Assistant Secretary of the Navy
| Robert r. Livingston. member Of q
| family that has been In the New York
| foreground OF public and private life
| for more than two centuries, thought up
| to the day after election that he had
succeeded in turning the Democratic
| tables on Republican stronghold in
Columbia county, where he ran for the
Assembly. He cut down q normal Re-
publican majority Of 100 to a little
more than 400 and will try again. He Is
in public life to stay.
Names in Election Returns.
A further perusaI OF the completed
election returns has turned up the
names Of several other men and women
who have emerged from the conven-
tional realm of society into local elective
offices, further to emulate the philosophy
Of Assemblyman Webb.
A reporter called up Mr.. Livingston
on the long distance telephone at Ger
mantown, n. Y. just below Hudson-on-
the-Hudson River. and congratulated
him upon his election.
Hold up he replied, breaking into
the congratulation. II lost to DR.. Ros-
coe G. Waterbury OF Undertook, the
Republican candidate, but by only f56
voted. l think that's doing pretty we'll
in such a Republican stronghold as this
one In Columbia county. Out of total
vote of 1900, polled $500 and DIR. Wat
erbury 1856. But l cut down the normal
Republican majority from 1.700. 1 ran
for the Assembly here last year for the
first time and lost by that majority in
1920 to George Finch. I am In public
life to stay and as q resident Of this
district l shall run again."
Mr.. Livingston is a son Of Mrs. Robert
r. Livingston of IL Washington Square
North and Northwood Cheviot, a couple
of stations below Germantown ON the
Hudson. Chancellor Livingston was his
great-great-grandfath The late e. N.
Taller Of Washington square was his
grandfather and T. Suffern Taller Is his
uncle. In 1910 he was graduated from
Princeton. He took n postgraduate
course at Columbia, from which he was
graduated in 1914.
Il am heartily glad that Bob Living
| ston ran so WE'LL" said Mr.. Webb II
| hope he will run again"
Mr.. Webb is about to enter upon his
| third term as member OF the State AS
sembly, and because OF his public career,
short as IL is. he is qualified to give
some advice from his own experiences
for the other young fellows. who are
I following him into politics.
When asked How did you happen to
become interested in politics?' he re-
Piled:
Everybody know has asked me that
and / suppose 1t Is natural they should
| Personally / went into politics because
felt there was real need for men In our
public offices to-day who 20 into the
work not for what they can get out of II
for themselves, but rather what they
can put into 1t for the good of the State
| or the nafinn 9 a NNhnla