The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11
By R. T. SMITH

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 1 i6CopyrfEht. 1922, by The Age-HeraId)
 Washington. June 10.-Washing-
 ton Is to lose Young T. R." this fall
 according to all political wiseacres. It has been source of eminent sat
 isfaction to the young Colonel Roose- welt to follow in the footsteps of his
 iflustrious father as assistant secre-
 tary of the navy-and he has made
 a most efficient one. from all ac-
 counts-but now he yearns for the
 more active field of politics where
 there Is plenty of rough and tumble fighting. where there are opposing
 heads to crack and where there Is
 room enough to swing the big stick. | T. n. AN Governor
 1 The politicians in New York are
 convinced that Colonel Roosevelt in-
 tends to run for some state office this
 fall, even If the plan of some of the
 leaders to put him up in opposition
 to Senator Calder for the republican
 senatorial nomination fails to ma terialtze. It may be that Roosevelt will run for lieutenant governor, or
 for governor. if Governor Miller de- cfdes not to be candidate to suc-
 ceed himself. Naturally. it is the ambition of the colonel to be gover- I nor of the Empire State. for his father was governor. The Senate also mas US appeal to him.
 Like His Father
 Young T. R." Is growing more like his father every day. He ycarns to get into a political arena where he can strike out and speak his thoughts Ion his own." and not merely as tho head of an executive department who must be considerate of the feelings of the other branches of the govern ment. He also Is becoming more like his father physically. He is develop ing many of the famous Roosevelt mannerisms-the falsetto note in the voice, the tight clinching of the fa-
 nous Roosevelt teeth. the vigor of expression and movement, and the heartiness of manner which gave President Roosevelt so much personal magnetism. He has one habit, how ever. which the elder Roosevelt was free from-tobacco. Young T. H. smokes black briar pipe with . rather long straight stem. He smokes whenever the occasion permits, but like all good pipe smokers. he asks tho consent of the assembled com- pany first.
 Colonel Roosevelt also makes sfre- ouent use of phrase which recalls one that his father so vigorously employed President Roosevelt won fame by standing flor tho square deal" Young T. R. stands for the square shake"
 R. l.. Bacon, Jr.. Has "Bug" Washington also Is interested In in politics. The announcement that young Robert L. Bacon. son of Rob- ert Bacon. at one time ambassador to France, and a member of General Pershing's staff in the A. E. F.. is to take up politics as a career has fol- lowed fast on the heels of the bequest
 of $4.5o0,000 by the late Henry P. Davison to his son. Frederick, to en- able the latter to devote himself to a political career. The elder Davison evidently had studied the require
 ment of the modern primary system. He knew that a man must be able
 to pay his own expenses in making
 fight for party nomination, or be
 more or less beholden to those who
 would be willing to put up money for him.
 l Also Davfson
 l The elder Davison had no political
 ambitions of his own. centering all of his hopes in the son, who already has begun his career by obtaining a
 seat in the lower branch of the New York state legislature. Young Da- vison has been in retirement since
 his fathers sudden death and has
 made no specific plans for the imme- diate future. On the records of the
 New York legislature his occupation
 Is given as that of flaw student" but
 this study of the law Is but step in
 the direction of a successful political
 career. The percentage of lawyers in
 American political life Is still amaz-
 ingly high.
 Young Robert Bacon, like young Davison and young Roosevelt, has ample means with which to start his
 political life. These young men. all
 of New York, are unqe-tsionably