The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
SOUTH HAS HIGH LAWYERS QOUTA
 SENT TO SENATE
Northern States Grad
 ually Sending Up More Business Men

las compared with five in 19l4) are nat;ves of the United States Couzens 1born in Ortario), Gooding (born Ill Enyland). and NIagnus Johnson (oorh in Sweden). writes George H. Haynes in the Atlantic Monthly.
 Less migratory conditions within the limited States may be indicated ny tne fact that fifty-one Gas compared "lth forty-fiye in 1914) are sons or tne states that they represent. Ohio, as in 1914 leads as the mother of sen ators" with seven of her jewels ln tbe Senate. Pennsylvania has six !; Massacbusetts and New York, five each. Maine. Illinois, Virginia ana Kentucky, four each.
 There is striking contrast Tn thls matter between the senate of today ana that of 1897, when, according 10 NC Conachie, "thirty-six (members) were of southern nativity, twenty-etght rom the Atlantic group north of Mason ana Dixon's line, nineteen from the north- west and the west.
 No such proportion now holds true nor does the following generalization anrssr to retian it's validity: '1The south not only reared her own sena- tors but cradled those of the new iron. fer states, which one by one enlarged tbe Union" Of the twelve states that have no sons in the Senate all but three. New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Florida) are states of the far west.
 Tn further contrast between the dif- ferent sections it may be observed that In the section made up Of the New England, the North Atlantic and the North Central states only two sons or states outside that region were sent to the senate the eight South Atlantic states chose no senator bred outside that section-five of them sent only their own sons on the other mana, ol the sixteen senators from the great mountain region twelve had been DOTH outside it's borders, and half of the sen ators from the Pacific states were born in the Mississippi valley.
 Average Age.
 The average age of senators today, as in 1914, is a trifle more than of years, but the extremes are not so far apart: There is but one who Is less than 40, and but one who has reached his eightieth year.
 In the matter of education-to judge from the very inadequate data avail able-the Senate makes a rather better showing than ten years ago. Although several have thought it good politics to stress in the congressional directory the fact that they have had the advan- tage of only a common school educa- tion, seventy-six out of the ninety-six members have attended some univer- sity, college or normal school.
 Yale heads the list of universities, having seven or her sons in the Senate {; Harvard, five; University of Michi- gan, four; University of Virginia, three; and the Naval academy, one.
 As to the callings from which sena- tors are drawn, the most striking thing is the heavy preponderancc of lawyers, sixty, as compared with sixty-nine In 1914. Several others have had years of legal training. Nineteen of the pres ent Senate have been prosecuting attor- neys, in offices ranging from county at torney to attorney general of the state. Two have been deans of law schools, and two others have been professors of law. Six have held judicial office, including one justice of a federal circuit court, and one chief justice and two associate justices of state supreme courts.
 The distribution of these lawyer-sen- ators presents interesting contrasts. Of the sixteen from the South Central states, everyone is a lawyer-althbugh Senator Heflin tells the world that when first elected to Congress (twenty years ago) he gave up his law practice and since that time has devoted his time to the study of public questions. That may explain much.
 In the entire section south of the Potomac and west to include Texas and all but four are lawyers. On the oth- CT hand, from the states north of the Potomac and the Ohio and west to in- clude Wisconsin, of thirty-two sena- tors only seventeen are lawyers while in the great mountain section, from Montana to the Mexican border, only half the senators are lawyers.
 Contrast In Distribution.
 The contrast in distribution between parties is not less pronounced: S6 per cent of the democratic senators are lawyers, while only 45 per cent of the republicans are of that profession. The explanation seems to be partly matter of tradition and of the relative diver S1AASullOn OI lHuuSCry. Tn Cne north and in the newer states of the west more varied careers present them selves for the young mans choice, while frequent party overturns make politics seem far less constant object of de- votion than in the south.
 Racial preferences or aptitudes may have something to do with the matter. An Irishman's allegiance to the demo. cratic party is proverbial, and he takes to the combination of politics and the law as a duck takes to water; a man of Scandinavian descent, on the other hand, may take to politics quite as nat. uraly, but not so inevitably by way of the law, and he usually votes the re- publican ticket
 Apparently the proportion of law yers in the Senate is lessening and the type Is changing In the days when there were giants in the senatorial land probably three-fourths of them were lawyers Such were Webster and Clav Benton and Calhoun; but their ex. perlence in the law and their point of view as lawyers in the Senate were an parently very different from those oI many of the lawyers in that chamber today.
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