Evening star., 1926-04-21
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

owen d. Young-Young of the
Dawes plan-is now talked about as a
likely Democratic opponent of Sen
ator James W. Wadsworth, jr., Re
publican, in the forthcoming New
York senatorial campaign. Washing
ton politicians hear that pressure TO
that end is being brought upon Young,
! but it is not yet known whether he
has decided to desert business for
politics. The brainy chairman OF the
board of the General Electric Co. and
the Radio Corporation OF America
has all the upstate" qualifications
the Democrats require to match Wads-
worth. Not only IS Young native
of the New York provinces, but a
graduate of an upstate" university
| (St. Lawrence, at Canton). Another
ASPECT of his eligibility is the far-
flung network Of contacts he enjoys
in virtually every town and hamlet
Of New York State through the Cen
eral Electric's ramifications. Inc
world of business and finance would
of course. find him wholly acceptaple.
Young even qualities as dirt farmer
as his home is on ancestraI heatn aI
Vanhornesville, where he spends a
GOOD deal of time with an aged
mother. Republicans concede that
from every standpoint he would be
a. formidable antagonist Tor "aos-
worth.
Somebodv. somewhere, In the souVe-
nir.snatching United States is wearing
the Annapolis class ring OF capt:
Zachary LanSdoWne, commander OIL
the airship Shenandoah, with Wnlch
he crashed to his doom in Ohio last
Ea11 Az the result of thoroughgolng
detective work, in which the tederal
authorities took hand, nearly all OF
Can't. Lansdowne's personal pelohs-
ings were found. In several cases
they were retrieved from persons VINO
accumulated them "by mistake. But
tho class ring. which our Army and
Navv men always cherish as the
nroudest heritage of the days at their
rasnactive service academies, could
! never he located. Mrs. LansdoWne IS
mainlv interested nowadays in legls-
lotion designed to confer little more
generous treatment upon the de-
nendents of the sailormen who lost
| their lives in the Shenandoah. she
| confidently hopes that some time,
/ somehow, "Zach's'' ring will turn up
and be worn by his son.
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! Andrew w. Melons batting aver
age as a speechmaker IS far ana
aWav the lowest in the ADMINISTRATOR.
When the Secretary OF the treasury
10 nravailed upon to make remarks,
esnecially on festive occasions, they
| are the last word in tabloid. The
TTnion League of Philadelphia recently
celebrated Melons seventy-secoIiu
birthday anniversary. He was oeepiy
affected by the rousing cheerS that
| were volleyed at him, for Melon Is
modest. as we'll as taciturn. FORMER
Gov Snro1l of Pennsylvania recalled
that the Treasury chief has been d
Union Lacquer for 38 years. Those
were the good old days." said Melon.
.Isused to come here and sit unnoticed
| in a corner. I wasn't pubic ngure
then. and my obscurity had It's ao-
I yantages. 1t gave me Splenolo op-
portunity to observe how prominent
Philadelphians behaved themselves.
Yes. those were the good old days.
But these are glorious days, too-even
though we do have prohibltlon.
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AS Maine goes, so goes the country
not always, but usually. 1t also
goes first; i.e., votes in september,
while the rest of the country does.not
march to the polls until November
| So the Republican party IS making
early preparation to take the field In
the Pine Tree State and lay well the
foundation of victory at the 1926 con.
gressional elections. Four members of
the House of Representatives. a gov
ernor and full State ticket are to be
elected. Those offices are all In Re-
publican hands at present, but Maine
sometimes has a habit of leaving the
reservation in off years, and the G..
10. p purposes running no chances in