Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-15
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
By FREDERIC HILLYfU HILE

There was something of the court
ship of Miles Standish about the cir
clmstances under which Young Gerald
j. Nyc was appointed United Suites
Senator from North Dakota. Nye
,yho edits the Sentinel.Courier Of
Cooperstorvn. y. OAK. had for weeks
been hammerinG away AT Gov. Sorne
tu appoint successor TO the late
Edwin i. Ladd. The governor III
clinatiun 10 order special election,
instead OF filling Ladd'= place NY APP.
Dointment. was assaulted nerCely. NNe
ACCOMPANIED his criticism with con-
strucrive suggestions by naming halt
4 dozen North Dakotan3 whom he held
worthy OF the toga. One da" the So
year-old editor was invited 10 Sdl on
Gov. Sorlie al Bismarck. NYe eN-
pccted 10 he asked Tor his views on
the merits of the various men he q
proposed for the senatorShtp. Eut
the interview hadn't been In progress
very long before the governor offered
Nye the appointment. After recover
in- consciousness. he accepted IL
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ON the swinging doors OF Wash
ln-ton hotel are the words. Push
and Pull" \ wac once proposed
that they would make an appropriate
slogan for the Capitals coat of arms.
NJ. O. E,!dridge the much maligned
director OF traffic in Washington, is
disposed 10 agree with the suggestion.
lie has convinced himself that one IF
he principal rea sons why traffic regU-
lations arc difficult to enforce * that
nearly everybody in the District IF
Columbia has pull with somebody
else. potent enough TO make the aver
re driver think he Tor she) can get
WAY with motor murder. EldridSe
is certain that in no community IN
.,merica Is pull invoked SO often or
- effectively tor CircumVentiun If
rattle laws az in Washington. Until
there is as much "SynchronizlnS Of
public opinion" in favor of rules and
regulations as there Is in the synchru-
Min. Of light signals. Eldrid-e fears
,herell never he that order which he
is trying To bring out OF existing
chaos.
Locating vice PRESIDENT running
mates for Az Smith in 1925 has he
come "a favorite Democratic indoor
sport. Assuming, as more and more
Democratic leaders are beginning To
do, that the governor uf New York
will be their standard bearer. they
specify three qualifications which the
second man on the ticket must have.
lie must he Western OF southern {;
dry and Il Protestant. .tOSephu&
Daniels. former Secretary ri the Navy,
is the latest man mentioned rs mea sur.
ing up To standard, as far DiEie i
concerned. Senator Burton *. Wheel
err of Montana is named as hitting into
the picture if Western radicalism is 10
supply Smiths stable companion
Gov. Vic" Donahev of Ohio is a
Middle Westerner with a budding vice
presidential boom. But Donahey,
with two terms as Democratic gov
ernor of Republican Ohio" to his
credit, and third in prospect. aspires
to be the head, not the tail. of the
one Democratic authority rates Dona-
hey as eligible timber for the top of
the ticket.
Who is the brainiest man in Wash.
ington? Coolidge? Borah? Walsh
Hoover? Brandeis? Blanton? Dawes?
Jim Reed? Mellon? Wayne Wheel.
err? One authority expresses an as
tonishing opinion. He names Andrew
t'uruseth. veteran president of the In.
ternational Seamen's Union. A Nor
wegian. Viking in proportions and de-
meanor. t'uruSeth has lived in the
United States since 1880 and is recog.
nized as one of the worlds foremost
authorities on merchant marine af-
fairs. Capt. Furuseth's home is in
San Francisco but he spends most of